The strongest man in the world can be classified into several categories. There are a multitude of competitive ways to show who you are the strongest man, where they will have to show their strength during all the years.
There are not only competitions for men, but there is also the category for The strongest woman in the world, where it rivals 70% of the weight used by men. The greatest competition is found in strength athletics, where they will have to compete with powerlifting.
What is Powerlifting?
IFSA She is in charge of organizing the strength athletics event. He parted ways with Met-Rx in 2005 and began doing his award-winning competitions with The World's strongest man. In its events we can see the lifting of the giant trunk, the barrel, the Atlas stones. Or that of transporting and dragging objects such as refrigerators, trucks, airplanes, cars, lifting with the head, squats with barrels ...
A test of strength is made between all the competitors, where they will have to demonstrate good endurance and good speed. In this last year, in 2021, Tom Stoltman, a Scotsman from Invergordon, appeared.
Tom stoltman
This competitor born on May 30, 1994 and a resident of Invergordon, Scotland, became The World's strongest man in June 2021. He is the younger brother of the strongest man in Europe in 2021 and was also champion as the fifth Strongest man of 2019.
Tom is a man who was born with autism, a disease that easily disables social interaction and communication. But if he has achieved what he has achieved, it has been thanks to his repetition of patterns and his spirit of overcoming in their thinking and behavior.
Follow a routine of daily and competition exercises that has made him reach values and records thanks to his 'super power' as he describes it. By following these steps you know that can meet any challenge and that makes it his great discipline. If you do not follow what is indicated, you do not see yourself capable, hence we still categorize it as a great effort for adults.
Their personal records mark some data as in the powerlifting, with squats and holding up to 325 kg, deadlift of 360 kg and bench press with -220 kg. In the competition of Strongman he has reached 7,50 m barrel throw, 190 kg shaft press, and -430 kg deadlift with straps and deadlift suit.
At Lóleo Eventos, competition test in gym It has also beaten data with the 215kg log press, -286kg Atlas stone lift, 345kg squats, and 420kg deadlift.
Elbrus Nigmatullin
He has also been named the strongest man in the world by break numerous records. Has been named with this category up to four times in Russia, always surpassing itself in each of its competitions.
3 years ago he beat his improvement by crediting his data in the Guinness Book of Records, where he was able to tow a 26-ton truck. Among his current records, it should be noted that he has been able to lift on his own shoulders a helicopter of the weight of 1.476 kg. He has also managed to move a Boeing 737 airplane of 36 tons, where he was able to move it from the place up to 25 meters.
In this challenge he said that it was almost impossible for him to move the plane, it seemed impossible, but he was able to regain his inner strength and make it move. There are not many challenges that he resists, among his personal achievements he goes so far as to affirm that his goals are due to great workouts and perseverance. He also states that it is increasingly difficult for him to invent new exercises for this improvement, since being able to pull a truck is coming to seem like something very simple.
A review in history
Tom Stoltman has made history in a form of competition that was already born in strength athletics. Within a long history of competitions, the Vikings were already aiming to demonstrate their strength by lifting stones. Centuries later in Scotland the Mountain Games were held where they were tested with the lifting of the trunk. This is where the first events were born and where they subsequently moved to the Basque Country.
The strongmen of the circus they also demonstrated their strength and endurance in public displays in the XNUMXth and early XNUMXth centuries. With his exploits he was born modern weightlifting and that today has left us names of great athletes like Louis Cyr and Angus MacAskill.
The first competitions were born from the idea of IMG in California in 1977. A variety of athletes, including bodybuilders, weightlifters and football players, were invited and numerous titles and awards were collected from there. To this day, other various competitions such as those of Elbrús Nigmatullin continue to be held, trying outside the official competition and registering the Guinness Book of Records