Mitch is definitely not 6'3" as he's listed. All those Strongmen are listed 1-2" taller than they are. Next to a legit 6'4" Zack, pretty clear he's about 6'1.5". Kind of like how Brian Shaw and Hafthor are about 6'7" and some change and not 6'8" and 6'9" as listed. Men love to lie about their heights even when in the 99.9th percentile lol.
Dunking a basketball and muscle ups at 300+ pounds, the amount of athleticism and explosive strength for someone so heavy and who's supposed to be "just strong" it's unbelievable.
Hey, Zak, I've been following you since you first started your (Olympic) weight lifting journey back when you were lifting in your driveway/back yard and the "You are not ___" series (Klokov was my favorite). You inspired me to start weight lifting myself. I haven't seen one of your videos in a while, you're huge bro! Keep up the good work and good content man💪
great vid, this really shows the difference between elite athletes and normal gym goers. just how quickly mr hooper learns, adjusts and knows how to move his body.
I've watched WSM almost from its inception in the late 70's, and they've all been super athletes. I gotta say, Hooper is probably the most well rounded and athletic strongman I've ever seen (and I'm a huge Mariusz Pudzianowski fan!).... Nice work Zack and Mitchell!😎👍
Great collab. The split jerk is an interesting tool in strongman. It allows smaller athletes to lift weight they have no business even touching otherwise. Pavlo Kordiyaka for example. He's on the smaller end of the spectrum of pro strongmen, but can hang with way bigger guys because he has mastered athletic skills such as the split jerk.
@@shalami_lifts9176 I think the perspective in wsm has fucked you up mitch and eddie hall are both 6 foot 3 thats not average height. the shortest guy to make it to the finals in the last few years is an inch or two taller than the average western man.
I've always wondered why with a few exceptions few strongman competitors don't use better lifting techniques. Rob Kearney being one that does and at his best could press with guys much larger than him.
I think there are several reasons but probably the biggest is the cost-benefit analysis. Getting good at such a precise movement takes a lot of time investment and it’s going to take even more honing to apply to different implements (log vs Axel and different variations there in) and not apply at all to others (Viking press, block press etc.). Just getting stronger shoulders will carry over better to everything and with no weight classes or PED testing is more realistic than in other strength sports. Most guys who’ve used it success where former Oly Lifters or CrossFit athletes so they had a head start.
@@DCJayhawk57You know your spine compresses throughout the day and a heavy lifting session causes further compression, right? I wake up at 6'2.5 every day. Most nights I go to bed around 6'2. If I do a lift session that involves any sort of spinal loading I can go to bed as short as 6'1. Strongmen are CONSTANTLY training under heavy loads that compress the spine.
Clickbait. I didn’t see Eddie Hall here If the title said “teaching Arnold strongman classic winner” I would’ve said “clickbait I didn’t see Big Z here”
Im sorry but mitch had, 475 in him that day if he had a longer rest period. But yeah good to see mitch actually going to a pro for some coaching. No hes never gonna be an olympic pro at the same ... 465 is crazy for a super new guy. Even if hes not having to pass drug tests at all ... Who really believes lasha is natural? In a sport famous for curruption and doping.
Lasha was caught once with a much lower total, so now he is just on protein shakes.... 🙂 Actually I dont think there is anyone in the world who has never taken PEDs.
For the love of god, howw does no1 ever tell these absolute units that physics matter.. The whole time his holding the weight on his knuckles instead of the root of the palm, i need to watch his bench now to get more triggered xDDD much love anyways to both of u
Holding the bar that far down the hand in a front rack position is very difficult, nigh on impossible. You'd have to have your hand going past your shoulder to do that. Besides it's not a pressing movement, so there's driving with the arms. It's legs then catch
@@madworld109 hate to be that guy but all u just sad is bs.. aaand i think ive coached enough beginers into doing it so ez and comfortably that i care to remember + as the physics allows they all got an insta bump in the lifts too, before u say its beginners, it helped seasoned ones just the same.. aaand ur catching it on a bone instead of a floppy wrist which will hurt af if u get tendonitis, not the mention the force distribution trough the body and the wobbliness.. if ur shoulderblades are pinned to each other, as they should be, its so much easier to hold it, press it, catch it.. much more comfortable if all is done correctly
I've seen others split jerk on logs. One of the strongest log lifters do it regularly and his numbers are at/or near to the American log record. I forget the name. Maybe Rob Kearny. He's also on the smaller end of the heavyweights. I have seen more use of power jerks and split jerks in the heavyweights who are at the smaller end of the spectrum and lower weight classes. I know Novakov has done it in competition. I think a lot of not split jerk use in strongman, especially on log, comes from a lot of the heavyweights are just so damned strong up top that they don't need to do it to get the weight up so they don't work on the small steps to get the technique show ready. I watched Bobby Mitchell at the 2022 Shaw Classic do the starting lift of log clean and press at 375 lbs (I think) strict. He didn't actually start to give effort until like 440. Was absolutely insane.
