*Challengers of all nationalities are welcome.
*The challenge must be completed in Spartan Fitness Bahrain
*The first who completes the challenge with Supervision in Spartan Fitness Will get 100,000 USD, the challenge is open until the first person completes it!
*You must register beforehand to attempt the squat challenge and sign the liability-waiver.
*ā All challenges will be video recorded by spartan fitness.
*A good squat is a squat where knee joint is 90 degrees or lower.
If you fail to reach proper depth in the squat (minimum 90 degrees angle) the repetition will not count & the referee will notify you to repeat.
*If you Fail at any point and you need assistance to complete a squat, you will be disqualified.
*You must lift the bar before the rest period finishes. If you fail to lift the bar before the rest period finishes, you will be disqualified.
*Consuming any beverage during the rest period is allowed.
*Upon completion of the squat challenge, The jury will confirm the final results upon review of the video recording.
Equipment allowed:
*Belt
*Bucket to puke
A Squat suit, knee pads, and knee wraps are not allowed.
His Highness Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa has completed the challenge
I didnāt watch the video. How can you tell itās fake?
If it is realā¦ and a high level CrossFit might have something like thisā¦ consider that perhaps you are dealing with an Iron Shiek. This is particularly true if Nikolai Volkoff appears in the video, the phrase ācamel clutchā is used, or if at any time any video participant utters the words āShiek number one! Russia number one! USA? Pah! Phooey!ā
You and I are just unaccustomed to the craftsmanship accessible to royalty. His highness uses the most rigid barbell on the planet, constructed of experimental alloys that perform to his majestyās heavy squatting preferences.
The barbell not flexing is part of it for sure, but you also know from unracking a 400+lb squat that itās going to āsinkā into your body when you do that. Even with a barpad.
Which, also: the barpad will compress in those circumstances.
It seems like having that much weight with a bar pad would be somewhat dangerous on itās own. I wouldnāt know, I never tried it.
I once worked up to a heavy single of 220kg with a Texas Squat Bar and it felt like it was ready to roll off my back. The thick bar made more sense when I realized it was made for monsters in squat suits. I canāt imagine how the surface area of a bar pad would change a heavy squat.
I got to use a Texas Squat bar in a strongman competition where we were squatting with tires to tap a platform, and now that you mention it I saw a LOT of folks lose the bar and zero the event. Makes sense. For me, with my mutant low bar set-up, I more noticed how the diamond sharp knurling tore into my skin through my competition shirt, haha.
I didnāt come that close to losing it but Iām low bar as well. The thicker bar just didnāt settle into the same groove in my traps that my Goldilocks Texas Power Bar does. It felt way off.
And yeah, probably the sharpest knurling Iāve ever felt on my back too. I never used that bar again after that. That big diameter squatting is for the powerlifters and royalty.
I wonder if the Sheik even knows whatās going on.
His trainers probably pile on fake weights and tell him heās doing great. Then he feels good about himself, like heās awesome at the gym. And the trainers get to live in the palace.
Heās got an impressive website dedicated to himself.
āPain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.ā
Sh. Nasser Bin Hamad Al-Khalifa
What kind of middle eastern royalty would he be without some torture allegations on his wikipedia page? He probably just made his prisoners do high rep squats.
Look at how the trainers load the plates, they wouldnāt move them that way if the weight was 20 kilos
Also HH does look like a pretty fit guy but not at all built like someone who can squat with 220 kilos for reps
Iām wondering if anybody can do this without dying lol
Just the 2x10 with 220 kilos with a short rest probably eliminates all but a few strongmen, powerlifters or exceptionally strong bodybuilders, but thatās not even considering all the lighter, high rep sets leading up to it with minimal rest which would probably burn them out.
Itās part of the reason I posted that Kroc video: to put things into perspective. Hereās a few more top performances to realize just how nutty it would be for anyone to accomplish this
