Simply In-Human!!!
[quote]Kruiser wrote:
Amazing. The ease with which he pulled that up is insane. And to think, I WAS proud of my 415lb DL PR yesterday.
Maybe I need to snort some chalk?[/quote]
You? Heck, I impressed myself somewhat by pulling my little 315# twice. My training partner pulls 720# just about every week… 
[quote]CU AeroStallion wrote:
did anyone notice how damn high this big guy jumped after his lift? That was just as impressive of him picking up nearly half a ton! WOW[/quote]
I was thinking the same thing when I saw it!
Sick. Absolutely sick.
His warm-up lift is with around the same weight that he could not get up to his knees at the IPF Worlds in Denmark 2003.
He often lifts a lot more in Iceland than he does when competing internationally.
Maybe we’ll see something else this year’s Worlds in Miami…
On a powerlifting forum, Benedikt Magn?sson was asked about his training in deadlift, here his answer:
"I sure don?t want to disapoint you ChubbyPenguin, but I don?t have no special workout plan.
I just try to weightlift 3 to 5 days per week. And I try not to stay on the same routine for to long. But for a while I have just been looking at what the best squatter in the world does 16 weeks before competition, and the same for the best ipf benchpresser Brian Siders. And because I beleve I am the best deadlifter I just make my own deadlift routine now.
I can tell you that Ronnie coleman inspired my last change in deadlift routines. I started to think… now if ronnie coleman can deadlift 360 as a bodybuilder maybe I could stand a better change with better muscles on my back. So I moved to denmark for 3 months last year to train with bodybuilders (because there so few good bodybuilders in iceland).
So offseason I built up a bigger back, and after that I started training with 80% of my top weight in deadlift for 2-3 reps 8 sets. And after that I go to a platform 75% weight 2-3 reps 5 sets. And after that I take 50% weight for 6-12 reps 2 sets to finish off and get a good amount of blood in my back muchles because it decreases your recovery time.
But remember. Like my friend and training partner Stef?n says in english. You can make everything work ok. But nothing works forever. So keep positive, keep your mind open for new things. And always be adaptive to evolve. I hope you can make any this information useful in your training.
Be strong. "
I want to know what Louie Simmons think about this. LOL
Benedikt Magn?sson.
[quote]S8 wrote:
Yes, he is related to Magnus Ver Magnusson.
He has said that this will be his beginning weight in Finnland next month, where Andy Bolton will also be competing. If he can do this again there then he will try 440kg. His goal has always been to deadlift 1000 lbs.(455kg)
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Things might not be looking too good for Andy Bolton. Apparently, he has an abscess in his shoulder!
I’ve herad this on the grapevine (I’m live in the same city as him in England).
No, that is incorrect. Benedikt Magnusson and Magnus Ver Magnusson are unrelated. However, Benedikt does have a brother whose name is also Magnus Magnusson, who is also a great powerlifter and strongman, but not quite as famous as MVM.
We Icelanders use patronyms mostly, not family names, so Magnusson is not a family name. It just means that their fathers’ names were Magnus. So is mine and I’m an unrelated Magnus’ son as well.
Magnusson just pulled a world record 970lb deadlift at the WPO Finland.
He took a token squat and bench press, though. Andy Bolton deadlifted 940 and totalled over 2700 lbs! That’s only the second time anyone’s totalled over 2700lbs (gary frank posted 2730 or so).
Results are here: FinnishPower.net – Power Training Center
everytime I see that it blows me away with how easy he does it