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And for those who don't know, I started Rungne in 2019 and I'm extremely proud of how
far we've come and to celebrate that I want to give you guys a very unique offer. Click
the link in the description to check it out! Larry Wheels is one of the biggest names in
Fitness. He holds powerlifting World Records in three different weight classes and is pound
for pund one of the strongest men in the world and on top of that he has crushing grip strength.
So in theory he should have what it takes to be an amazing climber. So I'm here with Larry Wheels, one of the strongest men in the world. You look forward to climb? Oh yeah. Have
you tried climbing before? Not as an adult. Okay, well I just had Eddie Hall climbing for the
very first time and he did surprisingly well. I did tune into that video and I was impressed.
Yeah you saw that video? For a behemoth over 400 pounds he did good. Yeah I'm shocked. You think
you can you can do better than him? Most definitely. I like the confidence. 100%. But you never climbed before right? Not as an adult. And Eddie had his own shoes, do you have your
own shoes? I don't, so he had his own shoes does that mean he's climbed like regularly?
No it was because of, you know when you pull cars and stuff? Oh yeah. Okay. But you do strongman stuff, you do arm wrestling. You're like a multi-talent. Jack of all trades, yeah exactly. How's your grip strength? It's pretty good. it's pretty good. From powerlifting, I mix grip deadlift. I've done lots of
arm wrestling last three years which has built up my grip strength as well. I've even
seen development in my wrist. But you have no pain in your elbows? Oh I have pain. You do have
pain okay. These look massive. So my toes should be.. Toes should be touching, but it shouldn't be
too uncomfortable. Socks or no socks? You could have socks in rental shoes. Okay. Yeah
all right ready for action. Feels weird walking in these. So let's start on this green V0. Okay so this is the baby wall? You can call it the baby wall yeah. So the main thing is that you should keep your feet like this, not like that. Okay. Because when you have your toe on you
can pivot around like this. And also keep your body close to the wall. Two hands here and and end with
two hands at the top. Only green? Only green holds. So I don't touch any.. No but when you have two hands on
the last hold you can down climb on everything you want so you don't have to jump, because I guess
for you it's kind of uncomfortable to jump down? Oh yeah if I jump down something's gonna
break. Something's gonna break? Probably yes. Yeah and also don't put your feet too high, just
do small steps. Okay yeah come on nice oh that looks very easy. Yeah. Well that looked like a baby
climb for you. It was very easy yeah. You're definitely going to get a V3, oh
you're definitely gonna get a V3 I'm feeling good about that already. So what is the the records you have? So it's in powerlifting and it's in the
raw division. So that mean nothing but belt and sleeves, no wraps or suit. And that is is it in your weight class or any weight class? So it's in three different ones. In the 110 kilogram weight class, 140 kilogram and 125 kilograms. What's your body weight
right now? Now I'm at in kilograms like about 114. Wow, okay that's not that much. You look a lot bigger. It's the bicep and the chest bro. All right here. What happened to your biceps
though? Atlas Stones, strong man. Okay yeah. So that's one of the reasons why I'm not pursuing
strongman, because there's a learning curve and the likelihood of me getting more permanent
injuries is very high. Yeah. So all right do you want to do another V0, or just we go straight to V1? So a V1 is not the Eddie level right? No, I think he was around V2,
maybe V2-V3. It's hard to say though because that gym wasn't graded. Okay yeah so let's let's go
for it. Yeah because I want to conserve some power. So this pink one here that's a V1. That looks tricky. And it's important to trust the feet, you know put a lot of weight
on them always stand on your feet, don't put the feet too high because you're just going to
push yourself out from the wall. There's a lot of underclings on this and that's all biceps.
Okay. So that's perfect for you. Bicep and grip. And then you match to two hands on the
top hold. I love how effortless you make it look. If there is ever a roll with like an old Spider-Man
it's definitely gonna be you. Like an older Spider-Man. You start two hands there and then right and then left
here. You know what, I am going to need a bigger size shoe. You are? You know what it is, it's my toenail.
I will need one size bigger hopefully you have it. All right you anticipated it already. I was prepared.
