Old Man Weightlifter Prank

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One of life’s most valuable lessons is, “never take your elders for granted.” They have too much wisdom to pass down, and thanks to the past decades’ improvements in health and well-being, many of them can still put an old-fashioned beat-down on you too.

To drive this point home to ludicrous degrees, we tapped…a young guy, professionally made up to look like an 80-year-old, to freak the hell out of the bodybuilders at Muscle Beach — the legendary open-air gym in Venice, CA where Schwarzenegger used to train.

Our double age-ent: Kenneth Leverich, a former Junior Olympic weightlifter and top SoCal Crossfit competitor who does even lift, bro — 535lbs dead, precisely. We tapped Hollywood special effects guru Dan Gilbert to subject Leverich to 4 hours of prosthetics and make up. Then we made him wear a cardigan.

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Baby Does Perfect Snatch

Storm Holmberg, son of 2010 Crossfit Games champion Graham Holmberg, demonstrates perfect Olympic weightlifting technique at just 20 months old.

Storm Holmberg (son of 2010 Crossfit games champ) at 20 months old hitting a perfect Olympic lift, snatch.

Baby Does Perfect Snatch

 

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The 20,000 Calorie Strongman Diet

Robert Oberst, one of America’s leading professional strong men and holder of the American record in the Log Lift, consumes between 15,000 to 20,000 calories a day to power himself through hours of punishing training.

When you’re a world record holding professional strongman, everything you do it big. Your workouts are big, your clothes are big, and your diet is gigantic! The foodies of Munchies followed professional strongman Robert Oberst around for a day to see what exactly he does, and how he fuels his huge body. Hint: consuming 20,000 calories a day gets very expensive.

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The 20,000 Calorie Strongman Diet

 

Iceland Giants

Iceland Giants

 
This amazing VICE documentary takes a look at why Iceland breeds so many strongmen.
 

Despite its tiny population, Iceland has a reputation in the World’s Strongest Man competition that stands higher than perhaps any other country’s. This small, black rock in the middle of the ocean has produced a lineage of strongmen dating back to the Vikings.

VICE went out there to investigate why this tiny island produces such strong people. Hanging out at Jakabol, a gym run by ex-champion Magnus Ver Magnusson, we met a whole host of Icelandic strongmen, which includes Hafthor “Thor” Bjornsson, the 6’9″ star of Game of Thrones.

 

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