I think Eddie Hall nailed it on the ad when he said it's the most Alpha lift you can do because it is
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Preston's great squatting's great but there's nothing better than putting
that weight off the floor, everyone wants a massive deadlift tonight
it's one of them lifts that sort of take over everything it's it is
definitely a true test of all over body strength
because it's such a serious lift things can go wrong in the blink of an eye
[Music] okay
I'm my first big deadlift would have been in a different gym when
I was sort of I was still in the Army at this point and I think I pulled
it would have been my first 300s yeah I know I know that is a huge lift you don't see it
often in the gym but that's my first big lift I got super pumped up all day I was thinking
about it it was almost like that point it was like I'm actually quite good at this sport
just beginning of it I could see it envisioned what I wanted and after I did if I threw it I
thought yeah I'm going to fully commit doing I think it was actually the same year I retired from
rugby and I called it the day called the day with the Army yeah things have moved on a bit from now
the Cardiff deadlift show last year was amazing ¡um! and I worked really hard the
previous year it was a last minute call up every go waste no time well locking but no out control locking out
he did it well that is a Welsh record the Gavin Bilton in four, two, five kilos
breaking my own records and setting in front of
a home credit it was it was amazing it meant a lot to me
Will be a Welsh record if he manages it by just half a kilo but quite something where'd you put it come on Gav
that's how you do it the Welsh bull himself in Wales setting a Welsh record and the bull has
brought if I want to see it I'll see it yeah I have the strongest back in Wales that's quite
a cool thing and you know I can't think of the strongest back in the world I'm nowhere
near that level yet but having the strongest and biggest dead if ever to be pulled in Wales
any sport with powerlifting and become you know in the strongman level that means a lot
it's quite a big thing to have it's quite a statement to hold but yeah I'll say it I do
¡um! and obviously the goals have changed again this year
¡um! and the numbers are going to increase and I think that will put it outside for a long time
so my goals for this year 2023
at the Cardiff deadlift show is to join that world famous club the thousand pounds Club
that's the paparazzi that has made the always after photos
last year I trained hard for it just didn't happen but I'm a big believer it will happen at the light
time you've always trained for that occasion and you think it's always going to be then
but I have a belief that they literally will happen when they're supposed to happen it was
never meant to happen last year it's going to happen this year that's when training that's why
I approach it I know I've got it in me I know I can do it it's just gone past
the point of belief I train hard enough and old I'm a lot smarter than I was last year
so doing things I should have been doing like in training sort of dodging sessions
and going for the heavy numbers instead and that doesn't help at all
it is, it's not as easy as the things because I think, I think my first year I think four or
five people pulled it and just made it as if it could just happen at the top of that
that is incredible Novikov joins the 1000 Club
¡00hh! My goodness me well he's done it [Music] he forgot he was strapped to the bar surely not just a little
further what is in the air tonight 453 and a half's a magical number well why not, here we go
easy for Adam Bishop look at that from Pavlo it's all the following your name was like ¡oh!
so many people are gonna pull this deadlift and I think only two or three pulled it that night
because it just gets Lost in Translation when the opener is 400 kilos and the next
jump is 25 on top of that then it's to a thousand pounds there's nothing in between
the shows are never like training you have the perfect rest the perfect week you have
everything go your way and if people skip weights in front of you then you're not
going for the highway then you have to go so you your rest is cut short
¡um! but that's the challenge of competing and that's when you pull the numbers you yeah
there's there's no doubt you pull them under different circumstances and a little bit more
pressure so the Cardiff this year that number will get absolutely smashed to bits [Music]
when you believe it and you accept it you become it
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and that's what I have I believe I am accepted I am one of the best in the world
so what do I have that I didn't have last year it sounds quite sort of counterproductive
or why are we I like to live my life with being super positive and trying to see the the best and
everything even a shitty outcome or a shitty situation is I have, I have a belief that I am
now one of the strongest men on the planet I think the performances last year yes I know I didn't win
the Wales and I didn't win certain shows but ¡um! I'm getting better and better every year ¡come on!
