Jouko Ahola Deadlifts At Gym

World's Strongest Man; 1997,1999. Jouko Ahola deadlifts at the gym.

[@rhodriassinder6954]

Just remember he's got no deadlift suit or no straps this guy was a machine. One of my favorites 💪 miss the days of watching him compete when I was a young boy

[@WOMPITUS]

I remember seeing him on tv. Strongman wasn’t very popular in the US back then so my brother and I would have to watch it at weird times on weird channels. I remember seeing him and thinking to myself how bad ass he looked. After that though I never saw him return and couldn’t remember his name. Years later I saw him in a movie and immediately knew it was him. I guess he just has a distinct look.

[@vincentmcgettigan7948]

Same here. Great times.

[@1vootman]

He's also 265lbs bodyweight

[@michaelpark5681]

He's so muscular his traps have biceps and his biceps have triceps.

[@SaosinComeClose]

Lmao

[@rileyparker5668]

@5% FOR LIFE , LIFE IS SHORT LIVE IT ! No shit dumbass they're bodybuilders. This dude is a strongman

[@davehazeldene4091]

Ha.... gayyyyyyyy

[@CMLozanoFineArt]

@5% FOR LIFE , LIFE IS SHORT LIVE IT ! Ahola is the "smallest" WSM winner ever at 6'1 ...yet he is still taller than all the bodybuilders you mentioned, especially Roelly. There isn't even a competition when comparing Strongman and Bodybuilders for pure size(frame/height).

[@cosmicqueso3570]

Jouko logic: Nose starts bleeding=one more rep in the tank

[@user-hf5jj2wk5w]

Great Suomi Strongman. Respect from Russia.

[@1992Tuomas]

Thank you! Two thumbs up for respectful russian :)

[@kuolanen]

Jouko Ahola had a nice balance between strength, speed and agility. Also he was and an engineer type of person that he build his own strongman gym and trained there. Jouko Aholakin ponnisti maailmalle omalla tahdollaan ja systeemeillään, ilman mitään valtion avustuksia näin siis veikkaisin. Liian usein, kai se suorittaminen jää urheilijan, tai urheilija/valmentaja suhteen varaan ja mitä sitä kautta heruu pennejä.

[@notoriousv.i.p.359]

spasiba gaspadin antonov

[@jipsumies3435]

Константин Антонов thanks

[@coloradoretreats]

He just finnished his workout.

[@xfire3778]

Kyrie Eleison came here 4 years later to agree with you

[@herb2078]

My favourite strongman athlete. For me one of the best deadlift training vids out there always come back to watch this for inspiration

[@maipful]

Hieno mies. Vaatimaton vaikka saavutukset ovat kovat.

[@Nastgardaren]

Manliest video on the internet

[@OriginalMindTrick]

Especially the ballerina shoes.

[@seekn.destroy4064]

It's now the manliest video at the library at 11:39 pm.

[@araarmo]

he doesn't mess around

[@op665]

The nose bleed was METAL AF

[@loveitkillit3262]

Got a chuckle out of that comment :D

[@TheJarlDen]

They killed this guys character on 'The Vikings'. Damn idiots. This guy should have his own Viking show.

[@TheJarlDen]

***** Yep. Just a background guy, but looked like a true northmen.

[@MrWarhead16]

What in the actual fuck!?!?! Really?

[@MrWarhead16]

O I remember. He was the guy who died in the 1st raids in Season 1.

[@TheJarlDen]

Jessrey Mark Solijon Yep, dude was bad ass. After i seen him in Kingdom of Heaven and then finding out he is a body builder, i was instant a fan.

[@trumpjongun8831]

@@TheJarlDen Strongman, not bodybuilder.

[@Nanosuit37]

Ahola is the man! Thank you for uploading.

[@PaTZi300]

I have got things bloody at gym aswell. Once i was reading a magazine and i papercutted myself

[@losvatos6714]

Necromancer go back to w3 your drunk again

[@Vatsuggggg]

Wc3

[@edwardfortae2350]

Hurts watching him. Crazy traps and great power. thanks for video.

[@muttley9520]

Yes. I always felt he was underrated.

[@llegacy1870]

One of the best strongmen ever also one that is almost never talked about.

