I wish I could remember who it was, but someone at the Kazmier seminar said it was kilo plates that Kaz was using that day. He curled 4 plates aside on a straight bar (20kg bar, no mention of collars), which would be 180kilos or 396.828lbs. I'll try to find that reference. I also agree with JasonLee: Magnus' set looked amazing. He started with a little momentum but his shoulders were almost stationary. And on a straight bar. Mind blowing.
Wish we had some footage of Kazmeir curls. Even the 315 for reps and we would know. It's quite possible he was the strongest and at the time curling records or strict curls wasn't as big a deal or something he cared about.
@@Devou1s I was lucky enough to see him on TV when he did the refrigerator carry and other crazy feats. I even got to hold the door for him once IRL! 😎
Phil Pfister and many other legendary strong men call Bill kazmaier one of the three to five strongest men who ever lived. He didn't have a weakness. Consider the events that he won in the world strongest man contest . Max deadlift, maximum squat, barbending, wheelbarrow racing, truck pulling, 55 lb weight over a bar, and tug of war. He didn't have many events that weren't good for him, when he was fully healthy. It showed in his powerlifting especially. In the couple of different federations, he held world records in all three lifts plus total. And for contemporary competition, he is the only man to beat Geoff capes in tug-of-war, and in barbending. Both of those events were Geoff capes specialties
@davehimlin2374 "Non-competition" so what? Is competitive lifting the only way you should lift? Also, he's not doing half-assed movements, he's doing different movements. What he does is legitimate and incredible
I would give the record to Bill Kazmier. If that is even half true, it is insane. After doing that, many heavy cheat curls, he still was able to put up a 400lb curl. He truly is one of the strongest to walk this earth.
And that's not a rookie deadlift either. Around the 180 kg mark puts most people into the intermediate strength category. I'm right there with you. It's been 6 months now, but it's still my best. My PR is 186 kg/410 lbs. I've done a lot of cutting, with a two-month bulk in-between. So when I'm finally done cutting (I was like 23 or maybe even 24% when I did the PR), I'll build up a lot of muscle mass to start with, then do a strength phase again and surpass my previous PR. I'm confident I'll go well beyond 200 kg by the time I'm doing heavy deadlifts again.
I want to go on record as verifying I have never curled 400 pounds. Or 300 pounds. Or 200 pounds. There was a time when I did curl 185 and I do consider myself a beast for doing so. These men going over 300 pounds are all legends.
Anyone attempting these curls is a solid man and deserves much respect. Of all, I go with Kaz. He was an animal in training and competition. Even when you saw him make an incredible lift, you could hardly believe it - he was that strong.
Dennis Holds the Record the way I see it. Wide grip and less Cheat style, most others have a closer grip and sling the weights a lot more. I believe the act record video Dennis is at or against a wall to boot. It’s somewhere on TH-cam
Levan swung less and 165 for 3, he said he could have done 1 more and I believe it. Although you could claim the narrower grip is easier, i don't think it's enough to make it not as good as Denis. He also had a controlled (yes, fast, but controlled) eccentric, unlike Denis. IMO Levan > Everyone
It is definitely the more credible of the two claims, but neither can be certified. These are stupidly high weights when you think about it. I've deadlifted as much as 186 kg, and that is a LOT of weight. Sure, you have the strength to lift it, but you can feel all the potential energy within it, its yearning to plummet onto the ground. To CURL such a weight, even with cheated form, that's something else. I can curl around 45 kg, maybe a few more, strict. I could probably cheat myself into as much as 55 kg. Maybe a lot more, but I've never properly tried it.
@@TheBcoolGuy At a Body weight of 270 lbs, my current cheat curl record is around 225 lbs. That's the highest barbell curl I've tried. I can do 2x normal standing curls with a curl bar loaded up to 205 lbs, and 6 reps at 185lbs with olympic barbell loaded. AND I'm not an arm strength specialist or even that good. If a nobody like me, without specific training for it, can do over 220 lbs.. I'd say all time freaks of nature like Bill Kazmaier definitely could do 400.
Good video, first person to mention the video with Magnus Samuelsson, I believe his 4 curls on a straight bar were far better than Grizzlys and no doubt he would be close to 170/80 for one rep with swinging. He broke Nathan Jones arm in a strongman arm wrestling match in 95. I remember the first time I saw Manfred on WSM as a kid, he looked like a real life super hero, incredible arms even for a WSM competitor.
good old time- they (eurosport) showed the WSM evry year since the 80s - manfred was in south africa as i remember- today the show NOTHIN on free tv ;-(
I’ll never forget that arm wrestling year, instantly removed from the competition the next year as they realised the guys who arm wrestled professionally had a massive advantage over the others. The usual outcome of superhuman strength but with superior technique meant broken bones were almost a certainty.
Breaking doesn't conclude strength, varied factors play in that injury,armbreak position widely known in arm wrestling community is first basic one should know if one is doing arm fight regularly
The clip at Dave's Gym when at Winnington in Northwich, Cheshire was where I tentatively started lifting weights in 1980, a proper spit and sawdust gym , Dave's gym moved some years later to Station Road Northwich and is still run by the family, I still go for a workout there when in the area visiting family, it also still has some of the cable machines from that first gym. Dave Mathers unfortunately passed away a few months ago, a lovely big guy who did a lot for the local area and a good strongman in his day.
never ever question Kazmaier! He is arguably the best ever Worlds Strongest Man and was robbed of multiple titles by being banned. All I can say for sure is I don't hold any records like that. I'm all about strict form and lots of reps, especially now that I'm in my mid 50's
My personal record for concentration curl is ten reps of 60 lbs., and at age 63 I'm impressed I could do it at all. I tried 65 and failed. I can be content with my limitation, since no one cares anyway.
@@dennisrobinson8008 I'm not inclined to increase weights, for fear of inducing arthritis in my aged body. I'm very amazed I don't have any, and certainly don't want to get any. Besides, I can't use a spotter during a concentration curl, and I don't mess with body building. I'm body maintaining.
