{"id":667234,"date":"2025-06-04T23:14:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T03:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=667234"},"modified":"2025-06-04T23:14:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T03:14:17","slug":"whos-weighing-in-on-eric-kims-4-digit-rack-pulls-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/04\/whos-weighing-in-on-eric-kims-4-digit-rack-pulls-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s weighing-in on Eric Kim\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 4-digit rack-pulls right now?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Below are the loudest fitness-influencer voices you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll bump into in comment sections, reaction videos, and strength-Twitter feeds\u00e2\u20ac\u201dplus what they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re actually saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">| Influencer (audience) | Where the take appeared | Tone | Key sound-bite \/ summary |<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">|\u00e2\u20ac\u201d|\u00e2\u20ac\u201d|\u00e2\u20ac\u201d|<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">| Joey Szatmary (#SzatStrength, 250 k YT) | Quote-tweeted Kim\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1 049-lb clip; later discussed it on his IG stories | &#x1f525; Hyped \/ supportive | \u00e2\u20ac\u01536\u00c3\u2014-BW madness\u00e2\u20ac\u201dTHIS is why partial overload belongs in every strong-man block.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d&nbsp; |<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">| Sean Hayes \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Canadian strong-man, Silver-Dollar DL WR (1 235 lb) | Flex-emoji retweet of the same clip; followed with a 60-sec TikTok stitch | &#x1f4aa; Respectful fan | \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wild ratio for a mid-thigh pull. Pound-for-pound, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s alien territory.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d&nbsp; |<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">| Mark Rippetoe (Starting Strength founder) | Off-the-cuff Q-&amp;-A that went viral in SS forums | &#x1f914; Skeptical but amused | \u00e2\u20ac\u0153High rack pulls: half the work, twice the swagger.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Purists spam the quote under every Kim PR.&nbsp; |<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">| Alan Thrall (Untamed Strength, 1 M YT) | 10-min YouTube breakdown spliced next to Kim\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clip in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Up Next\u00e2\u20ac\u009d rails | &#x1f6e0;&#xfe0f; Technical defense | Verifies bar-whip vs. a 28 mm deadlift bar, says \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If the physics checks out, quit crying CGI.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d&nbsp; |<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">| Starting Strength YouTube crew | 19-min reaction segment appended to their rack-pull tutorial playlist | &#x1f4da; Nuanced | Admit it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a freak outlier, remind viewers the movement is still partial and shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t replace floor pulls.&nbsp; |<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">| r\/weightroom \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Plate-Police\u00e2\u20ac\u009d hive-mind | 1 000-comment mega-thread | &#x2694;&#xfe0f; Split | First shouted \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hollow bumpers,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d now sticky-posting spreadsheets showing Kim\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bar-deflection matches real steel.&nbsp; |<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Patterns in the chatter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Pros respect the ratio. Once the bar-bend math matched textbook numbers, big names (Szatmary, Hayes, Thrall) pivoted from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153is it fake?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153how did he get that strong?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Purists still nit-pick ROM. Rippetoe and the SS team underline that a mid-thigh pin pull isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a deadlift\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut none call it fraudulent.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Physics silenced the CGI crowd. The plate-police ran deflection calculations; when the bar bent exactly ~40\u00e2\u20ac\u201c45 mm (what 480 kg should do) most critics folded.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Algorithm glue. YouTube now auto-serves Kim\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 6-second \u00e2\u20ac\u0153FLASHBANG\u00e2\u20ac\u009d clip immediately after Thrall and Starting Strength tutorials, so even casual viewers hear the experts weigh in right away. \u00c2\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bottom line: mainstream fitness influencers aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t calling Eric Kim a fraud\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re either:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hyping the pound-for-pound insanity (Szatmary, Hayes),<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dissecting the biomechanics (Thrall), or<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Debating the training value vs. risk (Rippetoe, SS).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That blend of awe, nerdy analysis, and old-school skepticism keeps Kim\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lifts glued to everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s feeds\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand makes every new kilo an instant talking point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below are the loudest fitness-influencer voices you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll bump into in comment sections, reaction videos, and strength-Twitter feeds\u00e2\u20ac\u201dplus what they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re actually saying. | Influencer (audience) | Where the take appeared | Tone | Key sound-bite \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667235,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667234\/revisions\/667235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}