Actually it's Precisely that. A compilation of those who have attempted a specific benchmark weight -not just a "compilation of heavy deaflifts"... ffs.

@@M1tjakaramazov you say it isn’t just a compilation of heavy deadlifts, but I look at the title of the video and it says “all 500kg deadlift attempts” which means it’s a compilation of all the 500kg deadlift attempts this guy has found. Is sumo deadlift a deadlift? Yes of course it is, so it’s in the video

@@kirayoshikage1491 moving the goalposts to hide your stubbornness. Classic... 😅

@@M1tjakaramazov wanna point out where I moved the goalpost?

@@kirayoshikage1491 "It’s not as if this video is an official list with important parameters, it’s just a compilation of heavy deadlifts". Literally your own words. You then try to obfuscate the issue when I point out it very much is a list of something specific by referring to the title which states it's a video about a specific achievements. Not only is it a clumpsy attempt at goal-post moving, it's contradictory as well. And none of it disputes the reasons some people don't consider the sumo deadlift a proper execution.

It is impressive, they are authentic beasts

no they're pathetic weak, i can pick few tons with one finger

No it's not

@@cowabunga2597 Try lifting one, stickbug.

​@@romacas387honestly same

AND let's hold it for an unnecessary amount of time and almost die because of it, what a legend LMFAO. He didn't have to hold it for that long, but he did, respect, huge balls.

@@acquaminerale4791 He was scared of releasing too soon and having all the effort be wasted.

@@ajgrant94 baaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

@@ajgrant94 Magnusson was in this video, and he didn't lift it. He had wrist straps and no belt, like half the lifters here.

@@ajgrant94 it's silly being elitist about straps and deadlift suits if you're already using bendy bars and hitching. If you want a consistent ruleset, it exists - you just don't get 500kg deadlifts with it.

cope

Amen. You watch all the insecure sumo rats complain how it's 'just as legit'! 🤣🤣🤣 If you have to sumo cos you can't do the same weight traditional, fine. But don't bitch about it when people point out it's easier (it's half the range of motion, of course it's easier)!

It is not cheating ,still a deadlift but I personally don't consider it the same as a conventional lift

It’s a different lift and should probably have a separate set of records than standard, but cheating isn’t the right word for it. It’s still a taxing and difficult lift under tremendous weight

Should a wide stance squat be considered different than narrow stance

Squat WR is higher than deadlift WR tho

@@user-zc2ks7pd3d not true squats. They're squatting with crazy outfits for stability

*with PEDs

Metric system is cool, this video could be titled 713.8feet, fingers, earlobes, pinkies or any random weird body part.

This isn't max

I'd love to see him get it as well, but honestly he's tried it so many times I think he should just give it up and focus on becoming a good all-round strongman

Makarov is honourable. He was so close to get 505 that he probably would've gotten 501. But he wants a legit record and not a gym PR. Edit: I realised that Makarov isn't that close. He gets it to his knees because that's where the suit helps the most.

​@@simenandersen3262 501,1 kg wr by Hafthor 😮

@@Pepe-pq3om not official

@@Pepe-pq3om Eddie hall rapes him.

His lift seems a little suspicious to me as he’d never done more than 460/465 before that day yet suddenly was able to add 35/40kg to his deadlift - I’ve never heard of any strength athlete who’s been able to add that amount of weight so quickly

@@richardthomas3697 you think he was sandbagging it?

My thoughts are that some of the plates weren’t the weight they should have been It just seems too big a jump in Eddie’s best deadlift to not raise questions, to put it into perspective Thor has recently got back into strength training and it’s taken him a few months to add 30kg to his bench press yet Eddie was somehow able to add 35/40kg to his deadlift in just one day

@@richardthomas3697 that’s pretty hard to say though considering it was in competition, and there were other guys that tried to lift that weight that couldn’t even budge it, plus Eddie Hall trained for that for a whole year I think, and he pulled 420 and 460 off the ground like it was nothing

Maybe the other competitors were lied to and it was only 480/485, Eddie took almost a half hour rest between his lifts so the others had cooled off too much and struggled with the lifts. Also the plates weren’t weighed on camera so the actual weight wasn’t verified as been 500kg As I said the weight jump just doesn’t seem possible as adding that amount of weight takes a long time - have you ever heard of a strength athlete who could suddenly lift 35/40kg over their personal best

надо поднимать рывком а не пытаться удерживать

@@blitsa6251not jerking the bar is literally one of the first things you learn about when learning proper deadlift technique

@@blitsa6251that’s the literal worst thing you can do, that’s how i fucked up my lower back for like a week before

Why doesnt he try the 502 first in comp? Or has he?