*Tragic for Manfred, but his arms had a gallon of synthol in them.* I reached 135lb strict curls in my early 40's, and obviously without drugs which was good enough for me. At the time, curls were a priority done with naked bands and free weights. *It's a lift many people laugh at if you boast your numbers, but still very impressive to me.*
@@closetman7757 I am deeply aware of what site injections are. *He is obviously on steroids, but you can see the injected material very clearly in the bicep and tricep. I have followed strength sports and bodybuilding for over 30 years.* You can see it in a multitude of photos but the 2nd photo in Google images is just ridiculously bad. There's no separation between the bicep and tricep like it's filled with mashed potatoes. *He probably had a great Men's Classic style physique but wanted to look like a mass monster.* It looks bad enough that it looks far more like silicon or another synthetic material as opposed to simply a site injection oil that will eventually be processed out of the body.
@@kittenluvzu around 180 lbs @5'11 barefoot. I often do tons of band curls and obviously, free-weight curls but the vast majority of the strength came from bands.
At the age of 22 I cheat curled 235 for three reps somewhere in an 8 week cycle of Dianabol and test. It was just part of the workout. I was never close to that weight when I was natural.
I’d think Kaz probably has the record as he definitely seems to legitimately have the strength to actually back up the story. Hard to even put Bills power into perspective. Still to this day prime Kaz would be a hell of a strongman, and that’s late 70s and early 80s stuff Can only imagine a prime Kaz with access to the kit present day strongman have at their disposal... 🤯 💪 The man was just on a different level, especially when it came to static raw power, so while I’d say Levan and Denis are probably the closest to Kaz I don’t think they have him beat. (and maybe Manfred as well, though not too sure if he really could back up his claim. Definitely was among the best though, that’s for sure)
Kaz was kicking ass and winning WSM competitions that weren't even close. I read where he is the only WSM competitor who, in all 3 of his victories, took first place in the first event and never relinquished his lead throughout the duration of the events from beginning to end. He won his 3 titles consecutively and there's no reason to believe he wouldn't have won more. After being away from the WSM competition for 6 years he came back and took 2nd place. There is no doubt he could have won at least 2 more had he not been black balled for some reason. He says it was because of his dominance. Wouldn't that be a rip? Kicked out of the WSM competition for being top strong.
thank you for your effort of collecting interesting stories i like your voice and your random collection of strength stories keep it up my friend and gl in the future
Levan’s set looked the most impressive. He looked as though he had a lot left and could’ve done a set of 5 with 165 KG. It’s also impressive that he held the last rep on the eccentric for a second. Denis Cyplenkov’s best set is actually 150 KG for 5, not 3. It’s in a separate video on TH-cam somewhere.
@@janschmidt1952 Levan has utilized the wide grip before and he Seated Curled 135 KG with no wrist support and not being peaked in training, and standing curl with 140 KG+ for reps years ago. He could hit the same numbers with regular grip if he really wanted to based on his eccentric hold and control. He’s only grown stronger since those lifts from years ago. Levan’s set looked the most impressive.
@@DynomyteDewd91 No, he could not. Levans best with wide grip was 140 kg x 3, while Cyplenkov did 150kg x 5. Maybe Levan could do more these days than 140 kg with wide grip.
@@janschmidt1952 it was 142 KG for 3 and that was 4-5 years ago, and that set looked as though he had a lot left in the tank back then as well, Levan has gotten far stronger since then and has never used the amount of hip momentum that Cyplenkov uses, Levan’s curls have always been more controlled especially on the downward motion when he holds it. Levan most certainly could potentially hit the same numbers wide grip if he really wanted to, I still say Levan’s set is the most impressive based on the weight and the amount of control.
@@DynomyteDewd91 Still thats not true, he had nothing left in the tank. Looks more like Cyplenkov had more in the tank. Cyplenkov used less back movement than Levan. If Levan could do 160kg+ with wide grip he would have done that, simple as that.
KAZ was the real deal with strength..Manford definitely had oil or something going on..but i guess he also had a lot of real muscle also...and size does not always mean strength..many variables with techniques here...some guys are doing them much stricter..Magnus seemed to have best form imo..
The best I ever did was 80 pounds for 12 reps in 2016-2017 on an e-z curl bar, with minimal body movement. I was in my late 60s. If I ever did more in my youth, I don't recall.
Anderson with his elephantine hip/leg and shoulder structure was a squat and press specialist. Though it certainly would be interesting to know what he could've curled.
I’m sorry but a legal bicep curl, especially for a record should not count if you’re using your lower back to pull. You should have to stand with your back against the wall, elbows pinned in your hip bone area and isolate the lift with just your biceps from your waist all the way up
My 3 favorite bodybuilders of all time are Frank Zane, Franco Columbu, and of course Arnold, no last name needed. Although there were many others in that era, those 3 impressed and inspired me the most. Franco's strength was also very impressive, especially when he blew up a hot water bottle till it popped and lifted the back end of a car.
I didn't know bicep curls where a full body workout .... Levan had the closest curl but still threw his 400lb Frame into it .... id bet half of these guys would fail a 100kg strict curl ... which is still one hell of a feat
Wrists do not like barbell and ez-bar curls, so I'm amazed they can withstand such pressure on their wrists. I am stuck with hammer curls with a dumbbell. My best is 264.2 lbs x 10 reps, 275 lbs x 6 reps, and 260.2 lbs x 10 reps so far.
The problem with Samuelssons 140 kg x 4 rep feat is that some of the supposed red 25 kg weights were redpainted 15 kg plates, according to some people in the know in the Swedish strongman community at the time. I have watched the "Worlds Strongest Arms" video many times and a few of the red weights do appear to be painted 15kgs instead of 25kgs. 110 or 120 kg is the more likely total weight. Still bloody strong arms, but there is a huge difference between 110 or 120 and 140 kg cheat curls. Another giveaway is that just a moment after he supposedly lifted 140 x 4, he is seen struggling with curling dumbbells which look like they are just over 40 kg in weight. If he really was capable of curling 140 kg x 4, he should have toyed with the 42 kg dumbbells. The same thing happened with his supposed 270 kg x 2 bench press. The middle 25 kg weights look like painted 15 kgs. I.e., likely a 230 kg x 2 reps instead of 270 x 2. Watch the clips and make up your own mind.
