Lifter posts 380kg deadlift reps
- Hafthor Bjornsson, the former World’s Strongest Man, posted a new YouTube training video on May 6 showing 380 kg deadlift reps in his 515 kg chase. - The clip sits inside Bjornsson’s public “Road to 515kg” series, and his channel also shows a 470 kg deadlift upload from late April. - That matters because 515 kg would move beyond the current all-time deadlift frontier and turn routine training clips into record-watch checkpoints.
Deadlift training is usually private, boring, and half-finished by the time fans see any of it. Hafthor Bjornsson is doing the opposite. He’s turning the whole thing into a public build — one YouTube episode at a time — and the latest checkpoint is a May 6 video showing 380 kg for reps as part of his “Road to 515kg” series. (youtube.com) ### Who posted it? This is Bjornsson — better known to a lot of people as The Mountain from *Game of Thrones*, but in strength sports he’s a former World’s Strongest Man and one of the few humans who can make 380 kg look like training weight. The upload is on his own YouTube channel, which has been packaging this deadlift push as a serialized project rather than a one-off PR stunt. (yout([youtube.com)What actually happened in this clip? The new upload is titled “380kg Deadlift for Reps | Road to 515kg.” That tells you the point right away — this was not the max-attempt day. It was a volume day, or at least a work-capacity day, where the story is that Bjornsson is moving huge weight repeatedly while keeping the larger 515 kg goal front and center. The clip was crawled yesterday and(youtube.com)a niche strongman training post before it spreads through lifting circles. (youtube.com) ### Why does “for reps” matter? Because one giant single can be a highlight. Reps suggest something else — usable strength, repeatability, and a base that can support bigger singles later. In strength sports terms, this is the difference between flashing one impossible-looking effort and showing that the impossible-looking effort is becoming normal. That’s why these in-between sessions ma(youtube.com) is real. (youtube.com) ### What is the 515 kg target? It’s exactly what it sounds like — Bjornsson is publicly aiming at a 515 kg deadlift. That number is not just “very heavy.” It’s a direct shot past the outer edge of what elite strongmen have treated as the modern deadlift ceiling. Once you put that number in the title of a series, every training session becomes evidence for or against the claim. (youtube.c([youtube.com)is part of a longer progression? Yes — and that’s the real shape of the story. Search results on his channel show an earlier “380KG Deadlift - Road to 515KG - Episode 4,” published about three months ago, and a newer “470KG Deadlift – Road to 515KG World Record” upload from roughly two weeks ago. So the May 6 clip is not random gym content. It sits inside a visible progression wh(youtube.com)ing them as milestones. (youtube.com) ### Why post this on YouTube instead of waiting for meet day? Because the audience for strength sports loves the build almost as much as the result. A deadlift campaign works well as episodic media — one week it’s reps, another week it’s a heavy single, then a near-max tease. Basically, Bjornsson is doing two things at once: training for a historic number and turning that chase into conte(youtube.com 1)(youtube.com 2) ### What should people take from it? Not that 380 kg for reps is the headline by itself — absurd as that is. The bigger point is that Bjornsson wants the public to see the ladder, not just the top rung. If he ever does take a serious run at 515 kg, these videos will read like the breadcrumb trail showing how close he thought he was all along. (youtube.com)t it’s also a signal. Bjornsson is still building the case in public, and every new upload makes the 515 kg chase feel a little less like fantasy and a little more like a scheduled attempt waiting for its date. (youtube.com)
