Day 1 split jerk - 180kg on a god damn axle bar that is just incredible and so cool to watch

Would be so much fun watching you collab with Zack Telander, you already seem to be at an amazing starting point with the split jerk.

Your back leg is straight and locked out almost all of the time, which is a big issue in the split jerk because it forces you to go all over the front leg instead of keeping it vertical. It also limits how deep you can get in the split. Foot position in general is not good in the split. But other than that it looks really solid for the first time considering it was an axle, and that you're not super mobile in shoulders.

What you said at the end really resonated with me. People are confused when they see me eager and excited to go into work. Most people just act miserably with certain things. Whether with children or with work there's something to be earned. In terms of a job, there are great connections to be had and lots to learn. I tell people to not take work so seriously and try their best to have fun. And this is coming from a guy with depression. I'm very happy that you are spreading these messages because even if it's only one or two people that internalize it, these are lives you are changing forever

Bring on Zack. The strongman-to-weightlifter evil character arc is definitely a great option.

No better feeling than being a new dad. Makes you a better man

Split jerking 180kg for the first time, that is impreseve, no wonder you won WSM! your content is honestly both informative and entertaining, was tired from optimal workout videos, and really just a good format that imbodies the "Lift heavy, be kind" slogan, keep it up my G

Martins is really good at incorporating Olympic movement patterns into his lifts. You should train with him at some point… but be careful, he’s also a slippery bastard.

You should definitely collab with Zack telander for olly lifting

Man great achievement! Really good mind muscle connection. Very strategic - the setup, posture, taking the breath before each rep and holding it in - almost perfectly the same each rep - you will be / stay very consistent that way !

Dude, as a father of 2 I can relate to what u were saying at the end!!! Both of my kids bring the best out of me in so many different ways that I could possibly imagine!!! Wish u all the best for your fatherhood path and bring home the second title!!! Greetings from a fan from Greece!!!

I like how your training is so well rounded. Heavy split Jerks followed by some hypertrophy chest and tricep isolation work. Had good laugh when you were talking about the breast milk. Oh and 100% agree with you about what your looking forward too. Grandchildren are the next thing I'm looking forward to someday if any of my children decide to be parents.

As a father of five I can tell you fatherhood is the most challenging, rewarding, difficult, life changing, and humbling thing I’ve experienced in my life. Every day. Excited for you.

The amount of reaffirmation this creature needs that the thumbnail picture included an arrow pointing at himself saying: hey look at my the strongest man, just like the video title already says, just to make sure you know it's me hello.

The real baby talk at the end is my favorite thing I’ve seen on KZfaq in a long time. My son is 18 months and I felt the exact same way you did going into his birth. And my mind has not changed. Very hard and very life changing but that was the effing point! Love to hear it!!!

Looking GREAT , and STRONG . Can't wait to watch you in the WSM . Merry Christmas and GOD BLESS .

First vid of yours ive wwtched, well spoken and good ability to explain your processes, also its crazy to see such a strong man training with pretty good bodybuilding form

I felt the need to comment and I 100% agree with you looking forward to your child regardless of all the people talking about how hard it is. My daughter just turned 6 months old and I don’t miss any of the sleep I didn’t get, or regret how hard it has been. It has been the best blessing for my wife and me and has honestly brought us so much closer. Enjoy the classes, take your time and slow down. Take the extra time to be home with your wife after the birth. Merry Christmas and happy new year!

What fun watching you challenge yourself on new moves..Love seeing that Canadian maple leaf pumping back and forth

Mitch : *does unpredictable good* also Mitch : 20:09 "relative sucsess"

Loving these constant uploads nice one

Just barely managed to lift 180kg in deadlift myself. Watching you handle that weight so easily is beyond impressive.

So glad to hear those last few minutes of the video. Becoming a Father was the greatest moment of my life. Great attitude that more people need to hear. Oh, and a moose dropping......

Mitchell is saw you in my gym last Summer (Everyday Athletes) and did not know who you were at the time. After that, I started following you through social media and regret not knowing who you were. Would have been awesome to tell you how inspiring, genuine, and educational you are in person!!

I'd definitely get a coach for oly lifting. you could definitely use them as effective techniques after a few months. I would also religiously work on shoulder mobility at this point, you're a bit stiff (naturally so, most people who don't regularly do this and follow a 'regular' strength program are) and takes a while for people to be able to fully open up the shoulders, from my experience.