Can confirm this, ask magnus himself . It didnt move like 140 would at all and magnus never was close to cyplenkov or levan in biceps. he wasnt a 300kg plus bencher either, he would probably admit this himself if you asked him. The strongman bench the last guy is talking about was at a smith press like strongman event with weight loaded far back with 200kg loaded but not 200kg in his hands.
Since I'm a Bill Kazmaier fan, I'd like to think that Kaz holds the record, but without footage or some kind of proof, nobody really knows. There are so many impossible sounding strength records without video footage! Why is it nobody filmed Paul Anderson back lifting the 6270 pounds? It seems to have been important to record something like that to me.
@user-ys2wp4cr9g I think Guinness removed his records (6270 lb. back lift; 627 lb. bench press; 1200 lb. squat) simply because they had no proof that the claimed weights were the actual weights. He may have performed these lifts, but the weights weren't certified.
@abhinavkumar547 There is a long article somewhere on the internet from an author who visited the Anderson household. A family member showed him around and he found the safe used in the back lift. The article is long and goes into a lot of detail and calculations. In short, he measured the interior cubic footage of the safe, calculated the weight of the contents, added the weight of the safe and estimated the weight of a tabletop tressle. In the end, he concluded that it couldn't possibly have weighed over 6000 lbs. It was likely in the 4000+ lbs. range, around what Cyr had already done. This article pretty much convinced me and broke my heart 💔 since I was a big Paul Anderson fan. 😊 Nevertheless, Paul Anderson was the strongest man of his time, maybe the strongest ever before his time and one of the strongest of all-time!
@@PinnaclePete In that case your heart would break even more when u would read Joe Roark's article on Paul Anderson regarding his backlift where he has proved with irrefutable evidences that no such backlift of even 4000 lbs was performed by Paul, it was just a stunt. Joe Roark is a friend of Dr. Terry Todd and has written this article for Dr. Todd's website starkcentre.
What is Kaz's heaviest curl that's actually recorded on camera? That should give us a pretty good idea if those unrecorded numbers are fair tales or not
I remember seeing a video of Brutal Bertil doing what looked like poor form curls but he said it worked for him and looking at him back then you can't disagree.
Notice that the arm wrestlers virtually don’t open up/close down their elbow angle at all. Virtually swinging the weight up with the arms in a fixed position.
Well, I don't know what the record is, and who should be considered to hold it... Though, I do know that this vid was well put together, well presented, and apparently solid, fair and objective... +1 for a very good vid (which earned a sub from me!)
Some of the curls in this were a joke. I don't mean the weight, I mean the curls themselves. Some of them would NEVER have been judged to be locked out.
Hoeberl was the first person i saw using synthol. Way back then, we didn't know what it was, but everyone knew there was something very dodgy about his world record arm size. Decades later when Synthol became well known, i finally understood how he got those arms.
Actor body builder/martial artist William Smith a world arm wrestling champion also, set record for strict reverse curling his own body weight 190 lbs.
For me, Magnus on the cheat curl has the best form. Remember seeing somewhere that Denis Cyplenkov had a record strict curl (back to wall) but not sure if this still stands.
@@chrislyman6946Prove it, I saw you flexing your arms and also saw them while relaxed and your arms are nowhere near 22 inches. Your biceps aren't as pronounced as his and their more flat compared to Arnold's. Besides, it's the tricep that makes up the majority of the size of the arms, not the biceps.
I don't believe any claims unless there's evidence. On Rxmuscle Jimmy the Bull claimed to have curled 2 plates for "about" 70 reps, beaten only by Ronnie Coleman who did 100. This was at an expo but nobody filmed. And Ronnie didn't even warmup.
That's insane. The most I ever cheat curled was around 155-160 lbs. I think weighed 205 lbs then. It's definitely not something I do again as I'm alot older and with my job it be stupid to try it.
Really haha ? I hammer curl 160 lbs for reps on that old school bar , surely you have seen someone do more ? Agree tho maxing out curls isn’t that smart usually . I can do 100lb spider curls the ultra strict truth
the way levan controls and moves those 160+kg when the bar is over his chest for me is the most impressive feat of arm overall strength ever. wrist, hand, forearm and biceps. for the biceps only most impressive feat, for me is denis cyplenkov world record strict curl (that stands to this day since no one that lifted more did it with the wide more supinated bar he used)
Os 165 kilos do levan foram feitos com uma barra mais fácil do que os 170 kilos do Denis cimplenkov! Por isso ele fez 3 repetições. Se levam tivesse feito numa barra similar a do Denis teria poderia ter feito 170 kilos com 1 repetição! Ou Denis poderia ter feito 165 kilos com 3 repetições numa barra igual a do levan! Ou seja,ambos estava empatados! Não acredito que nenhum fisiculturista ou strongman tenha superado levan e Denis pq strongman Man e fisiculturista não treinam exercícios específicos para luta de braço e por isso não tem o antebraço mais forte que os lutadores de braço de elite!
Back in the sixties and seventies some of my training partners and I would see how much we could curl and we would use an Olympic bar with our backs against the wall to prevent body english and would only use small plates, I e 25lbs or less, as 45 lbs might hit the wall, While none of the big guys did it that way it takes nothing away from them. My guess is that Kaz, and Levan both probably could have done 375 or more that way and anyone else who can even approach those numbers should be considered legendary.
Probably not as much as that ,but I believe the strict curl record would have been broken by one of them perhaps by 50 lbs. My best curl against the wall was 165 and was 205 with a lot of "cheat" @@adrianjd32 somehow this response appears to be from my wife rather than me . Hope my computer doesn't need some work.
