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kvr28

kvr28

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For me it was during a wrestling match. We had a football player decide to join the wrestling team his junior year. Built like a brick shithouse but he was horrible on the mat and kept getting pinned which was really starting to piss him off.

Near the end of the season he was on his back again looking at the lights and was bridging to fight the pin. He literally hulked out and his head raised off the mat by 6 inches as he lifted his body weight and the guy on top of him with just his legs supporting him in the bridge.

Everyone on the bench looked at each other and was like wtf, did you just see that?
 
MountainMedic

MountainMedic

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Toughest thing i saw has to be my friend in a giant brawl at a house party, right out of a movie.
We were fighting our way out to the door and a fuckhead takes a home run swing with a bat at my buddy. He blocked it like defending a r cross. So insanely loud I was sure he broke his arm.
Nope.
He takes the bat, throws it across the street and says "fight like a man, bitch"
Fucker literally ran away and my friend didn't even have a bruise the next day.
Guy wasn't human.
 
vad

vad

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Had to carry and old timey cast iron stove up from the basement and this skinny crackhead build friend of mine is helping. These stoves are heavier than a son of a bitch and there isn't one spot that gives you a good comfortable hold. The stairs going up are floating, you can walk under the staircase it's all exposed. Every step up I can feel the steps flexing. That skinny fucker helped me get that thing up and didn't break a sweat. I thought he was for sure going to die. I think pound for pound he might be one of the strongest people I've ever met. I need to find a picture of one of these stoves to paint the picture.
 
Hauler

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I had a dude drop off a 144 cu in engine (Ford inline 6) for us to do a tear down/rebuild. Race engine - hydroplane.
He had it in the back of a pickup truck. I went to go get the engine hoist but by the time I wheeled it back over to the truck my cousin had already picked the fucking thing up and put it on a cart.

No idea on weight - but I'd guess it to be north of 350 lbs. Not an easy lift on something as awkward as an engine.
Dude was crazy fucking strong. Farm strong. Still is - but now he's a little smarter than to attempt something like that.
 
kvr28

kvr28

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Hauler said:
I had a dude drop off a 144 cu in engine (Ford inline 6) for us to do a tear down/rebuild. Race engine - hydroplane.
He had it in the back of a pickup truck. I went to go get the engine hoist but by the time I wheeled it back over to the truck my cousin had already picked the fucking thing up and put it on a cart.

No idea on weight - but I'd guess it to be north of 350 lbs. Not an easy lift on something as awkward as an engine.
Dude was crazy fucking strong. Farm strong. Still is - but now he's a little smarter than to attempt something like that.
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His name wouldn't be Philo perchance would it?
 
Chrit

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For me, it was more technique that seemed like ungodly strength.

In high school, our wrestling coach had ties to ISU (while Cael Sanderson was there) and got Cael to swing by a practice.

At the time, I was cutting to 215 and was, by far, the strongest person on the team... and Cael was an unmovable monster. He would give me openings and then just magically escape or reverse EVERY position.

I had never felt so hopeless.
 
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Wiggy

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Similar to a story above:

My old man owned & built old school hemi motors. Not the 426s from the 60s & 70s, but the original Chrysler FirePower hemis from the 50s. He also had early Dodge hemis.

These engines are big...like fucking BIG. And heavy. All mopar engines then were.

To give you an idea, a bare block is something like 200-225lbs by itself. A crank is at least 80lbs. Bare heads (without valves, springs, etc) are 70+ pounds each.

My old man was doing some deals with a guy named Bill...the epitome of good ole' boy. I mean, I lived in central Oregon, this guy was from southern Oregon, yet still had a southern accent like he was from NC or something. lol. Dude was maybe 6'2" and 230-240. Not "jacked", but he was stout as mofo. The guy actually made boots by hand for a living.

Well, Bill shows up to the house one day in his old International flatbed with some stuff he's gonna trade my old man. Part of it is the bottom end of a 392 hemi - block, crank, rods, pistons, pan, etc. This thing weighed at least 350-375lbs in the shape of a giant box with no real hand holds.

Same kinda thing - my old man nods at me to drag the cherry picker over to his truck. Before I can, Bill has just picked it up off the flatbed, calmly carried it across the shop, and set it down.

Meanwhile, Bill had been telling my old man some story or something...didn't even break speech. Kept talking normally throughout without losing his breath - you'd think he'd grabbed a basket full of laundry or something.

