I just want to be World's Strongest Me!

I think training environment has to play a big role too. I've been lifting "seriously" with programming for about five years. My deadlift, for example, was like 295 on a trap bar last year. Then I joined a strongman club. A few weeks ago I pulled a comfortable 405 on a straight bar. I don't think that huge jump is because I'm some athletic freak... I just didn't know what lifting heavy actually was, what an RPE 8ish is supposed to feel like. Having some experienced lifters around, cheering you on, giving you some pointers and confidence, can make a huge difference too!

Mitch literally took the sport by storm.. his training is on another level and the thought process put into all his lifts is awesome..Worlds and Arnold’s in the same year!! A massive bonus to the strongman world having Mitch apart of it.. 💪

Mitch Hooper is to me the Evolution of the sport, he has Brian Shaws' brain and possibly better, Martins Licis versatility, Oleksi's adaptability, Mateusz Kiloskowski's power in motion and enough deadlift grunt to make JF. C take notice. The guy is going to be hard to beat for anyone end of story.

I once heard something that I really liked. When training, most can become "the strong one" in your group of friends, your community etc. Don't need to be all or nothing with becoming the world's strongest. And that is a really cool goal.

Log press today 300lbs. With 2-5% gains every 6 months for the next five years my goal is 445lb log press. By then I’ll be 30. Previously I set a lifetime goal for 400lbs log press. Thank you for the encouragement Mitch. You are an inspiration

Excellent advice as always! I know for me, stress was a big factor in my training. I trained for 2 years while going to college and a host of other stresses that was drastically killing my recovery, making very little progress. Once I graduated and got into a better situation, my lifts skyrocketed the year after. Lifetime achievement goal is getting my pro strongman card in either US Strongman or Strongman Corp. Keep up the great content!

youre really good with you training videos man, better than well other WSM dudes

Great content as always!

Yea! That “manifestation” idea is a moose dropping! I think this is so great for me to hear and even better for the youngsters out there. My goal is to be consistent and work hard. Thanks, Champ!

Thanks for the great info Mitchell 💯💪🏻👻

Boy math is such a genius term you're the first one I hear speaking about this so truthfully. Also the graph you're thinking about is actually a square root

Thank you🏋‍♀️

you are basically to intelligent for strongman:) love you thinking , precisity, and attention to details a lot

I always respect the honesty when it comes to genetics and doing whats best for you, you really make sure people feel confident in their lane as opposed to delusional.

Thanks mitch, many of those mistakes i was doing rn so i can go walk the right path from now instead 👊

super impressed with your achievements! you seem to have a much better cardio and athletic foundation (agility, balance, quickness) than most strongman competitors, would you agree with that statement and do you feel that gives you a competitive advantage?

I am training with 5x5 training, every time i do 2,5 kg more and it goes fast, it works for me, greetings from 🤙🏻🇱🇺🤙🏻 🤙🏻LHBK🤙🏻

. Congratulations on winning the Big 3 this year!

Love the boy math phrase, my advice join strength 1.0, be honest with yourself and put in the work, thank you Mitchell appreciate you #lhbk #teammoose

Wise words 👏👏👏👏👏

I definitely progressed more than 20% in first 6months so no wonder I got injured 😅😂. But thx to your videos I definitely feel like I am doing more proper workouts and not over do it like I was

much thank

Consejos muy valiosos

With the "you need to be close to what your capable of recovering from" to add to that, you can progressivly overload your workload. I took around 8 months where I added more volume, more volume than was comfortable and then when it became comfortable I added even more volume, I overloaded the volume. I didn't really get "stronger" in terms of 1 RM but I was able to recover faster between sets, I was able to do more sets without fatiguing. I went from that guy who was doing your standard 3x3s to the guy people go up saying "Man, I wish I could handle as much volume as you do". This has had carry over where I am now able to pull this volume back, recover better and get more value out of my strength training. So if you think your someone who can't handle a high work load, maybe it's just because you've not trained yourself to be able to.