I curled 90 lbs isolation curls with one arm for 2 reps at 17. I should've stuck with the training just to see what I could do at peak. To this day as an old man training curls very infrequently I can curl 65lbs per arm for a few reps or so. I might've been in the 300 club, who knows...
Curls are cool but too bad not many of them ever did strict curls to actually test their curling strength because that would be interesting to see all of their strict curls and compare them
Kaz was so strong they had to start holding worlds 2nd strongest man competitions for a few years. Lol. I know it sounds like a Chuck Norris myth but its actually true.
He wasn't banned for being too strong. He was banned for being disrespectful dick which can be seen in clips of him during competition or even outside of them. It's his own fault.
Geez, the guy narrating this video sounds like Del Preston (the British dude) from Wayne's World II - "So there I am, in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, at about 3 o'clock in the morning, looking for one thousand brown M&Ms to fill a brandy glass, or Ozzy wouldn't go on stage".
I used to work out with Doug Hepburn in the mid 70's at the old Broadway Gym in Vancouver. What a hole that was. Everybody was doing 3 sets of 8 of all different exercises, not Doug, he would get up and crush one massive rep then sit down for 10 minutes.
Thanks for watching 👍. Who do you think holds the Record?
For me It's Magnus because his form is near strict.
I wish I could remember who it was, but someone at the Kazmier seminar said it was kilo plates that Kaz was using that day. He curled 4 plates aside on a straight bar (20kg bar, no mention of collars), which would be 180kilos or 396.828lbs. I'll try to find that reference. I also agree with JasonLee: Magnus' set looked amazing. He started with a little momentum but his shoulders were almost stationary. And on a straight bar. Mind blowing.
@@bigfattrolllordThat would still make kaz the world record holder in cheat curl except the claimed lift of Hoeberl.
The hardest record to beat is 100 points in one basket ball game it will stand until a gene spliced human with say a cheata comes along
indeed, it would@@abhinavkumar547
Magnus's curls are the most legit looking to me...a prerty damn strict 140kg x 4. Much stricter looking than the rest, on a Olympic bar no less.
Yeah didn't even look like cheat curls, anyway only one that's on tape with a olympicbar, he gets my vote.
you didn't see the levan shaginashvili lift
was just looking for this comment.. were he strict curling , hed still own the record today
I do 130 chat crul
magnus best cheat curl was 170 ..kaz is the king with 200 kg.
Wish we had some footage of Kazmeir curls. Even the 315 for reps and we would know. It's quite possible he was the strongest and at the time curling records or strict curls wasn't as big a deal or something he cared about.
I do too but he's certainly someone we can take at his word.
No he's not.
Kaz was a freak of nature when it comes to strength
@@Devou1s I was lucky enough to see him on TV when he did the refrigerator carry and other crazy feats. I even got to hold the door for him once IRL! 😎
@@JonDethdamn for real? How big did he look when you saw him in person?
Kaz has it in my books. His list of accomplishments would be considered fairytale if not witnessed.
Yup they even had him stop competing in wsm cause nobody else had a chance so im sure it’s him
@@spookyreaper1702 yep he got every muscle strong he didn’t care
i agree. He was incredibly strong.
Phil Pfister and many other legendary strong men call Bill kazmaier one of the three to five strongest men who ever lived.
He didn't have a weakness.
Consider the events that he won in the world strongest man contest .
Max deadlift, maximum squat, barbending, wheelbarrow racing, truck pulling, 55 lb weight over a bar, and tug of war.
He didn't have many events that weren't good for him, when he was fully healthy.
It showed in his powerlifting especially. In the couple of different federations, he held world records in all three lifts plus total.
And for contemporary competition, he is the only man to beat Geoff capes in tug-of-war, and in barbending.
Both of those events were Geoff capes specialties
i think kaz would be TOP 1-3 in todays strongman, he had the genetics that could handle ANYONE.
Grizzly even with horrible form training is still very very strong
His form isn't horrible. He's doing different movements that fit his goals and injuries
@@nonachyourbusiness1164I would say he is just old school strongman
i feel like it’s physically impossible to curl that much weight with good form
@davehimlin2374 "Non-competition" so what? Is competitive lifting the only way you should lift? Also, he's not doing half-assed movements, he's doing different movements. What he does is legitimate and incredible
How dare you
I would give the record to Bill Kazmier. If that is even half true, it is insane. After doing that, many heavy cheat curls, he still was able to put up a 400lb curl. He truly is one of the strongest to walk this earth.
yeah stronger than the guys who are swinging the barbells to curl
I curled 600 pounds, but the memory in the camera was full.
@@yksikaksikolmen same here cobber, except mine was 601 pounds.
Bloatlord did it just for fun without being an armwrestler. Absolutely incredible
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. He just casually did it while doing his thing.
And he has 3 torn bicep tendons. Torn both on one hand an one on the other
So these guys are curling my deadlift! Awesome! Thanks for motivating me!
You got this!
And that's not a rookie deadlift either. Around the 180 kg mark puts most people into the intermediate strength category. I'm right there with you. It's been 6 months now, but it's still my best. My PR is 186 kg/410 lbs. I've done a lot of cutting, with a two-month bulk in-between. So when I'm finally done cutting (I was like 23 or maybe even 24% when I did the PR), I'll build up a lot of muscle mass to start with, then do a strength phase again and surpass my previous PR. I'm confident I'll go well beyond 200 kg by the time I'm doing heavy deadlifts again.
@@StrengthUniverse Bro, I was fucking depressed honestly after watching Levan cleaning that curl! I was going for a tongue in cheek reply! 🤣
@@TheBcoolGuy When u put it like that, it does feel 2% better already! I still don't understand how can these guys be so strong!
@@harishvk9605 Great genetics+LOT'S of training+LOT'S of gear+very competitive mindset.
