The same week Hafthor pulled 501kg, I pulled 500 lbs, weighing in lbs what he weighed in kg. In theory making me his pound for pound equal. What a nonsense measure
That pound for pound strength is no joke... I had a co-worker who was 5'3 about 115 lb and dude could deadlift 350 lb, I honestly was very impressed. he didn't look like he could have lifted 150 lbs.
I think you would have got a lot more push ups if you'd tried to stick to doing 20 push-ups and rusting for the remainder of a 32nd. and repeating that six times that would have given you 120 with more rest in between, you wouldn't have fatigue your strength so quickly, and you could have stayed stronger through the entire challenge, try it again.
*Do 20 push-ups in a 30 second segment, rest the remainder of the 30 seconds, then repeat five more times, I know you can get more push-ups than that in 3 minutes.
love the guy, but even at the very start that was some anemic Range of Motion, his arms barely hit 90°. although i doubt the men's health folk practiced purist technique either
54 pushups for the lowest level is insane. I think alot of pushups standards in peoples heads are military based and unrealistic. Especially if we want someones chest to touch the ground. The getup movement seems to be the "easiest" and fairest compared to a fairly untrained public.
Glad to see I'm not the only one thinking this. 74 clean, full range of motion, pushups in 3 minutes is not remotely average. Even 54 is substantially above average.
I trained specifically to do 100 Military Push-ups a few years back and I'd honestly say that 54 is quite above average and even likely exceptional. Granted, those are strict form and timed at 1 second up and down. The way this dude did the push-ups makes 54 seem rather easy.
@@IwatchTubiTrash well he is ex-WSM and heavy as fuck. Obviously noone's gonna do strict 1 second up and down pushups on a timed metric testing exercise, otherwise the results would be pretty much the same each time.
@@klafterdev5558 He doesn't have to adhere to that specific style of push-up, but that is moot because whatever style he is opting to use is sloppy and not befitting of an athlete.
When I was a younger teen, I was once able to do over 70 full range pushups in a row with enough training to lead to that. However, my bench was weak. Years later, when my bench was its strongest, I could get nowhere near 70 pushups without the chest gassing right out with lactic acid. The muscle endurance vs strength are just two different apples that require different training to get good at. This particular test seemed bizarre with some of the chosen lifts. All were 1rpm with the exception of the pushups.
And, the article included 5 tests from 4 different coaches - each with different training philosophies (push-up: Martin Rooney, deadlift: James Sjostrom (strongfirst), chin-up and squat: Tony Gentilcore, Turkish Get-up: Dan John) - no wonder there is little to no connection between the standards.
Explains why the TGU weights are so low as Dan doesn't like heavy TGUs. If it was Pavel Tsatsouline it would be 24 kg average, 32 kg good, 48 kg extraordinary or thereabouts.
I guess Martin Rooney is a bit shaky on what strength means. His book says "MARTIN ROONEY is on a mission to make better coaches." I'll pass on that one I guess
What confuses me is why they would have push ups instead of flat bench. All the other exercises are weighted and you would need access to that equipment anyway.
@HkFinn83 but pushups do not test strength. The definition of strength is the ability to exert force (measured in Newtons) in order to overcome the resistance. The formula for force says force is equal to mass (m) multiplied by acceleration (a).
In the military, we did push-ups for endurance mostly. Really when you think about it, we tried to crank out as many as possible in 2 minutes without thinking. But we could not break our hands or feet off the floor.
I find it hard to believe that 54> push ups and a "less than bodyweight" deadlift are comparable. If you're able to do 54> push ups within 3 minutes, I'd say that's a pretty good achievement. Whereas I imagine the majority of untrained people would be able to deadlift their own bodyweight. Love the content, good luck in 2024!
it depends. I'm a fat bastard at present, so i can shift quite a lot of weight , but struggle with the bodyweight excercises. Likewise, in high school, there were skinny lads who'd perform fantastically well on bodyweight excercises, but couldn't squat more than about a quarter of their bodyweight or deadlift more than like 2/3.
Yeah. Weird that they'd do deadlift 2x bodyweight, squat 1.75x body weight and then for chest just spam pushups instead of bench press at some multiple of body weight.
for a big man his chest was pretty far from the ground , could debate if the push ups were full range of motion , some say 2 to 4 inches from the ground some say touch the ground tough to know what is right.
My husband said, "Men's Health needs to re-examine their criteria as far as push-ups are concerned." I have to agree with him. We had no doubt you'd knock everything else out of the park!
Overall it's just gymbro-y pseudo-science. Let's say you had the most well developed chest of all time, just insane amounts of muscle, that wouldn't help with your squat, or your deadlift.
true but the rules kinda demanded bad form. Few people can do 54 pushups with actually good techniqe let alone more. Saying that 53 is below average is just dumb.