[@youhustlinmeboi5335]

Sorry what was his heaviest pull?

[@llegacy1870]

@@youhustlinmeboi5335 my max is nowhere near his warm up.

[@youhustlinmeboi5335]

@@llegacy1870 even still today's strong men have pulled a 140kg heavier. But that was the best......... pretty much anyone who's someone is pulling 400kgs + To say he is one of the best ever might be stretching the pot a little.

[@davidstutz9893]

Strength wise he wasn't but overall yes he absolutely was during his reign. Look at the strongman now. Not the Arnold but WSM. They now include more conditioning lifts. Thats why Martins Licis won and main reason why Brian Shaw wont finish top 3 anymore. They are starting to move towards ok weights with high repetitions and speed events. Brian and Thor arent built 4 that & that's why they get injured every WSM

[@youhustlinmeboi5335]

@@davidstutz9893 strength wise he wasn't? It's called a strong man competition

[@theflyingninja1]

The lovechild of Bolo Yeung and Jean Claude Van Damme.

[@paultaylor387]

Haha nice

[@trumpjongun8831]

Ahola looks like a chinese ?

[@Oupii313]

You can see Jouko Ahola's acting in a Ridley Scott's movie Kingdom of Heaven as Odo

[@taunokekkonen5733]

Insane to think that you'd get nowhere with a 360kg deadlift in today's strongman scene.

[@lethayle3388]

He has done more and pound for pound ahola is the strongest of all time

[@Mitjitsu]

The events today very much favour a powerlifter. Whereas 90's strongmen favoured strength athletes which is what Ahola was ideally built for. Most strongmen in the 90's maxed at 350kg for a deadlift. A 3 rep max of 360kg translates to a 380kg max, which would be enough to win back then. Nowadays you'd need to lift 350kg 10 times to win a reps competition.

[@mrlabeouf9002]

Crazy to think that today we have a lot more effective doping.

[@kefkahkefkah]

@RoMMeL1337ak47 yeah but pound of pound orginally meant anyone in a competetive sport being able to drop his weightclass and still win the champion ship on that, a good example is henry cejudo who is olympic and 2 weaigt class world champion, as in pound for pound he is able to be on top even when dropping down, and now he is going for the 3 belt going upp again, now that is pound for pound nr 1 Nowadays it has lost its meaning going to the realm of pure speculations and i dont even fathom how you can calculate someone being pound for pound greatest if he stays at the same weight limit all the time. In lifting weights, that has to be someone going to diffrent weight classes but still being able to lift the same amount,.

[@taunokekkonen5733]

@@mrlabeouf9002 no doubt bro.

[@videoNardur]

The most insane traps ever!

[@ojheikki]

@@marielysnavarro5045 he was STRONGEST MAN IN THE WORLD, you really think he was natural ?

[@Kuzuri2]

@@marielysnavarro5045 u lame dude :(

[@accradata]

Johnnie Jackson

[@faceripper77]

Courtesy of steroids

[@jeffersonalmarinez2551]

Bill kazmaier

[@HUGEACT-MAN]

Damn elon musk got Jacked

[@ugbuga99]

Lol😂😂😂

[@osprey5611]

*was

[@vincentmcgettigan2338]

Hahaha

[@patrikboij7560]

Rocket science muscle Max Q bicep curling and shit

[@joeschmoe3665]

His new plan is throwing people to mars rather than building rockets

[@pupper5580]

I'm studying Jouko's technique and Jouko having such huge muscles makes it easier to see how his technique works. It's hilarious when people say Jouko's traps have traps and biceps have biceps - but I noticed that even Jouko's back muscles have back muscles lol.

[@captainbiceps5209]

Dude was like 125kg/280lbs back then, crazy to see how the sport evolve in 20 years in the weight range of the athletes and the deadlift poundage

[@eugenepowerhouse2487]

In his own words in an interview he said he never weighed 125kg. He said he pretty much stayed under 120kg. He was not a big eater.

[@jaska05]

He could also run 400 m under 60 sec at the time. Let's see the other top strongmen do the same. :)

[@hodyjones8928]

+Fluxliner where did you read that?

