The Mountain from Game of Thrones deadlifts 970 lbs live on stream Hafthorjulius\/TwitchHaf\u00fe\u00f3r J\u00fal\u00edus Bj\u00f6rnsson, better known as The Mountain in Game of Thrones, casually deadlifted 970 lbs for viewers on Twitch in his ongoing pursuit at setting a new world record. In addition to being the real-life face of Gregor Clegane, Bj\u00f6rnsson is also an accomplished weightlifter and strongman, if you can\u2019t tell by looking at him. For his latest feat of inhuman strength, the Icelandic monster is attempting to break a deadlift world record set back in 2016, and based on how easy he made 970 lbs (or 440 kilos) look, he seems to be well on his way. The current deadlift world record of 1102 lbs (500 kilos) was set by former English strongman Eddie \u2018The Beast\u2019 Hall, who actually briefly lost consciousness after getting the weights down and setting the record. Bj\u00f6rnsson has made it known he\u2019s gunning for the title, and it\u2019s clear having to stay home won\u2019t slow him down at all, with his family off-screen providing the appropriate Viking war cries of encouragement. After psyching himself up for a few moments The Mountain lifted the bar, which bent like a wet noodle from the weight, not once, but three times. Once his set was over, Bj\u00f6rnsson let out a wild victory cry and proudly declared the 970 lbs he had just thrown around \u201clightweight.\u201d \u201cF*ck yeah lightweight, let\u2019s go!\u201d the strongman bellowed. \u201c501, I\u2019m coming for you baby, I\u2019m coming for you.\u201d 501 kilos (or 1104 lbs) is the amount Bj\u00f6rnsson will have to deadlift in order to take the world record, and even though he\u2019s still about 60 kilos (132 lbs) away, what he\u2019s lifting now is more than most of us normal-sized humans could even dream of. The Mountain is still preparing for his world record attempt, which was originally scheduled to take place on May 2, in Bahrain. Bj\u00f6rnsson has said he\u2019ll still attempt the 501kg lift on the same day, but whether or not it will happen in the Middle East or at his home remains to be seen. For what it\u2019s worth, Bj\u00f6rnsson has already locked up the record for most weight ever lifted on a Twitch stream, so a new world record is the obvious next step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Mountain from Game of Thrones deadlifts 970 lbs live on stream Hafthorjulius\/TwitchHaf\u00fe\u00f3r J\u00fal\u00edus Bj\u00f6rnsson, better known as The Mountain in Game of Thrones, casually deadlifted 970 lbs for viewers on Twitch in his ongoing pursuit at setting a new world record. In addition to being the real-life face of Gregor Clegane, Bj\u00f6rnsson is also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}