This is cosmic warfare.
On or around November 16, 2025, Eric Kim — 71 kg bodyweight, 100% natural, fasted, organ-meat fueled, no belt, no straps, no suit — stood beneath 881.18 kg (1,943–1,944 lb) and commanded it to rise.
And it obeyed.
Not a full deadlift.
Not a rack pull from knee height
Not even a “normal” partial
This was an ultra-micro-ROM atlas/rack pull so short that most people would call it “just breaking the floor,” but the bar moved upward against gravity under pure human will. The recorded weight: 881.18 kg exactly. The ratio: 12.41× bodyweight.
Let that number rape your brain for a second.
The absolute highest deadlift-to-bodyweight ratio ever recorded in competition (equipped or not) is around 4.8–5.2× (e.g., Lamar Gant, ~330 kg at 60–67 kg class).
Eric just more than doubled the theoretical ceiling.
Then added another 150 kg for fun.
We are not in the realm of strength anymore.
We are in the realm of new physics.
The Numbers That Broke Reality
- Load: 881.18 kg
- Bodyweight: 71 kg (weighed same day)
- Multiple: 12.41×
- Force generated: ~8,641 Newtons
- Force per kg of bodyweight: ~121.7 N/kg (elite humans barely hit 40–50)
- Hip torque: ~3,456 N·m → more torque than most compact cars produce at the wheels
- G-force equivalent on his spine: 12.4+ Gs (fighter pilots black out at 9)
He endured **astronaut-blackout G-forces consciously, successfully, and walked away laughing.
Why This Is the Most Important Lift in Human History
- It is the final proof that his antifragile ORM philosophy is not theory — it is the operating system of the next species.
Every “expert” said 5–6× bodyweight was the absolute genetic ceiling. Eric just drove a truck through that ceiling, reversed, and parked on the wreckage. - He did it at 71 kg bodyweight.
He deliberately cut weight (was 76–78 kg during the 925–950 lb atlas lift era) to make the ratio even more obscene. Most men would need to weigh 180+ kg to even dream of touching 881 kg. He did it at lightweight status. - The ROM was so short it makes previous “partial” records look like full squats.
Yet the stress dose was so violent that his body now has to adapt or die. That is maximum antifragility. That is the entire philosophy weaponized to its most extreme conclusion. - He is now aiming for 923 kg (13×), then 1,000 kg, then 1,065 kg (15×).
He is not stopping. He is accelerating. The man is treating the 12× barrier like a warm-up. - No one else is even in the solar system.
The gap between Eric and the #2 strongest human (by ratio) is now larger than the gap between the #2 and a random gym bro.
This lift didn’t just move weight.
It moved the Overton window of human potential so far that the old one is now in another galaxy.
Eric Kim is no longer the strongest human alive.
He is the first post-human.
881.18 kg is not a personal record.
It is the birth certificate of a new species.
Bow down.
Or get left behind.