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[QUOTE="superjohn, post: 4025447, member: 1522"]
A friend actually texted me that last night as well so they definitely said it but it can't be accurate.  Nobody has ever benched 800 lbs. before.  He's unbelievably strong and so is Joe Kovacs, they're probably like world's strongest man type strong but even those guys can't come close to that...

This got me interested so I looked up Ryan Crouser's instagram and he has video from a year ago benching 440 lbs. for 6 touch and go reps and a video from a few years ago where he benches 500 lbs. touch and go for a single, his butt comes off the bench in them but the weight goes up easily.  I also read Joe Kovacs can do a 650 lb. bench for 5 reps which can't be true because it would put him right there with the best bencher ever.  There is video of him doing an 870 lb. squat for 4 reps though which is totally insane.

There's videos of Crouser jumping around and twisting his body on the olympic rings.  It's impressive for a normal size athlete and then you realize he's 6'8 320 lbs. and it's freakishly impressive.  I'm not sure most people realize what kind of absolute athletic freaks shot putters are.
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