Strongman Eddie Hall has tried some pretty outrageous stunts on his YouTube channel before, from attempting to surf to getting his hulking frame to do a backflip. And in his latest post, filmed before going into isolation, Eddie and his workout buddy Pat pull out some unconventional strongman training tricks.
The video begins with Pat hauling the 400-pound strongman into a wheelbarrow and vice-versa, before they get serious and start on the bench press. As he’s recovering from a bicep injury, Hall avoids pushing himself to his max, and moves onto the incline where he benches 180 kgs, and then the dumbbell press where he lifts 60 kgs.
Then they mix it up a little, with a set of floor presses. “These are super good for creating that power off the deck,” Eddie explains. “It transfers really well into bench press and overhead work. And you can’t cheat it; you can’t maneuver your body, you’re fixed, your arms and shoulders are fixed, you can’t arch, you can’t block your lats, it’s just pure power. It teaches that A to B movement, which is vital for most powerlifting, bodybuilding, strongman sports. So basically, get as much weight as you can on, go as heavy as you can, and just go for it.”
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Eddie and Pat follow the powerlifting exercises with some bodybuilding work to stretch out the muscles and get blood flowing. They then finish off their workout with some exercises that test their grip strength, which is where things start to get… unorthodox.
First, they challenge themselves to pick up two weights in one hand: “It is a world class feat of strength if you can pinc two 20-kilo plates together like that, and pick it up,” says Eddie. Then they attempt a forearm-burning move called “the blob”: picking up the sawn-off end of a dumbbell weighing around 32 kgs, and lifting it overhead.
Finally, Eddie introduces his pal to the concept of “20-kilo frisbee,” which is exactly what it sounds like. “I’m being dead serious,” he says, explaining the (admittedly simple) rules of the game: “Chuck each other the 20-kilo plate, and catch it with one hand.”
They start out standing fairly close to each other, and move further apart with each round of throws: the first person to drop the 44-pound weight loses the game.
Eddie eventually wins, hurling the weight across the gym with both hands and nearly taking out a couple of his mate’s fingers in the process. We’d recommend not trying this during your own strength training.
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