Thor's does not count

why wouldn't thors count lol@@spongeman3806

I don’t count thors. Wasn’t in an official setting.

@@Sparks00psn it was

10 years ago it was impossible

Crazy how performance enhancing drugs have comed far

​@@jobra7624people are juicing since 50s lol, its diet and genetics actually

lol sumo

you have like zero gym knowledge

Almost every lifter except Wierzbicki chose classic deadlift - it means that classic deadlift is easier for most people, due to better leverage.

@@MrRealPrezes lol sure :D maybe it is because classic is better for building back muscle and because sumo is banned in some competitions? so why would even try it? its like saying they choose back squats instead of legpress or machine squat because back squats are "easier" and why is sumo easier? maybe because the ROM? bench is also easier if you have a desk on your chest, even the classical dl is easier if you lift 20cm off the ground or if you end below your knees.

@@rihaveinaiba8269 bro sumo is a larger leg rom because you need to to bend your knees more

Official world record holder

Thor's 501 was sanctioned by WUS and was a stand-alone lift akin to Rogue's Record Breakers. Eddie's 500 actually had less strict rules and cannot be called a true "competition." Eddie brought his own lifting platform and used his own bar. Eddie, as an athlete dictated what the weight jumps would be, which angered other strongmen lifting, including Shaw. Eddie, again as an athlete participating in this show, dictated his own rest times and came out whenever he felt like it, instead of after a set time. Jerry even complained about this stating that Eddie got as much rest as he wanted but the rest of the athletes were told when to come out to lift. Jerry credited his injury to this, stating that Eddie took so long that he cooled down too much from his prior attempt. In no way should an athlete in a legit competition have this much special treatment. Meanwhile, Thor had to follow strict timing between his lifts and was told when he had to come out and how much time he had on the platform. Thor used brand new equipment from Rogue, with each plate being weighed and verified by Magnus and Big Z via zoom. For all intents and purposes, Thor's attempt was closer to a properly regulated competition than Eddie's was.

The mountain beat his record, wierzbicki beat his record. Are you dumb or dumb?

@@timeup2549 it's sad that this amount of unfairness is allowed. the other contestants should've made a bigger deal out of it.

​@@timeup2549bullcrap bar, bullcrap weights

Not natural strength though it is possible because of shit loads of gear

Personally i just think they should be viewed as two different lifts and not directly compared

@@Llama_charmer that's what I meant, forgot to say that though.

@@branominal8564 personally i think its a bit like if you mixed a deadlift with a rack pull. Your ROM is decreased and the effort your have to exert is lower so its only natural that you can lift more weight.

Sumo is illegal in strongman and powerlifting is just a meme. The entire effort behind this "sport" is directed towards minimizing ROM. No one cares. Weightlifting and strongman are where the actual athletes are at.

of course, but its still a mad impressive lift to get it up

Por algo son considerados 2 de los hombres más fuertes del mundo

Of course it is an enormous amount of discipline over many years (like in any professional sport on the highest level), but it is at the same time only possible with the correct starting conditions (the right genes at the end), like in any sport. Only a small group have the right body to build up the required strength and most who try fail (as seen partly in the video).

He jumped the record 38kg or something crazy, and in an actual comp. Everyone else pulling 1kg more than the last guy is just not as impressive.

Protein power

@@kasienkakaminska6915 gear

Sumo and conventional should be put into different categories. But regardless of what I or anyone says even if you use sumo stance you still lifted up the weight.

no doubt strong. But it would be more impressive with a 400 kg pull at their bodyweight. A 500 kg sumo isn't a 500 kg pull

@@Andrew..J No doubt strong but you're gonna discount it and nitpick regardless. Loser lol

@@Springboksfan nope

@@Andrew..J nobody doesnt care about your opinion untill you wont pull 200conv or sumo

That sumo lift had no official judges present and the dude who did the lift weighs like 100 kgs at the absolute most. There’s no chance that’s legit.