The moment I read a metric like "pushups per minute", I stop taking that test or person serious. it's basically a test of "which decently fit person can bring their own pushups to the lowest possible standard". I think all of us knew some kids in highschool who were bragging about their 100pushups, who couldnt have done 20 clean ones. 54 clean pushups in 3minutes is much more extraordinary than a 2times bodyweight deadlift imo, even more impressive than not being stuck like a turtle if you ever lie on your back
Nah, maybe 54 is hard if your bodyweight is heavy. But I'm pretty sure for the average people would rather do 54 clean push up in 3 minutes rather than deadlifts double there weight. I think you can do it easily if you divide the push up too 10 reps then take quick rest and another 10 until you get 50
2x bodyweight deadlift (if you’re a reasonably well built male) atleast require some strength. Pushup for reps is alot of endurance also, which is impressive but no equal to strength
Kind of a weird test. Are these comparisons supposed to be relative to people who at least attempt to train or just humans in general? I'd get "extraordinary" on most of these tests, but I am absolutely not even close to extraordinary amongst people who take lifting somewhat serious. However there is also no way that 54 push ups is "below average" amongst all humans. Most people I work with couldn't even do 10 let alone squatting/deadlifting body weight.
The push-up test was a stamina check. Adding weight would be more strength, right? It seems the editor at Men’s wasn’t concerned with accuracy this day.
I thought I might have had you on the deadlift, I weigh 170 lb and can deadlift 425 lb, That's 2.5* my body weight... when I calculated the same for you, you crushed me, 320 lb* 2.5 equals 800, and we already know you're good for 1,075. Good job!, world's strongest man.
The pull-up test (and really, most of the tests) should have been absolute weight moved. Because if I was doing the pull-up test, and did 50 additional pounds it would be 230 total pounds, which is alright. But when Mitchell does it, it's 370 total pounds which is objectively elite and incredibly impressive. We'd both be considered to be "extraordinary," but Mitchell's feat would be far more impressive and difficult to achieve than what I did.
Push-ups: I could do Deadlift: I've deadlifted twice my bodyweight for 12 reps Pull-up: regularly do 10 reps with 20 kg, so shouldn't be a problem Squat: I've done doubles with that weight Tyrkish get-up: no idea... never tried one
I saw you for the first time maybe 1 or 2 weeks before WSM, and my first thought was you were likely to win. *Media thrives on selling drama and starting fights to create it. In totality, you are currently the world's strongest man.* Dicing it up with convenient criteria for their publication is irrelevant and sold to knob-heads.
He could've got the pushups if he strategized differently for sure. If you watch crossfitters do the 200 pushups in Murph, the "do a few big sets and then suddenly find that you can only do a few at a time" phenomenon is common. You always get more done for time if you break it up into much smaller sets than you think you need to right off the bat - and then keep hitting those small sets quickly.
I wanted to know the methodology for the ranking system and it turns out the author just asked one coach per exercise. Not... ummm... the *most* rigorous thing I've read.
I think it's a fair test of strength relative to bodyweight. It's not a fair test of absolute strength. A good test of absolute strength would be doing 1 rep max lifts for each major muscle, you could weight each lift against the current world record and add up the score.
Terrible depth on the pushups. Must touch your chin for full range, and set a bar that your scaps must touch at the top. Anything else results in cheating.
I’m 56 and 180 pounds. I work out 3 times a week no more than 40 mins at a time using a split. Here are my numbers. 81 push-ups, 230 deadlifts that’s all the weight I have😀 but I did it for the 10 min timing. 50 pounds on the chins for 3 reps, 225 squats for 3. 30 pound dumbbell for the Turkish stand test.
Awesome!! I made a similar challenge for motorcycle riders I'll be releasing tomorrow :) I mentioned in the video your video and where the inspiration came from :)
Can tell you are a competitive perfectionist when it comes to this sport, by the way you pronounce 'good'. What else to expect from the number 1 in anything.
Does anyone else think the standards for extraordinary aren't hard enough? I'm not saying I can do them all, but a single pull-up with 1 plate? But I guess it makes a nice change from the usual ridiculous standards we are confronted with 😂😂😂
was that turkish getup actually challenging for you? I would think you could easily do 100+ on that. I'm weak asf and 24kg is a warm-up for TGUs. Or is it actually hard hard to get up when you're 320lbs?
My results. Test 1: Below average (I almost never do pushups) seems like endurance training. Test 2: Extraordinary. I hit a 635lb deadlift at 282lbs bodyweight. Test 3: Average. I'm heavy lol. I've managed 4. Test 4: Extraordinary. I hit a 600lb squat at 292lbs bodyweight. Test 5: Extraordinary as well. This seems more about coordination than pure strength. In conclusion I'm basically as strong as the world's strongest man pound for pound according to this test (I'm not.) This test is kind of all over the place but good to see you having fun with it. All the best, dude!
The world's strongest man is definitely not Hooper. I honestly doubt any wsm winners have actually been the strongest man alive when they won. The world's strongest man is almost certainly some humble guy that doesn't compete and nobody has ever heard off.
It can never be accurate especially for body weight exercises like push ups and chin ups. Let us say Someone who is 170lbs is able to do 110 pushups it can never be compared to someone who does 96 at 320lb body weight. The 170lb guy who does 1 rep chin up with 50lbs is still pulling 150lb less than the 320 guy. Also if Mitch leaned down to 280 body weight his push ups and chin ups would increase but his overall strength would decrease in deadlifts and squats. So at the end of the day he would still be extraordinary in all the exercises but his strength would have actually decreased.
Impressive! Specially your pushup for your weight. At the age of 52 I trained pretty intensively Kung Fu and trained specially lots of push ups on fingers and knuckles. Once I tried my max push ups on my knuckles and did 300 non stop. Time used I did not count but at least one/second.