[@jaska05]

+Hody Jones He bragged about his WR in men's 265 lbs+ division in some Finnish interview. The exact time was 59 sec. Not bad for a strongman weighing 275 lbs. I wonder how fast he could've been in 60 yard (or 60 m) dash. But I bet it would've been even more impressive.

[@CCCPCommunist]

+Fluxliner He's amazing

[@meathook3000]

+Fluxliner What is he up to now?

[@jaska05]

+meathook3000 Acting and carpenting, as far as I know. He also looks pretty normal nowadays.

[@gozzaldi1486]

Bro that last set was absurd to watch

[@yippeeyip4764]

Yeah lol how tf is nobody talking about this

[@Jake-vy1yl]

Tramsandwich bronson absolutely absurd 💀

[@matthewconnor6817]

Z3RO they’re all to busy boring us with their ‘blah blah can pull more’ crap. Remember he was about 120kg here not 200kg like Eddie and Thor and from an era when events had more strength endurance aspect to them. had he been competing now, he’d be 30-40kg heavier.

[@RoddyBezerra]

Admiro demais esse cara! Quando comecei a assistir os WSM não acreditei no que vi, parecendo bem menor que os outros concorrentes ele deu seu máximo, sempre fez parecer pesos monstruosos como isopores. Parabéns Ahola! Id like to b viking blood! Recife / Brasil

[@winston678]

a great physique too.

[@Jeruzeus]

"If the bar ain't bending, you are preteding."

[@VortechBand]

Floppy bar for more kinetic energy

[@christisking4088]

Thanks for the vid. Good stuff in there

[@sikboy666]

One of my all time faves!

[@dangermike5429]

when i first saw ahola, i thought he looked like a mangaloid, but he's awesome, one of my favourites strongmen ever

[@korppi164]

Do you mean a 'mongoloid'?

[@veli-pekkakultanen2353]

The Mountain of Finland.

[@jackemarleeyoung]

KZbin’s algorithm is so strange... somehow it recommended an 11 year old video that’s in a different language, and I don’t even lift!

[@AIEmporium700]

And I thought I was lifting hardcore. Damn. This guy makes me feel puny.

[@Fortress333]

Supplementary exercises: Wiping blood away, spitting on floor, returning all the plates so the other gym members can start training.

[@smackedinthejaw]

Kingdom of Heaven brought me here

[@Biggmofo]

I always watch this for the nosebleeds.

[@forsakenoutcast]

Gets an Aneurysm continues to finish the set 👏.

[@romantisanon4647]

I can’t be the only one who felt disturbed but the bleeding 😧

[@macmyra08]

Great respect from Sweden!

[@megapower6065]

My boss is your county respect.

[@notoriousene9880]

My favorite strongman to watch as a kid.

[@apuuvah]

Jouko oli/on melkoinen "pikkumies"...notta ristus. Two time worlds strongest man...despite being the smallest. Thats what we call "sisu" (blood and guts).

[@TifaBrat]

When I saw him in kingdom of heaven I knew right away that those muscles are the real deal, but I didnt know he is a serious strongman.

[@mikemanzo7681]

Would like to see more training videos of him. Thank you

[@CW-Design]

His traps were just absolutely insane - they look so badass

[@AmericanBulldogFit]

I truly miss this era of strongman athletes. I'm proud to have competed as a pro in Canada during the end of the best time period in strength athletics. I left in 2009. It seems strongman turned into a fat ass powerlifting event. No thanks. I have zero interest in seeing some whale waddle up to a Deadlift bar, with a suit on, and pull a single. Go back to 1998 when there was a full week of qualifying rounds, plus the final....and THEN one had to pull a max DEADLIFT. It was all around strength, stamina, and mental toughness tested. A guy like Ahola could have been an SIS soldier, SEAL, or Coast Guard rescue diver.

[@dinomagic]

Nice life Jouko, I met him in Finland a few years ago a very nice guy too

[@alanaliyev456GT]

i remember hes Atlas Stones Amazing perf . and farmers walk.. very strong. .. the man of Leoko Bar Country

[@ugbuga99]

When they said blood, sweat and tears . This is what they meant. Hardcore af

[@kalelg4]

You all talk about his strengh, but you forget that he is also smart, he´s strategic, not only brute force make you the best, Jouko know his game and how to play it, that´s why i admire him so much.

