How Strong Was Louis Cyr Really?
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- How Strong Was Louis Cyr Really?
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There is VIDEO of Paul Anderson doing a side press of 300lbs. FOR A DOUBLE................ A DOUBLE....................... in 1957. Yeah he gets my vote. 😅😅
@@BIGJATPSU yep, that’s shown in this video
Sorry mate but you make this interesting story boring.
@@dvskane1808 Sorry
Angus Macaskill?
In the age of steroids, growth hormones, and other strength increasing methods, he has to be considered to be one of the strongest men to have lived given that he only used raw natural strenghth. Indeed, he was very impressive.
He is not the strongest to ever live but might be the strongest natty of all time.
I would say that any discussion about the strongest natty has to include Paul Anderson.
@@tidefanyankee2428he 1920s already had substance to help for strength such as the ones babe ruth were on. Let alone the 1940s and 50a which paul anderson was in.. louis cyr was truly a natty
Edit: they were testosterone injections
@@Bryanseas What substance did they have in the 1920's to "help for strength"?? Specifically? Steroids weren't synthesized until the 1930's. So again, name the specific substance.
@@tidefanyankee2428 testosterone injections
Given his birth weight and the number of kids, I think the real prize goes to his mom.
Being 6'1" and 265lbs ? With 17 children ?
That woman was certainly a creature to behold !!
@@Truetoeverybody Her husband (Louis's dad) must have been one weirdly happy dude.
That was common back in the days.
My 2 grand mothers had 22 and 16 kids...
My own mom had 9...
@jocec3283 22 kids is crazy.
I think it was more because the lack of knowledge, contraceptive or religious reason.
@@Truetoeverybody I totally agree.
22 is ludicrous, but truth be told, not all of them survived though.
I think overall, on my mother's side, they were 17.
And many were dead before my own birth.
But all 16 on my father's did.
I got to meet them all.
Large families like those, were basically the norm back then, even if my family wasnt religious at all...
He also bent steel bars and his stone/rock lifts have Never been replicated. All without supplements or modern training. Much respect to this man.
sawmill life when he was young made him tough as nails
Actually Geoff Capes could bend bars , down to technique
Except it's a lie. Literally taking the word of long dead carnival barkers, LOL
@@justinlaite5542 Prove it Sherlock !
'The Mighty Atom" - this guy
Being a Montrealer as well, growing in the neighbour district from Louis-Cyr's, i can attest that Cyr's legend still lives to this day.
His statue still hanging high and proud.
I didn't statues were hung. Certainly Michelangelo's David isn't.
His county, St-Jean-de-Matha, is still home to many renowned families of strongmen, like the Gadoury, to this day. That's his legacy.
@@martinportelance138 MUST be the water...
Until the BLM will tear it down
@@davidanderson_surrey_bcType correctly if you are gonna try to be a witty dick. Amateur.
As a 72 year old ex-construction worker - my back is reminding me of the hard physical work done when younger. I can't imagine the ailments these guy must experience in old age.
He died at 49, so it isn't really applicable.
Thats why he died young.
All of us manual labourers pay for the work we did as we get older.I retired at 55 after 2 shoulder surgeries and now my hip is needing replacing.I still love what I did for a living,and if possible,would go back to work tomorrow if it wasn’t for my physical ailments.✌️
Grew up doing manual labor and did enjoy it. Body aches only when I stop moving.
Construction work isnt training.
5'8" tall and weighing 290 lbs! Thats an anvil with legs! Fantastic feats of strength. Amazing man.
later on in his career he weighed close to 400lbs!
Actually, 5'10.
He'd have made a great rugby prop forward.
Similar to Paul Anderson; as wide as he was tall, haha.
He was built like the weights he lifted
As a former Power lifter and Strength trainer I can say with certainty that he was probably if not very close to being the Strongest All-Natural Man to ever Live. Imagine this Mans Strength level if he had access to Modern Equipment, Training Methods, Nutrition, Medical Care and a Staff of Professional Trainers like todays Professional Athletes have!?! Not to mention P.E.D.s or Performance Enhancing Drugs. If he were alive and at his Peak today with what is available now this Man would be the ULITIMATE GOAT!!!
