The same week Hafthor pulled 501kg, I pulled 500 lbs, weighing in lbs what he weighed in kg. In theory making me his pound for pound equal. What a nonsense measure
That pound for pound strength is no joke... I had a co-worker who was 5'3 about 115 lb and dude could deadlift 350 lb, I honestly was very impressed. he didn't look like he could have lifted 150 lbs.
I think you would have got a lot more push ups if you'd tried to stick to doing 20 push-ups and rusting for the remainder of a 32nd. and repeating that six times that would have given you 120 with more rest in between, you wouldn't have fatigue your strength so quickly, and you could have stayed stronger through the entire challenge, try it again.
*Do 20 push-ups in a 30 second segment, rest the remainder of the 30 seconds, then repeat five more times, I know you can get more push-ups than that in 3 minutes.
love the guy, but even at the very start that was some anemic Range of Motion, his arms barely hit 90°. although i doubt the men's health folk practiced purist technique either
Yeeh at that point its nothing about strength thats cardio :D Other "lifts" were one rep "maxes" so why 111 pushup instead of like 1.5 x bodyweight bench which is probably like challenge for him but he could definitely do it (I think, dont know his bench)
When I was a younger teen, I was once able to do over 70 full range pushups in a row with enough training to lead to that. However, my bench was weak. Years later, when my bench was its strongest, I could get nowhere near 70 pushups without the chest gassing right out with lactic acid. The muscle endurance vs strength are just two different apples that require different training to get good at. This particular test seemed bizarre with some of the chosen lifts. All were 1rpm with the exception of the pushups.
54 pushups for the lowest level is insane. I think alot of pushups standards in peoples heads are military based and unrealistic. Especially if we want someones chest to touch the ground. The getup movement seems to be the "easiest" and fairest compared to a fairly untrained public.
Glad to see I'm not the only one thinking this. 74 clean, full range of motion, pushups in 3 minutes is not remotely average. Even 54 is substantially above average.
I trained specifically to do 100 Military Push-ups a few years back and I'd honestly say that 54 is quite above average and even likely exceptional. Granted, those are strict form and timed at 1 second up and down. The way this dude did the push-ups makes 54 seem rather easy.
@@IwatchTubiTrash well he is ex-WSM and heavy as fuck. Obviously noone's gonna do strict 1 second up and down pushups on a timed metric testing exercise, otherwise the results would be pretty much the same each time.
@@klafterdev5558 He doesn't have to adhere to that specific style of push-up, but that is moot because whatever style he is opting to use is sloppy and not befitting of an athlete.
And, the article included 5 tests from 4 different coaches - each with different training philosophies (push-up: Martin Rooney, deadlift: James Sjostrom (strongfirst), chin-up and squat: Tony Gentilcore, Turkish Get-up: Dan John) - no wonder there is little to no connection between the standards.
Explains why the TGU weights are so low as Dan doesn't like heavy TGUs. If it was Pavel Tsatsouline it would be 24 kg average, 32 kg good, 48 kg extraordinary or thereabouts.
I guess Martin Rooney is a bit shaky on what strength means. His book says "MARTIN ROONEY is on a mission to make better coaches." I'll pass on that one I guess
My husband said, "Men's Health needs to re-examine their criteria as far as push-ups are concerned." I have to agree with him. We had no doubt you'd knock everything else out of the park!
I find it hard to believe that 54> push ups and a "less than bodyweight" deadlift are comparable. If you're able to do 54> push ups within 3 minutes, I'd say that's a pretty good achievement. Whereas I imagine the majority of untrained people would be able to deadlift their own bodyweight. Love the content, good luck in 2024!
it depends. I'm a fat bastard at present, so i can shift quite a lot of weight , but struggle with the bodyweight excercises. Likewise, in high school, there were skinny lads who'd perform fantastically well on bodyweight excercises, but couldn't squat more than about a quarter of their bodyweight or deadlift more than like 2/3.
for a big man his chest was pretty far from the ground , could debate if the push ups were full range of motion , some say 2 to 4 inches from the ground some say touch the ground tough to know what is right.
What confuses me is why they would have push ups instead of flat bench. All the other exercises are weighted and you would need access to that equipment anyway.
@HkFinn83 but pushups do not test strength. The definition of strength is the ability to exert force (measured in Newtons) in order to overcome the resistance. The formula for force says force is equal to mass (m) multiplied by acceleration (a).
In the military, we did push-ups for endurance mostly. Really when you think about it, we tried to crank out as many as possible in 2 minutes without thinking. But we could not break our hands or feet off the floor.
Overall it's just gymbro-y pseudo-science. Let's say you had the most well developed chest of all time, just insane amounts of muscle, that wouldn't help with your squat, or your deadlift.
true but the rules kinda demanded bad form. Few people can do 54 pushups with actually good techniqe let alone more. Saying that 53 is below average is just dumb.
He could've got the pushups if he strategized differently for sure. If you watch crossfitters do the 200 pushups in Murph, the "do a few big sets and then suddenly find that you can only do a few at a time" phenomenon is common. You always get more done for time if you break it up into much smaller sets than you think you need to right off the bat - and then keep hitting those small sets quickly.
