How do you prepare to smash a Guinness World Record? If you’re Strongwoman athletes Sam Taylor and Izzy Tait, half an hour in the back of the Motorpoint Arena Nottingham will apparently suffice.
At this year’s Ultimate Strongwoman competition over the bank holiday weekend, the duo executed a beastly 454-kg (1,000-lb) tandem deadlift. The crowd was roused, the lift was deceivingly casual. To indulge a game that makes most within the Strongman milieu chuckle bashfully and deflect attention anywhere else, the poundage is roughly the weight of an adult male moose, four full size refrigerators or two Andre the Giants.
The move not only broke the previous Guinness world record of 245-kg (roughly the size of an adult male grizzly bear) lifted by two females, but comprehensively obliterated it.