If you want to officially make this a record, it needs to be a strict curl, with little body swinging. Also, weigh the plates they are lifting!
Kaz was the type of athlete if you called him out he would step up and make it happen
I want to go on record as verifying I have never curled 400 pounds. Or 300 pounds. Or 200 pounds. There was a time when I did curl 185 and I do consider myself a beast for doing so. These men going over 300 pounds are all legends.
Anyone attempting these curls is a solid man and deserves much respect. Of all, I go with Kaz. He was an animal in training and competition. Even when you saw him make an incredible lift, you could hardly believe it - he was that strong.
I had the pleasure of meeting him many years ago, when he visited the UK.
After winning 3 straight world strongman tittles they banned/wouldn't let Kaz compete for like 8years its was total BS because he was just so good.
nope
No. Kaz wasn’t invited because of his poor sportsmanship.
Dennis Holds the Record the way I see it. Wide grip and less Cheat style, most others have a closer grip and sling the weights a lot more. I believe the act record video Dennis is at or against a wall to boot. It’s somewhere on TH-cam
Levan swung less and 165 for 3, he said he could have done 1 more and I believe it. Although you could claim the narrower grip is easier, i don't think it's enough to make it not as good as Denis. He also had a controlled (yes, fast, but controlled) eccentric, unlike Denis.
IMO Levan > Everyone
Kaz did it at a seminar in front of 500 people .....143kgx15 makes 180kg x 1 achievable by him
It is definitely the more credible of the two claims, but neither can be certified. These are stupidly high weights when you think about it. I've deadlifted as much as 186 kg, and that is a LOT of weight. Sure, you have the strength to lift it, but you can feel all the potential energy within it, its yearning to plummet onto the ground. To CURL such a weight, even with cheated form, that's something else. I can curl around 45 kg, maybe a few more, strict. I could probably cheat myself into as much as 55 kg. Maybe a lot more, but I've never properly tried it.
@@TheBcoolGuy At a Body weight of 270 lbs, my current cheat curl record is around 225 lbs. That's the highest barbell curl I've tried. I can do 2x normal standing curls with a curl bar loaded up to 205 lbs, and 6 reps at 185lbs with olympic barbell loaded. AND I'm not an arm strength specialist or even that good.
If a nobody like me, without specific training for it, can do over 220 lbs.. I'd say all time freaks of nature like Bill Kazmaier definitely could do 400.
Good video, first person to mention the video with Magnus Samuelsson, I believe his 4 curls on a straight bar were far better than Grizzlys and no doubt he would be close to 170/80 for one rep with swinging. He broke Nathan Jones arm in a strongman arm wrestling match in 95. I remember the first time I saw Manfred on WSM as a kid, he looked like a real life super hero, incredible arms even for a WSM competitor.
good old time- they (eurosport) showed the WSM evry year since the 80s - manfred was in south africa as i remember- today the show NOTHIN on free tv ;-(
I’ll never forget that arm wrestling year, instantly removed from the competition the next year as they realised the guys who arm wrestled professionally had a massive advantage over the others. The usual outcome of superhuman strength but with superior technique meant broken bones were almost a certainty.
Breaking doesn't conclude strength, varied factors play in that injury,armbreak position widely known in arm wrestling community is first basic one should know if one is doing arm fight regularly
Cyplenkov for sure, he set the record for strict curl aswell nobody could surpass this record so far without "cheating" with narrow grip.
impressive for sure as it was, it wasn't _strict_
@@thearm95it is strict lmao
@@thearm950 clue what your talking about, he did it strict and wide grip
This guy knows ehat hes talking about denis has the strongest biceps in the world or maybe levan
I dunno...it just looks like he's starting the curl already about 1/3 of the way up. But fair enough, if that is allowed, it's otherwise strict
Kazmaier's 400lbs seems legit considered he cheat curled 360lbs log with ease at 1981 WSM.
The clip at Dave's Gym when at Winnington in Northwich, Cheshire was where I tentatively started lifting weights in 1980, a proper spit and sawdust gym , Dave's gym moved some years later to Station Road Northwich and is still run by the family, I still go for a workout there when in the area visiting family, it also still has some of the cable machines from that first gym. Dave Mathers unfortunately passed away a few months ago, a lovely big guy who did a lot for the local area and a good strongman in his day.
never ever question Kazmaier! He is arguably the best ever Worlds Strongest Man and was robbed of multiple titles by being banned. All I can say for sure is I don't hold any records like that. I'm all about strict form and lots of reps, especially now that I'm in my mid 50's
I was almost 50 and curled 205 lbs straight bar Olympic weight, "clean form, no jerking".
That's damn impressive
My personal record for concentration curl is ten reps of 60 lbs., and at age 63 I'm impressed I could do it at all. I tried 65 and failed. I can be content with my limitation, since no one cares anyway.
Its a great limitation but if you want to improve use negatives with 75 and or a spotter. Itll allows you to build new strength.
@@dennisrobinson8008 I'm not inclined to increase weights, for fear of inducing arthritis in my aged body. I'm very amazed I don't have any, and certainly don't want to get any. Besides, I can't use a spotter during a concentration curl, and I don't mess with body building. I'm body maintaining.
That's in kilograms? If so, great job. 🙌🏻
@@BlahMcJones No sir, just pounds. In kilograms? I'd be crippling myself.
@@BlahMcJones not a lot of people can do 60 lb curls lol
Bill Kazmaier was a beast!!! The most dominant WSM in history.
*Tragic for Manfred, but his arms had a gallon of synthol in them.* I reached 135lb strict curls in my early 40's, and obviously without drugs which was good enough for me. At the time, curls were a priority done with naked bands and free weights.