As a scrawny guy who was in shape, outsized performances in pushups and chin ups were easy, but a 24 kg kettle bell Turkish Get Up would have never left the ground. New subscriber to the site after seeing the long drive contest: love the attitude and ethos.
The test is not consistent. If it`s body weight based test, than the kettle bell should be a % of the bodyweight too. A small girl like my daughter can do chin ups and push ups, but she will have no chance to clear even 12lb kettle bell. Why compare people with 50kg and Mitch or other heavyweights when the kettle bell is fixed weight? Makes no sense. Mitch, you did extremely well and your Mum was right!!!
I'm a sub par (aka casual) 40 y/o powerlifter and I score extraordinary in most of these tests. My combined max is like 1060 at 215 BW (though I did 1100 lbs at 185 lbs earlier this year). The hardest test is pushups. That's the only one know I'd score below excellent. The rest are pretty easy Excellent or Extraordinary. Men's health want's their audience to feel good about themselves.
I haven't even watched the video yet but I will assume their "test" uses your body weight to measure your strength, which everyone that know anything about strength know it's flawed way to measure strength that will always favor smaller men.
Hooper, as an ex- endurance athlete, is the best guy to run through these. Really shows how off-base the pushup test is for sure. WSM, with an endurance background just being "good"? Okay buddy...
@@user-hn9qw7ou8dYes Tom Haviland is a beast but he does not compete and controls all his own content. He has a online business and it seems strange that if he is easily the Worlds strongest man by your accounts he would not enter a contest and leverage his superiority to sell his merch. I don’t think he would fare as well in a comp as he does in his own videos.
@@RG-ef9yw Except he doesn't e-fight, IG whore his appearance and barely shows his identity. He's just legtimately strong. Anyone who says otherwise has absolute zero clue what they're talking about. Also, olympic weight-lifting>>>>>>>>>>strongman.
Men's Health is trash. Go Mitchell, rooting for you tomorrow at Shaw's buddy. I'm 52, doing Smolov Jr bench at a gym full of youngsters, third week is brutal. I like your approach and it's motivating to this old dog.
So we have: 1) muscular endurance 2) 1RM DL (good job men’s health) 3) 1RM pull up (another good job) 4) 1RM squat (nice) 5) Turkish get up….but fucking why? Men’s health is the band nerd version of muscle and fiction magazine.
I just finished watching WSM today so congratulations on the great victory (yes i know it happened a long time ago lol). The writing was on the wall when you pushed on with the shield in the first event and set up and extraordinary performance.
So I weighed 93kg at my heaviest a few years ago... My max Pushups were 110 in 3 mins. Chinups max reps 18 (never really tested 1rm pull ups) I can still do multiple 24kg get ups , my best deadlift was 215kg best squat 200kg..... If this is correct If I can win the pull up section I can eat the world's strongest man?! 😂🤣 Good luck this year champ. 🤜🤛👍
I gassed bad on push-ups too. But at a bodyweight of 170 I got extraordinary on everything else So I feel good about that. I didn't have a kettlebell so I don't know about the turkish getup unfortunately. The pushup test is a little off...humans aren't really known for having super endurance in their pectorals
The exercises saying double your bodyweight etc favour lighter persons but then why have add 50 lbs for chin ups, should a 80lb person add the same weight as you? At 100 kgs I could do, 340 kg deadlift, 360 kg squat, chinups 12 with no weight added, pressups always found easy as did boxing and every time I messed up on jump rope you did 10 pressups. I can do 200 in 3 mins now fast, 150 strict. Getting off the floor with that weight I think I would have struggled. Saying all that your size to strength ratio is amazing,
It's a rubbish test, or series of tests. I would be lucky to get 50 pushups, but I can DL 155kg which is 1.68 times body weight, 5 bodywt chinups (but never tried a weighted chinup), squat 140kg, 1.52 times bodyweight and can definitely TGU 20kg and could probably manage 24kg and I am a 60 yr old guy. There is either way too much emphasis on the pushups or the other categories are far too easy. Also there is no allowance for age but it will be a big factor in the results and lastly the TGU is a niche exercise which rewards technique and range of movement far more than strength.
Lol what an inconsistent test.... Pushups are almost all muscle coordination and triceps endurance specifically trained from doing that excercise. I was an MMA fighter and could do 3x40 pushups with 1 minute break inbetween but my bench was pretty "weak" at 75kg i could only do 3x80kg bench. years later i can do 6x95kg at 82kg but after 30 push ups i am done....i cant even complete a full set of 40.,.... muscles just start burning like hell after 20 and its not because of lack of strength but lack of triceps endurance
That deadlift scale is weird. I barely even lift (!) but I'd have no trouble doing 1x bodyweight every minute for 10 min, probably a lot longer than that. I'm a fair way off being able to pull 2x bodyweight though...? And then the 'Excellent' band is bang on 2x BW, not a kilo more or less... weird.
Not hating ... im a kettle instructor. I know you have to be familiar with tecnique .but for you sir ,minimum the beast (48kg bell) should be a challange! Think you should do some kettlebell sessions with a good instructor 😊...will bring your level way up !!!
