Human Strength

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I certainly don't agree about Andre, he definitely couldn't best any world class power lifter in any of their events, maybe he wins an arm wrestling match, may be he doesn't but technique is more important there hence the videos showing small men beating massive ones.

Alright, it depends on the individual and type of technique involved. I've seen the first arm wrestling video you showed, and that one is confirmed to be real. However, the smaller guy's arm that he is utilizing has some sort of genetic defect which grows his arm triple the size of the other arm (forgot name of condition), and hence greater force. Arm-wrestling not only involves an excessive use of technique, but an excessive use of brute force as well.

The second video? I am not so sure, though. Is it at any official level? Olympic, national, state, or local?

No offense, but I don't know who this "robert" is nor this farmer so I will take this account with a grain of salt.  But I highly doubt this "farmer" could squat more than 3 times his own weight without any training.

In fact, if this alleged man wanted to, he'd only need to add 100lbs to the claimed weight to reach a raw world record

"198 804lb  Amit Sapir Canada 04/16/16 APA"
So unless you could present video or records of this alleged feat of strength, I'm certainly not going to accept or agree with it.

I could care less if anyone believes it or not. No video, photographic, or reporter's proof for the event (people were just too shocked to pull out their phones, and it wasn't reported because the man wasn't well known to the locals), but I know what I saw and I do believe it. He squatted 715-pounds with proper form: tad bit lower than parallel, no "bouncing back up" or sudden jerks, no heel raises, no foot or ankle shifting, and no back bending.


Just because someone "claims" to have the world record for a particular action (i.e Eddie/Benedikt for their deadlifts or Sapir for his pound-for-pound squat), doesn't mean that his world record stands. Again, as I stated earlier, someone an a relatively-unknown part of this planet could have a higher "world record" for that particular action (hate it when someone claims their lifts as "world record" when they haven't tested them against every human). There are the various "potentials" lost throughout the world.

In fact, look up the Facebook pages "Metal Militia-Winchester, Virginia Chapter" and "Brute Strength Gym $ Crossfit Amalgym". Robert has the highest deadlift record in the city of Winchester (765-pounds raw @ 242-pound weight class), and he regularly supervises and works out at these two local gyms the most.


But even "hypothetically", lets say it's true. Your claim of this man squatting 400lb fertilizer bags would mean that he lifts every day and he lifts heavy so he certainly isn't an example of someone with no experience.

Again, the farmer stated that he "rarely" squatted those bags, but he didn't specify how rarely, so I guess you have a point there. He also stated that most of the other times, he carries them to the designated areas to dump them with his arms; he does lift heavy, but not increasingly heavy like powerlifters (and I this summer) usually aim for. It was surprising how he could squat the weight of a professional, pound-for-pound strong powerlifter without squatting with regularity and with increasing weights.

My answer is... It doesn't matter, an inch, foot or complete deadlift... You need to be able to lift it off the ground, and a guy that DL 1000lbs would certainly be able to lift more weight an inch off the ground and thus they'd still be able to lift more than anyone else.

Agreed with most of it. Maybe Eddie Hall could manage 1200-1300 pounds with just a half-or-slight inch off the ground? But a ton? Absolutely impossible for any world class athlete to even shift it in any way, but the "bearman" mentioned in one of my earlier posts could possibly either lift it an inch or slightly shift it. However, "lift more than anyone else"? No. Again, there are unknown humans who possibly have the potential to "inch-lift"/deadlift more than what Eddie can.

I might be able to pull a 700-pound weighted-barbell off the floor with only an inch, give or take (but I am not betting on it, and I've never tried it.) Reply