Current goal: at least a 400 lb conventional deadlift by the end of this year. (anything more, i will be more than happy/satisfied) I think it is a reasonable goal for me. Yesterday i was able to do a 385 lb deadlift for the first time after 2 weeks of just failing it!! I have about a year of training in the gym, starting last year near the beginning of my freshman year with the open free school gym, but i started practicing deadlifts during mid august (so about 2-3 months ago). My form can still a little work, but your videos really help out with my progress, mr. hooper.

Great video, Mitchell. Really enjoy your use of science and educational background/experience to get your points across. Well done!

Extremely good content my friend 🎉

Would love to see an RP collab. I think you and Dr mike would be very amusing together.

it sounds so obvious but, do the basics very well, over a long period of time, what do i mean? 1: sleep, eat, hydrate, relax. nothing else else in recovery matters if these things aren't optimized. but pay attention to things like how often do you wake up at night to pee, are you missing any micronutrients, are you getting in enough electrolytes, is there some way in your life you can reduce stress outside of the gym. 2; stop exercising, and start training. killing yourself in the gym every time and leaving absolutely nothing left in the tank every time is not conducive to progress. do what is necessary to drive progress and then go home. 3; slow progress is fast progress. making large, 20lb jumps is unsustainable, what is sustainable, is a 5lb PR once a month, if you start with 135lbs on the bar as a novice and add 5lbs a month for 10 years that's a 735lb deadlift. yes i know that there will be months you don't make PR's, but even if you miss a year, you end up at 675lbs. that is unbelievably strong for a natural lifter.

Deadlift twice my own weight, 80kg. One of my first goals , i never deadlift, have been doing only body weight and martial arts training for a long time. But i really love strongman and it got met excited to lift again.

Great video. I'm definitely guilty of reverse engineering my lifts >.

I went from 6th place in my novice SM comp to 3rd place this year. My goal is to hit 1st place next year. I'm proud of myself considering I'm not as big as a lot of the guys I work with. Genetically speaking, I was built for stamina/running, not big muscles lol.

Logarithmic and exponentials are the same thing. 💪

I dunno Mitch - a year into training and I'm still making surprising gains thanks to Strong 1.0 and Strongman Offseason 😀 Setting realistic goals after a 1:1 with you meant I was able to hit all of them this year and set equally realistic ones for next year.

Proud of a fellow Canadian let’s go team moose 🇨🇦😁

Hopping on because newb gains have plateaued and lack patience for the long road.

A logarithmic function is the inverse of a exponential function. So yeah, you're right.

Mr Hooper, I hurt my back doing deadlifts. Any advice/video? Doc thinks I have a bulging disc but didn’t get an MRI. Love your content!!

Ive always lifted a bit at the gym but was limited by bad hips, so no suqats or deadlifts. Now that I have had both hips replaced and I can do squats and deadlifts and I went from the bar and 10# during rehab to 245# squats and 265# deadlifts in about two years. Im on year three and have been stuck at the 265# mark so I think Im past the quick easy gains part and really focusing on a consistant process. LHBK

Man im still grateful for increasing my main (big3) lifts by 2-5% in half a year...but i do miss the noobie gains 😢

My current goal is to be consistent. Sticking to ly programme and not letting boredom get in the way and not getting distracted by other stuff. I want to stick to this fucking thing and try to progress at that. I cannot physically progress at everything even if I want to, but I’ll progress at nothing if I don’t stick to something.

Is it possible to be intermediate in some lifts but novice in others? For example I have done bench press, rows, bicep curls, tricep extensions. overhead press, and leg extension for years as an adjunct to martial arts training. Within the past couple years I decided to add deadlifts and back squats, and recently got a power rack so I could squat without overhead pressing the weight onto my shoulders. I think of myself as a novice in squat and deadlift, but have been doing some kind of weight training for many years. I suspect the potential gains will be muscle group specific rather than systemic, although I'm sure the leg extensions and horse stance training history helps somewhat with squat and deadlift. I don't neatly fit into the categories you outlined, and I'm sure there are other people in similar situations. Any metrics or predictions?

You are pretty cool man!

50 yrs, 5'10 1/3, 185# Deadlift 5x255, Squat 5x230. Feels like intermediate, hard to push progress.