Yeah. Weird that they'd do deadlift 2x bodyweight, squat 1.75x body weight and then for chest just spam pushups instead of bench press at some multiple of body weight.
I thought I might have had you on the deadlift, I weigh 170 lb and can deadlift 425 lb, That's 2.5* my body weight... when I calculated the same for you, you crushed me, 320 lb* 2.5 equals 800, and we already know you're good for 1,075. Good job!, world's strongest man.
My results. Test 1: Below average (I almost never do pushups) seems like endurance training. Test 2: Extraordinary. I hit a 635lb deadlift at 282lbs bodyweight. Test 3: Average. I'm heavy lol. I've managed 4. Test 4: Extraordinary. I hit a 600lb squat at 292lbs bodyweight. Test 5: Extraordinary as well. This seems more about coordination than pure strength. In conclusion I'm basically as strong as the world's strongest man pound for pound according to this test (I'm not.) This test is kind of all over the place but good to see you having fun with it. All the best, dude!
The moment I read a metric like "pushups per minute", I stop taking that test or person serious. it's basically a test of "which decently fit person can bring their own pushups to the lowest possible standard". I think all of us knew some kids in highschool who were bragging about their 100pushups, who couldnt have done 20 clean ones. 54 clean pushups in 3minutes is much more extraordinary than a 2times bodyweight deadlift imo, even more impressive than not being stuck like a turtle if you ever lie on your back
Nah, maybe 54 is hard if your bodyweight is heavy. But I'm pretty sure for the average people would rather do 54 clean push up in 3 minutes rather than deadlifts double there weight. I think you can do it easily if you divide the push up too 10 reps then take quick rest and another 10 until you get 50
2x bodyweight deadlift (if you’re a reasonably well built male) atleast require some strength. Pushup for reps is alot of endurance also, which is impressive but no equal to strength
I don’t know Mr Hooper. In all honesty I like to believe that if I had started at a young age I could match your feats. But that be delusional. However you hold the title of worlds strongest so by the very definition you are extraordinari
I just finished watching WSM today so congratulations on the great victory (yes i know it happened a long time ago lol). The writing was on the wall when you pushed on with the shield in the first event and set up and extraordinary performance.
I’m 56 and 180 pounds. I work out 3 times a week no more than 40 mins at a time using a split. Here are my numbers. 81 push-ups, 230 deadlifts that’s all the weight I have😀 but I did it for the 10 min timing. 50 pounds on the chins for 3 reps, 225 squats for 3. 30 pound dumbbell for the Turkish stand test.
The push-up test was a stamina check. Adding weight would be more strength, right? It seems the editor at Men’s wasn’t concerned with accuracy this day.
As a scrawny guy who was in shape, outsized performances in pushups and chin ups were easy, but a 24 kg kettle bell Turkish Get Up would have never left the ground. New subscriber to the site after seeing the long drive contest: love the attitude and ethos.
The test is not consistent. If it`s body weight based test, than the kettle bell should be a % of the bodyweight too. A small girl like my daughter can do chin ups and push ups, but she will have no chance to clear even 12lb kettle bell. Why compare people with 50kg and Mitch or other heavyweights when the kettle bell is fixed weight? Makes no sense. Mitch, you did extremely well and your Mum was right!!!
I have watched just about every wsm since it's inception i can honestly say you are the best all round strength athlete i have seen and thats from a kaz fan it is now at a higher level than it's ever been
I think it's a fair test of strength relative to bodyweight. It's not a fair test of absolute strength. A good test of absolute strength would be doing 1 rep max lifts for each major muscle, you could weight each lift against the current world record and add up the score.
The pull-up test (and really, most of the tests) should have been absolute weight moved. Because if I was doing the pull-up test, and did 50 additional pounds it would be 230 total pounds, which is alright. But when Mitchell does it, it's 370 total pounds which is objectively elite and incredibly impressive. We'd both be considered to be "extraordinary," but Mitchell's feat would be far more impressive and difficult to achieve than what I did.
Props for uploading this. It's not that much about absolute strength, but relative strength I would say. Relative to size. Not really a measure of strength that a strongman is looking for. It takes effort and training to get big. For me the test results would be: 1. Good (but with good form; my only criticism is that pushup form was terrible; I could get to excellent with that form) 2. Good 3. Don't know. Can't test, I'm sick. Probably excellent. 4. Good 5. Don't know. The middle one seems easy.
I'm a sub par (aka casual) 40 y/o powerlifter and I score extraordinary in most of these tests. My combined max is like 1060 at 215 BW (though I did 1100 lbs at 185 lbs earlier this year). The hardest test is pushups. That's the only one know I'd score below excellent. The rest are pretty easy Excellent or Extraordinary. Men's health want's their audience to feel good about themselves.
Looks fun, we’re going to give this a go. I reckon I can do extraordinary on all of it. My best press-up is 79 in a minute so that one. Shouldn’t be an issue. Chin up might the one thought that could cause me a headache.
