Whoever wrote this test must be a "pound for pound" enthusiast.

@nafis_rk

4 ай бұрын

Whoever wrote this test tells me they barely workout or know anything about being strong or athletic.

@alexschutz7283

4 ай бұрын

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

@daviddeppa122

4 ай бұрын

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.

@daviddeppa122

4 ай бұрын

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.

@daviddeppa122

4 ай бұрын

*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

@grischad20

Ай бұрын

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

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.

@NeillWylie

4 ай бұрын

I have to pretty much agree with this take on it.

@death8114

4 ай бұрын

Just tested it , same thing happened to me

@tilmanrotationalinvariant2257

4 ай бұрын

also your technique is propably a lot better

@MarkField-wj9fq

4 ай бұрын

True. And if they really wanted to test strength, they'd have used an overhead press not the bench press or pushups.

@Deffine

4 ай бұрын

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.

@davidec.4021

4 ай бұрын

Yup. 54 has no reason to be the lowest level if you are not an olympian

@babsds0

4 ай бұрын

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.

@IwatchTubiTrash

4 ай бұрын

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.

@klafterdev5558

4 ай бұрын

@@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.

@IwatchTubiTrash

4 ай бұрын

@@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.

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!

@johnsambo9379

4 ай бұрын

Most untrained people cannot deadlift their own body weight. Have you seen the obese public lately? Lol

@RJ-wx3fh

4 ай бұрын

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.

@drewfusaurusrexhash3970

4 ай бұрын

lmao you are making that shit up hardcore...skinny lads that couldnt squat 45 pounds@@RJ-wx3fh

@trdi

4 ай бұрын

I disagree. I think that majority of untrained people will NOT be able to deadlift their bodyweight.

@RiverStyxLol_69

3 ай бұрын

@@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

Counting those push-ups as good/ strict would be like counting your best unrack as a deadlift.

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.

@slingshotversus2448

4 ай бұрын

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.

@donkeyballs3307

4 ай бұрын

Handstand push-ups with 1 arm 💪

@Reno420alex

4 ай бұрын

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

@mashedpotatoes5276

4 ай бұрын

Mens health needs to specify an acceptable push up.

@robinrobin135

4 ай бұрын

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

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.

@mattjc

4 ай бұрын

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.

@SkMrFusion123

4 ай бұрын

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

@Compassiron1

4 ай бұрын

That explains a lot tbf

@pendragon7600

4 ай бұрын

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!

@snoutysnouterson

4 ай бұрын

My wife said, "I don't know, Peter, meth's a hell of a drug.

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.

@Platypus_Warrior

4 ай бұрын

Because not everybody have access to a flat bench.

@HkFinn83

4 ай бұрын

@@Platypus_Warrior and pushups are better test anyway

@AntiTrollable

4 ай бұрын

​@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).

@HkFinn83

4 ай бұрын

@@AntiTrollable sure, then forget the whole thing and just google who the current best powerlifter is.

@bigsouthstrength

4 ай бұрын

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.

@TheZapper42

4 ай бұрын

That and the deadlift and squat standards for "extraordinary" are a joke by powerlifting standards.

@averageperson1414

4 ай бұрын

@@TheZapper42and chinups category is also reletavly easy to be defined as extraordinary

@sexy_koala_juice

2 ай бұрын

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.

Are tests of strength and endurance the same thing? Because the pushup thing definitely feels like the latter.

@MrWigglesWorth

4 ай бұрын

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.

@NoR3m0rs3

4 ай бұрын

@@MrWigglesWorth Stupid it says 'good' for deadlift is 1x bodyweight 1 rep every minute thats ridiculously easy

@DANA-lx8cv

4 ай бұрын

@@MrWigglesWorth SBD without the B is just S-tupi-D, ;)

@DANA-lx8cv

4 ай бұрын

@@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.

@Lee-ic2yn

4 ай бұрын

​@@NoR3m0rs3exactly, it's not even a warm up

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!

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! 👍🏻

Hope you had an amazing Christmas my guy. I appreciate you big time 💪💪💪

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.

This was a fun little test! Great job!

Great job. I feel like the push-ups require ongoing muscle exertion that is different than the strength testing. 🎉

Congrats on 100k! Well deserved 💪🎉🥳

Its alright man, you’ll be strong one day! Keep your head up. :)

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

@wutwhy9898

4 ай бұрын

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

@mac5917

4 ай бұрын

54 clean pushups is not impressive at all unless your BMI is OBESE😂

@mac5917

4 ай бұрын

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

@Brain320

4 ай бұрын

Push-up test was pure endurance...

@mustang8206

4 ай бұрын

I think you just suck at push ups😂. 54 is weak

The content on this channel is extraordinary

Awesome video. Makes me want to try adding chin ups to my workout. Cheers from Ottawa.

One of the most impressive videos I have ever seen online was Martin Licis doing a Hephaesto

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 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.

@Ladosligese

4 ай бұрын

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

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.

@HaveAagutd

4 ай бұрын

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!!!

Great quality videos!

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.

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.

Great content as always. Thx for showing how ridiculous these tests are.

