Eddie Hall shows his son Maximus the ropes.
2017 World’s Strongest Man champion Eddie Hall has been training consistently with his 10 year old son Maximus. The retired strong man has been showing his son the ropes and helping to develop his lifting game. This is sparked the notion that Maximus will follow in the footsteps of his father. While that’s definitely is too soon to tell, it’s still great to see the father-son duo get in the gym and bond over the weights.
Oftentimes, being the child of a successful professional athlete can bring with it a great deal of pressure. There’s pressure to perform, pressure to live up to what your parent did before you, pressure to potentially surpass said parent. But what we can gather from the interaction between Eddie Hall and his son Maximus is that it’s a very holistic relationship. Both are bonding, both are growing and both seem to be having a really great time training together.
Recent Instagram posts by Eddie Hall showcase the strongman teaching his son the basics. From the bench press to the overhead shoulder press to the deadlift, Hall is showing his son how to perform at a high level in the gym.
Bench
Father and son worked their first bench press together.
Max’s first ever bench press ❤️ ????????️♀️
And so it begins…. Max has said to me for years that he will start to train with me when he is 10 years old.
Well he was 10 at the weekend and Monday he was begging me to start training’ so here we are…
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Shoulder Press
Eddie Hall showed Maximus the ropes with the overhead dumbbell press for shoulder strength and development.
I was thinking about giving up… but then I remembered who’s watching ❤️
50KG / 110LBS dumbbells x 32 Reps
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Deadlift
We also saw Maximus do his first ever deadlift training with Eddie Hall helping him every step of the way.
Max’s first deadlift ????️♂️ ????
He has a long way to go with technique and back positioning etc but we’re going to stick at this weight until he’s got it perfected and then start to move up!!!
But 50kg for his first deadlift is awesome????
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Perhaps the best part of all this is that Eddie Hall didn’t even have to push his son to do any of this. It’s Maximus who hounded his father to begin his training. That’s great sign of things to come. Who knows, maybe we will see Maximus competing in the future.
What do you think of Eddie Hall training his son Maximus?
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