it's quite hard for me I still do to this day maybe it's from getting told a little [ __ ]
at rugby by so many other people when I actually wasn't but now I'm actually good at a sport it's
quite hard for me to accept that I am good at this Sport and I think if you accept it then you become
it and then you can become who you want to be within the sport you look at the top guys Tom,
Mitchell Hooper, big Z, Brian Shaw, Eddie Hall, Thor the guys said let's go on like go on they all
believe and and they're fully committed that they are one of the best on the planet and sometimes
I always say ¡oh! the guy's at the top level but I am sort of setting myself away from them but
I am one of the guys at the top level ¡um! I've proved it on many occasions and the way I train
¡um! I'm kept very humble in this gym as well which I think you need but acceptance that you are one
of the best and helps you become a better athlete and that's what I have I didn't have last year
I believe I'm one of the strongest on this planet ¡oh! I know I'm one of the strongest on
this planet now [Applause] you, you train for a marathon to run a Sprint if that makes sense you
know what I mean you just train them to get you you're sprinting like two 300 meters if
you want to just for to smash 100 meters so ¿what you need? you need the condition of the
body to be able to pull these huge numbers I think that sounds almost silly but if you know
the sport and understand it then lifting singles all the time heavy things does not get you strong
it's the repetition so this is what me and my coach have come up with Dale he is incredibly
¡um! smart and proficient in where he goes around things is, is the, is the light the weights I say
light is still heavy but it's the repetition to overload their muscles and overload the system
into just lifting that one big pot so my plan for that show yes it is is an incredibly taxing event
the first event max deadlift usually that would be the session over in a gym you come in you pull
a heavy deadlift and then not be it a couple of bit of accessories and you you're good to
go and it's you going home but it comes to one of these professional shows and it's five events
so my plan is to pull a thousand pounds if I go more I got more but I'm gonna throw a thousand
pounds ¡uh! focus on the rest of the show and I'm gonna, I'm gonna win I mean I came fifth
last year which is great in front of Home crowd ¡um! I know I got the goods to win I just need
sometimes with the game of rugby you need like the rubber the green as they say these
things just to go your way and you train it to be perfect no injuries leading to it
so my plan is to pull a thousand pounds and then win in front of my home crowd
so can anyone pull the 505 you can never say no because Eddie was doubted when he
said about the 500. and he absolutely smashed it so you can never say no
[Applause] way
500 kilograms is off the floor, 500 kilograms has been done, 500 kilograms is no longer a myth 500
Kilograms was crushed in leaves only two people in the history have ever pulled them sort of numbers
I've a pick up name my few
I would say Pavlo, Bishop, Hixie and Makarov they will be my four they'll be my pick yes there's
other athletes out there but ¡um! Bishop is so proficient Hixie has got this brute strength power
Makarov is the same just insanely strong and then why the Pavlo is he's formerly known because
it's too far noses one wide and one not so wide ¡um! like I said Untold strength with him at the
moment ¡um! in a nice way possible he's a freak the people like that are laughing like are one
in a million they come around you do not see them very often yes these other strong athletes but
¡um! yeah I'm involved in a sport and I still don't I don't understand how someone can be that
strong and make things look so easy and lucky with a few injuries so if he has a
clean run into this show at the end of this year ¡um! he's definitely a candidate to do it
if ¡uh! he pulled a thousand pounds made a lot of ridiculously easy you actually laughed at the top
of the lift which was quite worrying to see and then I think he ¡um! actually won the whole show
so yeah what an athlete, ¡oh! I do apologize ¡um! at the topics in my mind his ¡uh! Jamal Browner ¡um! his
numbers on social media are insane I think he's done 500 plus Sumo got a lot of stick for it but
I think there's a lot of sticks from people who don't know what they're talking about because you
have to appreciate what that man actually moved ¡um! it will be conventional which is going to change
things up for him but he's a professional athlete and he will change what he has to do I appreciate
the weight getting shifted yes they do use them I think Kabuki bars ¡uh! so are you just taking
the slack at the bar maybe I'm giving you [ __ ] I'm not really ¡um! don't post remote conventional
is going to move forward I don't know what I was on about, I think he was going to be an absolute
Menace at that show and it doesn't weigh much and everything he does is raw I mean yeah don't miss
the man injury but if that doesn't if that does not get injured he is a contender for it
if you want to see me for a thousand pounds make sure you join us on the 2nd September
in Cardiff at the strongman open featuring The Deadlift World Championships