The world's strongest man is definitely not Hooper. I honestly doubt any wsm winners have actually been the strongest man alive when they won. The world's strongest man is almost certainly some humble guy that doesn't compete and nobody has ever heard off.
When I look at You Sir Mitchell Hooper your bodybuilding reminds me of Mariusz Pudzianowski. He won 20 years Ago. Other Strongmans are very Big and Heavy and Strong, But You and Mariusz have dynamics, speed combined with strength. So you are good in every event in WSM I think this is Key to win WSM. I wish you health and no injuries in training.
Can tell you are a competitive perfectionist when it comes to this sport, by the way you pronounce 'good'. What else to expect from the number 1 in anything.
Push-ups: I could do Deadlift: I've deadlifted twice my bodyweight for 12 reps Pull-up: regularly do 10 reps with 20 kg, so shouldn't be a problem Squat: I've done doubles with that weight Tyrkish get-up: no idea... never tried one
110 pushups 3 minutes is a challenge for any athlete used to doing 3-5 rep range for the longest time. Have to train and give muscle fibers time for that rep range. It would be a amusing challenge to put at the end of strongman/powerlifting competetion for lols. All the other tests were strength athlete friendly.
To be fair, in WSM you'll encounter lots of events ranging into over a minute, so the endurance aspect isn't the killer, it's doing push-ups at 320 bodyweight. Also killed the result pushing a little too hard on set #2
Not really sure if i would count the push ups his arms really didn't go past 90° but it all depends whos judging it. Honestly 54 push ups is I think above average from what ive seen in some gyms. I saw a guy who could bench 330lbs at 220 pound body weight but yet struggled to do 35 push ups while resting, actually i think he got 38 but still! I dont think it was that far pff of 3 minutes either!
I wanted to know the methodology for the ranking system and it turns out the author just asked one coach per exercise. Not... ummm... the *most* rigorous thing I've read.
Awesome!! I made a similar challenge for motorcycle riders I'll be releasing tomorrow :) I mentioned in the video your video and where the inspiration came from :)
I saw you for the first time maybe 1 or 2 weeks before WSM, and my first thought was you were likely to win. *Media thrives on selling drama and starting fights to create it. In totality, you are currently the world's strongest man.* Dicing it up with convenient criteria for their publication is irrelevant and sold to knob-heads.
Kind of a weird test. Are these comparisons supposed to be relative to people who at least attempt to train or just humans in general? I'd get "extraordinary" on most of these tests, but I am absolutely not even close to extraordinary amongst people who take lifting somewhat serious. However there is also no way that 54 push ups is "below average" amongst all humans. Most people I work with couldn't even do 10 let alone squatting/deadlifting body weight.
140 push-ups in 2 minutes. The trick really is to go super wide so that your range of motion is really short and then when you exhaust yourself get super narrow and pump out a lot of quick tricep push-ups.
The thing is “strength” is not necessarily fitness, Strong men are hella strong but are trained for bursts of strength not necessarily “stamina”. It’s similar to when I joined the army 24yrs ago, I was fit I cycled on average 74 miles a week, as well as doing 5 days at 12hr labouring shifts, and doing a lot of swimming. But my running and tabbing (weighted run/walk at 15 min miles) was not great! This magazine is just not really taking this into account 🤷♂️
I think something people are missing when talking about that article and saying "does this author even know anything about fitness and strength training" is that the point of the article is exactly this: to stir up controversy and get people making videos about it, discussing it online, and spreading word of mouth about Men's Health. It's just bait.
are pushups a strength exercise? I'd have thought them more of an endurance exercise.... Really surprised how many a guy your size can do! Well done. Boxers are usually good at pushups. When my brother was in the local boxing club in his teens he could do 100 in a minute (obviusly quite quick and not 'perfect' form..but still impressive). It was the source of an argument one day in the Shop Class in HighSchool when one of the other kids (a boxer too) told the teacher my brother could do 100 PUs in 1 minute. The shop teacher and football coach didn't believe it, and pulled my brother out of a different class to come to the Shop Room to prove it LOL My brother dropped and did it. Boxers are fit. They used to knock out several sets of 50 each night and sit-ups, and chin ups too. I trained sometimes too but only those exercises..not sparring
Push-ups is not a strength test, it's a muscular endurance test. It's also biased towards smaller guys with shorter arms. In fact the whole thing is a terrible test of strength. But what do you expect from a magazine that is all about vanity rather than performance? That aside, the WSM is a contest made for TV and doesn't necessarily mean that you are the absolutely strongest person in the world. But to win that contest you truly must have extraordinary strength (and muscular endurance) and general athletic ability.
Impressive! Specially your pushup for your weight. At the age of 52 I trained pretty intensively Kung Fu and trained specially lots of push ups on fingers and knuckles. Once I tried my max push ups on my knuckles and did 300 non stop. Time used I did not count but at least one/second.
When I was a kid I used to live with my Gran... I was always shadow boxing on the landing after watching the big fights and she loved watching them.. Lennox Lewis was her man. She said to me one day how many pushups can you do,I.was about 75 kilos with low body fat and I banged out 49. She said my Grandad coulda beaten that 😂. Sorts inspired me really.. Long story short got a bit obsessdd with pressups and crunches and pullups. Especially pressups. Got to the stage I would do sets of 15....minutes. Not a weird boast or lie. Im sure it wrecked my bench strength later on. Once did 487 in a row including 50 clapups at a bbq when I was about 16.