Perfect, thank you man. So does that feel better? Slightly better, yeah for sure. All right V1 here we go! V1. My left hand here? Yeah. Right hand up there,
move your feet up a little bit. What's that? Here? Yeah and then you go under cling, yeah
under. Come on! Get your feet up. You can get your foot all the way up there
that's good. Yeah and then the next hold is the same kind of hold. It's good, yeah perfect
and then move your feet up a little bit. And then on the left side of that it's good
on the top hold. Left side? Yeah there you go, two hands on that and then.. easy nice! Okay so
that felt a little bit harder right? Oh yeah. That was good though. I mean so far so
good. Not too bad yeah. All right is that V1 okay. That's a V1 yeah. So
whenever you have underclings you want to be pretty high with your feet, because this is
bad like when I'm here it's bad, but when I'm here it's good. Okay. And also look for the chalk. You see where people have used it before. That's smart yeah. And you see these have no
chalk, that's because they're footholds. So I wouldn't say it was easy. It was mildly challenging, like a five out of ten It's all about finding a good V2 for you as
well. Like finding something that you can use your strengths at you know. I think small holds don't favour you. You want something big that you can put a lot of meat on. How is this one
looking? This looks different. Planning it from the ground is like a big part of it. You
just have to really know where you want to go, so when you get on the wall you can just execute,
so you don't have to spend too much time on the wall. And I can use the gray to down climb? This one is big. Yeah it's tall. Yeah it's very tall. What are you thinking? Is it not such a good idea?
You start here and here. Okay. And you take this. The feet are kind of bad. This one is not so good, so maybe.. Yeah maybe we find another one, because these are not very good. Challenging? Yeah so they're slopy. You know in climbing there's in-cut holds that means they go down like this and then
there's negative holds, or slopers. These are a little bit slopy, so they don't
really have an edge to them. I really see how this is challenging. This is the very first one
you grab on like whoa this is not comfortable at all. Yeah like that yeah nice match that so you
get another hand in, make room for it yeah so if you just plan ahead you would put it here
instead so it'd be easy to get the second one in. Come, that looks better! The feet are slipping. Yeah it's the rental shoes. Come on Larry come on, next one. Yeah that was very good! See how those holds are pretty. Yeah. If you only got the next part there I think you'd be good. I think I would have been okay yeah. It's like thrusting the hands as well because it's not as much of a comfortable grip. Right. Maybe I could try something while you rest? Because I haven't been to this gym.. well I've been here once before, but that was like a year ago. So how are your forearms feeling though, do you feel pumped? Not, I think if anything like the stamina, it's probably depleting but yeah like my fingers feel a bit
taxed. Okay yeah. All right I'll try this blue one. So how challenging is the blue one? That's
a V7. Oh wow yeah so it's quite a bit harder. My God. Oh wow. What do you do here though? Oh my god wow. That's Madness, oh my God. Oh just jumps down from the top. Now that I was able
to try it myself to put into perspective how impressive you are. I didn't know how hard it
was until I actually got on the wall. That's only a V2 and you just did V7 like I can't imagine ever
doing that, no way. I think if you climb a lot you would be able to. Within time maybe. But that jump, you
just jumped from one to the other. That's a pretty big jump yeah. And I mean there's no way
you can comfortably grab that thing over there. It's really impressive. Well it's like when
you've done something your whole life you know. Right right. It's like your warm-up lift, I
wouldn't even be able to roll the weight you know we're specialized in different things. That's what I find so beautiful about what we do though. And then
like trying to cross over. I gotta try one more time at this V2. Are you sure you want
to keep trying that? All right we can try something else. Yeah we could try something else. You
could try this but I think this V4. Like you can try it afterwards but that would
be like way above uh.. what Eddie did. Not that it's a competition.
Bro it's already a competition. You could try the purple one first. There you go. Cross. Nice. Damn it. So the the leg is acting as like a counterweight
it's making me fall. So where can I put the other leg, can I just put it on the wall? You could always put it here. So you want
to kind of roll over your shoulders. You're kind of like just pulling. But if you always
switch and then instead of actually pulling with that you can just roll the shoulder. You
see then I don't even use my arm at all. Okay kind of get that. Start from here right? yeah
and the next one and then just yeah match feet and then just roll there you go come on now it goes
left hand to the next one left ten oh left hand I'll figure it out again don't
exhaust yourselves though you uh you've tried a lot in a short amount of
time yeah yeah you think so yeah you're going fast okay I'll give one more time then I'll
rest properly yeah good uh but when you're on the wall it's important not to use too much time
you want to be as efficient as possible you know because every second you're on the wall you're
spending power that's the thing so I should know exactly what I'm doing yeah from the ground and
then when you get on the wall just execute okay come on there you go yeah that's very good
come on nice get your feet up left foot up too oh that's good now guys come on come on there
come on left hand again come on left hand yeah get your left foot up left foot up yeah oh come
on left turn out to the here I'll probably even further out left here yeah then cross over come
on come on oh come on come on come on you got it nice oh that was so close good job just take