Hey Mitch My babygirl was born in may this year. I have to say it is the most wonderful experience being a dad. Nothing better coming home from a long productive day at work and seeing your child smiling at you. Enjoy every day with her 💪😊

This is great.I look forward to seeing him master the lifting techniques and exploding onto the scene and possibly taking the c&j to 600lbs or better.Thumbs up!

Being a dad is awesome, keep up the confidence brother! WSM (and dad) 2024!

A friend of mine became a mom almost a year ago. She read up on all aspects of baby behavior and implemented a bunch of life hacks such as structuring her day around the baby's circadian rhythm. It was hilarious to watch her predict like clockwork when the baby would fall asleep and wake up.

This came in handy during your apollon wheel lift

I appreciate the positivity!

I'm a father of two and I had a friend a while ago get pregnant with their first and he asked me how being a dad was. What I told him was: "You will never truly understand your capacity to love until you see your first born, and you'll never truly understand how your capacity to love can grow until you see your second". Stoked for you both Mitch! Being a dad is a lot of fun! You honestly don't remember any of the bad parts (only the bad parts that are funny later like horrible poop stories). Like you said, you know what sacrifices are made becoming a parent and you want it, and it's worth it :)

you have a great attitude.You are right about being a father.It's hard but it's wonderful.

I can't see the chest fly machine without also thinking of that one 4-panel comic: "I'm gonna be so good at hugging."

Split Jerk is great! The first time I tried it with the axle, I achieved a 10% PB compared to my Push Press PB. Keep going, Champ 👍👍👍 Greetings from 🇩🇪

Fantastic work!

Congrats on the baby, enjoy every minute! When does the LHBK baby merch line come out? Asking for two tiny friends

I think we are the last people you should be asking for tips and suggestions on how to perform and improve an olympic lift. 😂

Great insight about parenting! I got my kid at 23, totally non planned, and that was exactly my attitude! It's a challenge, and for sure I will love it (both the challenge and my beautiful daughter)! :D

I love how he worked on the form then automatically brought it back to his own sport with the EMOM.

Well done for giving it a go man.

Great effort!

ex olympic lifter here, you are doing amazing kid, maybe try to not turn out your front foot when it lands and just work on the dip and drive maybe,you already are doing awesome Mitchell ,you keep amazing me with everything you do ,im old now and can barely walk ,im getting Liz to coach me on clean and jerking a broomstick lol

Haven't read all the comments, so maybe someone has already mentioned these points: Your dip gets better at heavier weights because the bar is resting on your shoulders, not in your hands, so your hips aren't as in front of the bar in the dip. Generally your hips should drop slightly back, like you're initiating a front squat, when you dip, and you should try to get as comfortable with having the bar (and your shoulders) in front of your hips in the rack position. Of course, this being an axle, and you being so large, makes this difficult, but it would help. Your drive is quite good - most cut their drive too short before trying to get under the bar. However, you're rushing your split too much. Everyone else has harped on a good split position, so I won't, but you may find it easier to get into a good position if you focus in getting as tall as possible in your drive, and then - instead of planting your feet as quickly as possible and pushing up on the bar - using the bar to push yourself down as you split. The best jerk lockout occurs when the feet hit the floor at the same time as the elbows lock out. Of course, you don't need to worry about lockout, but it should help your split. The other thing that may not be obvious is that ones split position is heavily affected by their overhead position. In your case, because your shoulders have to be in front of your head, your spine extends to keep your shoulders above your hips, which results in more tension on the front of your hips, compromising your hip extension. Your rear leg turning out like it does is a good indicator for extension compensation. Not to say that you won't be able to improve your split position by training it, but, if you hit a wall with it, your overhead position may be why. Finally, if you start trying to improve your jerk from this strong starting point, it will probably start to feel like you're regressing as you go on. Everyone who tries Weightlifting after being proficient at a different strength sport knows the feeling! The movement patterns that got you to this point are not the ones that will enable you to jerk the most weight. So, if you're trying to use this in comp, you may be better off NOT trying to improve your technique. Which hurts a little to say, since I wish more people were good at Weightlifting, but that's not your goal, is it? Good luck!

Will be very interesting to see this in comp. Looking good Mitch!

Your technique is absurdly good for a first Time, one thing i learn with weight lifting coaches was to keep the Heel of the back leg off the floor in the réception, it helps to get lower if necessary and i found that it gives me more room for error ( but the best technique is the one that you can repeat where you feel strong amd stable)

I think it’s a good idea to train the split jerk for strongman. I do strongman, but i’m a bit on the lighter side. So i need all the technique advantages i can get. Plus i just enjoy training the olympic lifts once a week for explosiveness and fun. It does a lot for me though, now i’m starting to use the split jerk on the log too. It’s difficult, but i can feel it’s going to help me a lot.