As someone who trained with kettlebells recreationally, I have to say 24kg turkish getup is average. 40+ kgs would be extraordinary. If you have good technique and use your hips and legs properly, you can easily move the 24 kg.
When I was younger and smaller, I could do about 80 pushups at a go no problem; 110 in 3 minutes would have been a sure thing back than. But the bigger you are and the more you are focused on pure strength, the worse you do on body weight exercises; so not a good test for a "World Strongest Man".
...idk if this test makes sense lol My body weight 205lb Pushups:82lb Deadlift:428lbs(but i did 5 reps afew days ago which was deadlift day) Chinups: had a 60lb kettlebell did afew reps had more in me. Squat: did 370lbs Turkish getup: i actually train this often BUT i do the bottoms up turkish getup as thats way harder and trains my oveehead press more. Used same 60lb kettlebell can hit the weight fair easily with both right and left. In conclusion all these can be done by someone thats low intermediate i like me lol. This article seems like a form of copium to me lol!
Not hating ... im a kettle instructor. I know you have to be familiar with tecnique .but for you sir ,minimum the beast (48kg bell) should be a challange! Think you should do some kettlebell sessions with a good instructor 😊...will bring your level way up !!!
Whoever wrote this test must be a "pound for pound" enthusiast.
Whoever wrote this test tells me they barely workout or know anything about being strong or athletic.
The same week Hafthor pulled 501kg, I pulled 500 lbs, weighing in lbs what he weighed in kg. In theory making me his pound for pound equal. What a nonsense measure
That pound for pound strength is no joke... I had a co-worker who was 5'3 about 115 lb and dude could deadlift 350 lb, I honestly was very impressed. he didn't look like he could have lifted 150 lbs.
I think you would have got a lot more push ups if you'd tried to stick to doing 20 push-ups and rusting for the remainder of a 32nd. and repeating that six times that would have given you 120 with more rest in between, you wouldn't have fatigue your strength so quickly, and you could have stayed stronger through the entire challenge, try it again.
*Do 20 push-ups in a 30 second segment, rest the remainder of the 30 seconds, then repeat five more times, I know you can get more push-ups than that in 3 minutes.
A big dude like you doing practically 100 push-ups in 3 minutes is staggering, even with your level of strength
love the guy, but even at the very start that was some anemic Range of Motion, his arms barely hit 90°.
although i doubt the men's health folk practiced purist technique either
Yeeh at that point its nothing about strength thats cardio :D Other "lifts" were one rep "maxes" so why 111 pushup instead of like 1.5 x bodyweight bench which is probably like challenge for him but he could definitely do it (I think, dont know his bench)
When I was a younger teen, I was once able to do over 70 full range pushups in a row with enough training to lead to that. However, my bench was weak. Years later, when my bench was its strongest, I could get nowhere near 70 pushups without the chest gassing right out with lactic acid. The muscle endurance vs strength are just two different apples that require different training to get good at. This particular test seemed bizarre with some of the chosen lifts. All were 1rpm with the exception of the pushups.
I have to pretty much agree with this take on it.
Just tested it , same thing happened to me
also your technique is propably a lot better
True. And if they really wanted to test strength, they'd have used an overhead press not the bench press or pushups.
It also has to do with the strength principle of specificity. You get strong in the specific movement you train.
54 pushups for the lowest level is insane. I think alot of pushups standards in peoples heads are military based and unrealistic. Especially if we want someones chest to touch the ground. The getup movement seems to be the "easiest" and fairest compared to a fairly untrained public.
Yup. 54 has no reason to be the lowest level if you are not an olympian
Glad to see I'm not the only one thinking this. 74 clean, full range of motion, pushups in 3 minutes is not remotely average. Even 54 is substantially above average.
I trained specifically to do 100 Military Push-ups a few years back and I'd honestly say that 54 is quite above average and even likely exceptional. Granted, those are strict form and timed at 1 second up and down. The way this dude did the push-ups makes 54 seem rather easy.
@@IwatchTubiTrash well he is ex-WSM and heavy as fuck. Obviously noone's gonna do strict 1 second up and down pushups on a timed metric testing exercise, otherwise the results would be pretty much the same each time.
@@klafterdev5558 He doesn't have to adhere to that specific style of push-up, but that is moot because whatever style he is opting to use is sloppy and not befitting of an athlete.
And, the article included 5 tests from 4 different coaches - each with different training philosophies (push-up: Martin Rooney, deadlift: James Sjostrom (strongfirst), chin-up and squat: Tony Gentilcore, Turkish Get-up: Dan John) - no wonder there is little to no connection between the standards.
Explains why the TGU weights are so low as Dan doesn't like heavy TGUs. If it was Pavel Tsatsouline it would be 24 kg average, 32 kg good, 48 kg extraordinary or thereabouts.