I was pretty strong at the time (Benching 350, Squatting 400 x 8+, Chins x 20 reps, etc). Watching him do that as if it was nothing...and then he didn't get why we were surprised...left me fucking stunned. lol
 
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Growing up we had a big wood burning stove that we used to heat the house, so of course had a huge woodpile. My dad was always on the hunt, especially after a big storm when trees would go down. He comes back one day with these giant sawed logs in the truck. Non of my brothers went out with him that day and we thought he was lying saying he had no help.

When we were unloading it took a couple of us to move them and we could only roll them to the pile. It was then we coined the term 'wood strength'
 
kvr28

kvr28

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supersonic said:
Growing up we had a big wood burning stove that we used to heat the house, so of course had a huge woodpile. My dad was always on the hunt, especially after a big storm when trees would go down. He comes back one day with these giant sawed logs in the truck. Non of my brothers went out with him that day and we thought he was lying saying he had no help.

When we were unloading it took a couple of us to move them and we could only roll them to the pile. It was then we coined the term 'wood strength'
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Core strength is a beautiful thing, most of the stories posted emphasizes that. When I was deep into grappling my bench press sucked, squat was okay but I felt comfortable enough that anything I could fit my arms around I could move.
 
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When I was in college I was pretty strong. I went to Mizzou and I used to see some of the football team out and about and wonder just how strong they really were. Especially the offensive linemen. I'd see them out and they were larger than me, but looked pretty doughy and soft. I figured it was just their height that made them good players.

Well, one day I see one of them at the student rec center gym. This was odd because of course the players have their own elite gym no one else gets to use. Not sure why he was in the student one. Anyway, it was the starting offensive tackle Brad Imes. Some may remember him from his UFC run. I think he lost to Rashad Evans in the finals on the heavyweight Tough Enough season. Brad goes over to the bench and I think, well now let's see just how strong this guy really is. He starts putting on weights and I'm not impressed... He keeps adding weights...okay that's a lot. I wanna say it was six plates on each side, but I may be misremembering. It may have only been five plates on each side. But I remember being impressed he was going to put it up. I was thinking, ok, he's stronger than I thought. He gets on the bench and whips out ten reps like it was nothing. He was throwing it up like it was a single plate on each side. I was like holy shit, I did not expect that. This guy is crazy strong. Turns out those big doughy guys are monsters. I think I heard somewhere that he became the strength and conditioning coach for Oklahoma State after his MMA career. Fucking strong guy.
 
Chrit

Chrit

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scourge said:
When I was in college I was pretty strong. I went to Mizzou and I used to see some of the football team out and about and wonder just how strong they really were. Especially the offensive linemen. I'd see them out and they were larger than me, but looked pretty doughy and soft. I figured it was just their height that made them good players.

Well, one day I see one of them at the student rec center gym. This was odd because of course the players have their own elite gym no one else gets to use. Not sure why he was in the student one. Anyway, it was the starting offensive tackle Brad Imes. Some may remember him from his UFC run. I think he lost to Rashad Evans in the finals on the heavyweight Tough Enough season. Brad goes over to the bench and I think, well now let's see just how strong this guy really is. He starts putting on weights and I'm not impressed... He keeps adding weights...okay that's a lot. I wanna say it was six plates on each side, but I may be misremembering. It may have only been five plates on each side. But I remember being impressed he was going to put it up. I was thinking, ok, he's stronger than I thought. He gets on the bench and whips out ten reps like it was nothing. He was throwing it up like it was a single plate on each side. I was like holy shit, I did not expect that. This guy is crazy strong. Turns out those big doughy guys are monsters. I think I heard somewhere that he became the strength and conditioning coach for Oklahoma State after his MMA career. Fucking strong guy.
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Yeah... there is zero chance he was doing 585 for reps.

I doubt it was more than 405 for a set of 10...
 
Chrit

Chrit

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scourge said:
No it was at least five a side. I can do four (once) and I was stunned by how he did them.
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495 for a set of 10 would be roughly a 650lb max...

That would be in the top 10 all time territory. And I've seen Imes... he's not the build of an all time bencher.

For comparison, Larry Wheels on ALL THE GEAR put up 675. (also with sleeves and additional wraps)
 
Chrit

Chrit

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Yeah... I think this is a 'the big one' fishing type memory lol

There is zero chance Brad Imes has ever benched over 600 lbs.
 
MountainMedic

MountainMedic

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I've stood next to Brad. He's a fucking freak. Shaq level big, just a different branch of the human genome. I'm not a small man, he was imposing.
 
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I bought a living room set online. A guy came to deliver it and he just threw the couch on one shoulder (unassisted) and brought it in. It was a full sized three seat couch. A couch isn't that heavy, it's just awkward for one person to maneuver it, especially like that. I was impressed. I also have short arms so no way I can do that.
 
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