it take a break and you'll do it easily yeah yeah that was good but moving quickly helps a lot
yeah yeah yeah I gotta say though that the V2s in here are pretty hard like this is uh some gyms
have hard grade some gyms have the East grades but this is definitely a hard V2 this is like a
proper plant so uh yeah you can see that you have so much strength it's just about like not using
the strength kind of yeah considering the string till I get to the top yeah yeah not wasting it
at the bottom right yeah but the pace you had now was so much better you saw that you were just
not hesitating you're just going yeah yeah yeah foreign do you feel like you get a good workout
out of them for sure good especially my fingers yeah yeah which is why I think it'd be fantastic
arm wrestling yeah you think for sure but every time I've tried armresting my arms have hurt
so much I mean that's normal yeah but you still probably kick ass until they do I don't know man
when I see your arms compared to mine well like you're pretty jacked you're only 170 160. uh no
I'm 155.50 pounds so yeah so guys you know weight class yeah I think you'll give them a really hard
okay so I'll be in my weight class exactly yeah you want to go against guys as big as me I'm super
heavyweight so yeah you'd be against guys in your weight class okay well done and you do really
well okay maybe yeah yeah dude seriously before you leave back to Norway yeah I will do it on
the last day I'm here oh yeah yeah we'll save the best for last yeah it was like the dessert
of this whole collab yeah I can't Pace myself you know so when I go when I try arm wrestling I just
go Max yeah that's that's the issue like like you said here I'm going too quickly probably right
yeah yeah so I think if you have a competitive mind that's how you work and you just try
your hardest always yeah you put Eddie in the back of my mind yeah I only had V2 did V3
yeah which I'm realizing is so important here is moving efficiently you keep saying Planet
yeah because every second you spend you was like in the deadlift yeah I don't want to spend
time down here thinking about that I just wanna breathe at the top and pull straight away right
so I'm fatiguing my lower back every time I spent hunched over yeah so how much do you deadlift my
best is um 422 for three wow and that's crazy that was uh in the summer that I just passed yeah and
you also bench press a lot right yeah I've done um 307 kg for one 307 yeah 307 kilograms yeah that
was my best friend goodness yeah a bad bike Double D's at that time yeah yeah my chest was enormous
it's crazy how strong you are because you're not that heavy I mean you're not like half door heavy
you know right yeah and but you're you're almost I mean you're as strong pretty much power per
pound yeah yeah you're stronger right yeah yeah but they're overall strong interest is just much
bigger right yeah and um yeah those guys went to another extreme for sure yeah yeah that must
be really hard on the body right yeah always with a Thor for two months in Iceland seeing
how much she was eating every day yeah well it's something to behold yeah it was just jaw
dropping how much he was eating every day you know I didn't want to talk about half soil with
Eddie because I know they have some beef but is that real beef or is it it's real beef I would
say they definitely eat each other yeah oh yeah yeah I tend to hate each other yeah I mean just
from what I've gathered talking to both of them yeah I mean they don't even want to be in the same
room with each other it seems like so oh wow huh crazy I mean most people after boxing
match they kind of become friends again but that didn't happen I guess it was
more likely to happen is a rematch get the next one come on and then
go again or you can cross get your feet up yep take your feet up here yeah
either Cross or do you match the left hand oh is it too hard that move I just wasted
too much energy slipping there but man it looks so easy now you remember how you were
struggling with this move yeah now you do it so easy you know so it's just for the
body to learn how to move on the wall yeah for sure you're right if you like if you
rested a day and came back like uh two days from now you'd do everything so easily
because it's just like yeah I'd like to think so muscle memory and stuff I'll give you
every second like I slipped twice on that yeah yeah yeah that's you have to make sure you stay
on the wall that's uh gonna cost a lot of power a lot because I'm like oh yeah moving I'm moving
I got this oh [ __ ] I don't got this yeah um let's see something else
these black ones how do you like to see you go on one of
these black ones this one yeah uh that's wild ah it's like his hands are really
even on there just these fingertips wow that's impressive I wish you could see I hope you can see how little
contact your hand has just looks like just your fingertips really impressive and so what would
the most challenging would it be V8 in here now probably something like that yeah V8 so there's a
v9 over there I think the white one you could try that too actually yeah definitely conquer it the
wall conquer the wall yeah yeah conquer the wall that's the hardest one in here it looks like so
would V be like intermediate what would v stand for because there's B over there right that's a
good question I should know this but in Europe we don't we don't have the vehicle it's that's in
in the US okay but the hardest bowler in the world is v17 oh that's the hardest humanly possible
right now at least and that's in a gym no that's outside the holes are so small it's so steep that
usually looks like a blank well you know oh my God but even for me it looks like a blank wall
I don't understand how people can climb it I need to see that yeah yeah I need to see
that have you ever tried the captain's a crush yeah I'm excited I'm bad at those that's shocking
yeah because it's about squeezing and I have small hands too I think that's also a disadvantage I
