Ep. 91- Powerlifter vs Weightlifter vs Strongman...Who’s The Strongest?!

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 108 minutes

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We’ve all been in 5th grade...many of us wish it never ended. In this episode we take you back to that magical time by transposing our most important questions from that era like: “who would in a fight, Superman or Godzilla?” or “Could a silverback defeat a grizzly bear?” and the important follow up “what if they had swords?”, onto strength sports. Today we ask, who are the strongest: Powerlifters, Weightlifters, or Strongmen/women? We discuss what ways we could legitimately test strength across disciplines to answer this question and each guests “picks a character” as a champion of their sport in this thought experiment. To tackle these important questions the guests are thankful to be joined by returning guests and strength aficionados, Alan Thrall, Jonnie Candito and Max Aita. Strap up your Velcro’s, hop on the school bus, grab your bag lunch from mom and get ready to argue during recess in this episode of iron culture!

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0:00.0	We answer the question that everyone wants to know in this episode today.
0:04.1	Who's the strongest?
0:05.0	And of course, Eric, there's a huge, huge exclusion we had to make in this discussion.
0:10.7	We're talking about way lifters, palifters, and strongman competitors.
0:14.0	Who's the strongest, given all those different sports?
0:16.9	And we had to exclude bodybuilders.
0:18.2	We had to.
0:20.0	Absolutely.
0:21.2	It's just not fair when you use the only metric of strength that really matters is how strong
0:26.6	do you look?
0:28.6	Because as you'll see, and I'm not even kidding on this one, we had a very difficult time trying
0:33.6	to figure out, well, what's the way that we would actually test our suppositions? Even for this thought experiment, like if we were to set up a competition, we had, we agreed on
0:43.2	trap bar deadless, high bar squats, but we had some other things that were put out and maybe
0:48.6	not ever confirmed by the whole panel. Farmers walk, I don't know, weighted chin up,
0:53.9	sort of maybe overhead press, maybe not, I don't know. Weighted chin up. Sort of maybe. Overhead
0:55.0	Press. Maybe not. I don't know. The only thing we didn't devolve into, which I'm actually surprised
0:59.7	and disappointed at the same time, was food wouldn't a fight. So yeah, I don't know. Maybe we need
1:06.4	to do that episode. Like, let's train deadlifts because that'll make me better at fighting people.
1:11.2	Thank you. Yeah. No, and I think we were close to devolving into Joe Rogan conversation
1:16.1	of who'd went in a fight, a grizzly bearer, a silverback gorilla. Luckily, we're just talking
1:20.7	about strength athletes. And the answer is the audience is the winner today because we're just
1:25.0	basically speculating for damn near two hours with
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