*It's a lift many people laugh at if you boast your numbers, but still very impressive to me.*
Synthol is just for asthetics, its literally just oil you pump into the muscle. So i think you may have meant steroids, which yes, he did take plenty
@@closetman7757 I am deeply aware of what site injections are. *He is obviously on steroids, but you can see the injected material very clearly in the bicep and tricep. I have followed strength sports and bodybuilding for over 30 years.*
You can see it in a multitude of photos but the 2nd photo in Google images is just ridiculously bad. There's no separation between the bicep and tricep like it's filled with mashed potatoes. *He probably had a great Men's Classic style physique but wanted to look like a mass monster.* It looks bad enough that it looks far more like silicon or another synthetic material as opposed to simply a site injection oil that will eventually be processed out of the body.
What was your body weight? A 235 lb. male curling 135 lbs. is equivalent to a 175 lb. male curling 100 lbs.
@@kittenluvzu around 180 lbs @5'11 barefoot. I often do tons of band curls and obviously, free-weight curls but the vast majority of the strength came from bands.
I just didnt understand why you would note his use of synthol, when talking about how strong he was@@JonDeth
At the age of 22 I cheat curled 235 for three reps somewhere in an 8 week cycle of Dianabol and test. It was just part of the workout. I was never close to that weight when I was natural.
Kaz gets my vote.
It is Kaz for the win.
I’d think Kaz probably has the record as he definitely seems to legitimately have the strength to actually back up the story.
Hard to even put Bills power into perspective.
Still to this day prime Kaz would be a hell of a strongman, and that’s late 70s and early 80s stuff
Can only imagine a prime Kaz with access to the kit present day strongman have at their disposal... 🤯 💪
The man was just on a different level, especially when it came to static raw power, so while I’d say Levan and Denis are probably the closest to Kaz I don’t think they have him beat. (and maybe Manfred as well, though not too sure if he really could back up his claim. Definitely was among the best though, that’s for sure)
Kaz was kicking ass and winning WSM competitions that weren't even close. I read where he is the only WSM competitor who, in all 3 of his victories, took first place in the first event and never relinquished his lead throughout the duration of the events from beginning to end. He won his 3 titles consecutively and there's no reason to believe he wouldn't have won more. After being away from the WSM competition for 6 years he came back and took 2nd place. There is no doubt he could have won at least 2 more had he not been black balled for some reason. He says it was because of his dominance. Wouldn't that be a rip? Kicked out of the WSM competition for being top strong.
thank you for your effort of collecting interesting stories i like your voice and your random collection of strength stories keep it up my friend and gl in the future
I'm pleased you find them interesting. Thanks for the support👍
I can't take channels seriously when their thumbnails are photoshopped.
Records are made to be broken, Respect to all.
Arnold's curls pound for pound were amazing and he was a bodybuilder not a strongman. Very impressive
I've done recently 135lbsX5 with not terrible form at 200lbs bw. That video motivated me to try and improve my 3-5 rep max curl
I done same lift with same bw. I did 70kgx3.
I did 140x5 at 175lbs and thought that was great lol. They can do that with one hand....
Levan’s set looked the most impressive. He looked as though he had a lot left and could’ve done a set of 5 with 165 KG. It’s also impressive that he held the last rep on the eccentric for a second.
Denis Cyplenkov’s best set is actually 150 KG for 5, not 3.
It’s in a separate video on TH-cam somewhere.
Levan did it with a narrow grip which makes it a lot easier.
@@janschmidt1952 Levan has utilized the wide grip before and he Seated Curled 135 KG with no wrist support and not being peaked in training, and standing curl with 140 KG+ for reps years ago.
He could hit the same numbers with regular grip if he really wanted to based on his eccentric hold and control. He’s only grown stronger since those lifts from years ago.
Levan’s set looked the most impressive.
@@DynomyteDewd91 No, he could not. Levans best with wide grip was 140 kg x 3, while Cyplenkov did 150kg x 5. Maybe Levan could do more these days than 140 kg with wide grip.
@@janschmidt1952 it was 142 KG for 3 and that was 4-5 years ago, and that set looked as though he had a lot left in the tank back then as well, Levan has gotten far stronger since then and has never used the amount of hip momentum that Cyplenkov uses, Levan’s curls have always been more controlled especially on the downward motion when he holds it. Levan most certainly could potentially hit the same numbers wide grip if he really wanted to,
I still say Levan’s set is the most impressive based on the weight and the amount of control.
@@DynomyteDewd91 Still thats not true, he had nothing left in the tank. Looks more like Cyplenkov had more in the tank. Cyplenkov used less back movement than Levan. If Levan could do 160kg+ with wide grip he would have done that, simple as that.
Holy crap, Manfred looks like a normal human when he's off the sauce
KAZ was the real deal with strength..Manford definitely had oil or something going on..but i guess he also had a lot of real muscle also...and size does not always mean strength..many variables with techniques here...some guys are doing them much stricter..Magnus seemed to have best form imo..
1:20 That's got a be a joke with all that swinging.
Belly flops
It's perfect form. Strict at that. Shouldn't be on this list
Also Petr Petras 160 kg x 3
That’s my lateral raise warm up weight
I really hate lat lifts.
Mike Mentzer visited our gym in uk early 80s and was curling with 50kg dumbells for reps
The best I ever did was 80 pounds for 12 reps in 2016-2017 on an e-z curl bar, with minimal body movement. I was in my late 60s. If I ever did more in my youth, I don't recall.
😳kaz was a monster
My vote’s for Kaz.
I wonder what Paul Anderson could have done?
Anderson with his elephantine hip/leg and shoulder structure was a squat and press specialist. Though it certainly would be interesting to know what he could've curled.
I knew Kazmeir was a monster but 315 for 15 reps is beyond insane....
this is why we use the terms "unofficial world record" and "official world record"
I would like to see a recird where the arms start off fully extended, no bend at all.
DONT FORGET PAUL ANDERSON of Tocoa Georgia in the fifties...strongest man in history...look him up.
I've already made a video on Anderson. He never recorded a bicep curl
IF I had to put money on it.... id put it on KAZ!!!!!! He was a freak AND on roids..... that combo with his history WINS!!!!!!
I would think Kazmeir's claim in highly likely.
Likely or unlikely?
