Dead Weight
Muscle & Fitness UK Edition|November 2017

Eddie “the Beast” Hall, the reigning World’s Strongest Man, gives you a lesson in deadlifting

John Plummer
Dead Weight

When it comes to ripping heavy weight off the floor, Eddie Hall, who was just crowned the 2017 World’s Strongest Man, is king. Before he won WSM, Hall shocked the world when he dead lifted 500kg—easily, we should add—in July 2016 at the World Deadlift Championships. It was (and still is) the most weight ever dead lifted. So what’s Hall’s (not-so) secret to pulling massive weight?

“Brute strength is the key to strongman,” says Hall. “If you’ve got that, you’re 90% there.”

This story is from the November 2017 edition of Muscle & Fitness UK Edition.

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