Pushups don't mean anything. What the hell are they actually good for??? I am a mountain biker and could barely do 10 pushups for most of my life. Now I got some atlas sandbags and after training with them I guess I can do more pushups more comfortably as well...but my strength DID NOT come from the stupid pushups.
What a bizarre collection of measurements. I'm a pretty average novice strongman in my 40s but I can score "excellent" on the deadlift, squat and chin-up... Probably average on the pushups. But the Turkish getup? When I first started lifting I trained those and very quickly managed a smooth getup with the 45. That seems way too easy compared to the others.
are pushups a strength exercise? I'd have thought them more of an endurance exercise.... Really surprised how many a guy your size can do! Well done. Boxers are usually good at pushups. When my brother was in the local boxing club in his teens he could do 100 in a minute (obviusly quite quick and not 'perfect' form..but still impressive). It was the source of an argument one day in the Shop Class in HighSchool when one of the other kids (a boxer too) told the teacher my brother could do 100 PUs in 1 minute. The shop teacher and football coach didn't believe it, and pulled my brother out of a different class to come to the Shop Room to prove it LOL My brother dropped and did it. Boxers are fit. They used to knock out several sets of 50 each night and sit-ups, and chin ups too. I trained sometimes too but only those exercises..not sparring
I wish he did at least one push-up. It was "ZERO ZERO ZERO" lol The problem with these challenges is that people automatically are incentivised to "cheat" and crank up the numbers with zero quality.
Whoever wrote this test must be a "pound for pound" enthusiast.
Whoever wrote this test tells me they barely workout or know anything about being strong or athletic.
The same week Hafthor pulled 501kg, I pulled 500 lbs, weighing in lbs what he weighed in kg. In theory making me his pound for pound equal. What a nonsense measure
That pound for pound strength is no joke... I had a co-worker who was 5'3 about 115 lb and dude could deadlift 350 lb, I honestly was very impressed. he didn't look like he could have lifted 150 lbs.
I think you would have got a lot more push ups if you'd tried to stick to doing 20 push-ups and rusting for the remainder of a 32nd. and repeating that six times that would have given you 120 with more rest in between, you wouldn't have fatigue your strength so quickly, and you could have stayed stronger through the entire challenge, try it again.
*Do 20 push-ups in a 30 second segment, rest the remainder of the 30 seconds, then repeat five more times, I know you can get more push-ups than that in 3 minutes.
A big dude like you doing practically 100 push-ups in 3 minutes is staggering, even with your level of strength
love the guy, but even at the very start that was some anemic Range of Motion, his arms barely hit 90°.
although i doubt the men's health folk practiced purist technique either
54 pushups for the lowest level is insane. I think alot of pushups standards in peoples heads are military based and unrealistic. Especially if we want someones chest to touch the ground. The getup movement seems to be the "easiest" and fairest compared to a fairly untrained public.
Yup. 54 has no reason to be the lowest level if you are not an olympian
Glad to see I'm not the only one thinking this. 74 clean, full range of motion, pushups in 3 minutes is not remotely average. Even 54 is substantially above average.
I trained specifically to do 100 Military Push-ups a few years back and I'd honestly say that 54 is quite above average and even likely exceptional. Granted, those are strict form and timed at 1 second up and down. The way this dude did the push-ups makes 54 seem rather easy.
@@IwatchTubiTrash well he is ex-WSM and heavy as fuck. Obviously noone's gonna do strict 1 second up and down pushups on a timed metric testing exercise, otherwise the results would be pretty much the same each time.
@@klafterdev5558 He doesn't have to adhere to that specific style of push-up, but that is moot because whatever style he is opting to use is sloppy and not befitting of an athlete.
When I was a younger teen, I was once able to do over 70 full range pushups in a row with enough training to lead to that. However, my bench was weak. Years later, when my bench was its strongest, I could get nowhere near 70 pushups without the chest gassing right out with lactic acid. The muscle endurance vs strength are just two different apples that require different training to get good at. This particular test seemed bizarre with some of the chosen lifts. All were 1rpm with the exception of the pushups.
I have to pretty much agree with this take on it.
Just tested it , same thing happened to me
also your technique is propably a lot better
True. And if they really wanted to test strength, they'd have used an overhead press not the bench press or pushups.
It also has to do with the strength principle of specificity. You get strong in the specific movement you train.
And, the article included 5 tests from 4 different coaches - each with different training philosophies (push-up: Martin Rooney, deadlift: James Sjostrom (strongfirst), chin-up and squat: Tony Gentilcore, Turkish Get-up: Dan John) - no wonder there is little to no connection between the standards.
Explains why the TGU weights are so low as Dan doesn't like heavy TGUs. If it was Pavel Tsatsouline it would be 24 kg average, 32 kg good, 48 kg extraordinary or thereabouts.
I guess Martin Rooney is a bit shaky on what strength means. His book says "MARTIN ROONEY is on a mission to make better coaches."
I'll pass on that one I guess
That explains a lot tbf
Martin Rooney is a bit confused. My score would be one less point than the video, again because of the pushups. I'm a calisthenics athlete ☠️
What confuses me is why they would have push ups instead of flat bench. All the other exercises are weighted and you would need access to that equipment anyway.
Because not everybody have access to a flat bench.
@@Platypus_Warrior and pushups are better test anyway
@HkFinn83 but pushups do not test strength.
