So this is definitely the biggest man I have ever
climbed with and I don't mean only in size. Eddie Hall is the first person in the World to deadlift
500 kilos, he won the World's Strongest Man in 2017 and is considered one of the strongest men
to have ever walked this planet. There is a lot of grip strength in strongman and on top
of that Eddie has recently lost weight after switching his Focus to bodybuilding. This guy
used to carry rocks for a living but will he be able to climb them? Well, we're about to
find out. Alright so I'm here with Eddie Hall the World's Strongest Man and probably the
biggest star I've had on my channel so far. That's a very nice compliment thank you. We met
actually in what was it? 2013 or something? Yeah I think 2012, 2013 yeah a German TV show. Yeah and
since then you've become the World's Strongest Man. Yes. But now you're retired now you're doing
bodybuilding that's your goal? Yeah bodybuilding and climbing. Bodybuilding climbing? Yeah we'll
see. And you have climbing shoes? I do. So as part of being a World's Strongest Man you have to
pull trucks and to get the grip on the floor we used to wear climbing shoes. Oh really? I've got
a custom-made pair. Does that make a big difference? Oh huge! Yeah massive yeah. I don't
have custom shoes, yeah there you go you're not professional like me mate. The goal today is for you to
climb as hard as possible, right? Yeah. Are you down to... oh I want to be like that guy over
there. See him? See him over there? He's climbing yellow, that's pretty hard. That's literally going to be me in about an hours time. There's a gray in the corner here. Hang on, but you're saying grey is the easiest but that's an inclined wall. Well, you see it's like a dihedral
so you can use both sides. Okay. And you kind of put the weight off. If you look at these holds. That's what you like right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you see this has a metal ring and this has a metal ring?
You start here and then as you're established you can start. And here you try to use both sides,
you see you can almost put the weight off. You don't have to use your hands at all. I do think
though that I downsize my climbing shoes a little bit more than you do. As in that you get
your toes all.. whoa! You see that? It's like two sizes too small. Yeah. Why'd you do that? Just
so you can get your feet in nits and crannies? Yeah my big toe is like in this angle, so it's
gripping the holds. There's my big toe there, so I've got a little bit of wriggle room. But
that's fine I mean you're going for comfort. Yeah in the beginning it doesn't
really matter. Do you put any chalk on your shoes? No the rubber should be without
chalk, it's more.. I was testing you, I knew the answer, I was just testing you. I was also going to
ask you about the ring but it's a tattoo. Yeah I don't wear rings, because of lifting. Yeah. This is the first climb ever? First climb ever. Ever since you climbed trees as a kid? Yeah probably about 10, 12 when I start climbing trees. Yeah. Last time
I climbed a tree I fell and broke my arm. So let's just touch wood. You're definitely
the strongest person to climb this wall, hopefully you won't rip any holds off the
wall. Yeah it's a good point. There you go hip as close to the wall as
possible always. Come on, nice! Good. Awesome. Yep? Yep. Uh how do I get down? Climb down, or you jump down, whatever you prefer. I was gonna say I can catch you, but I can't catch you. You know for a
170 kilo guy that's high. So how did that feel? I mean it looked good. Yeah. I could feel things creaking and cracking in my
shoulders. So you know like the typical beginner tips is uh, hips close
to the wall and also use your legs, because your legs are stronger than your arms. For beginners that's true, but for more advanced climbers that's not
true. I don't use my legs at all. You don't? I want my legs to be as light as possible. You can climb that with just hands? Yeah, yeah. Oh my God. I mean this is very extreme but if
you want to be the the best climber in the world you're probably best chopping your legs off?
There's actually a guy or I don't know if the story is true, but he sat in a wheelchair
for a few weeks to lose weight in his legs. That's how dedicated some people are. Wow
right that's insane. Yeah. The things people do to win a gold medal. Yeah. Wow! All right, next grade. So you see the chart over there? Next grade is green, right? Jamie there's a chart! So you reckon the Orange is like my target for today?
Actually after seeing you on the first climb maybe it should be blue. We should aim high. Okay. Again that's even more steeper than that one. Yeah, if you want I can
try to do this one without feet as well. Wow! 🎵 Spider pig, spider pig.. That's a rule yeah. That's not valid no. I don't think
I can start here, I'm gonna have to, because of how heavy I am. You need to try. Come on. Use the lower foot. I'm waiting
for one to rip off. Lower foot hold, here. The lower foot hold, here. Okay. Come on, yes nice! Come on Eddie next one is good! Next one
is really good! Come on yeah there you go! Come on! Come on Eddie, yeah there you go!