I guess Martin Rooney is a bit shaky on what strength means. His book says "MARTIN ROONEY is on a mission to make better coaches."
I'll pass on that one I guess
That explains a lot tbf
Martin Rooney is a bit confused. My score would be one less point than the video, again because of the pushups. I'm a calisthenics athlete ☠️
My husband said, "Men's Health needs to re-examine their criteria as far as push-ups are concerned." I have to agree with him. We had no doubt you'd knock everything else out of the park!
My wife said, "I don't know, Peter, meth's a hell of a drug.
I find it hard to believe that 54> push ups and a "less than bodyweight" deadlift are comparable. If you're able to do 54> push ups within 3 minutes, I'd say that's a pretty good achievement. Whereas I imagine the majority of untrained people would be able to deadlift their own bodyweight.
Love the content, good luck in 2024!
Most untrained people cannot deadlift their own body weight. Have you seen the obese public lately? Lol
it depends. I'm a fat bastard at present, so i can shift quite a lot of weight , but struggle with the bodyweight excercises. Likewise, in high school, there were skinny lads who'd perform fantastically well on bodyweight excercises, but couldn't squat more than about a quarter of their bodyweight or deadlift more than like 2/3.
lmao you are making that shit up hardcore...skinny lads that couldnt squat 45 pounds@@RJ-wx3fh
I disagree. I think that majority of untrained people will NOT be able to deadlift their bodyweight.
@@trdi Im untrained and overweight tbh, started going to the gym recently and was able to deadlift a little above my body weight. So agree to disagree
97 push ups in 3 min for a guy your size is impressive. Most of the top strongman competitors would be hard pressed to beat that total.
for a big man his chest was pretty far from the ground , could debate if the push ups were full range of motion , some say 2 to 4 inches from the ground some say touch the ground tough to know what is right.
Handstand push-ups with 1 arm 💪
He didn't even complete a single true push-up.. 😂 he 90 partial push-ups. Your chest needs to touch the floor everytime you come down
Mens health needs to specify an acceptable push up.
Well not a single real pushup was done, your chest is suppose to touch the floor. But i know his the worlds strongest man aso
What confuses me is why they would have push ups instead of flat bench. All the other exercises are weighted and you would need access to that equipment anyway.
Because not everybody have access to a flat bench.
@@Platypus_Warrior and pushups are better test anyway
@HkFinn83 but pushups do not test strength.
The definition of strength is the ability to exert force (measured in Newtons) in order to overcome the resistance. The formula for force says force is equal to mass (m) multiplied by acceleration (a).
@@AntiTrollable sure, then forget the whole thing and just google who the current best powerlifter is.
In the military, we did push-ups for endurance mostly. Really when you think about it, we tried to crank out as many as possible in 2 minutes without thinking. But we could not break our hands or feet off the floor.
This test must be for gymbros who do chest all day every day, holy molly the amount of pushups is insane compared to the other metrics.
That and the deadlift and squat standards for "extraordinary" are a joke by powerlifting standards.
@@TheZapper42and chinups category is also reletavly easy to be defined as extraordinary
Overall it's just gymbro-y pseudo-science. Let's say you had the most well developed chest of all time, just insane amounts of muscle, that wouldn't help with your squat, or your deadlift.
Counting those push-ups as good/ strict would be like counting your best unrack as a deadlift.
true but the rules kinda demanded bad form. Few people can do 54 pushups with actually good techniqe let alone more. Saying that 53 is below average is just dumb.
He could've got the pushups if he strategized differently for sure. If you watch crossfitters do the 200 pushups in Murph, the "do a few big sets and then suddenly find that you can only do a few at a time" phenomenon is common. You always get more done for time if you break it up into much smaller sets than you think you need to right off the bat - and then keep hitting those small sets quickly.
Are tests of strength and endurance the same thing? Because the pushup thing definitely feels like the latter.
Yeah. Weird that they'd do deadlift 2x bodyweight, squat 1.75x body weight and then for chest just spam pushups instead of bench press at some multiple of body weight.
@@BigIronEnjoyer Stupid it says 'good' for deadlift is 1x bodyweight 1 rep every minute thats ridiculously easy
@@BigIronEnjoyer SBD without the B is just S-tupi-D, ;)
@@NoR3m0rs3 Yeah, especially if you aren't very heavy. I'm only 170 pounds, so I think i could spend an afternoon doing that, lol.
@@NoR3m0rs3exactly, it's not even a warm up
I thought I might have had you on the deadlift, I weigh 170 lb and can deadlift 425 lb, That's 2.5* my body weight... when I calculated the same for you, you crushed me, 320 lb* 2.5 equals 800, and we already know you're good for 1,075. Good job!, world's strongest man.
that`s freaking badass :D gj dude i only do 2 times my weight but i weight 190ish .. and have MS :D .. so yours is insane :D
Congrats on 100000 subs mate! I was here when you had a few thousand during your first WSM!
What an 18 months you have had! 👍🏻
You are quickly becoming my favorite strongman athlete - every new video is an instant watch and like from me! Thanks so much for the awesome content!
My results.