Rob Kearney has always done log, cyr dumbbell, and axle press with a split jerk. It's why people (Oberst) were crying when he took the American Log record from Oberst and other strongmen had to back him up and remind people that strongman is about moving the weight however necessary within the rules. It was mighty hilarious seeing a 420lb man cry about a 285lb man taking his record because he used a split jerk.
whats crazy is how he didn't look that jacked before but was as strong as the best of them. just goes to show you how different strength training is from bodybuilding
Zack really out here debuting his stand up career while coaching the world's strongest man
What a show tho 😂
Zack did experience a 15% increase in mustache density from this training day
Testament to how big Zack actually is that he doesn't look small compared to a world's strongest man
Zack with the street light height
to be fair Mitch is one the smaller side when it comes to top strongman athletes
Looks like a giraffe next to a moose
Was thinking the same thing
Mitch is definitely not 6'3" as he's listed. All those Strongmen are listed 1-2" taller than they are. Next to a legit 6'4" Zack, pretty clear he's about 6'1.5". Kind of like how Brian Shaw and Hafthor are about 6'7" and some change and not 6'8" and 6'9" as listed.
Men love to lie about their heights even when in the 99.9th percentile lol.
Can we stop and appreciate the fact that Mitchel is WSM, an ex endurance athlete, capable of dunking and doing a damn muscle up ?
Hard part of WSM is just being genetically gifted to be that large/huge lol
A genuine athlete and a scholar
He’s definitely a freak of nature
Aye that was a clean muscle up as well
no
It's mind boggling how good Hooper is at lifting weights.
this is the collab i was waiting for. mitch has been working on his split jerks and i'm so happy to see coach zach coachin'
Dunking a basketball and muscle ups at 300+ pounds, the amount of athleticism and explosive strength for someone so heavy and who's supposed to be "just strong" it's unbelievable.
Plenty of NFL players can do the same.
@@isaacwittinger8617Don’t know of any NFL players deadlifting 1000lbs and pushing 465lbs overhead…
@@isaacwittinger8617yeah but most NFL players can’t do what Mitchell does
Lmao bro thought comoarung nfl with strongman was the move😂😂@@isaacwittinger8617
Ok, NOW I get how freakin tall Zack actually is. Dang.
All hail giraffe-man!
Hey, Zak, I've been following you since you first started your (Olympic) weight lifting journey back when you were lifting in your driveway/back yard and the "You are not ___" series (Klokov was my favorite). You inspired me to start weight lifting myself. I haven't seen one of your videos in a while, you're huge bro! Keep up the good work and good content man💪
Ring that 🛎
great vid, this really shows the difference between elite athletes and normal gym goers. just how quickly mr hooper learns, adjusts and knows how to move his body.
Hooper is a freak athlete for sure.... crazy strength and athleticism.
He could have gone pro in any sport if he wanted. Explosiveness absolutely off the charts
I've watched WSM almost from its inception in the late 70's, and they've all been super athletes. I gotta say, Hooper is probably the most well rounded and athletic strongman I've ever seen (and I'm a huge Mariusz Pudzianowski fan!)....
Nice work Zack and Mitchell!😎👍
NOW THAT is a collab ive wanted for a long time. An amazing lifter/coach with one of the few WSM
Zack doing 165 kg and Mitch getting 211 kg with more in the tank is amazing 😊
Both of you were so strong. Great stuff.
Mitchell hooper sounds like a really nice guy
it's part of his brand - Lift Heavy Be Kind - he has to be.
Awesome lesson!
It’s fun to see live teaching in front of a crowd, that’s cool!
this was awesome man :)
great collab, was waiting for this one
Zack being as tall as he is, putting that weight up, insane stuff.
The real collaboration we all needed
The Donkey Kong Country tune at the beginning of the vid, love it! Good lifting too!
i hit 139/306 today, felt awesome. i have been watching for years and i love the content.