Yes two hands on that one that's the top nice! Good job. It was good, yeah! Oh that's keen. Yeah.
Wow. Yeah you thought you weren't able to start that position, but you did. Yes. You're stronger than you think. That's only what, 30 seconds of climbing? It gets
your lungs. Yeah it's good. I mean I'm a fit guy and it gets your lungs wow. Yeah so
now it's orange. Orange, yeah. And I think also for you we want to find something that is not
so steep so you can use your legs more. Yeah I think this orange straight ahead is perfect
for you. The holds are not going to be as good so this is in essence easier rocks to
climb but. Yeah. No harder rocks to climb, but an easier gradient. Yeah. But this
is orange, this was originally the goal for today. So you've got nothing to grip. But the thing is here you don't have to use strength at all, so you see you're always
leaning in towards the wall yeah okay. You can let go of hands and then just doing one foot
at the time and not moving them up too much. Often beginners will put their feet up really high and then I push myself out from the wall so stand
a little bit lower than you think and hip close to the wall. No smelling salts? No, not today it's a bit much. Here you have to start here and here. So I have to start on this? Yes and be
accurate when you place your feet and stuff try to be as accurate as possible. Okay. Now it's
leaning into the wall it's going to be the.. Get your right hand up. You see you
use the palm like this. Yeah. So I come up and then come up to this one? Yeah
all right, yes like that, come on and then push yourself into the wall. Now you.. now
you want to move up your legs, so you want a right foot here. But you can also use your
left. Smear here with your left if you want. Smearing means you're not using any hold, but
yeah like that. Now grab the next hold, it's good. Yeah awesome! Change it with a left. Come
on match it. There you go. And then the top hold. Next hold is good. Come on Eddie come on. Here left hand. Ah yeah. And then you.. come on! I'm pssing in the wind here. Just go for something, otherwise you're gonna get too tired. Come on next hold,
is really good! Come on Eddie. I can't just go for that one? No, that's a down
climbing hold. I can't get it. Okay, just jump down. Nice, I mean that was pretty close. This was your
goal for the day and you almost did it first try. So I would say uh you're way better
than I thought you'd be. /&%$#/. Yeah. That's odd. Yeah, uh so we're gonna think how to do this.
It's really high for you to put it here. Yeah, but then go to this and as soon as you get this,
match and put the right foot out and match. So I'm expected to jump feet?
Yeah, just jump match feet. Easy as that? Yeah. Does matching make sense
to you? When I say match? Yeah it does. Okay yeah Obviously you just switching.. hands. Take a rest, shake the arms. And I think you're going to feel it tomorrow, you know it's muscles that you're not you normally using. I'm training legs when I get back home today. Oh you are? Wow that's dedication. It's hard man like your fingers and it's all working overtime isn't it?
Remember to put pressure on your feet always. Get the hips close to the wall. Come on, nice,
come on. Get that yeah change it to.. this side of the hand. Come on yeah next one is
good come on just get up on the right foot. There you go! Is that it? Match the last hold. Like that? I could feel it about rip off it. It almost ripped off?
I heard it tare. Awesome. /&$/!#.. when I was hanging on that one it was like.. Okay so I've passed my expectations. yeah we set your expectations way too low, that's... I mean everyone does that. Yeah so now
it's probably gonna get quite a bit harder. A little bit? Jesus. Let's pick the
easiest blue we can find. Yeah, that's always a good strategy. So I would say it's better than
expected. For being 170 kilos he's really good. That's recording. What are these tools here for?
That's for brushing. Uh if there's too much chalk on the holds you want to brush off some of
the chalk. So you could brush the blue. You have a good brushing technique.