As a dad of 4 boys and raising a niece and nephew, the baby stage is so so so easy. Enjoy it, love it. It is amazing especially the first time through

The pep talk during the tri extensions was the most epic based moment of the internet.

My twin boys are 9, but I remember all of the "you'll never sleep" talk, seriously people just need to grow a pair even with two it really wasn't that bad (honestly we did worse in the Navy.) Glad to see someone putting out some positivity, I've had to re-shuffle my media intake to get away from all of that negativity.

Quads lookin massive 💪

Ill go through some tips while watching so ill be editing this. If you want a youtuber to watch i reccomend gabriel sincrain 1-When you finish the split jerk you come back with your front foot and then the back foot,not the back foot then front foot like how you were doing it 2-the bar has to rest on your shoulders.That way the jerk dip will actually translate to raw force to the bar rather than being limited by your weakest muscles,your arms.If you cant get a full grip fingertips are just fine,arms relaxed kind of like ropes but at the same time you want some tension.During the jerk dip the bar needs to be locked as tight as it can on the shoulders so it doesnt crash and lose power,the acceleration deceleration and the acceleration back up have to be smooth in order for the bar not to crash,arms relaxed no input on the bar.When the bar is nearing the highest point you should already be down and thats when you lock your arms.Also you could push yourself down with the arms but its more complex technique,learn that much later. 3-Your front leg seemed to be too short forward.Opt for a vertical shin angle and dont let your knee go over the toes easily,have tension or you wont be strong enough(plant it willingly) Edit:You look like your resting the bar on your torso but you need to be able to do it with an empty normal barbell,because most likely you will have a lot of tension in your arms limiting power output.Also rest the bar on your shoulders not the clavicles because you will be blocked for air.Keep the back tight but lift the shoulders a bit until it fully rests on your shoulders,it will also be easier to hold with your hands. I cant not see you from the side but also during the jerk dip you keep pressure with a whole foot and you bend at the knees only torso straight. With higher weight your back leg also seemed to be straight and with a short leg forward it caused to go a little over,keep the back leg relaxed but also strong,its only for balance and rougly 40% of the weight(you want more of the weight on your forward leg) Edit 2:During the emom workout,if we go weightlifting rules they wouldnt count because you would press the last bit,but its much easier to fix Edit 3:You mentioned wrist position being uncomfortable at 8:50,i cant tell from the front but they should not be straight up,obviously not forward, but they shouldnt also be relaxed completely.You should keep them at a slight angle,kind of like 45 degrees where theyre active and you dont put pressure on the joint but also back so the centre of mass of the bar goes over your head easier

Weightlifting and strongman is more intertwined than you think. Weightlifting was the OG strength sport and a good amount of the earliest WSM competitors were weightlifters and some were even olympians at one point before strongman became its own sport. During the classic WSM era or that time period in general, weightlifting was much much more common. Any athlete in strength sport did these movements for power development. Would be interesting to see you attempt a clean or snatch as those movements are more technically demanding.

Loving ya videos here in australia bro

Dude if you got a coach you'd be throwing INSANE weight in about a month. I can't wait to see where this goes

You're one of my favorite human beings on the internet

Was literally just watching this week's Sika Strength news show and your jerk clip came up at the end of the episode. Those guys would definitely have some solid pointers for you!

Looking strong my friend #lhbk #teammoose

I just love your view on life😊

I was thinking maybe if he could get a littler lower it would help and then took the damn words outta my mouth and said it lol nice work man for day one only can improve from here and a hell of a good start!

Looking forward to seeing you on the Canadian Olympic team!

It paid off..pretty well.🎉

Emom ( every min on min )are such great ways to get better at movements. They are my favorite

Mitchell was spiting facts at the end there

The part at the end was touching.

Id love to see and Martins go at this together.

Mitchell hooper I was reading an article where you were in .”After performing the waiter’s walk, Hooper offered cues to better address shoulder stability during the overhead exercise. “Elevated scapula - bring your AC joint to your ear. And actively stabilize the shoulder. Actively squeeze everything around the shoulder. Keep it protected.” Why do we have to elevate the scapula I never heard anyone talk about that when doing shoulder press I sometimes have shoulder pain Also how He also did walks while holding a lighter kettlebell upside down to work on stability. help I wanna learn from you thanks man for reading this long comment

I'm not an Olympic lifter but I think like you said, drop to the right low position for maximum weights, which requires the leg and hip power for the precise movement. Full front squats are utilised.

