The champion is already making ready for his subsequent contest.
2023 World’s Strongest Man (WSM) and 2023 Arnold Strongman Traditional champion Mitchell Hooper wasted no time getting again to work and making ready for his subsequent contest. Hooper will likely be considered one of 12 males competing within the 2023 Giants Dwell Strongman Traditional (GLSC), on the iconic Royal Albert Corridor in London, England on July 8, 2023. By all accounts, Hooper gave the impression to be wholesome and locked in mentally when he shared a current coaching video.
On Could 15, 2023, Hooper posted an Instagram Reel of himself performing standing barbell overhead presses in a squat rack with resistance bands hooked up to the bar and rack.
Hooper revealed within the put up feedback that he measured the resistance utilized by the bands and confirmed that he was working with a complete weight of 184 kilograms (405.7 kilos) on the backside of the rep and 200 kilograms (440 kilos) within the lockout place. That weight contains the barbell itself, which was loaded to 174.6 kilograms (385 kilos).
Within the video, he’s seen taking a large stance contained in the rack whereas sporting a weightlifting belt, wrist wraps, and elbow sleeves. Hooper carried out three reps and held the ultimate repetition locked overhead for a number of additional moments earlier than returning the bar to the rack. Within the put up caption, Hooper shared why he was utilizing this specific train — to construct triceps-focused lockout power.
“Engaged on good, strong lockouts. Time to maintain pushing.”
This strategy could also be a sensible one for the Canadian strongman as a result of one of many occasions listed for the upcoming GLSC is the Viking Press, which requires opponents to carry out a standing shoulder press with handles at shoulder stage and heavy objects set on an equipment behind them. The athlete should have the ability to carry out the press and lockout their elbows with out having to bend their knees to generate additional pressure — also referred to as “double dipping.”
Hooper was strategically utilizing bands on the barbell, which supplied extra resistance as he pressed the load upward. This pressured him to work tougher to attain the lockout. For the reason that bands utilized much less rigidity on the backside, they weren’t impacting Hooper’s shoulders as a lot, making this a extra environment friendly method to prepare whereas emphasizing power within the closing lockout section of the raise.
With each the Arnold and World’s Strongest Man titles below his belt, Hooper could also be going into the Giants Dwell Strongman Traditional as a favourite. He will likely be going through stiff competitors within the type of Oleksii Novikov, the 2020 WSM champion who has gained the earlier two editions of the GLSC in 2021 and 2022, in addition to two-time WSM winner Tom Stoltman, and 9 different elite strongmen who look to win the title for themselves.
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