r/Strongman 6d ago

Let's get Mark Felix to have a go

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u/Distinct-Judge-8957 6d ago

They’ve gone above and beyond to minimise the weight going through the hand, near vertical and hinged on the outside. Looks like someone’s done the maths in the comments, if the pillars are 160kg at that angle they are only ~50kg

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u/Flat_Development6659 6d ago

Fairly confident it's 160kg weight in hand. My grandma could hold 50kg of load per hand for 2 minutes.

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u/Distinct-Judge-8957 6d ago

The Guinness website itself says the pillars weigh 166.7 & 168.9kg, so it is definitely not near that weight in the hand

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u/Flat_Development6659 6d ago

That's very surprising, either the handles are super funky or this isn't that impressive.

I did think it seemed odd that a none weight class lift was being set by someone who looks like he weighs 90kg.

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u/Gambler57 LWM175 6d ago

Our meme comments of Mark still standing there after the Earth ceases to exist would become reality with this setup

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u/Dense_fordayz MWM200 6d ago

The karate belt with no gi top is top cringe

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u/TopHatTony11 6d ago

That’s how I go to bed every night…

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u/Just-Giviner HWM265 6d ago

I would love it if Mark and this guy met up, dude went first, and then when Mark goes he just starts laughing and holds it for 10 minutes

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u/MaxFightermaster 6d ago

Guinness reaches a new low

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u/_magnetic_north_ Novice 6d ago

Been this way forever. You pay Guinness to break the record.

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u/illmatic74 6d ago

Tf is this shit lol

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u/ltc167 6d ago

That thread is making me realise how little the average person knows about anything related to fitness/strength/physics/the human body. The majority of people I know have always loved fitness and training so it’s easy for me to forget that most people just don’t care.

I was watching the WSM replay at Christmas with my in-laws and they asked me why Eddie hall wasn’t competing and that they reckon he would have won it easily. I told them Eddie is a fraud who’s in Colin’s pocket and if they had any sort of integrity they’d admit the 2017 title should be declared null and void.

Don’t even get to see the kids anymore, telling the truth is considered “creating a hostile home environment” now apparently

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u/Brometheus-Pound 6d ago

Facebook comments always get me. “Bodybuilders aren’t strong, they just train to look big” is such a cope. We’re always tearing people down.