@@abhinavkumar547likely
@@abhinavkumar547 Read what i wrote
Great coverage! Can you please do strict curl next? As this is a little bit of a freak show tbh.
Sure
I’m sorry but a legal bicep curl, especially for a record should not count if you’re using your lower back to pull. You should have to stand with your back against the wall, elbows pinned in your hip bone area and isolate the lift with just your biceps from your waist all the way up
You are referring to the Strict Curl, This is a Cheat Curl which is a different exercise
Kaz is the strongest in my opinion.
Kaz!
My 3 favorite bodybuilders of all time are Frank Zane, Franco Columbu, and of course Arnold, no last name needed. Although there were many others in that era, those 3 impressed and inspired me the most. Franco's strength was also very impressive, especially when he blew up a hot water bottle till it popped and lifted the back end of a car.
Levan looked the most impressive to me
Levan's form was pretty solid
agreed
With narrow grip its much easier
I didn't know bicep curls where a full body workout .... Levan had the closest curl but still threw his 400lb Frame into it .... id bet half of these guys would fail a 100kg strict curl ... which is still one hell of a feat
Do a video on eddie hall vs john haack in static lifts with their lifts compared to their body weight
Wrists do not like barbell and ez-bar curls, so I'm amazed they can withstand such pressure on their wrists. I am stuck with hammer curls with a dumbbell. My best is 264.2 lbs x 10 reps, 275 lbs x 6 reps, and 260.2 lbs x 10 reps so far.
The problem with Samuelssons 140 kg x 4 rep feat is that some of the supposed red 25 kg weights were redpainted 15 kg plates, according to some people in the know in the Swedish strongman community at the time. I have watched the "Worlds Strongest Arms" video many times and a few of the red weights do appear to be painted 15kgs instead of 25kgs. 110 or 120 kg is the more likely total weight. Still bloody strong arms, but there is a huge difference between 110 or 120 and 140 kg cheat curls. Another giveaway is that just a moment after he supposedly lifted 140 x 4, he is seen struggling with curling dumbbells which look like they are just over 40 kg in weight. If he really was capable of curling 140 kg x 4, he should have toyed with the 42 kg dumbbells.
The same thing happened with his supposed 270 kg x 2 bench press. The middle 25 kg weights look like painted 15 kgs. I.e., likely a 230 kg x 2 reps instead of 270 x 2. Watch the clips and make up your own mind.
That's interesting, I haven't heard that one before
Samuelson do 15 Reps with 200 Kilo in an Strongman Competition. Fake Weights is an American Thing from the last Jears.
Can confirm this, ask magnus himself . It didnt move like 140 would at all and magnus never was close to cyplenkov or levan in biceps. he wasnt a 300kg plus bencher either, he would probably admit this himself if you asked him. The strongman bench the last guy is talking about was at a smith press like strongman event with weight loaded far back with 200kg loaded but not 200kg in his hands.
No reason to doubt Manfred. He was supersonic in certain events, but that insane muscle mass took it's toll with that oxygen debt building up so fast.
Since I'm a Bill Kazmaier fan, I'd like to think that Kaz holds the record, but without footage or some kind of proof, nobody really knows.
There are so many impossible sounding strength records without video footage! Why is it nobody filmed Paul Anderson back lifting the 6270 pounds? It seems to have been important to record something like that to me.
Its proof is mentioned in David Webster's book, Sons of samson.
The Paul Anderson record has been disproved by Guinness Records, and is no longer listed
@user-ys2wp4cr9g I think Guinness removed his records (6270 lb. back lift; 627 lb. bench press; 1200 lb. squat) simply because they had no proof that the claimed weights were the actual weights. He may have performed these lifts, but the weights weren't certified.
@abhinavkumar547 There is a long article somewhere on the internet from an author who visited the Anderson household. A family member showed him around and he found the safe used in the back lift. The article is long and goes into a lot of detail and calculations. In short, he measured the interior cubic footage of the safe, calculated the weight of the contents, added the weight of the safe and estimated the weight of a tabletop tressle. In the end, he concluded that it couldn't possibly have weighed over 6000 lbs. It was likely in the 4000+ lbs. range, around what Cyr had already done. This article pretty much convinced me and broke my heart 💔 since I was a big Paul Anderson fan. 😊
Nevertheless, Paul Anderson was the strongest man of his time, maybe the strongest ever before his time and one of the strongest of all-time!
@@PinnaclePete In that case your heart would break even more when u would read Joe Roark's article on Paul Anderson regarding his backlift where he has proved with irrefutable evidences that no such backlift of even 4000 lbs was performed by Paul, it was just a stunt. Joe Roark is a friend of Dr. Terry Todd and has written this article for Dr. Todd's website starkcentre.
0:11 Very close...
What is Kaz's heaviest curl that's actually recorded on camera? That should give us a pretty good idea if those unrecorded numbers are fair tales or not
I remember seeing a video of Brutal Bertil doing what looked like poor form curls but he said it worked for him and looking at him back then you can't disagree.
A lot of guys swear by Cheat Curls and all of them have way bigger biceps than the form police👍
@@StrengthUniverse *than
@@ChocolateMilk.. Thank you
Mission Brief 1:50.3 at the Red Mile October 2nd 2014 as a two year old filly trotter. This record will outlast any of Secretariat's records.
Notice that the arm wrestlers virtually don’t open up/close down their elbow angle at all. Virtually swinging the weight up with the arms in a fixed position.
Manfred i reamember in the late 90s him an Greg Kovacks rip having the biggest bicepts, thank u for adding the arm wrestlers in your vid aswell
Well, I don't know what the record is, and who should be considered to hold it...
Though, I do know that this vid was well put together, well presented, and apparently solid, fair and objective... +1 for a very good vid (which earned a sub from me!)
Thanks for the compliments and sub, very much appreciated!
Half of these guys weren’t even curling the weight
Some of the curls in this were a joke. I don't mean the weight, I mean the curls themselves. Some of them would NEVER have been judged to be locked out.