I think beyond advanced there is an Elite level and increases diminish even more, and there are then trade-off's in progression for one lift with maintenance or even regression in another

Manifest that $#!t even though that doesn't work 😅😅 that's awesome 😅. Agreed just have to put in consistent hard work over time

Excellent. What I am missing As an intermediate is creating that actual routine that I need to follow. Without it, I sort of fall into the “just going to the gym” trying to figure out through KZfaq videos..

love you and all but logarithmic is NOT the word you're looking for. logarithmic graph reflects the exponential graph around the x=y line, not the x axis. what you were looking for is more along the lines of y=-e(-x)+c (an exponential but coming from below and having an asymptote above it at 'y=c', a 'genetic potential')

Yes Logarithmic is the correct term. If you search for "logarithmic vs exponential graph" and check out the pictures, you can see that the graphs are indeed reversed.

hi mitchell i have only been lifting for 1 1/2 yrs and ive been having a hard time to get past 105kg for my deadlift. any suggestions how i can breakthrough and get stronger with my deadlift.

LHBK!

I'm trying to go up 18% on bench within 8 months, but that includes perfecting technique aswell, as an intermediate.

Just like to get you're opinion on training with the flu or cold. Do you avoid training,scale back or stop until you're 100%.

Your biggest obstacle or competition rather, is yourself.

Skibidi bopping Here's a moose dropping .

i want people to see me and think "that guys looks strong". also just being fit. thats a good one too.

I just want to be the strongest me. Almost 49 years old and strongest i have ever been but there's still room to improve.

Hi Mitch !

logarithmic is correct!

how about you lock out your overhead presses. do the events correctly

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Great tips. Reverse engineering has always been my number 1 mistake.

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Out of curiosty, what sort of numbers was you lifting when you first started strongman?

What about if youvr not been consistently lifting for 10 years?? Back to a newbie?

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425lb squat. 325lb bench. 500lb deadlift. 225lb log.

I've reached the point where I'm just happy to be lifting each week even if it isn't much weight

My goal is to be strong enough, to train with the moose man himself and get a thumbs up.

I want to bench 90kg, deadlift 170kg and squat 130kg before I'm 50 in 2 years

Yo Mitch are steroids inevitable to be the strongest man in the world? Blessings

Strongman do ofseasons? How does that work

Gronk!

The reverse engineering tip is great. in the current social media landscape it can be difficult to appreciate how far you've come since starting, which is a shame because improving yourself is the goal

Where is your rogue belt?

My Goal is going to the gym consistently for the rest of my life

I think we all need a couple of years to learn that the process is slow, and it should be. Less likely to cause injury, more likely to keep the gains coming consistently for longer, more opportunity for the body to adapt and catch up to the constant abuse. There's no shame in adding the smallest plates to your deadlift, progress isn't measured in red plates and round numbers. As a 40 year old lifter, I'm very good at not giving a f about what the gym bros think of my 2.5kg weight jumps. Come back when you've had 3 microdiscectomies and we'll talk.

Would you be willing to talk about steroid use in strongman at some point? Pros/cons to using them, at what level is someone expected to be using them, etc. Thank you!

225 before I turn 16 on bench

I have been lifting for 10 years my goal is to deadlift 405 lol (but i have a disability i don't feel to bad)

... moosedroppings for the algorithm

Goal is to win WRPF Northeast Regionals and earn a free entry into 2024 nationals

I want to be netherlands strongest man

mitch neck is bigger than my leg holy shit

None of your videos about progress, what should a healthy male lift etc seem to apply to me. Nothing makes sense as I'm not small, short, weird limb lengths or whatever. Really demoralising stuff :/. I get like 5kg increases on lifts every 4 months minimum

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Isn't "boy math" just "bro science"?

I just want to give glory to god.

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The moose

My tip is to change things up, don't do the same old things every workout.

What I heard is…I can be worlds strongest man!

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Moose dropping...why is your moustache trimmed neatly just above your lip on the right side, but it drifts just below the lips on the left? These are the important questions we need to know. I think it could be the spinach to your Popeye.

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