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

A big dude like you doing practically 100 push-ups in 3 minutes is staggering, even with your level of strength

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The push-up numbers were super unrealistic.

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! 👍🏻

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.

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.

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!

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

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

The content on this channel is extraordinary

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

This is like a marathon runner calling Usain Bolt slow

Respect for the very decent form on pushups! Also just found your channel and I’m really enjoying it.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 🤷‍♂️

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

This was a fun little test! Great job!

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.

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.

Doing as many push-ups as possible in three minutes is a parameter for strength endurance.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Guess that means i am the real worlds strongest boy

No matter how strong I am, my legs are crippled...I can't do the Turkish get up. I'll break my prosthetic before getting proper deadlift weight.

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

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

I think if you had done 10 x 11 pushups you would have made it. Doing 35 blew you out.

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

Congrats on 100k! Well deserved 💪🎉🥳

Pretty certain if Moose practiced doing push ups he would smash that as well

You deserve all the respect in the world for taking stupid’s health magazine seriously…

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.

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.

Push ups are better if you find something in front of you to focus on and place your elbows closer to your body.

Any kind of endurance section on a strength test is WILD lmao.

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)

Relative strength vs absolute strength, absolute strength takes the cake every time. That’s why it’s called absolute and not “relative”

Who wrote these lmao. That push up one is insane if you do proper range and form

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".

I'm going to do the strictest push up - proceeds to levitate the chest

Would have gotten over 100 pushups if you targeted more than 35 in the first minute when you were fresh. Aiming for 35 / 35 was the flaw.

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.

"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.

Extraordinary for deadlift is what you can get in like 1 year and a half of training it 💀

I think those were neutral pullups, but... Still extraordinary when your the world's strongest man

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

My biggest insecurity is that im not muchel hooper

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.

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

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

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 !!!

Deadlift 1 rep 1xbody weight EMOM for 10 minutes is suuuuuper easy compared to a 2x body weight 1 rep max, which is a huuge jump from that.

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

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.

Imagine Eddie hall who I love btw doing a push up challenge the year he won.

Does anyone else think the standards for extraordinary aren't hard enough? I'm not saying I can do them all, but a single pull-up with 1 plate? But I guess it makes a nice change from the usual ridiculous standards we are confronted with 😂😂😂

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.

I don't bother. As soon as I get past 30 pushups, there's this "small still voice" that suddenly speaks, promising malice if I continue.

I am strict about push ups. I do them slow and touch my chest to the ground. Best I can do is 28-32 in 1 set. We live in a cross fit influenced world. I feel the push up test is based on garbage quality push ups, because that’s what most people do.

Something tells me this gentleman is strong