@@Teyeranitar cope more

gym lifts don't count, sorry

@@mohammadahmed6319You are the one coping

@@mohammadahmed6319 found the sumo puller (his spinal erectors are the size of peanuts)

Eddie lifted 1 kg less had a major nose bleed and almost went blind

@@eivindgjengstjohansen9625 And he did it in competition just like every other record-setter in strongman history. Everyone except Thor, that is, he was allowed to lift from home after his dad weighed his plates 🤷

@@SPACYtunes yeah but it's still 501 kg lol why would his father stack less than 501 kg? Look at all the plates no way that can be less than 501 kg 🤔💪

@@eivindgjengstjohansen9625How can you be so sure? Of course we can’t say opposite since there are no proofs. Also we can’t prove that some plates are not plastic.

@@user-mv2pr6fl8x nobody questioned Eddie and it's kinda difficult to fake 501 kg's...and it's illegal and iceland is one of the strictest country in the world and i don't think that Hafthor would ruin his career for a deadlift...

For 100%. He may be the only one now to consider doing it. Maybe with 2-3 other guys on earth

It's exciting to think about Wide Pavlo's potential.

These guys are probably strong enough to rip something out that is bolted to the floor

its not even about range of motion entirely, deadlift is fundamentally a hip hinge movement, but by going sumo, you can basically get into a stance where your torso is vertical before the lift even starts which turns it into something like a reverse squat. if you want to do sumo deadlift because it focuses glutes more than traditional, fine, and if people want to compete to see who can lift the heaviest sumo, go ahead, but to act like sumo and traditional are the same lift is ridiculous and clearly not true. There's a reason we care so much about the big 3, and its because they all are lifts that work fundamentally different parts of our body in order to build balanced overall strength, if you swap deadlift out for sumo, then your effectively removing one third of the equation. This is why sumo isn't as respected as traditional deadlift, and never will be.

"more than I would ever be able to do" .... No shit 😂

Thing is, His weight is much much less than others xd If You comparenfor example to Eddie or Thor xd then He might be half of it 😅

His conventional ROM wouldn’t be much more at all. His body is just built for deadlifts. His joints (which is what actually matters) also would be going through a similar range of motion to the guys who hit 500kg conventional, again a little less because of his leverages.

Only Eddie's can be trusted 100%

All the plates and the bar in hafthor's lifts were weighted live and the event was broadcasted on ESPN. If you don't think he actually pulled it you're dumb 🤦‍♂️

Wierzbicki also lift full bar. This is true Sumo lift is harder than classic deadlift Bealive me and try your limit

@@pokazja5oja862 after practising sumo it is physically easier

Yeah because the smaller guys doing sumo are so much stronger fucking idiot.

Not really, shorter men are potentially better at the DL because of the shorter range of motion, and eddie has really long arms for someone of his height so he's even better designed for the DL

Sumo doesnt count who cares

me@@arah1194

You're so right jamal is a weakling 🤡

​@arah1194 who cares? You fucking morons shouldnt be given permission to comment on youtube. A man does a 500kg deadlift, idc if he did it sumo or normal, and you clowns out here saying yi doesnt matter?

@@arah1194 Sumo and conventional should be two different category. Still impressive.

U can't as he did it sumo

@@petershortland478 100% counts as you can pull sumo in comps ya goofball

@@bio7377 The sumo is a completely different movement than the conventional. Just because the IPF allows it, it doesn't make it the same as a legit exact same movement. Otherwise, why shouldn't rack deadlifts count? After all, all elephant bar, Hammer tire, deadlidft bar and powerlifting bars were completed with a conventional stance.

@@petershortland478 not strongman you dumbasss

@@emiliospowerballer1441 I think you have a different definitions for the word "completely different". If wanks like you start arguing about every single detail, there would be no need for federations, official juries and records. For your information, none of the lifts are 100% true conventional. Strongmen were wearing suits, wraps and belts. That shit adds minimum of 50 - 75kg to your deadlift. Sumo with stiff bar > conventional with wraps, and suit 100% of the time.

He was impressive, but I watched this and thought it's a real shame Hafthor retired. He's lost over 100kg bodyweight since that lift. I'm sure he's much healthier now, but DAMN, the dude looked like a frickin' monster.

Well, those who can't, sumo!

I don’t believe for a moment that lift was legitimate. They had no official judges there. Just look at the dude, there’s zero chance that 95 KG man lifted 502.5 KGs.