Great seeing the giraffe 🦒 teaching the moose 🦌 a few things ❤😮
Great collab. The split jerk is an interesting tool in strongman. It allows smaller athletes to lift weight they have no business even touching otherwise. Pavlo Kordiyaka for example. He's on the smaller end of the spectrum of pro strongmen, but can hang with way bigger guys because he has mastered athletic skills such as the split jerk.
Bros taller than A world's strongest man
I wonder how trenlander would fare in wsm
alot of wsm are average height just recently its been tall guys
@@shalami_lifts9176 I think the perspective in wsm has fucked you up mitch and eddie hall are both 6 foot 3 thats not average height. the shortest guy to make it to the finals in the last few years is an inch or two taller than the average western man.
@@moodfm5673 i seen and talked to eddie hall in person and he was shorter than me and im 6'2. im average height aswell
@@moodfm5673Eddie is 6'2"
what a great collab, both solid dudes
awesome man great collab
the collab we never knew we needed
I definitely told mitch to visit you. Glad he made it. He needed it.Cheers.
You and clarence.
The 405 re-rack sheeesh
“In crossfit it counts” 😂
Mitch looks like he's getting even solider. Maybe getting leaner for the fight makes it look that way.
Mitch made that pr look easy 206, edit 211 now
Thanks for posting, great session
go get em coach
keep spreading the word
Great collab, hopefully more in the future? Similar humour for both
I've always wondered why with a few exceptions few strongman competitors don't use better lifting techniques. Rob Kearney being one that does and at his best could press with guys much larger than him.
He is smaller than most strongmen, your bigger athletes compensate for the lack of. The bigger guys do use it but it's not always the primary method.
I think there are several reasons but probably the biggest is the cost-benefit analysis. Getting good at such a precise movement takes a lot of time investment and it’s going to take even more honing to apply to different implements (log vs Axel and different variations there in) and not apply at all to others (Viking press, block press etc.).
Just getting stronger shoulders will carry over better to everything and with no weight classes or PED testing is more realistic than in other strength sports.
Most guys who’ve used it success where former Oly Lifters or CrossFit athletes so they had a head start.
Mitchell is an absolute freak of an athlete. What a unique character.
I could have watched this for 3 hours
Great commentary
Way to go on that 165 Zack!
Hell. Yes. Pumped for this one.
15:50 "it's crossfit it counts" lmao
Nice!
Those muscle ups. Dang
great video - love the content!
And with short breaks.
Still needs to workout with Clarence Kennedy
awesome collab!
2 of my favorite influencers
I recall how hard it was for Martins to do a muscle up. Very impressive. A healthy Martins would be a great match up for Mitch.
Bama just flip-hoisted more than my DL max above his damn head.
Do you do online coaching? I’m a boxer and would be interested
Zack make a video about Functional Patterns now that he tried to shit on OLY lifting/had a comment war with Dozer
Mitchel is a 1 of 1
True freak of nature, super athlete
Zack is taller than this dude holy shit
Awesome video
So cool
That's the collab we needed
Hooper gonna quickly train up to 265kg lol
This dude is huge
Zack not mitch
Zack just keeps getting taller 😅
That was fucking brilliant. Feel like I’ve added 10kg to my PB just watching
Fitting an XL shirt VS XXXL
Love it
DK. DONKEY KONG. DK. DONKEY KONG IS HERE
he could be the strongest overhead ever now the he has learned the split jerk
lets gooooo im so happpy
Lifting briefs 🩲 😂
Hahaha should be foekin gooooooooood
They kind of look like brothers
big lifts
Hey come one.. you cant ignore armwrestling and Devon larrat.. please react to some matches
Zack is really tall 😂😂. This is the first time I noticed it 😅
It's because all Strongmen are listed 1-2" above their real heights. Zack is a legit 6'4". Mitch is not a legit 6'3".
@@DCJayhawk57 Thor is legitimately 6' 9" Tom and Brian are legitimately 6'8"
your claim is provably false
You are the nobody liar
@@high-captain-BaLroglike when some of these goobers were saying Eddie is 6'0. Like sure, he may not be exactly 6'3, but he is 6'1.5l6'2 at least
@@DCJayhawk57You know your spine compresses throughout the day and a heavy lifting session causes further compression, right? I wake up at 6'2.5 every day. Most nights I go to bed around 6'2. If I do a lift session that involves any sort of spinal loading I can go to bed as short as 6'1. Strongmen are CONSTANTLY training under heavy loads that compress the spine.
That looks so fucking gpod,Mitch!!!
