Mitchell Hooper has issued the challenge to other Strongmen around the world.
The 2023 World’s Strongest Man champion Mitchell Hooper continues to show off his super-human strength. Recently, Hooper shared a challenge where you have to lift a total of 1,000 pounds on deadlift and bench press. Hooper shared a video of himself completing the challenge in less than 10 seconds.
Hooper began his fitness journey with a Men’s Physique bodybuilding appearance back in 2015. From there, he completed three marathons before taking on powerlifting.
Hooper’s first sanctioned competition took place back in June of 2019, at the Australian Powerlifting Union’s NSW State Championships. Mitch managed to pull a 331 kilogram deadlift (733 pounds) while weighing just 116.8 kilos (257 pounds). Talk about superhuman strength. He also bench pressed 174 kilograms (385.5 pounds) and squatted 292 kilos (644.8 pounds), at that same meet.
Fast forward to the 2022 World’s Strongest Mancompetition, this was Mitch’s first time on stage. Mitch was young, and on top of that he was actually a last minute replacement pick. At this competition Mitch was able to grab an eighth place finish, which is pretty great for someone newer to the scene. Then at the 2023 Arnold Strongman Classic, Mitch took the whole thing home.
Mitchell Hooper Shares Insane Weightlifting Challenge
There are many weightlifting challenges that show off insane strength. Mitchell Hooper took to Instagram to display this challenge and did so with ease.
“1000lbs challenge in 9.13s. 545lbs deadlift, 455lbs bench. Open challenge to any of the big dogs to beat that ????”
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Hooper loaded up weight on the barbell to deadlift before moving onto the bench. He crushed this challenge in 9.13 seconds, where most of the time was used to transfer from lift to lift and get in position.
Hooper has always had a passion for fitness and was able to study it before getting into the field.
About Mitchell Hooper
The Canadian-born champion was not always a world class strongman, he actually started out in a much different setting. He is only 27 years old, but Mitchell Hooper has managed to gather a large assortment of athletic achievements, some you may not expect. One of them being a brief stint in collegiate football, then a rookie bodybuilding competition, and finally, Mitch has run multiple marathons.
Mitch is also a physical therapist with a Masters in Clinical Exercise Physiology from the University of Sydney, accompanied by a Bachelors in Human Kinetics from the University of Guelph. On top of that, he is a certified strength and conditioningspecialist and he is now the top Strongmen in the world. Whether it be competing, coaching, or educating, everything Mitch does is backed by the strongest scientific evidence available and he states that is how he has gotten so far as not only an athlete, but also a coach. He told us that he would never have his athletes do something he was not comfortable doing himself.
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