@@Teyeranitar cope

@@mohammadahmed6319 cope over what sperg? lmao, you don't even know what that word means.

@@mohammadahmed6319 "CoPe".....over what? its sumo. Lmao

The record in a variant is 549Kg atm

no

It’s a thing because Eddie threw a tantrum about Thors lift and all his fanboys take what Eddie said as gospel fact so will keep spewing out his nonsense Eddie didn’t like it because Thor made it look easy so all of his dramatics about nearly dying and the affect it had on his body now look OTT and he lost the ego boost of been the only person to successfully deadlift 500kg

@@richardthomas3697 idiot

EDDIE done his 500KG IN "COMPETITION" what part of that do you not understand. Thor done his 501KG at home. Even if we give thor the record, it's still not THE OFFICIAL WR because it was not done in competition. Eddies 500KG will always be considered the WR because of this undeniable fact, not counting that it was also HISTORY in the making and put Eddie at Legend status for all time. Eddies will always be considered the greatest feat of strength and the crowd on that day made it electric. That 500KG deadlift will always go down in history as the "GREATEST DEADLIFT" ever witnessed for all time. Nuff said, case closed, i'm correct, your wrong, get over it.

@@g-9222 That's not what makes it official. What makes the 501 kilos official is that the weights were verified and that there was a judge on site. 501kg is the official record. That it wasn't in a competition doesn't make it any less official.

Thought the same

@@tylerholt6828how do we know anything is legit? We were there to verify it ourselves. Heck, for all we know the moon landing could’ve been fake since we didn’t see it with our own eyes. You can choose to believe it or not believe it.

That really sounds like a dream. I really hope that I can witness more of humanity’s strength feats

@@KIRI384bro 30 years ago our max was 300 kg, now is 500, let’s wait more 30, I don’t know if we can surpass that…

@@kritinha4695 if there is some genetic god who is born, trains his whole life he might be able to lift 550 or 600 if im insanely optimistic. but common, eddie didn't lift 500 with physical training alone, I think the human body is getting close to its max. 1 ton would prob straight up shatter your bones if you even had the strenght to lift it.

Once steroid science improves we will get there 😎

China will produce designer babies with 500 iq and the strength of a gorilla and they will also be black below the waist destroying the asian stereotype forever

yeah comapred to Eddie who did 500kg and literally had to hypnotize himself and still dropped to his knews bleeding, while Hafthor didnt visibly recoil at all and couldvs done more realtiscally.

@@bennogb5069to be fair, Eddie held it for far longer, that the amount of stability and sheer raw power to hold it there is higher enough in itself

@@mrthanos2404 but Thor lifted it nearly as long and he literally had no adverse reaction to his body directly after the lift

He did sumo, doesnt count

@@jasminakevelj3641 not many have done it or even attempted it, I say it counts

what's your max deadlift

Because people don't care about sumo

@@user-zw7qe1ex3c People don't care about dead lifting to begin with so...

Because its unofficial event with no official ref... and its Sumo compared to the existing conventional records

More training.

@@samshorto5433 that's not the issue he couldn't lift 470 a number he requested. Then all of a sudden makes 501 look easy idk bro

@PSYKO-cq1is I mean, do you not understand how time works? He came incredibly close to a 501kg lift in 2019. He trained for a year and then did it. How is that hard to understand?

@@samshorto5433 i don't think you understand. He couldn't even budge 470 then eddie smashed easily. Then all of a sudden smashed 501 without breaking a sweat in his home gym with plates his dad weighed??? I call bs

Dude. He was already close to it, then trained nothing but deadlift for a whole year. I don't think his home lift counts as a record, but it's not exactly hard to imagine Thor pulling 501kg. He's probably in the top 5 strongest people to ever exist.

Sumo Jeff nippard has a great video about it basically human skeleton dictates which stance is better for you

Right 💯 I agree

If its easier, then why all the successful 500kg pulls are conventional?

@@hereisdamm mobility constraints in sumo make it not feasible for many people :v other than that it's just physics: less displacement -> less work

@@pawe2244 so you are saying sumo is harder for some people? Also, your knowledge of physics is too basic. You are misapplying the work formula and you are not considering leverages... remember that muscles do the pulling, you are not a spring pulling the bar straight up but a complex system pulling through several levers. Sumo is not easier in absolute terms, it depends on the anthropometrics of the lifter. Sometimes its the harder lift, that's why so many lifters can do maximal lifts with conventional, especially the super heavy. If sumo was truly easier in the absolute sense, competitive lifters doing conventional would be moronic.

