The Heaviest "Cheat" Curls Ever - How Much Could Arnold Curl? Bill Kazmaier curled 440lbs?

#Arnoldschwarzenegger #Strongman #Bodybuilding
We've talked a lot about strict curls, but what about the heaviest curls that weren't done strict? Kaz? Arnold? 440lbs? Let's talk about it.
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What's your heaviest curl ever? Comment below!!!

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Do a video on jack3D

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60kg , my bodyweight at that time , dumbbels rules for wrist/elbow health

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Nick's Strength and Power 1000 kilos but the cameras weren’t on...

[@AironNoriaLong]

I just did an 18 kg single arm right hand stict curl with a dumbell. New PR.

[@pyrrosdimas5798]

Probably like 56 kg at 92 kg

[@LarryWheels]

I tried seated curls like Denis was performing at the end of the video for the first time. I got 70kg for 8. 105kg is nuts. Would not be surprised if he puts up a 115kg strict curl in the next couple of weeks.

[@mikoriikonen7651]

When Denis broke the world record his best strict set was 100kg for 8 reps.

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The man, the myth, the legend!

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Larry fucken wheels.

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Hello larry

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2020: The year the most biceps will be torn

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Only the strongest survive

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@@XsuperswagXD Brad Castleberry?💪💪💪💪💪😎

[@railander]

fearmongering

[@RunOrDie77]

I don't think many actually torn their biceps during strict curl tbh, bcuz they doesnt extend their biceps at the extremity. Is not that easy to tear it, look at all the clowns that deadlifts with bent arms, having all the weight on their biceps and there arent many that tear the biceps.

[@SalahEd25]

Lazar Even with perfect form, the biceps muscles are small and can't keep up once they undergo huge tension or fatigue due to either curling tremendous weight or training them daily.

[@dinkleberg6982]

never thought i’d see the day when kyriakos grizzly made it into one of these vids

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You gotta love the Grizz

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He's got a whole video of his own by Nick

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[@Reformed555]

I know kyriako grizzly in person i lived in greece and we lived in the same city he is one of my dads friends

[@travisdeming9416]

I was hoping you would’ve put some brad castleberry cheat curls in lol

[@NicksStrengthandPower]

I'll never give that clown free publicity again

[@craigj4979]

brad curled 700 lbs just last week man lol I find it funny all these people that really believe his lifts are real though idiots

[@GYMJAX]

Craig Jones Brad is the Micheal Jordan of powerlifting.

[@DylanFowler]

I was thinking the same, lol. The closest Brad will ever get to a strict curl, is if he puts hair curlers in his hair.

[@fabiotieri3155]

@@craigj4979 What?!?! 850 lbs?!?! How the hell did he lift 1200 lbs?!

[@DeathDealerX07]

Magnus Samuelsson's curls were extremely impressive. Pretty close to strict while curling 308lb. It's unreal strength.

[@dimitrisiltala3924]

Yep. There was one WSM, where armwresting was one qualification-event, and Magnus broke one man arm. Very genious event to WSM..

[@muhammadputera6593]

@@dimitrisiltala3924 guy whose arm he broke is bigger than him too, 6'10 Nathan Jones

[@ferencjuhasz9858]

It was like weight lifting ...it was a power clean still super impressive

[@tjcmoto5484]

Definitely that is the form most people would use in the gym to train as a strict curl.

[@Ahle85]

The man that ended Nathan jones career

[@Ricardo-vk9zw]

8:25 that strict curl was clean ASF!!!! Impressive

[@WilhelmWhatever]

Age 22....

[@royharron4348]

He made it look easy. This guy to watch out for in the future, for sure

[@ligthstrength]

its not 91 kg curl. There was less than his record

[@Aleksi723]

elbows barely move and actually starts with straight arms. all these other guys are doing more like tricep push. Starts arms at 45 degree angle and bringing elbows up. that leonidas dude has impressive biceps. edit: james harrison does it right too.

[@fragsman]

@@ligthstrength agree. Didn't noticed. It was WAY too easy. There is only 1 20kg plate each side.

[@Sha0linShadowb0xing]

There used to be a guy in my gym, we called him the bus driver and he would hammer curl 120's..Looked actually regular.

