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The stone remains widely used in the United Kingdom and Ireland for human body weight: in those countries people may commonly be said to weigh, e.g., "11 stone 4" (11 stones and 4 pounds), rather than "72 kilograms" as in most of the other countries, or "158 pounds", the conventional way of expressing the same weight in the US and in Canada. [38]
Atlas stone overhead press – 115 kg (254 lb) x 4 reps (unofficial world record) [187] Natural stone to shoulder – 194 kg (428 lb) [196] Natural stone overhead press – 155 kg (342 lb) (unofficial world record) [197] → Hafþór has also pressed a 137 kg (302 lb) stone and a 144 kg (317 lb) stone, back to back [198]
Weight: 163.5 kilograms (360 lb) for as many repetitions as possible. ... Weight: 5 Atlas Stone series ranging from 150–210 kilograms (330–460 lb)
In the early nineteenth century, there were no standard weight classes. In 1823, the Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue said the limit for a "light weight" was 12 stone (168 lb, 76.2 kg) while Sportsman's Slang the same year gave 11 stone (154 lb, 69.9 kg) as the limit. [8]
Among other known ancient Irish stones are the Aughrim Graveyard Stone which weighs 115 kg (254 lb) and meant to be shouldered, the Faha Stones which are a pair weighing 162 kg (357 lb) and 112 kg (247 lb), and the 215 kg (474 lb) Flag of Denn, which is a heavy, almost perfectly rectangular stone associated with strong men of the parish who ...
For a variety of reasons (largely historical), weight classes of the same name can be of vastly different weights. For example, a boxing middleweight weighs up to 72 kg (160 lb), an ISKA middleweight upper limit is 75 kg (165 lb), and a K-1 middleweight upper limit is 70 kg (154 lb).
Log lift – 163.5 kg (360 lb) (1987 Pure Strength) (Former World Record) [26] Húsafell Stone carry – 186 kg (410 lb) for 54.96 metres (180 ft 4 in) (Date unknown) → Jón Páll was also famous for dancing with the Húsafell Stone in 1985 Iceland's Strongest Man [14]
It was built out of 186 stones. The average weight of each stone was almost 1,500 lb (680 kg) (.75 tons). They found that four or five men could use levers to flip stones less than a ton and roll them to transport them. 44 men took 22 days to complete the pyramid, including the carving of the stones.