The definition of strength is the ability to exert force (measured in Newtons) in order to overcome the resistance. The formula for force says force is equal to mass (m) multiplied by acceleration (a).
@@AntiTrollable sure, then forget the whole thing and just google who the current best powerlifter is.
In the military, we did push-ups for endurance mostly. Really when you think about it, we tried to crank out as many as possible in 2 minutes without thinking. But we could not break our hands or feet off the floor.
I find it hard to believe that 54> push ups and a "less than bodyweight" deadlift are comparable. If you're able to do 54> push ups within 3 minutes, I'd say that's a pretty good achievement. Whereas I imagine the majority of untrained people would be able to deadlift their own bodyweight.
Love the content, good luck in 2024!
Most untrained people cannot deadlift their own body weight. Have you seen the obese public lately? Lol
it depends. I'm a fat bastard at present, so i can shift quite a lot of weight , but struggle with the bodyweight excercises. Likewise, in high school, there were skinny lads who'd perform fantastically well on bodyweight excercises, but couldn't squat more than about a quarter of their bodyweight or deadlift more than like 2/3.
lmao you are making that shit up hardcore...skinny lads that couldnt squat 45 pounds@@RJ-wx3fh
I disagree. I think that majority of untrained people will NOT be able to deadlift their bodyweight.
@@trdi Im untrained and overweight tbh, started going to the gym recently and was able to deadlift a little above my body weight. So agree to disagree
Are tests of strength and endurance the same thing? Because the pushup thing definitely feels like the latter.
Yeah. Weird that they'd do deadlift 2x bodyweight, squat 1.75x body weight and then for chest just spam pushups instead of bench press at some multiple of body weight.
@@BigIronEnjoyer Stupid it says 'good' for deadlift is 1x bodyweight 1 rep every minute thats ridiculously easy
@@BigIronEnjoyer SBD without the B is just S-tupi-D, ;)
@@NoR3m0rs3 Yeah, especially if you aren't very heavy. I'm only 170 pounds, so I think i could spend an afternoon doing that, lol.
@@NoR3m0rs3exactly, it's not even a warm up
97 push ups in 3 min for a guy your size is impressive. Most of the top strongman competitors would be hard pressed to beat that total.
for a big man his chest was pretty far from the ground , could debate if the push ups were full range of motion , some say 2 to 4 inches from the ground some say touch the ground tough to know what is right.
Handstand push-ups with 1 arm 💪
He didn't even complete a single true push-up.. 😂 he 90 partial push-ups. Your chest needs to touch the floor everytime you come down
Mens health needs to specify an acceptable push up.
Well not a single real pushup was done, your chest is suppose to touch the floor. But i know his the worlds strongest man aso
My husband said, "Men's Health needs to re-examine their criteria as far as push-ups are concerned." I have to agree with him. We had no doubt you'd knock everything else out of the park!
My wife said, "I don't know, Peter, meth's a hell of a drug.
This test must be for gymbros who do chest all day every day, holy molly the amount of pushups is insane compared to the other metrics.
That and the deadlift and squat standards for "extraordinary" are a joke by powerlifting standards.
@@TheZapper42and chinups category is also reletavly easy to be defined as extraordinary
Overall it's just gymbro-y pseudo-science. Let's say you had the most well developed chest of all time, just insane amounts of muscle, that wouldn't help with your squat, or your deadlift.
The push-up numbers were super unrealistic.
Counting those push-ups as good/ strict would be like counting your best unrack as a deadlift.
true but the rules kinda demanded bad form. Few people can do 54 pushups with actually good techniqe let alone more. Saying that 53 is below average is just dumb.
The moment I read a metric like "pushups per minute", I stop taking that test or person serious. it's basically a test of "which decently fit person can bring their own pushups to the lowest possible standard". I think all of us knew some kids in highschool who were bragging about their 100pushups, who couldnt have done 20 clean ones.
54 clean pushups in 3minutes is much more extraordinary than a 2times bodyweight deadlift imo, even more impressive than not being stuck like a turtle if you ever lie on your back
Nah, maybe 54 is hard if your bodyweight is heavy. But I'm pretty sure for the average people would rather do 54 clean push up in 3 minutes rather than deadlifts double there weight. I think you can do it easily if you divide the push up too 10 reps then take quick rest and another 10 until you get 50
54 clean pushups is not impressive at all unless your BMI is OBESE😂
2x bodyweight deadlift (if you’re a reasonably well built male) atleast require some strength. Pushup for reps is alot of endurance also, which is impressive but no equal to strength
Push-up test was pure endurance...
I think you just suck at push ups😂. 54 is weak
What a weird test lol
@RenaissancePeriodization would love everything bad you have to say about this scale! 😂
Yeah I hope he makes a video about this
Men’s Health is such BS, anyone who has ever been in a gym would be able to make a better metric of strength than this.
Kind of a weird test. Are these comparisons supposed to be relative to people who at least attempt to train or just humans in general? I'd get "extraordinary" on most of these tests, but I am absolutely not even close to extraordinary amongst people who take lifting somewhat serious. However there is also no way that 54 push ups is "below average" amongst all humans. Most people I work with couldn't even do 10 let alone squatting/deadlifting body weight.
The push-up test was a stamina check. Adding weight would be more strength, right? It seems the editor at Men’s wasn’t concerned with accuracy this day.