[@Sealed_Chamber]

That's very heavy but it's much easier than doing standard curls with the same weight.

[@matteocicaloni]

@The Unbeatable Lol dont say bs

[@Ben_Lorentz]

@The Unbeatable with the sloppiest elbow and shoulder destroying form imaginable.

[@xtaucheranzug9110]

8:24 Dude, this 91kg looked easy as hell for him.. what a beast

[@DRVAG]

i saw this video on his channel. He made a arm wrestling video three days before this competition and sore muscles in both arms. He can do definitely more then this 91kg at 135 kg bodyweight. He beat the german record in his first try wich was 80kg (junior class)

[@ErC0411]

On his instagram you can see a 92.5 kg Strict curl (not judged but definetely good). That one looked just as easy as this one. And he is not even seriously training for it :D

[@dom-dj6dx]

he curled 86 kg in the shown clip, it was his second try after that he curled 91kg :)

[@Aleksi723]

And only one doing full curl. These other guys are doing more like a push. Their arms don't start with straight arms and I bet many of these guys would not even get 90kg if they do it right. That's just so big cheat and takes alot from biceps.

[@tannerringley4166]

The Magnus Samuelsson curl is the most impressive, imo. Just like the videos of him closing the #4 COC gripper. Truly god tier arm strength.

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Viking Power !! 👍💪💪💪😁

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Magnus handles a straight bar with working weight form, he uses some momentum but has an incredible well controlled eccentric portion. A thing a beauty really.

[@tannerringley4166]

Matthew definitely would be interesting. Crush strength is very different than wrist, elbow, and shoulder rotational strength. Devon consistently takes down dudes way bigger than him because he’s a master tactician (mentally and physically). Would definitely be a fun match to watch.

[@johnbraucher1499]

Juiji did #5 easily. Just fyi.

[@mikanyyssis]

And breaking Megamans arm in armwrestling was impressive too!! 😂

[@Sengg0]

Athlean X accomplished this feat no more than an hour ago

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🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

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But it's killing your gains.

[@fabiotieri3155]

Last time Dennis fully extended his triceps Nick was still making noob gainz.

[@Azola69]

tendons too short from all the curling lmao

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@@Azola69 And armwrestling

[@stu73ke]

Should he really have a record then?

[@Azola69]

@@stu73ke well yes what kinda question is that lol

[@BIGMIKEC63]

Ive met Magnus Samuelsson in real life. I can tell you one thing - you wouldnt doubt that he could curl 140kgs. That guy was H U G E

[@Slaskhask]

The training video where Magnus Samuelsson do the curls can be found on youtube if anyone wants to check it out. It's called world's strongest arms. In it Svend Karlsen world's strongest man in 2001 does a couple of reps with the 140 kg as well. Magnus has several other impressive feats of strength in the video like closing the #4 Captains of crush and benching 270 kg for a couple of reps.

[@krste3000]

@@Slaskhask the #4 crush is insane

[@shaipey]

He got long arms too which makes it more impressive.

[@ralphruhl3806]

Samuelsson is 6 foot 6 ( 198 cm ) and 330 lbs ( 150 kg ), he can close a CoC #4 and bench press 270 kg !!

[@bulkman3613]

I still doubt.

[@NaturalHypertrophy]

Nick is finally producing the curl oriented content we all come here to see

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Its always about the curwality kontent.

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@@aviramneehar7517 I see what you did there 😂😂

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It's time for the curlbros to rise again. All squat racks beware.

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@@NicksStrengthandPower your onto something there.

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Nick and larry will be responsible for too many bicep tears😂

[@justintime194]

Great idea for a video! Good job, Nick!

[@shreddy412]

I’m loving how your videos are garnering a ton of interest in curling. It was always a favourite lift of mine. My best sat at a 155 cheat curl at 160lbs body weight.

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also note magnus's curls seem to have been with a straight bar lol.

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@The Collector...

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@The Collector CLean?

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nvmffs roids

[@JacobSmith-fj1io]

Let's talk about jeff Cavaliers pound for pound greatest curl of all time. Wait do you have a better strict curl than cheat?