Test 1: Below average (I almost never do pushups) seems like endurance training.
Test 2: Extraordinary. I hit a 635lb deadlift at 282lbs bodyweight.
Test 3: Average. I'm heavy lol. I've managed 4.
Test 4: Extraordinary. I hit a 600lb squat at 292lbs bodyweight.
Test 5: Extraordinary as well. This seems more about coordination than pure strength.
In conclusion I'm basically as strong as the world's strongest man pound for pound according to this test (I'm not.)
This test is kind of all over the place but good to see you having fun with it. All the best, dude!
The moment I read a metric like "pushups per minute", I stop taking that test or person serious. it's basically a test of "which decently fit person can bring their own pushups to the lowest possible standard". I think all of us knew some kids in highschool who were bragging about their 100pushups, who couldnt have done 20 clean ones.
54 clean pushups in 3minutes is much more extraordinary than a 2times bodyweight deadlift imo, even more impressive than not being stuck like a turtle if you ever lie on your back
Nah, maybe 54 is hard if your bodyweight is heavy. But I'm pretty sure for the average people would rather do 54 clean push up in 3 minutes rather than deadlifts double there weight. I think you can do it easily if you divide the push up too 10 reps then take quick rest and another 10 until you get 50
54 clean pushups is not impressive at all unless your BMI is OBESE😂
2x bodyweight deadlift (if you’re a reasonably well built male) atleast require some strength. Pushup for reps is alot of endurance also, which is impressive but no equal to strength
Push-up test was pure endurance...
I think you just suck at push ups😂. 54 is weak
I don’t know Mr Hooper. In all honesty I like to believe that if I had started at a young age I could match your feats. But that be delusional. However you hold the title of worlds strongest so by the very definition you are extraordinari
The push-up numbers were super unrealistic.
I just finished watching WSM today so congratulations on the great victory (yes i know it happened a long time ago lol). The writing was on the wall when you pushed on with the shield in the first event and set up and extraordinary performance.
I’m 56 and 180 pounds. I work out 3 times a week no more than 40 mins at a time using a split. Here are my numbers. 81 push-ups, 230 deadlifts that’s all the weight I have😀 but I did it for the 10 min timing. 50 pounds on the chins for 3 reps, 225 squats for 3. 30 pound dumbbell for the Turkish stand test.
The content on this channel is extraordinary
The push-up test was a stamina check. Adding weight would be more strength, right? It seems the editor at Men’s wasn’t concerned with accuracy this day.
Jesus Mitchell, it's almost frightening to see your work capacity for someone your size. You truly are a generational talent
As a scrawny guy who was in shape, outsized performances in pushups and chin ups were easy, but a 24 kg kettle bell Turkish Get Up would have never left the ground. New subscriber to the site after seeing the long drive contest: love the attitude and ethos.
The test is not consistent. If it`s body weight based test, than the kettle bell should be a % of the bodyweight too.
A small girl like my daughter can do chin ups and push ups, but she will have no chance to clear even 12lb kettle bell.
Why compare people with 50kg and Mitch or other heavyweights when the kettle bell is fixed weight?
Makes no sense.
Mitch, you did extremely well and your Mum was right!!!
I have watched just about every wsm since it's inception i can honestly say you are the best all round strength athlete i have seen and thats from a kaz fan it is now at a higher level than it's ever been
I think it's a fair test of strength relative to bodyweight. It's not a fair test of absolute strength.
A good test of absolute strength would be doing 1 rep max lifts for each major muscle, you could weight each lift against the current world record and add up the score.
The pull-up test (and really, most of the tests) should have been absolute weight moved. Because if I was doing the pull-up test, and did 50 additional pounds it would be 230 total pounds, which is alright. But when Mitchell does it, it's 370 total pounds which is objectively elite and incredibly impressive. We'd both be considered to be "extraordinary," but Mitchell's feat would be far more impressive and difficult to achieve than what I did.
Respect for the very decent form on pushups! Also just found your channel and I’m really enjoying it.
Great job. I feel like the push-ups require ongoing muscle exertion that is different than the strength testing. 🎉
One of the most impressive videos I have ever seen online was Martin Licis doing a Hephaesto
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Props for uploading this. It's not that much about absolute strength, but relative strength I would say. Relative to size. Not really a measure of strength that a strongman is looking for. It takes effort and training to get big.
For me the test results would be:
1. Good (but with good form; my only criticism is that pushup form was terrible; I could get to excellent with that form)
2. Good
3. Don't know. Can't test, I'm sick. Probably excellent.
4. Good
5. Don't know. The middle one seems easy.
I'm a sub par (aka casual) 40 y/o powerlifter and I score extraordinary in most of these tests. My combined max is like 1060 at 215 BW (though I did 1100 lbs at 185 lbs earlier this year). The hardest test is pushups. That's the only one know I'd score below excellent. The rest are pretty easy Excellent or Extraordinary. Men's health want's their audience to feel good about themselves.
Looks fun, we’re going to give this a go. I reckon I can do extraordinary on all of it. My best press-up is 79 in a minute so that one. Shouldn’t be an issue. Chin up might the one thought that could cause me a headache.