Much of what we see is embellished and repeated as fact. Shame as he was one of the strongest.
Another very enjoyable watch 👍
Thanks, really appreciate your support
I went to his museum in Quebec. Lifting the Louis Cyr dumbbell is still a feat of strength, but he lifted it in a way nobody as been able to replicate to this day. He lifted that dumbbell without bending his knees. It was also filled with powdered lead. Lifting it too fast would of throwned him off balance so he had to lift it slowly, inch by inch.
Pics/video or it didn't happen. It's just tall tales.
@@justinlaite5542 Dude photos of the museum can easily be found on google. He’s probably telling the truth…I’ve been to his museum too, a lot of the heavy weights he used during his lifetime are on display including the legendary 273 pound dumbell and 500 pound cast iron barbell he would regularly train with. It’s a very humbling experience to say the least. Most of the equipment is well worn and scratched from constant use.
That means the way he lifted it is much much harder.
@@theone___ It also means it's most likely embellished.
@@justinlaite5542 There were no videos in 1885 and cinema had not been invented yet in case you didn't know. On the other hand there are many photographs of Louis Cyr and many articles describing his feats in the newspapers of that era. People were not dumb and could easily detect a charlatan although they probably were not as smart as you are.
Proud french Canadian here!💪 We have an old tradition of strongman here in Quebec, Jos Montferrand, Victor Delamarre, Baillargeon Brothers and more recently Hugo Girard and Jean-François Caron
Don't forget Mitchell Hooper
@@StrengthUniverse Mitchell is from Ontario, not french. Another Canadian strongman Maxime Boudreault is also from Ontario, but is french Canadian.
My grandfather was also a strong man too! Not like Delamarre in Montreal as well!! Louis cyr the ONLY strongman to have his own statue! Well deserved! He was a legend!
It took many people to break a few of his records. So in my book, he is still the strongest man ever.
C,est vrai
It’s easy to understand the critics when barely none of those records were officially recorded, but it was so long ago. And remember, he was challenged constantly by other strongmen of the day who could, for most of them, barely keep up with him in those jousts. And those many events were highly documented.
Still, more than a century later, it’s hard to find some people to match or beat those feats of strength. And when someone does it, it’s basically always a different strongman succeeding in only one feat, whilst Louis Cyr « holds » multiple records to this day. Find me someone who can beat many of those feats if you really want to impress me.
Paul Anderson has probably the most legit case to claim this title, but there are so few of them.
Louis cyr makes paul anderson look like a bitch
All strongmen weren't big and fat in those days.
I think it is possible he is because no one man has beaten all his records
We alao hhad another strong men, in our contemporary days. In the 80's there was a honeless guy, nickname samson, he would do feat of strenght in order to eat. One of the famous one was to bind a strap with his hair and pulling busses with it.
@@1701peterbrown You only need one man beating Half +1 of his records...not needed to be all his records.
(But in this video no one is named who even was able to beat only that half.)
Great video mate, always fascinated by old time strongmen like Cyr, Apollon, Anderson, Hepburn, Eder, Pat Casey & JC Hise, & that none of these guys were behemoths Like Thor, Brian & Eddie & didn't benefit from what we have & what we know today, but were still incredibly strong, so thanks for doing this, really interesting & much appreciated.
At 5'8.5" with no peds, support gear, poor nutrition / living conditions of the 1800s, no Nathan Payton or sports psychologists etc... this guy was insanely strong & obviously didn't reach his strength potential. Would have been amazing to see what he could have done if he'd been around today.
Thanks mark, pleased you found it interesting
We of the old school don't care about today's overweight steroid strongmen.
Yeah some of his records are beaten by one guy and then another, but juste on feat of Strenght. Louis Cyr did all these by himself. To be stronger than him, someone would have to beat all his records, which seems impossible. So in my book, he's the strongest man to ever live (that was recorded).
Makes me wonder about the freaks who lived before him that werent recorded. Humans truly are capable fascinating stuff. I have no doubt the genetics living today are a bunch of pansies compared to our ancestors
Research Miles Darden. Literally nobody could do the things he did. He was 7'6" and weighed 800+lbs. he was never a strong man. Just a farmer who drug his bulls around by the horns and tossed 500lbs bales of hay on a daily basis.