[@kiyoponnn]

His fake weights curl?

[@JacobSmith-fj1io]

@@kiyoponnn yeah his 135 strict barbell for 8 that he claims, he just doesn't understand the weights he's talking about.

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@@JacobSmith-fj1io Agreed

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Jacob Smith Ure gonna say Nick is also faking weights too at a competition or what?

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@@a2-antonio892 no

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I've really been enjoying your past few videos

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I bet nick has a poster of kyriakos grizzly in his room

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Emanuele Del Grande who doesn’t have one of those?

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It's sad that all these legends are aging and will one day leave us. Arnie for me is the greatest bodybuilder/weightlifter to ever live. Absolute perfection

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Really enjoying your content Nick💪🏼

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Love all your content brother! subscribed ❤️

[@justinmartin2370]

Ive always felt insanely heavy barbell curls hurt everything BUT my biceps.

[@NicksStrengthandPower]

I feel that

[@boss12356]

hahah same

[@johnbracewell3700]

any heavy weight can have that affect on the body tho lol

[@liammorgans7329]

Larry said the same thing in his recent video

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I’m not alone 🤣

[@skylinefan4420]

Surely when Kirill could do 100kg curls with reverse grip with relative ease, in his prime he could have smashed the record

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Awesome old school nick video. Love it dude,.

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You know what bro. I’m proud of you. Almost at 1 million. Got the big names talking about you. Everyday content. Too much legitness my dude. Been here since well damn before 50k bro. Keep it up 💪🏼💪🏼

[@RichM3000]

Jeff Cavaliere did 135x8, strict form and leaning slightly forward. He made it look so easy, due to his superior training methods like exhaling before squatting, you'd swear they were fake plates.

[@barrykennedy9947]

Personal watched Kaz at age 49 grab two 80 lb dumbells to warm up doing curls and carry on a conversation like he had no weights in his hands

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Always interesting. thanks Nick

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Great video Nick

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thank you bro

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Happy to se Magnus Samuelson in this video, his curls are the most impressive imo, didn’t cheat as much and controlled on the way down

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Viking Power!👍💪💪💪💪😀

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I love it when you do these type of videos bro

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Hell yeah great video Nick

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7:13 Arnold wasn't using fake weights to show off, he was just showing Jeff Cavaliere & Brad Castleberry how it's done

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Hahahah

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Greg Doucette wants to know your location

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Bro your taking the science out of strength training. Stop it.

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When I was younger, Bill came to my school not once, but twice. He is genuinely an awesome guy, and performed some amazing feats of strength!

[@beaunelson8929]

Very cool how you brought the strict curl back into contention!! Standing strict press should be next!!

[@AironNoriaLong]

Epic Content Nick!

[@stevenmckenna6721]

Got to suggest Magnus is the most impressive when taking into account the relative "cheat" involved while curling. His 140 for 4 is definitely the cleanest looking. Strongest arms ever! Would be interesting to do a grip strength comparison between him and Brian Shaw and/or other grip legends... Nudge nudge wink wink Nick 😜

[@nruss9912]

I’ll never have bills strength, but 440lbs??? That just doesn’t seem likely honestly

[@christianekman]

Love how Nick showed literally the world record holder doing 70lbs less than Kazmaier supposedly did, and then saying "it's not so unlikely". Uh. Yeah. It is damn near impossible, in fact. Adding 70lbs on top of what the current world record holder does is no joke. I don't care if you're Kazmaier or not.

[@standepain]

Just watch him at the 1981 World's Strongest Man. He basically curls/cleans a 360 log like a toy. 440 cheat curl is not out of the realm of possibility.

[@christianekman]

@Truth God sorry. Don't care if he was special. He's not 20% stronger than the number 2 guy. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Of which there is literally zero for this.

[@christianekman]

@Truth God agree to disagree. My standard for evidence is higher than a website claiming the dude did something in public. Wouldn't hold up in a court of law, exactly.

[@hannibalbarca6308]

Bodyweight (and a gut) helps a ton in cheat curls...Kaz was 315+ with a gut and one of the stongest humans to ever live. Its possible lol

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Loving this curl content. I swear if nick covers it it becomes a trend.