[@DragonsCrest]

my all time favorite strongman jouko

[@bennnification]

Beast mode @ 793lbs

[@johnnyvain544]

I bet he didn't even care how he looked, he just went for strength, yet he was the slickest lookin dude to ever win wsm

[@TheMightykaz]

Man look at those traps! WOW!!!!

[@jere.s6047]

FINLAND!:D

[@fakizer123]

jouko ahola is my favourite strongman, favourite since I first saw strongman, we're both samilar aswell we both got long arms.

[@cornfedninja]

i love it!

[@Kdaddy61987]

Personel experience, i weighed 185 and im 5"10 and i benched 275 and deadlifted 425. I went to golds gym a couple of times and i met a guy right at my height but weighed 195 and we lifted the same amount of wieght. Now at this point i only lifted to maintain since i was working full time and had a child but in 3 weeks he started benching 395 and deadlifting 495 and only put on 5-10 more pounds. He was more cut but he said he started juicing. It was crazy

[@SuperA773]

you know it's heavy when your nose starts to bleed :D

[@zkyggen]

So FUCKING impressive.. Youre truely an inspiration.

[@erving25]

I just watched bad day to go fishing. Starring this guy it was awesome!!!

[@TYKKETYKKE]

I hope you read my above post. By the way, high pressure during workout, is not always connected to steroids (as you seem to state). A friend of mine once did 20-rep breathing squats, and his blood pressure was so high that his brain pretty much overboiled. What Jouko is doing here, is that he's deadlifting a weight that was clearly a complete all-out effort. Nosebleed is not anything new, i had it too while deadlifting, and i bet this ain't Jouko's first time either.

[@crazyerko]

He's practically SLDLing 800 pounds for reps

[@zflynn2]

Never challenge a guy whose nose bleeds after he's deadlifted over 360 kilos three times.

[@siddharthsehgal2349]

Fun fact he was in kingdom of heaven as a crusader in the beginning who gets killed in the forest battle

[@ZombolicBand]

i thought i recognized that guy! amazig scene, getting an arrow to the neck and kept fighting

[@siddharthsehgal2349]

@@ZombolicBand Only person who could pull off a scene like that. I loved his hair braids too, he looked like a fucking germanic berserker!

[@cornfedninja]

Jeez this guy is insane

[@MikeL118]

Wow. What drive. Thats amazing

[@CP-kb1du]

Legit pound for pound the strongest recall hearing he was 275 pounds winning unheard of to the Giants back then and today respect

[@MrMZaccone]

@desmonds22 So are you saying that nosebleeds while lifting are not a good reason to re-evaluate your health or exercise plan?

[@elektromajster]

This kind of workout with narrow grip and always letting the weight all the way down is pretty intense by the judge of the blood coming from his nose. Massive respect but makes you wonder how is possible that wsm 16 years from now can be overdued for more than 100 kg (eddie, benni, thor, shaw, savickas). The sport has grown obviously.

[@gustafwesterholm7061]

+Tilen Benčina Well not 100 kg. He hit this for reps. His PB was 406 kg :) Also the sport (especially the world's strongest man competition) was different in it's way of testing strength then, than it is now (nowadays static strength is more important). But yes they are stronger now, but it's not really fair to just compare deadlifts :)

[@NakedSnake85]

Jouko is much stronger pound for pound. Lets see Eddie Hall deadlift 3,38 times his bodyweight....

[@greglewis6170]

Jouko pulled more than 400kg @ 125kg bodyweight which means in terms of pound for pound deadlifting he is one of the strongest people who ever lived. Hall, shaw, bjornson and co are a combination of yes good genetics but more so the better understanding of training methodologies and nutrition and also better PEDS has brought on the numbers so much. Eventually it will plateau but who knows when that will be

[@Mitjitsu]

Pound for pound talk is pointless, given that the smallest and lightest person will always come out on top. You guys clearly aren't aware of square cube law.

[@Anmol205]

That is very impressive. 5 stars on the video!

[@Daddytoenails]

wow back when KZbin had a star system

[@jukkasaaranen2096]

best deathlift in the word!

