Which barbell sport is the most impressive, which requires the most genetic talent and dedication (drugs included)

1. Strongman
2. Weightlifting
3. Powerlifting
- power gap -
4. CrossFit
- power gap -
5. Bodybuilding

Strongman requires less genetic talent than olympic weightlifting, keep coping. If you want to do cardio watch long distance running at the olympics.

depth of oly talent pool >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> literally who sports

Wrong.
>1. Weightlifting
>2. Strongman
>3. Powerlifting
>4. Crossfit
>5. Bodybuilding

>it has to be in the Olympics to be a real sport
Haha pathetic.

Tell me more about how athletic you are for doing 1 rep and then comparing a number to other people who also did 1 rep. Wow, amazing.

Just like wrestling, strongman has many competitive movements that need to be mastered. You only have 2.

Kung Fu isn't a competitive sport it doesn't even have sparring, what's it got to do with this discussion?

Throughout the majority of the world Oly lifting is highly competitive and developed from a young age with only the best competitors selected from a young age. It's only in Anglo countries (US, UK, Canada, Australia, NZ) that it gets the people who weren't athletic growing up as you correctly described.

>shotputters aren't athletic
>swimmers aren't athletic
>sprinters aren't athletic
>jumpers aren't athletic
Moron

Cope harder, strongman is more impressive than weighifting. Half of your sport is one event in strongman.

>just be literally some of the most athletic/explosive athletes on the planet bro

Even in anglo countries oly gets good people, the difference is that they don't get the same level of drug or financial support.

oly and strongman

There's no strongman event that includes weightlifting, you retarded incel.

Strongman is more drugs based than even Bodybuilding and is low skill, literally it's part of the whole point of the sport. I think it is great and where all strength based sports come from but without much of a standard competition and no drug testing in its current form it has some serious problems. It's meant to be a show not a competitive sport akin to say Olympic sports.

Strongman is basically 90% variants of powerlifting shit and 10% keg throw/picking up awkwardly shaped things. Oh yeah and nild cardio added in

There are several events that involve cleaning and pressing, same thing. Cope harder weakling.

Strongman. Olympic lifting is second because you need elite power and flexibility genes, but there's reasonable weight classes. Strongman's smallest pro weight class is 200lbs. And you need to be able to run/have endurance.

You have to be close to 6 foot minimum height with a robust frame to be a serious Strongman contender. Oly weight classes open up the sport to a wider talent pool (just need power genes)

Lol, CrossFit requires more talent than powershitting. Remember that the powerlifting movements are part of CrossFit.

No it's not moron.
P.s. olympic weightlifters clean and pressed more than any strongman back in the 60s/70s

If you want to be an elite super heavyweight oly lifter you need to be 6'5+ minimum.

Also strongmen don't get drug tested. Oly lifters do and did.

This is the big difference, strongmen blast fuckhuge amounts of drugs all year while olympic weightlifters cant do that

Crossshit don't bench. And only squat or deadlift stupidly low weights for a stupid amount of reps with shit form from what have seen of any crossshitters who have come to my powerlifting gym.

Everybody definitely agrees that it's not powershitter lardlifters lmfao

Exactly, if strongmen lifted under the same conditions as oly lifters their lifts would be significantly lower.

Olympic lifting - most talent and dedication required high skill level in learning complex weighted movements. Boring to watch without some understanding of the movements and not relatable unless you already train in oly lifting and weight classes allow for potential despite genetics.

Strongman - most impressive to watch upper limits of human strength being tested most fun events and most impressive athletes as the events themselves benefit from genetic freaks and big bois. World wide sport understood by all and watched by everyone even without an understanding on a sport or athletic level. Combination of skill strength and genetics required to get high up the sport.

Powerlifting - most relatable to watch as it's simple barbell movements that anyone can do and can compare strength, also most simple to get involved in and take part although hard to follow as there are so many divisions rules and variations amongst meets and creates many niches within a niche. Fun to watch big lifts or people you know it follow on social media but dull in itself.

Bodybuilding - The most Gay and bizarre to watch nobody likes the actual events.

Crossfit - all the skill required for Olympic lifts is haphazardly abused and done for reps by pro gym goers who have mastered the art of repeating a random bunch of exercises with no relation to each other for various goals (time, reps, weight) in random order purely for the purpose of seeing how tired you can get and taking low dose steroids the whole time and acting like an Olympian. Oh and they score it all somehow and sometimes they're on teams sometimes they aren't and alot of them get hurt.

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This is really the only thing preventing Strongman from being GOAT. It really is the best test of general strength, but it needs to be drug tested (not thinking any sport is drug free, strict testing just acts as a basic intelligence test and at minimum stops stupid juicing from people who have no business even doing the sport).

But it doesn't make enough money and is based on one of shows so can't imagine will introduce drug testing ever. The top strongmen blast more than Mr Olympia competitors.

If strongan became drug testing, all the lifters would lose 50kg+ bodyweight and it would lose it's appeal

Powerlifting isn't meant to be a high level sport. Even powerlifters don't think it should be an Olympic sport say. It's meant to be a low skill sport anyone can do that tests very general strength. Though you are wrong about lardarses in unequipped raw powerlifting since it is weightclass based. In Equipped yeah u get fatties.

Strongman without a doubt requires the most unique set of genetics.
To win strongman
>Must be like 6' 3" at a minimum now. Even then, the Shaw's and Thor's will be hard to overcome
>Must have large frame with big joints
>Must eat insane amount of food
>Train nearly every day
>PEDs
>Long training career to reach the top
>Mastery of many disciplines

Oly
>Can conceivably be a champion at any height
>Must train from child, but will hit peak earlier
>Not such insane metabolic requirements
>Autistic level of mastery for two movements
>genetic selection for fast twitch explosiveness

I think the top strongman is a more rare specimen than the top weightlifter. Powerlifting is even less rare.

Delusional.
Eddie Hall and Vytautas Lalas are 6'1 and 5'9.
Oly requires far better genetics at every height and bodyweight.

Olympic weightlifting, very closely followed by strongman.

Hall is 6' 3", and Lylas is 5' 10" and will never win WSM while Hafthor is still competing. His 2013 Arnold classic win only happened because Shaw had not recovered from his 2012 injury. Lylas 100% would never beat Shaw or Thor 100%. His frame is too small, and he isn't capable of carrying the lean body mass necessary to beat them.

OmegaMogged

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Who cares, olympic weightlifting is at a higher level than anything done in strongman and involves a fraction of the drugs.
p.s. hall is lying about his height, he's 6'1 at best

>Olympic weightlifting, very closely followed by strongman.
i love owl but strongman requires way more genetic talent. you have to be hugely tall and strong. those guys are quick too. with owl you need to be quick and strong but any height works.

>strongman requires way more genetic talent.
No it doesn't. Nothing in strongman comes close to the feats done by super heavyweight oly lifters, despite strongmen being on drugs all year without testing.

How much do you think any weightlifter could put on the axle clean and press, or the log? More than Hall or Z? Doubt it. Even if they were able to, it would be marginally more. Now imagine them trying to load stones or pull >1,000 on any bar. They would get absolutely BTFO.

Z and hall are on every drug you can think of all year. Weightlifters are not. But if you want to see how much weightlifters could clean and press, look to the 1972 olympic games. Weightlifter were clean and pressing 225 - 230kg at bodyweights much lower than modern strongmen and with less drugs.