The majority of 13-year-olds are focused on evading homework, guzzling sweets from the tuck shop, and doomscrolling on social media for as long as their brains can take. It’s a time in your life when you have absolutely no responsibility; pure bliss.
Well, that’s unless you are the son of the former world’s strongest man.
Instead of getting gripped by the endless one-minute videos on TikTok, the eldest of Eddie Hall’s children spends his time in the gym as he looks to emulate his father’s success.
Eight years ago, the Briton was the biggest and brawniest on the planet and could deadlift the equivalent of a large adult horse. That’s 500kg, just in case you weren’t sure.
It was a world record at the time, one that seemed unbreakable to most. However, it has since been topped by Hall’s good rival Hafthor Julius Bjornsson, who lifted 501kg back in 2020.
The 2017 strongman champ never got the chance to wrestle the record back, seeing as he retired from competition after his monumental triumph. However, it seems the baton has already been passed to his teenage son Maximus, who can already deadlift more than the majority of adults.
Eddie Hall’s son Max allegedley deadlifted an ‘unofficial’ world record for a 12 year old of 150kg
The now 13-year-old is seemingly already following in the footsteps of his strongman father
One day before Max’s 13th birthday, Hall shared a video of deadlifting a massive personal best.
The youngster impressively hauled up a mammoth 150kg, which Hall has called an ‘unofficial world record’ for a 12-year-old. That is 23kg more than heavyweight icon Tyson Fury weighed before his second fight with Oleksandr Usyk.
It’s quite a breathtaking weight for someone of Max’s age to be lifting, it’s already 30 per cent of the 500kg that his father managed to haul up back in 2016.
Under the video on Instagram, Hall wrote: ‘I’m so proud of max, he’s been lifting weights for nearly three years now and he has become what I believe to be a prime example of what a human being should be… hard working, consistent, kind, funny, caring, well mannered, polite, and above all STRONG!!!’
The craziest thing about it all? Max didn’t even know what he was lifting; the weights were covered with bin bags because he wasn’t feeling his strongest on the day.
He told his father to ‘stick whatever you want on and I’ll pull it’. And that’s what he did, before discovering just how much he pulled up to his hips when Hall ripped the bin bags off.
Maximus can also lift 30kg dumbells on each arm in chesspress, which is a weight only many men and women can dream of shifting into the air.
It’s clear that the 13-year-old is following in his father’s footsteps when it comes to lifting heavy weights, but when you compare the pair of them at that age, it’s actually rather hard to see the resemblance.
The 150kg Max seemingly lifted is 23kg heavier than Tyson Fury wieghed in for his second bout with Oleksandr Usyk
Eddie Hall previously held the world record for a deadlift of 500kg and won World’s Strongest Man back in 2017 before retiring to become a bodybuilder
Max used to follow his father Eddie around while he was still competing around the world
The apir are really close and Max shares Eddie’s passion of lifting extremely heavy weights
Last month, Hall shared a picture of himself at the same age his son Maximus has just turned. It’s fair to say, fans were left rather stunned by the picture.
The image shows the young strongman, who now plies his trade as both a bodybuilder and a boxer, standing shirtless near a beach wearing nothing but shorts, trainers, and a ring piercing on his left nipple.
Hall was a national-level swimmer at the time, cut a muscular but trimmer figure to the powerfully sculpted ‘Beast’ we know these days. However, he still looks more like a 25-year-old ready to take on Hyrox, than a teenager just a couple of years into secondary school.
Last year, he shared a photo of himself, apparently at 16, looking like a fully-fledged movie villain, packing muscles most men could only dream of. Bane from Batman’s The Dark Knight Rises incarnated.
His son Max doesn’t appear to have taken up one of his father’s more recent hobbies, though. We are yet to see him don a pair of MMA gloves, but maybe he will save that for after he has broken the deadlift world record in a decade.
Last year, the 37-year-old ventured into the realm of mixed martial arts in a rather bizarre fashion when he participated in a unique two-on-one fight in the World Freak Fight League.
Hall took on TikTok superstars Jamil and Jamel Neffati – also known as The Neffati Brothers – and massively outweighed his two opponents. Both were comfortably half the size of the strongman.
The Polish duo came into the fight at 20.7 stone combined, against Hall’s massive 26.2 stone advantage.
This is what father Eddie says he looked like when he was 13 years old, the same age as his son is now
He previously shared this photo of him, claiming it was from when he was 16 years old
This is how teh former world’s strongest man looks these days as he trains for bodybuilding
Hall has turned from weights to the octagon and is friends with UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall
Last year Hall took on two opponents in his MMA debut as he battled The Neffati Brothers, knocking out both
Can you guess what happened? I imagine so. His superior strength and weight advantage obviously pulled through, as Hall won the fight with a brutal knockout of his opponents in the chaotic third round.
‘Yeah, the 2v1 came around, very weirdly,’ Hall told Mail Sport. ‘I was just training for a big fight that got canceled, and then there was a 2v1 fight landing on my lap.
‘And I thought, you know what? Sod it. Let’s go for a bit of a risk. But because of the size difference, I took it on. So it went very well.’
Maximus, I’m sure, will always feel protected, too. A video recently circulated of his father, Eddie, chasing down a moving car after becoming involved in a furious row with motorists who allegedly created a disturbance outside his Staffordshire home.
Hall can be seen swearing at the driver of a blue BMW and threatening, ‘I’ll twist your f***ing head off’ as the car pulls away following the altercation.
The footage depicts the final moments of a dispute that began off camera before escalating, with Hall claiming his children had earlier been upset by the honking of car horns outside his property.
‘This video has been going viral across the internet painting me as a bad guy who smashes cars up, threatens people and upsets kids,’ Hall posted on X. ‘Well the truth is now Live on my YouTube channel so please look at both sides of the story before judging!
‘3 blacked out cars circled my kids home last night at 9pm revving engines, beeping horns, looking into the property and wouldn’t leave when asked to do so… things escalated and here you’re seeing the last 30 seconds of a total of an 18 minute harassment of my kids peaceful place of sanctuary.’
Earlier this year, Hall was involved in a furious row with motorists parked outside his Staffordshire home
Hall appeared incensed by something the driver of a blue BMW said to him as it pulled away
Hall was seen sprinting after the car following the clash, seemingly trying to grab a phone
At the backend of the video, as the two cars pulled away, Hall gave chase and a young child was heard crying in the back seat of the second car.
‘Hey, get out, get out you f**ing p***k,’ Hall is heard screaming. ‘I’ll f***ing rip your head, I’ll twist your f***ng head off. All of you get out, I’ll rip your f***ing head off.’
He continued on his YouTube channel: ‘I am just telling him to leave. I don’t want to hear anything he has to say. You have been asked to leave politely, been asked to leave with a bit of a grunt, just f*** off.
He added: ‘The last bit of the interaction looks really bad. But when you get the context you will understand. I am telling this guy to f*** off, you are scaring my kids. He then says something like he wants a picture with his kids, I said I don’t care. You want me to respect your children’s emotions, what about my kids’ emotions?
‘He then starts creeping away, and he looks at me and says “I’m going to knock you the f*** out”. Of course, after an 18-minute interaction, you see red. I am protecting my kids, so I blow up.
‘I could see the guy was filming me so I ran towards the car to grab his phone and throw it in a bush or something. I might have clipped the side of the door with my hand. I didn’t manage to get a hold of the guy at all – unfortunately.’