Him walking out that squat in two steps and already at the back of the rack is insane

Yes! Bro your strength is OP!

Mens health magazine ! I buy it to find out what is the best aftershave on the market 😁. That's all it's good for!!

Dam good Mitch 🔥🔥

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.

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

Jesus Mitchell, it's almost frightening to see your work capacity for someone your size. You truly are a generational talent

Motivation +300% Danke👍

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'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.

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.

@schultemeister6975

4 ай бұрын

300 in one set is insane

@tautrino

4 ай бұрын

It was 10 years ago and I trained quite hard, , a bit insane. @@schultemeister6975

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.

@elmosaarelainen9671

4 ай бұрын

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

Lifting Vault gonna cover that chinup

you are the worlds strongest man and you are canadian. we are proud of you and i am your biggest fan forever.

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.

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.

Your body type reminds me of the Legend Megnasun , he don't look strong either until he was up against it!

Me doing a pushup for me vs pushing up you is totally different. Almost like the pull up test, people weigh differently

Test is...whacky... But very fun to watch ya do it

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!

Just want to throw out that I appreciate anyone who remarks their own weights

A great overall strength test ( grip), no.2 who would you ask to move a sleeper sofa.

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

was that turkish getup actually challenging for you? I would think you could easily do 100+ on that. I'm weak asf and 24kg is a warm-up for TGUs. Or is it actually hard hard to get up when you're 320lbs?

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.

Bro, can you do a day in your life video? From when you wake up till you go back to sleep.

No comments about the "good girls" joke lol my favorite part easily, well done sir 👏

I found the deadlift scale to be the strangest, most of the scales were %bodyweight 1rm, then there's an EMOM for some reason

Your content is absolute gold, can’t get enough of it.

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.

What a weird test lol @RenaissancePeriodization would love everything bad you have to say about this scale! 😂

@death8114

4 ай бұрын

Yeah I hope he makes a video about this

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

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?

This is like a marathon runner calling Usain Bolt slow

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.

Never done Turkish getup before and got elite first attempt with no warmup at 57 years old but would have no chance of doing all them pressups, think they just make it up as they go along.

0:26 nah, not really. lol. you did very well at that competition recently though so I'll give you that!

I mean, I would seriously question the sport of strongman if they put in a bodyweight pushup event, lol

Hey if you want an idea for a challenge video, look up the pig squat routine by Milko Tokola. But it has to be done high bar to count.

The pushup metric seems a bit broken. Other than that I think a much better set of movements than I was expecting. Only other critique I would have is that I think pullups would be better scaled for difficulty with more reps than increasing the weight but that's me being pedantic. Oh and the Turkish get up with a full cup of water is a weird one, very hard to do that without spilling the water as it requires super strict form.

Your always extraordinary to me Mitch.

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.

*Insert Jordan meme* "And I took that personally"

The pushup section is pretty tough - more about endurance than strength.

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.

I'll give it a go tonight! My guess is that I fail to score extraordinary on the chin-up and push-up test. We shall see...

last exercise try without helping with your other hand, only core .) then is extraordinary :D

Oh my god I am stronger than the world strongest man!!!!1! Haha been loving the uploads mitchell

Ik I'm strong af being a strogman myself I'm not like the actual strongen where they compete but i am a strong man. This test just built up my ego a ton. I can't do push ups or chin ups with crap but the other workouts like deadlifting and squatting I'm extremely good at

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.

Those pushups are supposed to be done so that your chest bone would touch the top of a clenched fist with the heel on the ground. Done a similar push-up test in my time, but only a minute, and that was the standard push up. Not sure what rated as good, but I was able to get more than a push up a second at that point in my life (student, reasonable standard rugby player weighing 105Kg)

@BenRelle

3 ай бұрын

Also, according to the mag, you're on 3 rep max on the chins and squats...

"Strict as I can" goes into wide arm pushups with no full arm extension after 3. Slowly going from a sumo dead lift to how low can I get to limit the distance I need to get to the top.

"You're above below average" is my new favorite compliment.

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 🤷‍♂️

Chest to the floor for the push ups!

I was able to fo extraordinary on all of these except deadlift and squat ironically cause i usually consider my deadlift one of my most impressive feats of strength.

Beat you!?! Hell son, I'm unworthy even to watch you complete this test. LOL

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

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.

I take it the push-ups specified non-lockout?

People sitting behind a desk judging others that actually do, is really amusing. 😆 You won WSM 2023.👊😎

This man's soul is good that's why he succeeded 🎉excellence

04:24 for push ups change your hands position from diamond, to normal, to wide and you can hit 110+ easy without stopping.

Lol you are absolutely extraordinary 💯

I got 90 on the press ups , will try rest at the gym tomorrow

With push ups you can see palms lifting off floor at top of movement. I think without this wasted power/energy Mitch probably would have got exceptional. (50 push ups in 3 minutes rated as below average does seem a bit high, but at same time I would expect push ups to have higher threshold than other exercises).

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.

Mens Health is basically Rolling Stone Magazine. Both magazines are so incredibly biased 😅