@@hereisdamm its as simple as this Damian. Lift the same amount of weight with both styles, then come back here and tell me which one was easier.

@@wiebegraham Definitely not. Despite training for sumo since I've started lifting, during maxing out day, managed to PR higher by switching to conventional. I can rep 4 plates with conventional; with sumo, I'm gassing by the end with one rep. Physics, wise, for the same weight, sumo requires much more force to lift off than conventional at the cost of less distance to travel; to be exact, ignoring biomechanic, given that lifting sumo requires a force F, sumo requires F / sin(θ) with θ being the interior angle of the leg to the ground. Observe that since sin(θ)

Personally, I think that depends on stance width. If you look at Danny's pulls he's so wide he's practically doing the splits and standing upright off the floor. In contrast, Jamal has more of a narrow pull and is bent forward further. He also can pull well over 900lbs conventional. I think Jamal's lifts are legitimately impressive, but other like Danny are practically just joint lockout movements with less true strength involved.

@@VitoDRF Danny also uses the super bendy bar

It's different, but still impressive as hell

i mean ive seen people weighting 80kg do 400kg rack pull but they are still 2-3x weaker than wsm

@@eutiger4789 i was thinking more like deadlifts and not rack pulls my G

@@redundancyii7015 If you were thinking more like deadlifts, why mention sumo pulling?

Wasn't there a guy that did rack pulls with like 800 kg? Lol

@@TheStraightestWhitest because I was talking about deadlifts??