Guinness recognizes him for his daily feats and size (only man to weigh over 1,000lbs and walk under his own weight.
Samson is the strongest ever lived period.
@@SamGather Nope! Hercules!! 😃😃
I always found it interesting how not one of the other Strongmen of his day questioned his feats. Eugen Sandow in particular admired the hell out of Cyr which is a pretty ringing endorsement.
When Louis Cyr went to England he challenged Sandow to confront him in a strenght contest. Sandow never accepted.
Great video - that boulder-to-shoulder lift and one finger deadlift are insanely impressive if accurate. There are Basque (Spanish) Strongmen who specialize in lifting a rectangular stone (Harri-jasotzaileak) that could maybe challenge the boulder lifting record - the record is over 700 pounds for the rectangular stone though I'm unsure how that correlates with a natural boulder or how the stone lifters would fare in more conventional powerlifting/strongman feats.
I highly doubt the numbers on those two lifts.
@@bustercherry8734 the one finger lift was absolutely accounted for by the authorities in London. The Boulder also was accounted for by the towns folk who documented it all and even weighed it.
Thank you for continuing to put out such great content
Thank you👍
I believe mention must be made of the Cape Brenton giant Angus MacAskill. Angus was 7'9" tall, weighed 510 lbs. and had an 80" chest.
I made a video on Angus here: czcams.com/video/wegUewoVAUo/video.html
John Grimek was my favorite overall bodybuilder/ strongman / gymnast. The guy was squatting 400+ lbs. in his late 60's and in his day won Mr. America and Mr. Universe and could do all kinds of hand stands too. The complete package of aesthetics, strength, and coordination. In a different league than Arnold S., Coleman, and Heath given his gymnastics.
Great video, thank you, lovely to see both Marvin Eder and Greg Ernst getting a shout out. 😊
Thanks Sam, Marvin was a beast!
thank you so much for making such an informative video
Thank you, Glad you enjoyed it
With modern training, diet and biochemistry he quite possibly could have been
He wasn’t gifted with height tho but in powerlifting he could’ve been the best ever like Paul Anderson build
What on earth is ‘biochemistry’ ?
He most likely ate far better/ more healthy than nowadays.
He probably ate lots of meat and fats and very little sugar and carbohydrates.
@@mark4lev the branch of science concerned with the chemical and physicochemical processes and substances that occur within living organisms.
@@NordicHebrewhe certainly wasn’t on a keto diet. They didn’t have processed food like today, but they certainly had starches back then. I’d imagine he had access to breads, pastas and potatoes.
i enjoyed that thanks for your vid , realy well put together
Much appreciated!
Probably the best video so far. Great job! :)
Wow, thanks!
Here in Canada Cyr is a legend in the strongman world
I went to Louis Cyr high school in Napierville, i always love him for his fame.
Angus MacAskill a giant with The feat that made him famous was the lift of a 2800 pounds heavy anchor from a ship. lifting 50 kgs with one finger . he would be a freakin monster today with all those athletes take today.
I read a story of Louis Cyr years ago. When he was young , he picked up and carried a young calf. He did this every day. As the calf grew fast, so did Louis's strength.
I believe the real story is that Cyr carried a calf on his shoulders to emulate one of his heroes Milo of Croton but thought better of it after the calf kicked him in the back
Must have taken all his remaining strength not to eat the calf.
Wakakak.....❤❤❤
@@davidanderson_surrey_bcwakakak❤❤❤
Excuse for the quality of the english ! The text was written in french ad translated by Google translate. First, some precisions. Louis Cyr was lifting slowly using his brute strength; now we use techniques for the press and the snatch that allow us to use the legs and the back more effectively rather than the arms. The weights at the time of Louis Cyr were hollow balls connected by a hollow cylinder which were filled with small iron balls to reach the required weight. The indirect effect is that any slightly unsteady lift would cause the marbles to pitch in that direction and make the grip very difficult. It was therefore necessary to get up in force and slowly to counter this effect, which Louis Cyr did. For Louis Cyr's one-arm record, he did a slow arm press while Victor Delamarre used an unscrewed technique that keeps the arm straight throughout and requires much less effort. His weights are available at the Maison Louis Cyr museum. Likewise, for lifting the platform, Louis Cyr held the weight for a few seconds so that the spectators could see clearly. I saw on video someone who had supposedly broken his record for lifting a platform; there was a person at each end who slid a sheet of paper, but the platform was not stable and it was very possible that the sheets were not slid at the same time. For further information on Louis Cyr, Paul Ohl's book is recommended, as he has done a lot of research.
mad respect for the man!