Thank you. Yeah, you can see it coming off. You should brush for the thumb as well, that's
underneath. So that's where your thumb goes? Yeah exactly. I can show you the beta on this
one. So beta is like the method of doing something. Beta? Beta yeah. It's not, uh Alpha and
beta it has nothing to do with that. Second best. Yeah, but then instead of grabbing this because
this is a bad hold. Yeah. I would just go here. Wow! And then coming into this. Jamie is there like
some special editing software where you can change the colors? You know when
you've got a green screen you can turn that to Black. I can try my best to yeah. Yeah we'll do that in a minute It's hard work, like I'm amazed. I'm actually
really surprised how hard it is. And this is bouldering so this is more strength
based, but if you climb it with a rope it would be a lot more endurance. You would
be breathing harder. Yeah, so just climbing like.. no no you're attached to a rope so then the routes
are longer you know because you don't jump down, you have the rope. Ah so you go higher up? You go
higher up. This is maybe four meters.. four and a half meters, but if you climb with a rope
you climb up to 20 meters so then you get really tired. Okay. But strength wise this is harder
because you do harder moves than you would on a rope. Oh it's down here. It starts here. Oh no, no chance! So
now the hardest part is going to be to get the butt off the pads. I literally
got more chance.. oh this is going to be funny. of shagg%!"# King Charles.. in the ass. Okay so from here so now you just have to get the lift off. Yeah easy! come on yeah yeah yeah nice
come on next one good it's good next is also good yes nice and now I will go left
hand all the way here that's a very good hold on come on yes nice yeah get the
foot up get the foot up get a foot up it was so close that was so good though I can feel like me lots and everything I
can hear my muscle going it looks like a real climber there I mean this is a pretty big
move your foot popped a couple of times if you just make your foot placement better you just go
for the undercling right away I think you got it there's a lot of chocolate so if you think you
could do the black one without your legs no no way wow there's not much to grab right no so there's
no way to do it with your legs you have to like all limbs have to be on the wall
I don't like your attitude bangers and you know that 1969 yeah you put a man
on the moon that's that's true yeah or some people died you can't climb
up without your legs that's true is that on okay you can try it too though the
block they're all approximately I mean you know they put a man on the moon right allegedly allegedly I mean what's on there
where am I going for next that one yeah so then you go left hand here left hand yes
I would put my foot here but I think for you it's better to match yeah okay and go like
this and this is a very good hold okay that's why I went wrong I didn't use my phone come
on yes nice foot and then Cross Match foot come on come on next one is good
next one is good just go for it oh you slide it's like a cat clinging at
the wall and one time oh you bastard my grip's going so fast yeah yeah well
that is proper pump to my hands are yeah it's cool that you're using the right terminology
you said pump my forearms are definitely black pumps like my skin stretched right
look at that yeah wow talking about a little baby growing on my forearm see the difference
yeah it looks like a baby arm compared to you surely everyone's seen that uh trains
what's his name that train spotter where's the GoPro is on his head so that's
definitely Francis is a proper sweet kid any like that gets that excited over the
trains he's got the GoPro Potter's looking down right and they're excited so this is
basically the exactly the same but climbing nice foot up right foot up let's come on come on yeah nice come on Eddie what
Theo come on get your right foot up right foot up right foot up there you go this one is good nice
it's just an underwater I know yeah on a plank and then you cross the right hand
over or you go get all my grips go go ahead and left hand my grip's
gone your grip's gone completely oh that's good oh man how's your skin though has
it ripped anywhere it's not too bad it's not too bad I mean you're used to lifting heavy stuff
lifting weights for yeah 20 odd years something more technical Maybe I think my hands need a bit
of a break so yeah yeah the feet are pretty bad it even says here smear I'm going here and here so
that's the hard part as soon as you get this it's kind of over what do you think I mean they put
them out on the moon so yeah still feel pumped ridiculous you try to shake the
worms nothing nothing solid okay we're just starting here
mate it's on this blue one cheers man I think your shoes are pretty good
for smearing because those are made for strong men competitions where you have to rely on
friction yes so then you want to keep a low heel so you get as much surface as possible on
the whole low a low heel yeah low heel so you don't want to be like this okay like this so as
soon as you get to this it's a gray on as well yes yeah that's not too much don't use that hole to go straight up today
right to that yeah there you go now oh left here yeah and then just go for it the last
hole is good oh that that's harder than it looks come on it's just a little bit committing
you just have to go come on go go go there you go awesome okay oh so you you dabbed a few times
like your foot was touching a few times the ground yeah but it's okay yeah yeah okay so I did a blue one yeah we'll see
yeah I did a blue one what's that what's the next level up so he definitely dabbed a few
times but I didn't have the balls to tell him he's intimidating green Dawn orange Dawn
blue done purple now I didn't think we would climb purple today that's uh so surprising