[@MrMZaccone]

@desmonds22 It took you that long to research that?

[@houdiinii]

That neck looks insane!!

[@BigAngeloSantorini]

The wrong aspect ratio makes he look very tall in this video. He is actually 185, which is shot for a Stronman competitor.

[@Pennywise12528]

I was wondering why theLittleFears -- a channel about unsettling narration and clips -- had this in recommended viewing. I started to understand when he described how he lifts primarily with his back. I fully understood at the last rep.

[@kansh911]

props to you, definately tough working out your back, as you said your back is stronger than your legs so that technique is acceptable, but to be able to do 360kilos doing essentially an RDL is incredible

[@Fortress333]

I occasionally watch this video for inspiration. Too bad the video cuts off at the Supplementary Exercises. What are those? Wiping your nose? Cleaning the floor of the gym?

[@Mr.Stroke0331]

I can hear Rippetoe in the distance screaming.....DONT MOVE THE BAR TO YOUR SHINS!!!

[@pakdediamond1396]

His traps are awesome

[@_kittencake]

Yes it is. Shorter torso allows more upright torso and stronger lever arm, erector spinae which is weakest link.

[@mrmajicka]

What a badass!

[@jD-je3ry]

His wrists proof that its all hard work.

[@choffpoff2593]

Hi, i don't speak fluently finnish but at least some, and am wondering if the translation at 0.44 is a bit wrong?, i think he said that he does threes or even ones [reps] but the subtitles only says that he only said threes.

you speak rather well it seems. Yeah, he says roughly translated that "when competition time is near you do sets of 3's [or even 1's]" part in parenthesis is not translated in video.

[@PassportG]

Yep heavy Deadifts certainly help In the gym. My favourite barbell lift.

[@niceguy6152]

It is no use being alive if you can’t deadlift...even if you end up with a nose bleed

[@yezzer432]

Jouko is seriously hardcore!

[@murozman]

He is absolutely jacked!

[@sycadelic666]

Holy shit! 2:30 He rocks the Mark Bell phallic belt protrusion style

[@mediocrecountry]

between sets 1 and 2: hang on, gotta take my shirt off for this one

[@ocpowerlifters]

That last set was f*&^%ing great!!!!! LOL Thats what it is al about Got me pumped for training!!

[@Socomite]

IIRC Jouko competed primarily in Strongman, where lower back strength is an absolute must... considering the weights these guys need to move in competition with a round back (like the stones and such), it's really not that odd to see a RDL-type of deadlift here. Also, this guy is strong as shit.

[@animalizaki]

Scary deadlift.

[@Shino2600]

Why is this in my feed now?

[@thunderingrectum]

Every time I watch this video it makes me more amazed. That almost 3x360kg deadlift set with pauses is sick. Larry Wheels who is considered one of the most strongest people of all time does 3 reps of deadlift with 362kg BUT without pauses. That said, it would be imposible even for Larry Wheels to do this kind of deadlift exercise. Also Larry weights 10 kilograms more than Jouko did. Incredible man.

[@Keijo676]

thunderingrectum and Jouko was a strongman

[@ronastrahan]

Awesome video, great help for taller lifters! Did anyone catch the tranistion to another exercise after the deads? It looks like it may be an instructional series. Where did this clip come from? 150 USD to anyone who wants to sell me the complete video... or whatever this came from, Please send me a message if you have it or know where I can get it.

[@jarmomoskuvaara]

Tietääkseni tarkoitus on että selkä olis suorassa mitä se Joukon tekniikassa vaikuttaa olevan jotta pullistuma riski olis mahollisimman pieni. Sitten kun on voimaa niin paljon että mennään kehon kestävyyden rajoilla niin riskit suurenee huomattavasti, toisaalta keho vahvistuu vuosien harjoittelussa ja vaikuttaa myös kestävän kovaa voimailuakin.

[@kpcsr415]

There was so much exertion in the lift that blood vessels burst.

[@anthonyahola722]

He's a true Ahola.

[@miladirani4313]

i hadnot seen a clip that he lifted 400 kg or more , there are a video that he lift the 387.5 kg

[@Karitsa78]

Sillä tavalla! :D