The one I've been waiting for 😊 glad to see this
Cheers Tom
I remember reading about him in I believe in True magazine. The story of him was astounding to young me.
An all around strongest ever would require some standardized criteria but we can all agree cyr was super strong and likely elite in any time period. Even the WSM winner isn't the strongest in every event and thus one could argue that event selection is a major factor in who wins. When you watch the finals of WSM it's with great respect to all of these individuals some are superior static strength maybe even one lift vs dynamic events but you need to respect what you are seeing.
Thanks for the details and all the work that goes into these excellent and entertaining videos 👌👌
BTW where are these clips are taken from
Love it
Thanks Adnan, The clips are from the movie: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Cyr_(film)
Fantastic video, thanks for this!
Thanks Nick, pleased you liked it
LOuis Cyr is definitely the strongest man. A different man broke one record and they trained hard to beat only this record. Louis Cyr had them all. Some specialist strenght coachs argued that if he was living today with good diet, modern training and all the chemistry that strong men take today, his records could be boosted of 10% and I completely agree with it.
Dom Delouse was actually stronger
@@johnreidy2804 ?? Argue
@@ashini9511 Did you follow Delouise's career? He was very powerful
Marijan Matijević is No1.
Fantastic video Strength Universe! There is a reason why the ASC trophy is moulded after LC.
Thanks mate
Thanks for the video.
You are welcome!
Most of his lifts have never officially been beaten but most of his lifts are no longer commonly practiced, hard to compare men who lived in different eras with different technology but he’s easily in the discussion for strongest man of all time.
Because the strongmen today exist to become strongmen. He was naturally strong. Therefore they wouldnt dare do his lifts out of fear of ruining their career. If louis focused on the easy and safe lifts the men do today hed be far stronger
Louis was a phenomenom - The movie Louis Cyr is awesomely performed also.
Remarkable detail! Didn't know about the Massachusetts connection! Great video...
Thanks Tim👍
Love these longer deep dives!
Thank you, pleased you enjoyed it
He opened a bar in 1988!!! That must have been his greatest feat of all! 😜😜😜
I still enjoy your content immensely!! Keep up the good work my friend 💪💪💪
I thought you misheard my accent but nope, replayed that bit and definitely said 1988, doh!😂
@@StrengthUniverse 😂😂 doesn't detract from the video one bit!!! Still love your content!!👍👍💪💪
@@coreyrowe2052 I was gonna say the exact same thing. A 120 year old strongman opens a bar......fill in the rest of the joke here..
@@ASavageEye 🤣🤣🤣
LOL!
I have always considered him the strongest human of all time. He was certainly utterly dominant in his era. His lifts were unorthodox but extremely impressive... and, in some cases, unsurpassed.
Angus Macaskill, worth looking into.
Let us know what you think.
@@niallkennedy23 You're not gonna believe this but Angus Macaskill The Nova Scotian Giant) is actually a distant relative of my ex girlfriend!! 🤣🤣 It's absolutely true.
His strength was legendary, but it's difficult to separate the myth from the man in his case.
@@ThouSwell-zx3fdno way....
For real?? Cause obiusly is difficult to believe you
@@unlockedmfg5591 It is absolutely true lol.
@@ThouSwell-zx3fd and she has some of that strengh? (it made me curious to know)
Best video yet really enjoyed this would love to see appolon next
Cheers Jamie, much appreciated. I'll see what I can do
Very enjoyable. NIce analysis of niche lifts and their psychology.
Glad you enjoyed it!
i remember reading in his bio. that he was told to make it look hard and not to use all his power , and the reason for that was not to scare people from challenging him.