The world's strongest man is definitely not Hooper. I honestly doubt any wsm winners have actually been the strongest man alive when they won. The world's strongest man is almost certainly some humble guy that doesn't compete and nobody has ever heard off.
Him walking out that squat in two steps and already at the back of the rack is insane
1:14 ZERO reps was done that day.
Mens health magazine ! I buy it to find out what is the best aftershave on the market 😁. That's all it's good for!!
When I look at You Sir Mitchell Hooper your bodybuilding reminds me of Mariusz Pudzianowski. He won 20 years Ago. Other Strongmans are very Big and Heavy and Strong, But You and Mariusz have dynamics, speed combined with strength. So you are good in every event in WSM I think this is Key to win WSM. I wish you health and no injuries in training.
Can tell you are a competitive perfectionist when it comes to this sport, by the way you pronounce 'good'. What else to expect from the number 1 in anything.
I found the deadlift scale to be the strangest, most of the scales were %bodyweight 1rm, then there's an EMOM for some reason
Push-ups: I could do
Deadlift: I've deadlifted twice my bodyweight for 12 reps
Pull-up: regularly do 10 reps with 20 kg, so shouldn't be a problem
Squat: I've done doubles with that weight
Tyrkish get-up: no idea... never tried one
Just want to throw out that I appreciate anyone who remarks their own weights
Me doing a pushup for me vs pushing up you is totally different. Almost like the pull up test, people weigh differently
This was a fun little test! Great job!
110 pushups 3 minutes is a challenge for any athlete used to doing 3-5 rep range for the longest time. Have to train and give muscle fibers time for that rep range. It would be a amusing challenge to put at the end of strongman/powerlifting competetion for lols. All the other tests were strength athlete friendly.
To be fair, in WSM you'll encounter lots of events ranging into over a minute, so the endurance aspect isn't the killer, it's doing push-ups at 320 bodyweight. Also killed the result pushing a little too hard on set #2
you are the worlds strongest man and you are canadian. we are proud of you and i am your biggest fan forever.
04:24 for push ups change your hands position from diamond, to normal, to wide and you can hit 110+ easy without stopping.
That pushup test seems insane to me... all the other ones looks fine, the getup looks way too easy in comparison to the others :S
Congrats on 100k! Well deserved 💪🎉🥳
This is like a marathon runner calling Usain Bolt slow
Love how he holds the bar on his squat but guys will say they are too big or their shoulders are too big to back rack like he is.
Relative strength vs absolute strength, absolute strength takes the cake every time. That’s why it’s called absolute and not “relative”
Doing as many push-ups as possible in three minutes is a parameter for strength endurance.
People sitting behind a desk judging others that actually do, is really amusing. 😆
You won WSM 2023.👊😎
Not really sure if i would count the push ups his arms really didn't go past 90° but it all depends whos judging it. Honestly 54 push ups is I think above average from what ive seen in some gyms. I saw a guy who could bench 330lbs at 220 pound body weight but yet struggled to do 35 push ups while resting, actually i think he got 38 but still! I dont think it was that far pff of 3 minutes either!
I wanted to know the methodology for the ranking system and it turns out the author just asked one coach per exercise. Not... ummm... the *most* rigorous thing I've read.
Great content as always. Thx for showing how ridiculous these tests are.
Yes! Bro your strength is OP!
Awesome!! I made a similar challenge for motorcycle riders I'll be releasing tomorrow :) I mentioned in the video your video and where the inspiration came from :)
No comments about the "good girls" joke lol my favorite part easily, well done sir 👏
I saw you for the first time maybe 1 or 2 weeks before WSM, and my first thought was you were likely to win.
*Media thrives on selling drama and starting fights to create it. In totality, you are currently the world's strongest man.* Dicing it up with convenient criteria for their publication is irrelevant and sold to knob-heads.
Your content is absolute gold, can’t get enough of it.
Relax dude, it’s a magazine. It can’t hurt you
Kind of a weird test. Are these comparisons supposed to be relative to people who at least attempt to train or just humans in general? I'd get "extraordinary" on most of these tests, but I am absolutely not even close to extraordinary amongst people who take lifting somewhat serious. However there is also no way that 54 push ups is "below average" amongst all humans. Most people I work with couldn't even do 10 let alone squatting/deadlifting body weight.
23 out of 25 also. 109 kgs. This was a stupid test of strength but it was fun and I surprised myself with the pull ups.
140 push-ups in 2 minutes. The trick really is to go super wide so that your range of motion is really short and then when you exhaust yourself get super narrow and pump out a lot of quick tricep push-ups.
The thing is “strength” is not necessarily fitness, Strong men are hella strong but are trained for bursts of strength not necessarily “stamina”.
It’s similar to when I joined the army 24yrs ago, I was fit I cycled on average 74 miles a week, as well as doing 5 days at 12hr labouring shifts, and doing a lot of swimming.
But my running and tabbing (weighted run/walk at 15 min miles) was not great!
This magazine is just not really taking this into account 🤷♂️
At 60 years of age I thought deadlifting double my BW of 200kg for 15 reps last week was just average. This has made my day.
