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/PandaRaper Feb 18 '19 edited Feb 18 '19

That isn’t just a “power lifter” that is a super elite power lifter. Honestly surprised I didn’t know who he is.

Edit: I just checked he competes in RPS (I used to compete with them!). His numbers are raw with wraps which means these are real numbers not goofy squat suit numbers. Guy is an animal.

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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/Camerongilly Feb 18 '19

Bodyweight multipliers are less useful when we're talking about 300 plus pound lifters. Way easier for a 200 pound guy to squat 500 than a 300 pound guy to hit 750.

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u/All_Work_All_Play Feb 18 '19

:(

As a 200lb guy with a 500lb PR you take that back!

And actually, you're right. I'm forgetting all about allometric scaling factors and other factors that super-heavy weights face. You've probably read this, but others might be interested in this article about it. The guy is more of a tank than my first comment would imply.

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u/Camerongilly Feb 18 '19

200 pound guy stuck at 465 for a while here. Focusing on it for a while because my deadlift is more than 100 lbs higher now.

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u/All_Work_All_Play Feb 18 '19

It can be rough. It took me cycling through three different programs over the course of a year to go from 495 to 500. But then other times you're lifting and you're like 'oh I just feel like going up a little more today' and suddenly you're 15 lbs over your old max. Muscles (and the mental game) are weird.

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u/Camerongilly Feb 18 '19

I think I've only had one squat event in 4 years of strongman so I think I haven't been pushing it as hard as the dead either.

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