Slow news day.

Let’s talk about Hafthor Bjornsson, the guy who plays “The Mountain” on Game of Thrones, which returns in April. I’m pumped. I need to see what happens with the incest and the dragons.

Anyway, Bjornsson is a massive dude, something like 6’9″ and almost 400 pounds. He set a world record with a 1,041 pound deadlift last March, which is insane.

He broke that record this week by lifting 1,042 pounds, and the video is wild. Check out the guys in the background just going crazy and urging him on:

Outrageous. Looks like the dude is lifting a french fry.

Here’s some more on the record, via Muscle and Fitness:

We don’t have to tell you that 1,042 pounds is an incredible amount of weight, because one look at the seriously bent barbell in Björnsson’s video makes it pretty obvious.

The previous elephant bar world record was 1,041 pounds, set by Björnsson at the 2018 Arnold Strongman Classic. Over the summer, he also won the 2018 World’s Strongest ManOpens a New Window. competition. It’s safe to say that 2018 was the 30-year-old strongman’s biggest year yet, and he’s clearly starting 2019 off on the right foot.

Happy Friday.