As for tennis players : with different techniques and training -- it's incredibly difficult to assess that level of strength. We could also flip that around and say : without their specific diets and training techniques could they have done what he did in that era ?? Also considering he was strong from everybody part and not specialized - I do not hesitate to crown him :
The Strongest Man Ever ..
Nice video ! I really like this type of vids
Glad you enjoyed!
Very nicely done. I enjoyed that.
Glad you enjoyed it
Just an absolute unit!!
In my country, Spain, near my home in north Huesca, in the town of Sallent de Gallego, lived a Gigant called Fermn Arrudi Urieta, 2,29 m tall and very strong man, he showed your body tall and strong around the world, also was a musician, i don´t think if Cyr and my spanish strong man meet sometimes. Fermin Arrudi died in 1913 when he was 43 years old. Sorry for the mistakes. Buen canal de videos muy interesantes, a seguir así.
Suscrito a tu canal 💪
@@danielamador2834 Gracias
Spain is well known for its Basque stone lifters.
@@roderickreilly9666 Yes included the historic Iñaki Perurena. Recently Martins Licis film in el “País Vasco”
I love Spain 🇪🇸 great country. I often holiday there and spend my cash on the food and culture. We holiday in a nice little town called Denia, Costa Blanca. Great place.
He was a naturally strong, and a great human being in general, My great Grand Father, Henry LaCasse of Montreal, knew him. - Said there was nothing like his generosity and amazing strength.
Hey great vid!
just btw it's pronounced Kwebec or Kébec not Kewbec
I got to meet Paul Anderson at my Grandmothers Church (West Flagler Park Baptist Church) here in Miami in 1968 or 1969. Paul was a faithful & dedicated Christian and he toured the country giving his testimony at a lot of Churches.
Lifting that 517 lb stone should be an event at the next ASC, I bet Mateusz could shoulder it.
He was a crazy strong guy for Sure. Especially back then
He was the trunk of an oak tree, stout and very sturdy, amazing feats of lifting weights to defy gravity.😊
very nice video brother. louis cyr movie was very good btw
Whats the title?
@@patriknagy5601 what ?
@@patriknagy5601Louis Cyr
I'd love to have seen how Cyr would have stacked up against Angus MacAskill.
Really great stuff!😊
Thanks!
Super video..thank's
Thank you
I mean, we have Iranian guys today lifting world records in training but never competing to prove their feats of strength and many are doubting their lifts.
Why then should be believe someone's often ridiculous and unbelievable feats from 150 years ago, none of them done in competition (i.e. with anyone who could object involved)? And even today, even when competing, you'll have the press mix up things and suddenly your 300 kg deadlift becomes a 300 kg bench (happened to a friend of mine).
I'm not saying he wasn't strong as all hell, especially for his time. But blindly believing someone who's job it was to sell a persona, well, that's just naive.
There was a near east kingdom in history where the king required his body guards to lift and carry a 300 lb metal weight 500 feet with just one hand to him without stopping or putting it down just to qualify to try and enter his bodyguard and be trained
I can't believe I've never heard of this man before this.
Great video 🎉
Great information, thank you. He was obviously freakishly strong, but it's very hard to say just who the absolute strongest man in history is/was.
Do we go back to Milo of Croton?
I guess Gilgamesh is too mythical.
@@duncanluciak5516 What about Samson, hehe.
Aside from Samson, IF the Egyptian pyramid stones were placed by brute force, then those guys were the strongest. Which would be the Nephilim, but you could argue they weren't human - only half human.
No doubt a beast of a man but I bet there have been many (& even stronger) throughout history that we'll never know about
Not everyman goes out to compete like this man, even today there are probably very strong people working on the fields or a farm out there, not knowing they have this in their genes.
great stuff
Well done as always❤
Thank you! 😊
My uncle Rich, God bless his soul, was the strongest man in the world when it came to lifting stones. He and my father started at a very young age supplying rock yards with field stone. They would pry the stones out of the ground with their hands and then lift them and load them on flat bed trucks. They both had incredible strength. The owner of the Johnson's Rock Yard of Santa, California witnessed my uncle lift a 700 plus pound stone and not only lift it off the ground, but also load it on the back of a truck. He was about 5'10" and weighed about 300 pounds. He was built like a barrel. He would grab the stone and role it up his body, rear back with it pressed against his chest and then load it. This same man did a 200 pound bench curl with one arm.