He did a straight bar too
Denis easily the goat, he holds strict curl record too and yes, it's broken but no one did it with a wide grip like his
I'd say it has to go to Bill since his lift was witnessed by many.
Hoeberl was the first person i saw using synthol. Way back then, we didn't know what it was, but everyone knew there was something very dodgy about his world record arm size.
Decades later when Synthol became well known, i finally understood how he got those arms.
Actor body builder/martial artist William Smith a world arm wrestling champion also, set record for strict reverse curling his own body weight 190 lbs.
Bill kaz has the record in my opinion considering he done it infront of 500 people thats good enough for my vote 😅
For me, Magnus on the cheat curl has the best form. Remember seeing somewhere that Denis Cyplenkov had a record strict curl (back to wall) but not sure if this still stands.
i didnt see a curl.....
These are cheat curls, not strict curls.
If u didnt see a curl , then you will never see arms like Arnold
My arms are bigger than Arnold's right now ...
@@chrislyman6946 riiiiight🤣
@@chrislyman6946Prove it, I saw you flexing your arms and also saw them while relaxed and your arms are nowhere near 22 inches. Your biceps aren't as pronounced as his and their more flat compared to Arnold's. Besides, it's the tricep that makes up the majority of the size of the arms, not the biceps.
I would say Kaz!
Excellent video. Smaev is good as well
I don't believe any claims unless there's evidence.
On Rxmuscle Jimmy the Bull claimed to have curled 2 plates for "about" 70 reps, beaten only by Ronnie Coleman who did 100. This was at an expo but nobody filmed.
And Ronnie didn't even warmup.
Weak
Denis did 2 reps with 170kg
No he didn't. He attempt and failed the first rep
Jared Dangerfield did a 275 preacher curl and Leroy Walker did 260 a "heaviest preacher curls" with dumbbells would be interesting
Kaz is king
That's insane. The most I ever cheat curled was around 155-160 lbs. I think weighed 205 lbs then. It's definitely not something I do again as I'm alot older and with my job it be stupid to try it.
Really haha ? I hammer curl 160 lbs for reps on that old school bar , surely you have seen someone do more ? Agree tho maxing out curls isn’t that smart usually . I can do 100lb spider curls the ultra strict truth
I've bicep curled 305
@@princemichael4708 put your elbows on a 90 degree pad and curl and don’t let them come off . I’m curious how much you can do like that
@@jondoc7525 you mean strict curl?
@@princemichael4708 sort of called spider curls . Ultra strict .
the way levan controls and moves those 160+kg when the bar is over his chest for me is the most impressive feat of arm overall strength ever. wrist, hand, forearm and biceps.
for the biceps only most impressive feat, for me is denis cyplenkov world record strict curl (that stands to this day since no one that lifted more did it with the wide more supinated bar he used)
Os 165 kilos do levan foram feitos com uma barra mais fácil do que os 170 kilos do Denis cimplenkov! Por isso ele fez 3 repetições. Se levam tivesse feito numa barra similar a do Denis teria poderia ter feito 170 kilos com 1 repetição! Ou Denis poderia ter feito 165 kilos com 3 repetições numa barra igual a do levan! Ou seja,ambos estava empatados! Não acredito que nenhum fisiculturista ou strongman tenha superado levan e Denis pq strongman Man e fisiculturista não treinam exercícios específicos para luta de braço e por isso não tem o antebraço mais forte que os lutadores de braço de elite!
2:47 his traps are insane!
I would be curious to know how much they could lift if they did not cheat if they did strict against the wall curls
👍👍👍
Back in the sixties and seventies some of my training partners and I would see how much we could curl and we would use an Olympic bar with our backs against the wall to prevent body english and would only use small plates, I e 25lbs or less, as 45 lbs might hit the wall, While none of the big guys did it that way it takes nothing away from them. My guess is that Kaz, and Levan both probably could have done 375 or more that way and anyone else who can even approach those numbers should be considered legendary.
I think they would've tipped over with that much weight backed against a wall.
The world record for a strict curl while against the wall is literally only 250 pounds so no they could not do 375 😂
Probably not as much as that ,but I believe the strict curl record would have been broken by one of them perhaps by 50 lbs. My best curl against the wall was 165 and was 205 with a lot of "cheat" @@adrianjd32 somehow this response appears to be from my wife rather than me . Hope my computer doesn't need some work.
I curled 240 kg for three reps and would have done the fourth one but my mom woke me up so I wouldn't be late for school
I curled 90 lbs isolation curls with one arm for 2 reps at 17. I should've stuck with the training just to see what I could do at peak. To this day as an old man training curls very infrequently I can curl 65lbs per arm for a few reps or so. I might've been in the 300 club, who knows...
What could’ve been
Curls are cool but too bad not many of them ever did strict curls to actually test their curling strength because that would be interesting to see all of their strict curls and compare them
Bill Kazmire was just something else man.
The Kaz for sure...
They are not doing strict curls....none of them ....all doing cheating or swing curls....
Correct, as is stated in the first few seconds of the video
Kaz was so strong they had to start holding worlds 2nd strongest man competitions for a few years. Lol. I know it sounds like a Chuck Norris myth but its actually true.
He wasn't banned for being too strong. He was banned for being disrespectful dick which can be seen in clips of him during competition or even outside of them. It's his own fault.
Kaz wasn’t invited to the World’s Strongest Man competitions because of his poor sportsmanship.
Geez, the guy narrating this video sounds like Del Preston (the British dude) from Wayne's World II - "So there I am, in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, at about 3 o'clock in the morning, looking for one thousand brown M&Ms to fill a brandy glass, or Ozzy wouldn't go on stage".
I used to work out with Doug Hepburn in the mid 70's at the old Broadway Gym in Vancouver. What a hole that was. Everybody was doing 3 sets of 8 of all different exercises, not Doug, he would get up and crush one massive rep then sit down for 10 minutes.
Kaz, no question