Ari Siltaoja broke the world record on the IronMind Hub with a lift of 38.02 kg while competing in the Finnish leg of the 2014 King Kong grip strength competition this past weekend.


Ari Siltaoja pulled 38.02 kg on the IronMind Hub for a new world record. IronMind® | Photo courtesy of Juha Harju/Gripmonsters


The IronMind Hub is based on a classic test of pinch grip strength—lifting an old-style, wide flange York 45-lb. plate by the hub.

29-year old Ari Siltaoja is 181 cm (5’ 11”) tall and weighs about 99 kg (218 lb.). He told IronMind, “[I have] been training grip for about two years. It was two years ago when I entered a local strongman competition and one of the events was the Rolling Thunder. I won the grip part of the competition and was hooked ever since.

“This year has been quite successful for me. I have won many medals in Finnish Iron Hand (RAUTAKOURA) events and also I have won the Finnish grip nationals under 93-kg weight class. Juha Harju won the +93 kg class.

“Also I did quite good in comp that Jyrki Rantanen put together in the winter. I don’t remember . . .  they were some kind of nationals :)  At that time I was still recovering from shoulder surgery that I had a year ago.

“I`m also a chin up athlete and I have bronze medal from Finnish nationals both for extra weight and repetitions competition this year.

“The Hub is definitely my favorite IronMind equipment and I have pulled over 40 kg in training with decent lock out. Off course those are just training lifts,” said Siltaoja.

Follow this link to the IronMind Hub Rules and World Records list.

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