I thought I might have had you on the deadlift, I weigh 170 lb and can deadlift 425 lb, That's 2.5* my body weight... when I calculated the same for you, you crushed me, 320 lb* 2.5 equals 800, and we already know you're good for 1,075. Good job!, world's strongest man.
that`s freaking badass :D gj dude i only do 2 times my weight but i weight 190ish .. and have MS :D .. so yours is insane :D
Traditional media is dead for a reason.
Also, this test is about as accurate as BMI 😂
Congrats on 100000 subs mate! I was here when you had a few thousand during your first WSM!
What an 18 months you have had! 👍🏻
This is like a marathon runner calling Usain Bolt slow
Guess that means i am the real worlds strongest boy
The pull-up test (and really, most of the tests) should have been absolute weight moved. Because if I was doing the pull-up test, and did 50 additional pounds it would be 230 total pounds, which is alright. But when Mitchell does it, it's 370 total pounds which is objectively elite and incredibly impressive. We'd both be considered to be "extraordinary," but Mitchell's feat would be far more impressive and difficult to achieve than what I did.
Push-ups: I could do
Deadlift: I've deadlifted twice my bodyweight for 12 reps
Pull-up: regularly do 10 reps with 20 kg, so shouldn't be a problem
Squat: I've done doubles with that weight
Tyrkish get-up: no idea... never tried one
I saw you for the first time maybe 1 or 2 weeks before WSM, and my first thought was you were likely to win.
*Media thrives on selling drama and starting fights to create it. In totality, you are currently the world's strongest man.* Dicing it up with convenient criteria for their publication is irrelevant and sold to knob-heads.
He could've got the pushups if he strategized differently for sure. If you watch crossfitters do the 200 pushups in Murph, the "do a few big sets and then suddenly find that you can only do a few at a time" phenomenon is common. You always get more done for time if you break it up into much smaller sets than you think you need to right off the bat - and then keep hitting those small sets quickly.
I wanted to know the methodology for the ranking system and it turns out the author just asked one coach per exercise. Not... ummm... the *most* rigorous thing I've read.
I think it's a fair test of strength relative to bodyweight. It's not a fair test of absolute strength.
A good test of absolute strength would be doing 1 rep max lifts for each major muscle, you could weight each lift against the current world record and add up the score.
People sitting behind a desk judging others that actually do, is really amusing. 😆
You won WSM 2023.👊😎
No offense, but the push-ups you did wouldn't have met any criteria. You got zero
Pushups should be chest-to-floor! ;)
But very impressive nonetheless!
Terrible depth on the pushups. Must touch your chin for full range, and set a bar that your scaps must touch at the top. Anything else results in cheating.
TBH many of your pushups were not to depth. Almost touching the floor is a strict pushup.
In the army chest has to almost touch the ground to get a valid pushup. I guess when youre this big mobility becomes an issue?
I found the deadlift scale to be the strangest, most of the scales were %bodyweight 1rm, then there's an EMOM for some reason
Pretty bad test of strength IMO.
Firstly the lifts should be measured using a dott system or something similar.
this test is kinda stupid, the difference between the two highest levels in deadlift could be one kg
Who wrote these lmao. That push up one is insane if you do proper range and form
Relax dude, it’s a magazine. It can’t hurt you
That pushup test seems insane to me... all the other ones looks fine, the getup looks way too easy in comparison to the others :S
Hope you had an amazing Christmas my guy. I appreciate you big time 💪💪💪
I mean, I would seriously question the sport of strongman if they put in a bodyweight pushup event, lol
You are quickly becoming my favorite strongman athlete - every new video is an instant watch and like from me! Thanks so much for the awesome content!
Jesus Mitchell, it's almost frightening to see your work capacity for someone your size. You truly are a generational talent
I’m 56 and 180 pounds. I work out 3 times a week no more than 40 mins at a time using a split. Here are my numbers. 81 push-ups, 230 deadlifts that’s all the weight I have😀 but I did it for the 10 min timing. 50 pounds on the chins for 3 reps, 225 squats for 3. 30 pound dumbbell for the Turkish stand test.
Awesome!! I made a similar challenge for motorcycle riders I'll be releasing tomorrow :) I mentioned in the video your video and where the inspiration came from :)
I think if you had done 10 x 11 pushups you would have made it. Doing 35 blew you out.
I take it the push-ups specified non-lockout?
Can tell you are a competitive perfectionist when it comes to this sport, by the way you pronounce 'good'. What else to expect from the number 1 in anything.
My biggest insecurity is that im not muchel hooper
He needs to do a video series of things he sucks at to restore any of my lost self esteem
@@davideberhardt1361 Nobody seems to have found things he sucks at yet 🤣
Sorry kind guy but those are not push ups :)
Does anyone else think the standards for extraordinary aren't hard enough? I'm not saying I can do them all, but a single pull-up with 1 plate?
But I guess it makes a nice change from the usual ridiculous standards we are confronted with 😂😂😂
I know people that can't do more than 15 pushups (me), so 50 being the low end is wild😂
Most people can not do one proper pushup lol
If you would've done your pushups in sets of 20 you would've got it no problem. 35 then 35 again burned you out
was that turkish getup actually challenging for you? I would think you could easily do 100+ on that. I'm weak asf and 24kg is a warm-up for TGUs. Or is it actually hard hard to get up when you're 320lbs?