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Pretty sure that is nicks plan. He is a fan of the curl and is using his platform to promote it. Smart move

[@fadetoblack2690]

Fantastic videos lately

[@gordlawson11]

the cheat curl is hilarious - you start and finish the movement with your arms at 90 degrees. it's all in the swing.

[@mikeoxmaul1788]

K

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K expert haha

[@forkshootertb96]

I'd call that more of a bounce than a swing haha!

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Well to keep the hand at 90 degrees requires a lot of strength

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Great video bro

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Great video @nick

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Im a simple sweed, i see magnus i press the like button!

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@Marcus Bailey it is Swede. He just misspelled.

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Please do more videos about kyriakos grizzly. That man is a legend.

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You really stepped up your video quality lately. Kudos.

[@stephencox4509]

You are making this curl phenomenon happen bro. Don't sell yourself short. You have a lot of influence these days and it's well deserved.

[@hughw2377]

8:55 he's very brave to drop those weights near his feet like that👀

[@Craig.229]

7:44 Arnold’s vein in his arm is bigger than my whole arm (thanks genc)

[@gencademi9362]

Vein

[@adithyanr.r9907]

Are you born yet ? Or are you still an embryo to have such a small arm

[@Craig.229]

Genc Ademi cheers

[@Craig.229]

Adithyan R.R I’m a kangaroo 🦘

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@@Craig.229 kangaroos also have bigger arm than Arnold's veins 😂 Craig the kangaroo

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It was great of Larry to actually shout you out in his vid !

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Great vid

[@nejnej4676]

Fun fact about magnus samuellson: he once broke a guys arm i armwrestling, *it wasnt up purpose*

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Wasn't he the guy that broke Nathan Jones arm?

[@NicksStrengthandPower]

Not surprising

[@liammorgans7329]

On purpose?

[@nejnej4676]

@@NicksStrengthandPower hes a beast, and well known in sweden, still kinda big even tough hes kinda old, love your videos btw nick! keep it up!!

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@@liammorgans7329 not on purpose, it was a normal armwrestling competition that gone south wats.

[@bigguy130]

I seem to remember seeing an interview years ago with Manfred Hoeberl and he claimed to be able to do 440 lb. cheat curls. That was of course before an injury sent him into retirement.

[@kidcudi4596]

Dude you have definitely started a wave of curling. This is effin dope. Everyone is about to have yoked biceps this summer lol

[@raid8010]

All this from a single video by nick 🔥

[@billyshupe702]

Brad "Deenkleberry" Castleberry just strict curled 675 with 1 hand!!!💪👌 he's bye far the strongest man that ever lived!!!

[@castielemmanuel9915]

My heaviest curl is 60kg x3 reps ....all natural so where do l fit into this conversation

[@johnyurick8785]

Great job Nick💪🇺🇸😎🌴

[@mattepton5731]

You leaned into it, but I thought it was good. Nicely done Nick.

[@NateBostian]

We need a new category: The Curl Clean. It’s like a hanging clean, but with a supinated grip. Because that’s what these super heavy curls are. They are a supinated hanging clean.

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Eric Bugenhagen

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YOU HAVE TO LIVE IT

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Nick's Strength and Motivation!!

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I love these vids

[@jasonwhitis3103]

Jimmy "the iron bull" pelechia had some pretty crazy strength videos on KZbin. Although not done with great form like these guys. Dude had 1000 pounds on the bench in the 80's

[@MAJORAandFRIENDS]

These cheat curl dudes must have great chiropractors

[@deerseason9938]

this was a super interesting video

[@micahclark24]

I remember hearing John Romano Say the road warriors(the wrestlers) came into a gym he was training at One time and started curls 315 for sets for f 10-15

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Make sure you LIKE this video if you enjoyed it and want to see more documentary/ history style videos!

[@ayushchavan1746]

Nick are you going to compete again in strict curl competition?

[@NicksStrengthandPower]

yes! like this comment if you want me to!

[@p.maesthetics7154]

@@NicksStrengthandPower yes please,love to see that

[@TheBestofJuan]

Hey guys so I would like to start training the strict curl and other variations for it, are there any tips you guys have to avoid tearing a bicep?

