Jesse James West steadily tries out totally different varieties of coaching on his YouTube channel, following the exercise regimes of bodybuilders and fighters like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Conor McGregor. In his newest video, he spends the day within the gymnasium with former World's Strongest Man Hafthor Bjornsson, aka The Mountain, aka Thor, and takes on his first ever conventional strongman exercise.

Bjornsson retired from the world {of professional} strongman competitions final yr after securing his tenth consecutive win at Iceland's Strongest Man, and has been leaning down and getting shredded ever since in preparation for a brand new chapter as a boxer. However he's nonetheless a formidable coaching companion relating to strongman occasions, as West quickly learns. For context, Bjornsson weighs 335 kilos to West's 185. "I used to be as soon as that," says Bjornsson. "On the age of 14 years previous."

The primary train is the sandbag throw, and whereas it takes a couple of makes an attempt for West to attain the mandatory explosive energy to get the bag up and over the railing, he will get there, and Bjornsson calls him a "pure." The following train is one other strongman staple, and considered one of Bjornsson's private faves: Atlas stones. Whereas Bjornsson has lifted stones weighing as much as 450 kilos in competitions, West begins on the lighter finish, with a 175-pound stone.

For the third spherical, West should attempt to stroll backwards and forwards whereas holding a 134-pound Húsafell stone. However he is not the one one who finds this explicit train robust. "I see stars now," says Bjornsson, after demonstrating the transfer.

One other common strongman occasion is the farmer's carry, which West performs for a number of rounds, including extra weight to the body every time, and incomes the respect of The Mountain. "I assumed you probably did the set extraordinarily effectively," Bjornsson tells him on the finish of the exercise.