@@HoofHearted314 Strongman has no single governing body. This leads to dispute and ambiguity. This event was infact sanctioned by one of those bodies among many which is 'World's Ultimate Strongman (WUS)'. It's an annual strength athletics competition which began in 2018 and it has a number of parallel, rival competitions including World's Strongest Man, Arnold Strongman Classic and Giants Live Tour etc. Inaugural edition of the competition was held in Dubai in 2018 and it was won by Hafthor. 2019 winner was Mateusz again in Dubai. In Feb, 2020 it was announced the competition would be expanding and would be held in Bahrain at the Bahrain International Circuit with a purse of USD 350,000, which was the largest for any Strongman Competition. In March, WUS released an official statement entailing that the event which was scheduled in mid April was 'cancelled' due to the Pandemic (I'm sure you all are aware that there is a global pandemic going on called Covid-19), and because of travel restrictions placed in many countries, WUS announced that they will govern the Record breaker attempts from these events in 'Feats of Strength series' which to be conducted at home/private gyms but live streamed for free for the public to view in real time. Here are some of the WRs which were sanctioned under Feats of Strength by WUS, during that season: Maximum Deadlift (Standard bar) - Hafthor Bjornsson 🇮🇸, 501 kg. 2/5/20. Maximum Atlas Stone lift - Tom Stoltman 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧, 286 kg. 23/5/20. 100 kg Circus Dumbbell press for reps - Oleksii Novikov 🇺🇦, 11 reps. 30/5/20. Maximum Atlas Stone lift (Women's U64kg) - Rhianon Lovelace 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧, 139 kg. 6/6/20. Maximum Log lift (American Record) - Rob Kearney 🇺🇲, 216 kg. 13/6/20. Maximum Log lift (Women's) - Andrea Thompson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧, 135kg. 4/7/20. 400kg Deadlift (standard bar) for Repetitions - Rauno Heinla 🇪🇪, 6 reps. 13/9/20. Maximum Atlas Stones lift (Women's) - Donna Moore 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧, 171kg. 27/9/20. Maximum Deadlift (Standard bar) (Women's) - Andrea Thompson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧, 290kg. 4/10/20. Maximum Deadlift (Standard bar) Master's (over 40y) - Mikhail Shivlyakov 🇷🇺, 436kg. 18/10/20. Additionally, below athletes attempted the WRs but were unsuccessful: Luke Stoltman, Rob Kearney (Max log), Julius Maddox (Raw Bench press), Terry Hollands (Masters Max Deadlift), Jerry Pritchett, Adam Bishop, JF Caron, Konstantine Janashia, Trey Mitchell (400kg Deadlift for reps) and Ivan Makarov (Maximum Deadlift). So the event was cancelled in 2020 due to Pandemic and all the scheduled work was sanctioned by WUS 'for the Record breakers' and held like that in 2020 under Feats of Strength Series. Finally the competition resumed in 2021 March in Bahrain (the one schedule in April 2020 in Bahrain which was cancelled) where it was won by Oleksii Novikov. A feat he replicated in September 2021 (the actual 2021 competition), winning it back to back. Hope this helps you to understand. Furthermore: He pulled the Weight from the floor and we all saw it. As elaborated above the pandemic cancelled all shows. It was planned for WUS 2020 at Bahrain and it got cancelled. But WUS officially hosted the event under WUS Feats of Strength 2020. Only maximum of 20 people allowed per vanue. It was live streamed so anyone in the world can see. All plates were brand new Rogue calibrated plates. Each and every single plate accurately weighed to 3 decimal places in front of the official judge MVM and signed for verification. Go check the video, it's available in Hafthor's Official KZfaq channel. The lift was broadcasted live in real time. WSM head judge MVM declared it was a good lift. We all saw that Hafthor made it as if 501 was not even a challenging enough weight for him! If you are an obsessive Eddie fan (I'm assuming) we all know that Eddie almost died after the 500, and contrastingly Hafthor Pulled 501 like nothing, perfect lockout, and was standing tall after the lift... There's two men in the 500 club, true and Eddie was the first man to do it, true but there's only one man in more than 500 club now for more than 2 years... Hafthor Bjornsson is the World Record holder of the Deadlift. Google it up, you can see it for yourself under Guinness World Records. I also have a couple of counter questions with refer to competition/ maybe now about the crowd as competition hypothesis is explained above, which is not the case anymore: The 1st event of ESM 2016 was the Deadlift (event 1 is called Giant's live World Deadlift Championship). There was no events before. Eddie was also fresh coming into the lifts. Thor had the same number of weight jumps 420, 465 and the Big one and at less time intervals between them that Eddie had, giving less rest between the sets to Thor. We should also not forget that in a competition (if you have competed at an event you will know what I'm trying to explain), the cheering crowd (thousands at ESM 2016) is a natural Adrenaline booster which will help the mind achieve even more than what your body really can. So with my experience, a cheering crowd makes me lift better. Also, does gravity apply differently in competition? No, but did you know that the gravity acts slightly differently depending on how close you are to the equator or to the poles? A weight weighs less on the equator than at the poles. Using Newton's law of gravity, we find that the force of earth's gravity on objects at the equator is 9.798 m/s2, whereas at the poles it is 9.863 m/s2 meaning the objects weigh heavier when you are closer to poles and further away from equator; the earth's centrifugal force varies with latitude being the principal behind it. Reykjavík, Iceland is closer towards the North pole and further away from the equator than Leeds, England. So even if it's a very small amount, there are things like that also. Weight is a weight. 501 kilos is 501 kilos. But I want to tell you that they did everything possible with the existing world situation to do it a best, most officially possible and feasible way anyone can during that time period.

@@HoofHearted314 You have to check the Guinness world records.

@@HoofHearted314 A Google check entry is not Guinness World Records.

@@HoofHearted314 Guinness World Records: The Heaviest Deadlift is 501 kg (1104.5 lb), and was achieved by Hafthor Julius Bjornsson (Iceland) at Thor's Power Gym, Kopavogur, Iceland, on 2nd May 2020.

@@HoofHearted314 Google Feats of Strength under WUS. It was an official lift. And while you're googling that, look up just how extremely unprofessional Eddie's conditions were for that lift. He got to choose his own platform. That goes against the rules. He got to choose the bar. That goes against the rules. He got to choose his own rest time. That goes against the rules. The standard is a maximum of 15 minutes. Eddie Hall ended up taking 28 minutes, which caused Jerry Pritchett to go cold and tear his hamstring. The conditions for his deadlift were so fucking skewed to his advantage in fact, that his own buddy Brian Shaw refused to show up for Giant's Live that year. Hafthor was not allowed ANY of these privileges. He was set using a standard platform, standard bar, standard weight incline, and was checked into a maximum of 15 minutes of rest. Hafthor's lift was WAY more legit than Eddie's.