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Man Challenges Public To Lift 100kg Dumbbell For £1000 Prize

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Published 15:23 3 Mar 2022 GMT

Man Challenges Public To Lift 100kg Dumbbell For £1000 Prize

You would be surprised at some of the attempts by men both big and small

Charlie Metcalfe

Charlie Metcalfe

Featured Image Credit: TikTok/@worldstrongestpeople

Topics: Sport, TikTok

Charlie Metcalfe
Charlie Metcalfe

Charlie is a freelance features journalist with articles on BBC News and in The Telegraph. He covers any story that piques his interest.

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Have you ever seen one of those insane pull-up challenges and thought: hey, I could do that?

No? Neither have we.

People seem pretty motivated to go out of their way to challenge people's strength and humiliate them (mostly) in public.

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A few ambitious (naïve) souls are often willing to take up the challenge and risk making themselves a certain fool in front of an audience.

We'll never understand it, but a new video has emerged of a man challenging the British public to one of those attempts of strength: to lift a 100kg dumbbell from the ground. Take a look below:

The challenge host tempts his audience by claiming anyone able to lift the weight will receive a £1,000 reward. Pretty tempting, I suppose?

A diverse range of men attempt the lift - one in a brown trilby and cords, one in a full-black tracksuit, and even an on-the-job police officer.

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TikTok/@worldstrongestpeople

All those who try the challenge in the video fail, although some get close by raising one side of the dumbbell off the ground.

The only person to lift it on-camera is the challenge master himself, even though one hunky lad bigger than the entire crowd tries and fails.

Fishy? Some of the people commenting thought so.

One suggested the dumbbell was magnet-activated and the challenge master had some sort of device to turn its magnetism off at will.

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Another suggested the prize money would never be worth it when contestants would later spend £2,000 on a chiropractor and physiotherapist.

Others tagged Germany bodybuilder and ESN athlete Leonidas Arkona, suggesting he could lift the weight without a problem.

One fan wrote: "Leonidas, where were you the whole time?"

Another commented: "And then comes along Leonidas and lifts the thing 10 times."

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One Marcel seemed pretty keen for the challenge to come to his own town, despite having seen so many challengers try and fail to lift the weight.

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Well, he might want to try a few exercises to prepare first like those former world's strongest man Eddie Hall shared with Steel Supplements.

First, never lift a weight for more than six repetitions to ensure you're lifting the heaviest weight possible and taking the most amount of rest.

Next, get a physiotherapist and keep recovery equipment at home to boost your body's recovery speed.

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And finally, like all things, stay consistent. Big gains take a long time to achieve and certainly don't happen overnight.

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