Your body type reminds me of the Legend Megnasun , he don't look strong either until he was up against it!
I think something people are missing when talking about that article and saying "does this author even know anything about fitness and strength training" is that the point of the article is exactly this: to stir up controversy and get people making videos about it, discussing it online, and spreading word of mouth about Men's Health. It's just bait.
Whoever wrote that pushup results list is DELUSIONAL.
are pushups a strength exercise? I'd have thought them more of an endurance exercise....
Really surprised how many a guy your size can do! Well done. Boxers are usually good at pushups. When my brother was in the local boxing club in his teens he could do 100 in a minute (obviusly quite quick and not 'perfect' form..but still impressive). It was the source of an argument one day in the Shop Class in HighSchool when one of the other kids (a boxer too) told the teacher my brother could do 100 PUs in 1 minute. The shop teacher and football coach didn't believe it, and pulled my brother out of a different class to come to the Shop Room to prove it LOL My brother dropped and did it. Boxers are fit. They used to knock out several sets of 50 each night and sit-ups, and chin ups too. I trained sometimes too but only those exercises..not sparring
Push-ups is not a strength test, it's a muscular endurance test. It's also biased towards smaller guys with shorter arms. In fact the whole thing is a terrible test of strength. But what do you expect from a magazine that is all about vanity rather than performance?
That aside, the WSM is a contest made for TV and doesn't necessarily mean that you are the absolutely strongest person in the world. But to win that contest you truly must have extraordinary strength (and muscular endurance) and general athletic ability.
I gotten the feeling the last years that men's health is a garbage magazine
Impressive! Specially your pushup for your weight. At the age of 52 I trained pretty intensively Kung Fu and trained specially lots of push ups on fingers and knuckles. Once I tried my max push ups on my knuckles and did 300 non stop. Time used I did not count but at least one/second.
300 in one set is insane
It was 10 years ago and I trained quite hard, , a bit insane. @@schultemeister6975
Guess that means i am the real worlds strongest boy
"You're above below average" is my new favorite compliment.
Test is...whacky... But very fun to watch ya do it
In the army chest has to almost touch the ground to get a valid pushup. I guess when youre this big mobility becomes an issue?
You deserve all the respect in the world for taking stupid’s health magazine seriously…
I think if you had done 10 x 11 pushups you would have made it. Doing 35 blew you out.
When I was a kid I used to live with my Gran... I was always shadow boxing on the landing after watching the big fights and she loved watching them..
Lennox Lewis was her man.
She said to me one day how many pushups can you do,I.was about 75 kilos with low body fat and I banged out 49. She said my Grandad coulda beaten that 😂.
Sorts inspired me really..
Long story short got a bit obsessdd with pressups and crunches and pullups.
Especially pressups.
Got to the stage I would do sets of 15....minutes. Not a weird boast or lie. Im sure it wrecked my bench strength later on. Once did 487 in a row including 50 clapups at a bbq when I was about 16.
Bro, can you do a day in your life video? From when you wake up till you go back to sleep.
As someone who trained with kettlebells recreationally, I have to say 24kg turkish getup is average. 40+ kgs would be extraordinary. If you have good technique and use your hips and legs properly, you can easily move the 24 kg.
I mean, I would seriously question the sport of strongman if they put in a bodyweight pushup event, lol
I know people that can't do more than 15 pushups (me), so 50 being the low end is wild😂
Most people can not do one proper pushup lol
When I was younger and smaller, I could do about 80 pushups at a go no problem; 110 in 3 minutes would have been a sure thing back than. But the bigger you are and the more you are focused on pure strength, the worse you do on body weight exercises; so not a good test for a "World Strongest Man".
In the article linked, squats and chin-ups are based on a three-rep max, deadlift is the only one-rep max. Do Squat and Chin-ups again!! lol
Its alright man, you’ll be strong one day!
Keep your head up. :)
A great overall strength test ( grip), no.2 who would you ask to move a sleeper sofa.
Awesome video. Makes me want to try adding chin ups to my workout. Cheers from Ottawa.
97 pushups at your size is like 97 reps with 225lb bench press. The author of this article clearly wasn't accounting for people above average weight.
0:26 nah, not really. lol. you did very well at that competition recently though so I'll give you that!
...idk if this test makes sense lol
My body weight 205lb
Pushups:82lb
Deadlift:428lbs(but i did 5 reps afew days ago which was deadlift day)
Chinups: had a 60lb kettlebell did afew reps had more in me.
Squat: did 370lbs
Turkish getup: i actually train this often BUT i do the bottoms up turkish getup as thats way harder and trains my oveehead press more. Used same 60lb kettlebell can hit the weight fair easily with both right and left.
In conclusion all these can be done by someone thats low intermediate i like me lol. This article seems like a form of copium to me lol!
I take it the push-ups specified non-lockout?
Great quality videos!
Not hating ... im a kettle instructor. I know you have to be familiar with tecnique .but for you sir ,minimum the beast (48kg bell) should be a challange! Think you should do some kettlebell sessions with a good instructor 😊...will bring your level way up !!!