The street to the 2025 World’s Strongest Man simply acquired extra fascinating.
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Mitchell Hooper has begun his prep for the 2025 World’s Strongest Man (WSM). Hooper is a three-time Arnold Strongman Classic champion, the 2023 WSM winner, and ranked second to Tom Stoltman on the 2024 WSM contest. Redemption is on Hooper’s thoughts.
Hooper is coaching at West Coast Iron Gymnasium in Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada. He’s working 18-inch deadlifts, which he teased could also be an occasion within the 2025 WSM contest in Sacramento, CA, on Could 15-18, 2025. He labored up to an enormous 470 kilograms off 15 inches of padding. Try the elevate on the 12:47 mark within the video under.
Hooper wore a weight belt and a wrap round his left leg under the knee whereas utilizing lifting straps. He didn’t have a deadlift swimsuit when he made this try. After bracing himself, he pulled the burden off the pads progressively to a standing place and held a quick pause.
Apart from the padding lowering the peak of the bar, Hooper was happy with the elevate.
More durable than it ought to’ve been; like 500 (kilograms) three inches greater. Add a swimsuit; issues are getting critical.
—Mitchell Hooper
Hooper adopted the elevate with common deadlifts, arm-over-arm pulls, seated rows, lat pulldowns, and the ab wheel, which he credit with serving to relieve decrease again ache. 2025 WSM occasions are anticipated to be revealed earlier than the competition’s kickoff.
When Hooper arrives in Sacramento, he’ll search his second WSM title. Stoltman goals to make historical past because the sixth strongman to win 4 WSM championships. Twenty-three different rivals will stand of their approach.
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