Dang Zack is making Mitch look small
Use Anadrol, easy.
Giraffe vs Moose
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The last person that someone should teach olympics lifts to the worlds strongest man is a crossfitter.
👑🦀🍁
Clickbait. I didn’t see Eddie Hall here
If the title said “teaching Arnold strongman classic winner”
I would’ve said “clickbait I didn’t see Big Z here”
He is literally the most recent worlds strongest man though
mitch is built differnt........
Im sorry but mitch had, 475 in him that day if he had a longer rest period. But yeah good to see mitch actually going to a pro for some coaching. No hes never gonna be an olympic pro at the same ... 465 is crazy for a super new guy. Even if hes not having to pass drug tests at all ... Who really believes lasha is natural? In a sport famous for curruption and doping.
Lasha was caught once with a much lower total, so now he is just on protein shakes.... 🙂 Actually I dont think there is anyone in the world who has never taken PEDs.
Zack is a fuckin UNIT.
bit cringe.
For the love of god, howw does no1 ever tell these absolute units that physics matter.. The whole time his holding the weight on his knuckles instead of the root of the palm, i need to watch his bench now to get more triggered xDDD much love anyways to both of u
Holding the bar that far down the hand in a front rack position is very difficult, nigh on impossible. You'd have to have your hand going past your shoulder to do that. Besides it's not a pressing movement, so there's driving with the arms. It's legs then catch
@@madworld109 hate to be that guy but all u just sad is bs.. aaand i think ive coached enough beginers into doing it so ez and comfortably that i care to remember + as the physics allows they all got an insta bump in the lifts too, before u say its beginners, it helped seasoned ones just the same.. aaand ur catching it on a bone instead of a floppy wrist which will hurt af if u get tendonitis, not the mention the force distribution trough the body and the wobbliness.. if ur shoulderblades are pinned to each other, as they should be, its so much easier to hold it, press it, catch it.. much more comfortable if all is done correctly
Mitch is surely one of the most gifted/talented/skilled/hard working athletes of all time
Nice!
the giraffe and the moose, great collab!
165kg is my deadlift PR 😆 Amazing job by both guys. Mitchell is a beast and such a nice fella.
Worlds strongest man! And Zack
Great Collab. Always wondered why strongman dont split jerk, hopefully Mitch can start the trend.
I've seen others split jerk on logs. One of the strongest log lifters do it regularly and his numbers are at/or near to the American log record. I forget the name. Maybe Rob Kearny. He's also on the smaller end of the heavyweights. I have seen more use of power jerks and split jerks in the heavyweights who are at the smaller end of the spectrum and lower weight classes. I know Novakov has done it in competition.
I think a lot of not split jerk use in strongman, especially on log, comes from a lot of the heavyweights are just so damned strong up top that they don't need to do it to get the weight up so they don't work on the small steps to get the technique show ready. I watched Bobby Mitchell at the 2022 Shaw Classic do the starting lift of log clean and press at 375 lbs (I think) strict. He didn't actually start to give effort until like 440. Was absolutely insane.
Strongmen/women in smaller weight classes tend to use split jerk quite often, for heavyweights mobility is quite often the limiting factor.
Their leg drive coupled with a power belly and the obvious shoulder strength is typically enough. Tom Stoltman exhibits that combination perfectly.
Their leg drive coupled with a power belly and the obvious shoulder strength is typically enough. Tom Stoltman exhibits that combination perfectly.
Rob Kearney has always done log, cyr dumbbell, and axle press with a split jerk. It's why people (Oberst) were crying when he took the American Log record from Oberst and other strongmen had to back him up and remind people that strongman is about moving the weight however necessary within the rules. It was mighty hilarious seeing a 420lb man cry about a 285lb man taking his record because he used a split jerk.
Would of loved to be walking through the park and just happen upon such a spectacle.
Mitch’s work on growing his arms is clearly working. Looking jacked
whats crazy is how he didn't look that jacked before but was as strong as the best of them. just goes to show you how different strength training is from bodybuilding
A weightlifting video??? Now I'm interested
This was too lit🔥🔥👌
Mitch Hooper is real super athlete, 145kg guy does a muscle up and is world strongest man same time. Even Brock Lesnar can't follow that.
Ive said it 100 times. Your low subscriber numbers are criminal. The most popular to be just bc Liver King got caught? You have so many better videos.
Funny how the crowd is getting a lesson and a show from one top athlete and a world strongest man. Some probably don't even know 😊
This is a great video ZT!