[@jaimeeee8589]

So passionate about the curl

[@brayden2295]

these guys out here curling more than my deadlift

[@frazix7075]

@@nickv5576 true

[@brayden2295]

@@nickv5576 tbh they do but I'm only 14 and been training properly for about 6 months

[@NicksStrengthandPower]

haha!

[@bobcrane2720]

7:15 Vince's wooden weights?

[@NicksStrengthandPower]

it was for a movie

[@vt3741]

That first clip of Kas was filmed at Daves Gym in Northwich , Cheshire ,U.K. You could contact them to see if they have any more film footage, the gym is still there.

[@biggayjonbon-bon5570]

We need a video of the Kaz curl!!!!!

[@tommyjones1891]

I forgot how insane Arnold's arms really were

[@wauliepalnuts6134]

*_I ONCE CURLED MY MOTHER IN LAW._* *_LET'S SEE WHO COMES IN SECOND PLACE._*

[@TruthTellert63]

You win.

[@itkovian11]

Hey Nick, I'm a disabled veteran who is missing the majority of my right bicep due to severe injury. It's taken years to just be able to use my arm correctly again, but I'm wanting to try and do this challenge just to see. Due to my health issues I'm severely underweight. I'm 6' and at my heaviest I was around 195lbs, but right now I only weigh roughly 130 and just a few months ago I was down to 110 lbs because of a car crash I was in this past October. I actually compound fractured my (left) other forearm then as well. So I have two severely damage arms, but am totally in out of pure curiosity!

[@douglasmueller4684]

Wow simply amazing. That's some strong arms.

[@drakko5632]

I like how Strongman back then didn’t look all fat and shit, yes they had a belly but not as today. Well same with bodybuilding

[@fluphybunny930]

There were fat strongmen back then, same as today. Its a balancing act as that stomach is useful for some lifts and the extra weight for some pulls. Its also a disadvantage when they have events with lighter weights where speed is needed.

[@drakko5632]

GZxNASTY I seem him but normally during competition he’s always big

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IMAGINE IF BIG LENNY GETS A SPECIAL INVITE TO THE 2020 MR.OLYMPIA

[@NicksStrengthandPower]

He has the gut for it

[@dionisis0018]

I still do once every couple of months a strict curl workout...i used to do them more regularly back in 2016 after i first started watching nick strength and power. The most i ever strict curled was 52kg at 76kg bodyweight.

[@forkshootertb96]

Strong curl Nick!

[@AftabAnsari018]

You have started a "strict curl" movement

[@DarthBane-zf8wv]

You know what I don’t like about weights... they’re so heavy

[@NicksStrengthandPower]

they're

[@liammorgans7329]

Where?

[@roffe8751]

When it comes to Swedish athletes/sportsman alot or people bring up Stegmark, Borg, Ibrahimovic, Waldner, Forsberg etc. But for me its Samuelsson all the way baby. Biggest pride we have. What a beast of a human beeing. Thanks for including him in this video.

[@vinaykumar488]

Tommorow is my .. biceps / triceps day ... And I am going to do .. strict biceps curl tomorrow 🔥🔥💪💪

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7:04 cant get much better than that!

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lol

[@adamdemant7666]

Kaz was a beast but I don't believe that he curled 440lbs

[@shoaibhaq8680]

Yep smells b.s to me... Or else there would have been a video

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I hope someone has a video or a picture that surfaces after seeing this video

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I could see him do a horrible reverse grip clean ^^

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Nick's Strict Curl and Power!

[@zrn1072]

@Nick'sStrengthandPower can u make a video of you doing strict curls also your maximum?

[@stealthassasin1day291]

Strict curl weights increments are harder per lb than any other lift. that 30-50 lb difference might as well be 100+lb in another lift.

[@cody8907]

Brad castleberry would wipe the floor on all these guys

[@JamesCarmichael]

My dad used to strict curl 60kgs for 10 reps with an EZ bar. I remember it turning heads in the gym when we'd train together.

[@aguywholifts680]

damn what a beast

[@throwsbear4334]

Ricky Bruch the Swedish Discus thrower has some crazy curling videos out there