Imagine what your uncle could do if he got his hands on somebody
@@jimmiematho8082 My uncle was actually very easy going. He never used his strength on anyone, unlike my father with his terrible temper.
Weak
Role. 😂😂😂
I don't think the 7-time Mr. Olympia titlist, Arnold Schwarzenegger, could've duplicated any of Cyr's feats of strengths. I just couldn't picture a young and prime Schwarzenegger lifting a boulder weighing over 500 lbs and hoisting it up his shoulder like Cyr did.
Its 2 different things. Bodybuilding is not the same as strongman. That's also why the bodies look different
there's muscular strong & thick country boy strong.
Most interesting! Thanks!
Glad you liked it!
He was brillaint strongman and it is good to know in todays world of performance enhanced strongmen Lois Cyr can still hold his right middle finger up to the lot of them!
When you consider that Louis Cyr didn't benefit from "performance enhancing" drugs. His feats of strength were phenomenal! The only downside is that, the documentation of these feats are "questionable" let's say. But aside from that, an argument can be made, that he was INDEED the strongest man that ever lived. 💪💪💪
Hard to say if any of those weights are trustworthy considering the exaggeration of promoters back then. No doubt he was freaky strong, but I have a hard time some of the numbers.
The might of four draft horses can been done in modern era though it may not be advisable.
It's all fake!
@@FoxUnitNell if you see the photo from the event it looks like a Hercules hold. It's not like they're galloping horses.
You had me at “This guy’s mom was the size of Larry Wheels.”
I love your HOW STRONG WAS HE OR SHE REALLY videos. Thanks
Thank you 🙏
Some of Angus MacAskill's feats of strength always struck me as impressive... but that pinky lift, dang...
Make no mistake, old time strongmen had tricks. Like using special hollow weights that dumped out sand when a secret button was pushed. That way they could “lift” the weight when the challengers failed
Sand isnt heavy
Interesting watch. Nice job.
Thank you👍
Cool video 📹. Well done ✔️ .
Thank you 👍
The strenght he would have had if he had lived in our times (with the better training and other .. things), it would have been incredible.
What all these athletes do prove, wether they were the strongest ever or not is that natural peak human strength is not lean. If you wanna be lean and natural you have to be smaller and weaker than your peak potential, no matter what your diet is you can not continue to gain muscle and strength without gaining fat. And if you wanna push your limits of fat burn and strength gains at the same time you need performance enhancing drugs/therapies.
All true
@@StrengthUniverse 💪.
whats the name of the movie/show of him, shown in this youtube video?
It's listed in a description
My father was related to him. His name was also Louis Cyr. I remember my dad telling me stories about him. I think Louis Cyr is a great great uncle of my dad.
thanks for another epic video! a quick edit suggestion if you don't mind.... @3:22 you say "in 1988".... which is certain incorrect!
Thanks mate. The error's been mentioned a few times but it's but possible to edit it on YT without removing and republishing the video which would kill the views😢
Super impressive feats. Legendary! But he wouldn't even qualify for the finals in todays WSM. But don't get me wrong...he did all that without PED's and modern technology. With his genes and brute strength and todays PED's...he'd be 400 lbs plus and breaking world records.
why wouldn't he qualify?? Seems clear he could do everything modern competitors could do..He worked in the woods and sawmills moving logs and other stuff.. pulling weight .. carrying large things....all these things are no different than today.. seems like he would dominate in his prime given he was used to long work sessions and back breaking labor
@@darkkingastos4369 I don’t think he would be able to keep up with all the technical lifts that he had no prior training with. But if you read the later part of my post I said he would dominate if he could train in modern times. But if you just tine traveled him here for a contest…he would be overwhelmed by the competition and specific events that everyone else has been able to train for. It just wouldn’t be fair.
Some of his lifts may not be fully certified,.. But the man was unarguably strong like a bull!
Indeed, and i would add he had at least a prime scott steiner like strength.
Incidentally, John L Sullivan, a former heavyweight boxing champion of around this era was labelled 'The Boston Strongman' and purportedly lifted the end of a trolley car off the ground. This was in the time of bareknuckle brawlers who used to fight up to 70 rounds in a single fight.
