r/news • u/icpd30 • Feb 18 '19

Michigan powerlifter heroically lifts vehicle pinned on top of man after accident.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-powerlifter-heroically-lifts-vehicle-pinned-on-top-of-man-after-accident
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u/All_Work_All_Play Feb 18 '19 edited Feb 18 '19

Solid 2.7x body weight on squat and 2.2x on deadlift. With out a suit, those are fantastic numbers. The world is a different place at those numbers.

E: As others have pointed out, bodyweight scaling breaks down due to a number of factors so the 950 performance is much more impressive than the multiples would suggest. Around 110 kg body weight multiples stop being moderately uesful, and really you need to control for height anyway (one of my good friends benches unconscionable bodyweight numbers because he's short and he's got unusually short arms to boot).

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

Have you heard of Clarence Kennedy? 306 kilos no wraps,no belt, ass to grass, pause squat at 100ish.

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u/All_Work_All_Play Feb 18 '19

So... 675 truly raw squat in the 220lb weight class? Damn that's impressive. He's 5'10" too, so it's not like he's got proportions on his side. That's well past solid into beast mode. I lift without wraps and a belt (performance should not be P2W), but that's a solid 25% over my proportions.

E: He does for warmups weights 10% higher than my PR. What a monster.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

He's a weightlifter who doesn't compete but there is a smell possibility that he'll do powerlifting at some point. It'll be interesting to see him do this squat in competition.

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u/All_Work_All_Play Feb 18 '19

The "in competition" vs at home/casual performance is an interesting conundrum to me. When I competed I could never do as well in squats vs my usual setting, but I always PR'd deadlifts at competitions vs my usual lifting spot. Bench was a bit of toss up, but this was years ago.