My results.
Test 1: Below average (I almost never do pushups) seems like endurance training.
Test 2: Extraordinary. I hit a 635lb deadlift at 282lbs bodyweight.
Test 3: Average. I'm heavy lol. I've managed 4.
Test 4: Extraordinary. I hit a 600lb squat at 292lbs bodyweight.
Test 5: Extraordinary as well. This seems more about coordination than pure strength.
In conclusion I'm basically as strong as the world's strongest man pound for pound according to this test (I'm not.)
This test is kind of all over the place but good to see you having fun with it. All the best, dude!
Train with Larry Wheels, arm wrestling.
23 out of 25 also. 109 kgs. This was a stupid test of strength but it was fun and I surprised myself with the pull ups.
Great content as always. Thx for showing how ridiculous these tests are.
Imagine Eddie hall who I love btw doing a push up challenge the year he won.
“Boing boing boing”
The content on this channel is extraordinary
1:14 ZERO reps was done that day.
The world's strongest man is definitely not Hooper. I honestly doubt any wsm winners have actually been the strongest man alive when they won. The world's strongest man is almost certainly some humble guy that doesn't compete and nobody has ever heard off.
Great job. I feel like the push-ups require ongoing muscle exertion that is different than the strength testing. 🎉
It can never be accurate especially for body weight exercises like push ups and chin ups.
Let us say Someone who is 170lbs is able to do 110 pushups it can never be compared to someone who does 96 at 320lb body weight.
The 170lb guy who does 1 rep chin up with 50lbs is still pulling 150lb less than the 320 guy.
Also if Mitch leaned down to 280 body weight his push ups and chin ups would increase but his overall strength would decrease in deadlifts and squats.
So at the end of the day he would still be extraordinary in all the exercises but his strength would have actually decreased.
Impressive! Specially your pushup for your weight. At the age of 52 I trained pretty intensively Kung Fu and trained specially lots of push ups on fingers and knuckles. Once I tried my max push ups on my knuckles and did 300 non stop. Time used I did not count but at least one/second.
300 in one set is insane
It was 10 years ago and I trained quite hard, , a bit insane. @@schultemeister6975
Me doing a pushup for me vs pushing up you is totally different. Almost like the pull up test, people weigh differently
As a scrawny guy who was in shape, outsized performances in pushups and chin ups were easy, but a 24 kg kettle bell Turkish Get Up would have never left the ground. New subscriber to the site after seeing the long drive contest: love the attitude and ethos.
The test is not consistent. If it`s body weight based test, than the kettle bell should be a % of the bodyweight too.
A small girl like my daughter can do chin ups and push ups, but she will have no chance to clear even 12lb kettle bell.
Why compare people with 50kg and Mitch or other heavyweights when the kettle bell is fixed weight?
Makes no sense.
Mitch, you did extremely well and your Mum was right!!!
I'm a sub par (aka casual) 40 y/o powerlifter and I score extraordinary in most of these tests. My combined max is like 1060 at 215 BW (though I did 1100 lbs at 185 lbs earlier this year). The hardest test is pushups. That's the only one know I'd score below excellent. The rest are pretty easy Excellent or Extraordinary. Men's health want's their audience to feel good about themselves.
I haven't even watched the video yet but I will assume their "test" uses your body weight to measure your strength, which everyone that know anything about strength know it's flawed way to measure strength that will always favor smaller men.
Mens health magazine ! I buy it to find out what is the best aftershave on the market 😁. That's all it's good for!!
Big men: Absolute. Small: Relative. No 114Lber'll DL1KLbs. No 320Lber DL5x bodyweight.
Hooper, as an ex- endurance athlete, is the best guy to run through these. Really shows how off-base the pushup test is for sure. WSM, with an endurance background just being "good"? Okay buddy...
1x body weight ohp
1,5x body weight bench
2x body weight squat
2,5x body weight deadlift
Jesus christ did a calistetic fool write this LMAO.
Doing as many push-ups as possible in three minutes is a parameter for strength endurance.
More of a fitness test
100+ plus pushups in three minutes means you’re skinny, not strong. Also, those were half push-ups. 😘
Are you stronger than Brian Shaw, Eddie Hall, Hafthor Björnson, Zeviskas etc ..???
I don't think so...
Id like to see Tom Haviland try strong man. Seems like he could be at the top.
He would destroy Mitch in true tests of actual strength
@@user-hn9qw7ou8dYes Tom Haviland is a beast but he does not compete and controls all his own content. He has a online business and it seems strange that if he is easily the Worlds strongest man by your accounts he would not enter a contest and leverage his superiority to sell his merch. I don’t think he would fare as well in a comp as he does in his own videos.
He is the strongman equivalent of a keyboard warrior.
@@RG-ef9yw Except he doesn't e-fight, IG whore his appearance and barely shows his identity. He's just legtimately strong. Anyone who says otherwise has absolute zero clue what they're talking about. Also, olympic weight-lifting>>>>>>>>>>strongman.
@@user-hn9qw7ou8dYou know this can easily be checked right? What lifts are you talking about?