They found James Ambrose dead in his cell
A gaping gash in his arm had drained him down to Hell
No one knew for sure if Ambrose was his name
They called him Yankee Sullivan in early days of fame
He'd known the game of fisticuffs had always treated him right
But no one knew the men who came and took his life that night
He knew the game of fisticuffs. . .
This man invented the strongman record nobody nobody couldn’t competed with him in his time
Glad to see we're using Larry wheels as a unit of measurement now 😂
He doesn't even compare to these absolute beasts. I am not denying that he is very strong, but these guys were in an entirely different league. He will never even come close.
535 1 finger lift is the one I'm most sceptical of. Especially considering his 525 db deadlift
I don't think it's humanly possible for a single finger to hold this weight without something tearing or breaking.
It’s possible if you are Louis Cyr!! 😃😃
I had an uncle. Daniel was his name. 2.6 meters tall. Weighed about 160 kg. And then had exceptionally long arms. And although he walked nicely upright, when you saw him coming, he looked like a gorilla. He came from a family of masons. And reportedly worked in construction since he was ten. He himself always said that his size and strength came from eating only red meat. Beef or horse meat. I myself have seen with my own eyes how he alone unloaded a truck with bags of cement. 50 kg per bag. 6 bags at a time. And each time carried them about 50 meters further. An hour at a time on sandy soil. Without slowing down or stopping. He was then 65 years old.
When I was about 17 I went to a friends house who was around my age to find he was swapping the engine in his volkswagen bug. I hung out and helped him get everything disconnected. Once it was ready to be pulled he said we needed to go rent some jack to pull it out and put the new engine in. He was griping about having to spend the money because he was fairly broke. I jokingly said "Lets just pull it out by hand, and throw the new one in." He chuckled and said "Yeah, that would be nice." Then he stands there looking at the engine and I could see the wheels turning in his head. He looks at me and says "You wanna give it a shot?" And we pulled that engine and put the new one in by hand. We pulled up to the shop that he made arrangements to rent the jack from that a friend of ours works in with the bug and our friend says "Where did you end up getting the jack from?" We told him and the other guys in there we did it by hand, and they were pretty impressed. We weren't weight lifters or nothing, just 2 high school kids. I will admit, it took about everything we had to do it.
The fact that he still holds multiple world record lifts to this day, with slim to no knowledge of lifting compared to what we have access to today, and also being completely natural for sure, i do believe he would have world record compound lifts if he lived today did the drugs and had a strength coach.
victor delamarre was way more impressive then louis as he did almost everything louis did and MORE , but was only 5ft 4 and 150lbs ,,,
@@acadian101 Whow!!! talk about sinew strength!
Great Video! I think that Paul Anderson surpassed Louis Cyr but he is for sure the Godfather of Strongman. Incredible Guy.
PS. They should bring back that Stone Lift and try to shoulder it this time (maybe at the Arnolds). Curious to see if somebody could do that!
Thank you, I think the issue with recreating the stone lift is the original stone was lost around 1903 so no one knows it's exact shape and size
The stone was recreated for Fortissimus 2008 and Derek Poundstone loaded it onto a platform, nowhere near shouldering it.
@@jackbradney5161 Big Z in his prime could possibly have done it. Maybe John Pall Sigmarsson, Pudzianowski, Magnus Ver Magnusson. all of those were a good deal stronger than Pundstone.
@@palmarolavlklingholm9684 Big Z was competing with Poundstone and couldn’t lift it, 2008 wasn’t far from what would be considered his prime
@@jackbradney5161 Okay. my mistake.
A very nice video. A video on Cyr was due by the goat of all the strength channels strength universe. Now a video on Mark Henry is due.
I m back buddy.
I hope u r doing great.
Buddy welcome back! great to see you comment!
I was thinking about doing Mark henry as my next feature.👍
18 lbs baby is incredible lol, he was born not so far away from georges st-pierre hometown, I pass by Louis Cyr,s memorial stone almost everyday going to work, great antonio was another freak from the area
See how "great" Antonio was when he messed with Antonio Inoki!
One wonders how accurate his recorded feats are.