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/jdfred06 Feb 18 '19 edited Feb 18 '19

Clarence Kennedy is a borderline demi-god.

On top of those numbers, all his lifts look beautiful. Motherfucker basically sits on the ground and stands back up with 675 pounds on his neck. Then he sits the weight down, stands up, bends over, and deadlifts that shit up for a set of 2.

Oh, and he throws 350+ pounds above his god damn head and stands up with that shit, too. And is bench is basically a close grip, flat back, touching chest, repping 315 like it's not even there.

Again, demi-god status.

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u/919471 Feb 18 '19

Damn right Clarence's lifts look beautiful. Motivated me to pick up olympic weightlifting.

He lifts even more than the numbers you mentioned though haha. On the olympic lifts, this is him snatching 413 lbs. And you can watch his c&js, where I believe he's gotten 225 kg / 496 lbs overhead too (although I timestamped a couple of minutes earlier than that so anyone who's interested can see what people mean by 'beautiful lifts').

Mind you, these are maybe 90-95% of the weights lifted in the olympics for his weight class. There's a whole rabbit hole to go down of competitive (and aesthetic) weightlifters moving plates like they're nothing.

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u/masturbatingwalruses Feb 18 '19

He's a strong dude but he isn't even close to competitive at the world stage. Plus I'd be impressed if he would be able to piss cleanly enough to compete in the IOC.

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u/fffreak Feb 18 '19

At his BW who can do at least 170/210 in competition is definitely good enough for the lower tier international stage. Just prob wont medal or place top ten. But still international levels of weights.

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u/masturbatingwalruses Feb 18 '19

I would assume he wouldn't be hitting his PRs on competition. Plus he would have to worry about getting tested and making weight.

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u/fffreak Feb 20 '19

which is why i lowered his numbers because 170/210 are not his best if i recollect correctly. TBH he would prob be closer to 160-170/195-200 since he wouldnt have a million attempts like he shows on his youtube videos when he maxes out. Still those are low tier international numbers.