Mitchell- being a parent/new parent is the greatest thing ever- I went a decade with less than 5 hours of sleep a night but I wish I could do it all over again- I was always one of the parents that enjoyed every second- played all the time with my kids, , out on the playground in the morning school drop off playing tag etc.. and yes, there is a lot of bad parents out there. ENJOY EVERY DAY 😊

I've always thought the power generation required for Olympic lifts had carry over between strongman, not to mention they are great lifts to train for non-competing lifters to maintain athleticism!

If you push from the hips like a fast thrust is cause the bar to bounce and help with the press providing the set up is correct.

I guessed 7! 👏 heck yeah 💪

Damn, bro, it looks soo smooth.

mitch may be the most likeable person on youtube holy shit that ran about babies and wanting to be a father was so wholesome

these are stunningly good, someone tag max aita

Collab with ZT needed 🙌

Just unreal how strong this man is. Absolutely nuts.

Have you thought about also adding in tricep extensions reverse, many don't do this ,buts it can help with tricep development and strength.

Being a dad is hands down the best thing that ever happened to me! …

The first time in human history "KZfaq commenters make me happy" has ever been uttered.

I hope you find a way to get a fixed weight (non rotating bar) like the apollon's axle at the arnolds so the difference doesn't affect your technique in comp 💪

Your athletic ability is impressive.

Looks like your grip width was changing from rep to rep with you being stronger at a little wider grip due to your shoulder mobility limitation. I knew your last rep of EMOM was going to be hard because the grip was narrower than the previous few.

Ohh its good to know my guess on reps was about as bang on as I could have guessed. That being said no I didn't comment. It's a good indication I have a good grasp of the movement.

Thanks for the video, I totally agree with you regarding the negativity around becoming a parent. Of course all children are different and experiences may vary but the last year since my daughter was born has been the best year of my live. The amount of sleep I got the first month was more than I slept since the age of 10. Also just got back to work from 6 months of paid parental leave, lives in Sweden :)

A little gray alien, with an elongated head was exactly my experience. My son has been a joy to me the whole of his life.

What you will start to feel is that when you go under the bar and your feet are transitioning from position 1 to position 2 is that you are forcing your body down as you are pressinh the bar up. This will get you lower to the ground.

My only tip - If you have grindy rep with split jerk, wait, till you press it over your head in split jerk stance, than start bringing your feet closer 😁 This mistake took lots of "good" reps from me!

Looks good.

It's kinda crazy you're doing this with an axle bar, with no whip assist from a traditional 20kg barbell... also - just be careful with your back foot pointing out, ideal would be having the back foot point *in* a little, with the heel off the floor. If you couple that, with allowing the back knee to bend (it's locking out), you'll be able to access all the benefits of the split position, by allowing the back knee to drop, lowering your recieving position for when you're 200kg+. hope this helps, big fan of yours.

So losing the bar forward is actually caused by your BACK foot going too far back, as this will pull your hips too far behind the bar…you want your front foot and your back foot to go EQUAL distance forwards and backwards so that your torso drops straight down and stays vertical…you also need to incorporate more of a bend in your back leg as it will help with keeping your torso vertical instead of leaning forward, and lastly, you want your toes both pointed slightly inwards as this creates lateral stability compared to your toes pointing outwards…and then, to recover from the split position, you want a “small” step with your front foot followed by a bigger step with your back foot…although I was never spectacular at Olympic weightlifting, I have competed and I also was NCCP certified, my name is Rob brownrigg and I will be at the seminar you are hosting at fortis fitness and it would be my honour to show you a few footwork drills and such that might help you!

You're going to revolutionize strongman lol

Best life advice ever. I’d just add if you don’t like it(work) change it.

I want to come down to Barrie and help you out. I'm an Oly lifter turned Strongman. But don't know how much I could offer, you look solid AF

As you probably already know, there are a couple great oly lifters on yt that would make great colabs, and coaches

Honestly that is absolutely amazing. You need to get some less bouncy mats though. That looks hella dangerous xD

Definitely gotta do a session with Zack Telander

Obviously Mitch doesn't lack power, but what's even more impressive is having the flexibility, speed, and balance necessary to jerk 180kg at that bw and with so much strongman training before. Really amazing.

Have you considered trying power jerks (look like push press that transitions to an overhead power-style squat) Might be more useable in strongman exercises

dip to your HEELS and get your front foot to vertical shin (jerk step-unders help develope that)