Men's Health is trash. Go Mitchell, rooting for you tomorrow at Shaw's buddy. I'm 52, doing Smolov Jr bench at a gym full of youngsters, third week is brutal. I like your approach and it's motivating to this old dog.
So we have:
1) muscular endurance
2) 1RM DL (good job men’s health)
3) 1RM pull up (another good job)
4) 1RM squat (nice)
5) Turkish get up….but fucking why?
Men’s health is the band nerd version of muscle and fiction magazine.
I just finished watching WSM today so congratulations on the great victory (yes i know it happened a long time ago lol). The writing was on the wall when you pushed on with the shield in the first event and set up and extraordinary performance.
So I weighed 93kg at my heaviest a few years ago... My max Pushups were 110 in 3 mins. Chinups max reps 18 (never really tested 1rm pull ups) I can still do multiple 24kg get ups , my best deadlift was 215kg best squat 200kg..... If this is correct If I can win the pull up section I can eat the world's strongest man?! 😂🤣 Good luck this year champ. 🤜🤛👍
I gassed bad on push-ups too. But at a bodyweight of 170 I got extraordinary on everything else So I feel good about that. I didn't have a kettlebell so I don't know about the turkish getup unfortunately. The pushup test is a little off...humans aren't really known for having super endurance in their pectorals
The exercises saying double your bodyweight etc favour lighter persons but then why have add 50 lbs for chin ups, should a 80lb person add the same weight as you? At 100 kgs I could do, 340 kg deadlift, 360 kg squat, chinups 12 with no weight added, pressups always found easy as did boxing and every time I messed up on jump rope you did 10 pressups. I can do 200 in 3 mins now fast, 150 strict. Getting off the floor with that weight I think I would have struggled. Saying all that your size to strength ratio is amazing,
Mitch i think YOU'RE extraordinary... I don't know about your strength though 😉
Deadlift 1 rep 1xbody weight EMOM for 10 minutes is suuuuuper easy compared to a 2x body weight 1 rep max, which is a huuge jump from that.
It's a rubbish test, or series of tests. I would be lucky to get 50 pushups, but I can DL 155kg which is 1.68 times body weight, 5 bodywt chinups (but never tried a weighted chinup), squat 140kg, 1.52 times bodyweight and can definitely TGU 20kg and could probably manage 24kg and I am a 60 yr old guy. There is either way too much emphasis on the pushups or the other categories are far too easy. Also there is no allowance for age but it will be a big factor in the results and lastly the TGU is a niche exercise which rewards technique and range of movement far more than strength.
Lol what an inconsistent test.... Pushups are almost all muscle coordination and triceps endurance specifically trained from doing that excercise. I was an MMA fighter and could do 3x40 pushups with 1 minute break inbetween but my bench was pretty "weak" at 75kg i could only do 3x80kg bench. years later i can do 6x95kg at 82kg but after 30 push ups i am done....i cant even complete a full set of 40.,.... muscles just start burning like hell after 20 and its not because of lack of strength but lack of triceps endurance
That deadlift scale is weird. I barely even lift (!) but I'd have no trouble doing 1x bodyweight every minute for 10 min, probably a lot longer than that. I'm a fair way off being able to pull 2x bodyweight though...? And then the 'Excellent' band is bang on 2x BW, not a kilo more or less... weird.
Done. 35 is your score.... The moment you lift your hands the event is terminated. US Army (old APFT test)
Not hating ... im a kettle instructor. I know you have to be familiar with tecnique .but for you sir ,minimum the beast (48kg bell) should be a challange! Think you should do some kettlebell sessions with a good instructor 😊...will bring your level way up !!!
I gotten the feeling the last years that men's health is a garbage magazine
Pushups don't mean anything. What the hell are they actually good for??? I am a mountain biker and could barely do 10 pushups for most of my life. Now I got some atlas sandbags and after training with them I guess I can do more pushups more comfortably as well...but my strength DID NOT come from the stupid pushups.
What a bizarre collection of measurements. I'm a pretty average novice strongman in my 40s but I can score "excellent" on the deadlift, squat and chin-up... Probably average on the pushups. But the Turkish getup? When I first started lifting I trained those and very quickly managed a smooth getup with the 45. That seems way too easy compared to the others.
Sorry but chin-up is a fail. This is a "3 rep-max chinup challenge" and you only done one.
Edit: same for the squat: "Using his 3-rep max system".
are pushups a strength exercise? I'd have thought them more of an endurance exercise....
Really surprised how many a guy your size can do! Well done. Boxers are usually good at pushups. When my brother was in the local boxing club in his teens he could do 100 in a minute (obviusly quite quick and not 'perfect' form..but still impressive). It was the source of an argument one day in the Shop Class in HighSchool when one of the other kids (a boxer too) told the teacher my brother could do 100 PUs in 1 minute. The shop teacher and football coach didn't believe it, and pulled my brother out of a different class to come to the Shop Room to prove it LOL My brother dropped and did it. Boxers are fit. They used to knock out several sets of 50 each night and sit-ups, and chin ups too. I trained sometimes too but only those exercises..not sparring
I wish he did at least one push-up. It was "ZERO ZERO ZERO" lol
The problem with these challenges is that people automatically are incentivised to "cheat" and crank up the numbers with zero quality.
I don't know brotein powder. Those push-ups were kinda halfies. Your super strong....but they were lame ass push ups.