there you go yeah what do you think of this one how does it look horrible horrible
horrible sorry like this take that oh this is probably going to
be the hard part take that you make it look so fluent and effortless yeah that's what a hundred kilo weight difference
does yeah I guess geez wow this is one one hand here left hand here and right hand here that's
a footholds there's just no chance yeah I can't stick to that and then to there yeah so it's
important to keep your hip close to the wall here yeah like that okay come on here's from zero
to a hundred yeah it does yeah started it yeah okay where am I going now all right
right hand up to that one yeah you have to move your foot up right foot up first
match the feet and we fought up to there yeah no I think that's where I've reached my limit I
think yeah maybe yeah maybe I am because I mean body weight I need something to hook into yeah
I can't no no I can't do it yeah I'm 170 kilo American I'm 370 pounds wow was it fun though
you like this phone yeah I surprised myself yeah you know and you said I want you to get was
it the orange yeah and then I went past that is that something you were good at cool well I
mean yeah I mean it's a strong one you've got to have one of the strongest cause in the
world yes exactly so first is one foot up then it's two feet up yeah and then it's one foot
out two feet up and then it's a front lever to see where you are I'm pretty sure you can you can
at least get your feet out right in the 90 degree or maybe there's a little bit of flexibility uh involved
too I guess I'm very delicate at the minute so I'll use this I mean don't you think this would
be good training for strong man because you need a lot of finger strength you're 100 I think
um I mean obviously I'm not strong anymore but if I were to go back in time if I had some
grip events coming up yeah this is ideal spend the day climbing yeah much more interesting than
standing there with weights you know it's exciting isn't it it's good fun as well so just legs
straight up okay legs up here both yeah both of them yeah nice easy yeah that's good sure
you've got some sort of Records I remember watching some footage of you doing one finger
pull-ups yeah you still do them yeah once in a while not so much anymore but yeah that's
incredible and how many one finger pull-ups could you do I think uh my record is nine nine
nine one finger pull-ups and then what about hanging for time on a ball I don't know I'm not
that strong in that I'm a little bit too heavy like it's not compared to you but compared to
other climbers I'm pretty heavy well I can I I can hang if my grip was fresh I could hang for
about a minute 50. it's okay yeah that's like I could hang with one hand
and you could hang with two I think that's going to be pretty even
my record with one is like I think 100 seconds or something so that's okay I
mean the grip is shot but should we try that let's go and things off with a little
uh competition I'm gonna need the bench no you can't have chalk oh I already put some on
my grip is absolutely sharp I've been lucky I've been lucky for last 30 seconds like honestly
I feel like I can barely close my hands three a little bit of moist on the
fingers yeah three two one go it's gonna get really painful just
remember they put a man on the moon oh my God I'm going already ah you're not even
close are you oh no yeah oh my God it's probably good that I tired you out before yeah literally
just pumped I can't even close my hands hardly wait let's do something with weights so I want you
okay I wanna I want you to shine what should we try I I've been retired six years mate well you're
gonna be five times as strong as me no matter what so it doesn't matter what about Turkish get-ups
never heard of it before have you tried them no I've done it for ages I'll just start with
like uh 12 kilo so you're gonna hold that up stand up yeah and then you've
got to go back down again that's a Turkish guy seems like
a lot of wrist strength yeah yeah oh wow there's so much heavier
than he made it look oh man oh so easy how about now hmm good good shout I can't do much more than that
though oh my goodness so as a climate aren't you're more just grip like actual yeah and
there's also there's a lot of different grip strengths like uh locking the grip that's what
climbers are good at blocking the web like but not actively squeezing things okay so you know
the grippers yeah I'm not very good at those I I've never been good at that no I think
you need really big hands to begin with those yeah yeah what's your hand size like quite
big quite a bit yeah I've got big mix yeah I've got big hands there's 16 there is this
something you used to do yes yeah so really good so this is a lot of core strength
right yeah this really changed your core it's also good for strength when you take the
wrists and I don't know shoulders and everything nice okay good so I'm sure the world
record for this what is the world record for this it's ridiculous yeah
and it's not even by a big guy either um top of my head I think it's like 80 kilo
80 kilos yeah oh my goodness I think so come on good come on keep it keep it back down good job that's awesome oh yeah so that's
a challenge for you guys at home to try it's hard it's harder than it looks yeah for
sure and especially your body weight it's also hard to get up right yeah I mean it's hard for
me to get up off the floor anyway so I'm done yeah the baby's oh my God they're so uh they're
ridiculous it's like I've literally grown a little embryo on my forearm there oh that's so pumped
you're probably gonna be pretty sore tomorrow when you wake up yeah yeah I'm sure most days
that's what strong men do yeah unless you wake up sore then you're not training on enough
so yeah all right there you go well it was a pleasure uh climbing with you uh make sure that
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