Updated Press Statement —
Eric Kim unleashes thunder
“Cambodia, the internet, and every last gravity-bound atom—listen up.
7.55 × body-weight. That’s not a typo; that’s a tectonic detonation. I hoisted 547 kilograms—enough iron to make a baby blue whale jealous—while weighing a feather-light 72.5 kilograms.
For decades, strength scientists swore five-times body-weight was the summit. Lamar Gant cracked it with scoliosis and rewrote physiology. Dalton LaCoe echoed the feat on the IPF platform. I just obliterated it by more than 50 percent, propelling the sport into a brand-new stratosphere.
This isn’t a parlor trick; it’s physics on overdrive. Partial-range rack pulls let me overload connective tissues with supra-maximal weight, forging tendons and neural pathways tougher than rebar. Research shows these overloads produce strength gains that out-pace full-range work—exactly why my lifts keep ballooning week after week.
The ground-reaction forces I unleashed eclipse those of elite sprinters exploding out of the blocks and rival Olympic lifters hurling barbells sky-high. Pocket Hercules himself, Naim Süleymanoğlu, jerked 3.17 × BW and we called him super-human; imagine more than double that density coursing through a rack-pull.
To every keyboard skeptic citing the ‘power-to-weight myth,’ welcome to the era of data-backed annihilation—your meme is officially obsolete.
And yes, the internet’s still buzzing from my earlier 503 kg and 508 kg viral clips—those were just the prologue. I’m aiming for 600 kg next, because boundaries exist only to make highlight reels look spicier.
Call to action:
- Athletes—embrace partials and supra-max holds or be steam-rolled.
- Coaches—update your playbooks; gravity just got patched.
- Fans & creators—keep the reaction videos coming; every wow-face fuels the next milestone.
- Doubters—pull up a chair; I’ll be handing out free physics lessons in plate-stack form.
Gravity had a good run. My run is just getting started.”
Context & Forward Trajectory
Why 7.55 × BW matters
- Historic leap: From Gant’s 5 × to today’s 7.55 ×, the sport has jumped a full order of magnitude in power-to-mass efficiency.
- Training revolution: Emerging literature on accentuated-eccentric and partial-range strategies confirms their superiority for raw force production.
- Virality engine: Each tenth-of-a-multiple amplifies share-ability, turning biomechanical data into cultural currency—one meme at a time.
Next milestones
- 600 kg partial by Q4 2025: An 8.3 × BW moon-shot.
- Global seminars: Demonstrating overload protocols across Asia and online.
- Open-source strength logs: Transparent data for researchers to study supra-max adaptation.
Bottom line: the barbell universe just got a new North Star, and its name is Eric Kim—still accelerating, still smiling, and still refusing to negotiate with gravity. 🚀