mean compared to the really big guys and compared to like you I have small hands so what's your
hand size slack though um it's okay we could uh we could try something that's more on the legs
if you want on the legs because you have the strong legs so the less steep it is the more on
the legs usually okay you find something that's more vertical or even slabby should I try the v9
first though yeah most definitely RS these are small holes feel this one whole that's that's like
grabbing a flat wall like you're just trying to grab onto this there's no difference you can feel
this come over here bro look how I can't even get my fingertips look that's my fingertip right there
see that flesh that's like half of a fingertip oh that's ridiculous it's pretty
hard I gotta say I don't know sandbag enough yeah v9 is hard geez oh ah man oh my God I was going all the way up there wow sheesh wow those ridges are incredibly thin they're small
not even a fingertip they're hanging from a ceiling yeah that's well that's nice yes I'd love
to conquer at least one V2 yep that would be good or maybe there's like a V3 or before that there's
a V2 oh it's all on the biceps you start like this wow and then you could even skip
that just go straight to this and you have big footholds here as well what was
that what do you just do it yeah you don't have to do it that way oh wow you're not kidding two
feet on this like drains you before you have to go like blowing your load and then okay you
gotta climb yeah just jump the other foot on yep yeah yeah you'll do that come on nice
yeah next one oh yeah yeah you could also skip to like uh you could go straight with the
left as well come on there yes and then right turn and then move your feet up there you go
oh she just slipped with your feet yeah if you get that you you're gonna do it I'm sure
for sure yeah just slipping like a mother yeah come on yeah there you go come on yeah
get your feet up on the big one here oh yeah feet up next one is good come on
there you go watch this next one yeah next one straight up come on you got
it match move your right foot over here yeah smash that one next one is super good come on
yes nice next one get the next one yes there you go just match it two hands yeah and then you can
dance whites yes all right yeah nice your first V2 yeah ah it's all about finding something that
suits you man yeah yeah good job that was good yeah it's addicting I don't think it was an easy
V2 either like the beginning was pretty hard I'll say it was not easy too yeah we have strong
biceps that help you on this for sure I think I need your time more vertical yeah I don't feel
my weight as much uh-huh over there that Wall's like right hanging from a ceiling yeah yeah well
what do you think do you want to try harder or do you want to uh I have enough juice in me for one
more one more okay I got one more not me let's uh let's try a V3 then okay B3 yeah we have to
step it up right yeah I mean the Orange is only two so if you said it feels like it's addictive
it is yeah so like conquering it making progress is addicting yeah yeah I barely got the V2 oh I
didn't get the V2 over there so we're getting it here it was like oh yeah yeah amazing progress
yeah yeah and that's addicting yeah I mean it would look really impressive on the wall you're
so strong just a little bit of technique and you would I think you'd be five like yeah today
yeah and now today I have the stamina Maybe yeah but if you're just getting this week in like
two days a week or something for uh in a few weeks I think you'll do V5 it's pretty good to know
yeah but also with your mindset and everything I mean you're competitive you know how to train
you know how to work towards the goal and stuff that really helps and personally competitiveness
is what pushes me yeah I can't push myself without doing like some competitiveness right yeah in
the mix but it's easy because you have a grade like there's a V5 that's your competitor account
that's right yeah yes and you can go to your own pace yeah yeah versus there being someone like
right here like competing with me like a neck yeah but you would prefer that though having
a person a person will push me even further yeah for sure yeah 100 I feel the atmosphere
yeah how do you think Brian Shaw would be at uh because he's well he's huge but yeah he does a
lot of great stuff he'd be okay it's hard to say because Eddie did so good yeah so and Eddie
isn't that much lighter yeah than Brian and Brian has this really long arms so right and
Long Legs that'll be funny to see him climb actually yeah I'd love to see that I'd pay to
see them it's like that a pay-per-views yeah split it three ways uh yeah what do you think about this one uh
Larry oh this is like the ceiling again bro yeah but look at this ah I mean compared to
every everything else in here it seems pretty comfortable okay I'm gonna eat my own words very
shortly I think from here feet up there right yeah come on there nice come on yeah come on
next one yeah come on yeah nice next one keep going just a few more holes come on
next one is huge next one is huge just go now I'll get you you can get your right
foot out right the big one the huge one you see the huge one all right yeah you could
get your foot up okay if you want come on yes nice match that one come on you're almost
there two more holes come on like come on next one and then the last one smash that
there you go nice that was a flash I mean this is a lot steeper than it looks
like people it looks deep because people are probably gonna comment that the
holes are so big but it's really steep uh so that was good and it's a long
bowler too like it's a lot of moves all right so how was it a lot of fun yeah you
think you're gonna come back to Climbing Gym ever I definitely might yeah I wanna so
come on conquer I want to go to v9 yeah I think that I would go cliff climbing yeah
but this I've been comfortable here yeah yeah well thank you for joining me yeah that
was awesome thank you for having me yeah all right finally me oh yeah uh you guys
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