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We have always revered extreme strength.<\/strong> It gives us something to look up to, a standard with which to measure ourselves. In this article, we provide you with the current deadlift world record<\/strong> as well as all the big Olympic lifts<\/a>, as well as a little information about the person who holds the record<\/p>\n

The Squat<\/h2>\n

On February 5th, 2019 Ray Williams set the IPF World Record<\/strong> at the Arnold Classic with a 1,026 pound squat.<\/p>\n

\"Olympic<\/p>\n

Williams is a 31-year-old American lifter who came out of nowhere in 2013 with a 905 pound raw squat<\/strong> at the World IPF Champs. He is a football coach at Itawamba Community College in Fulton, Mississippi.<\/p>\n

Williams is a naturally strong athlete who was squatting 700 pounds<\/strong> in his first few weeks of serious power training.<\/p>\n

When asked about his training style he commented . . .<\/p>\n

“I don’t know if you can call what I was doing training. I was just lifting weights,<\/strong> and one day my brother (William Burrell) calls me and tells me that he had competed in the Alabama State Championship. That got my wheels turning, so I switched my training from just lifting weights to a more powerlifting style of training. My daughter is my motivation,<\/strong> I feel like a better way to honor her memory<\/strong> than to compete for her.”<\/p>\n

The Deadlift<\/h2>\n

At the 2016 Arnold Classic, Eddie Hall became the first man to deadlift 500 kg (1100 pounds).<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Olympic<\/p>\n

​Eddie Hall is an English professional strongman<\/strong> and is currently billed as the strongest man in the world. He is the only lifter to deadlift 500kg<\/strong> under competition rules (he did it with straps). He started out as a competitive bodybuilder, making the transition to strongman training and competition in the late 2000s.<\/p>\n

In 2010, Eddie won the Elite Strongman Competition on his first attempt. A year later he won the UK’s strongest man contest, tearing an arm tendon in the process. In 2012, he placed in his first World’s Strongest Man event.<\/p>\n

In December 2015 a feature documentary named Eddie-Strongman was released<\/strong>, which followed Hall for two years as he trained to become the world’s strongest man. When he smashed the 500 kg deadlift barrier at the Arnold Classic in 2016, the exertion caused Eddie to pass out.<\/p>\n

After winning the 2019 World’s Strongest Man competition, Eddie announced his intention to step down<\/strong> from elite level lifting due to health concerns. He still holds the current deadlift world record.<\/p>\n

Powerlifting Total<\/h2>\n

\"Olympic<\/p>\n

The world record for the combination of the squat, deadlift and bench press<\/strong> gives you the powerlifting total.<\/p>\n

The current record was set on February 9th, 2019 by Ray Williams. His three lift total was 2,436 pounds.<\/strong> This record was achieved with no wraps.<\/p>\n

Ray Williams is a phenomenon in the world of powerlifting. He has been training for a relatively short period of time and yet has risen to the top of a very elite group. How has he done it?<\/p>\n

Williams hates to fail . . .<\/p>\n

“I hate failure. I hate to fail.<\/strong> When you’re up on that platform, and everyone’s looking at you – I have my wife, my friends, my family looking at me – I don’t want to fail in front of these people.<\/strong>​”<\/p>\n

The Olympic Records<\/h2>\n

\"Olympic<\/p>\n

The two Olympic weightlifting lifts are the snatch<\/a> and the clean and jerk. Athletes compete in divisions according to their body mass.<\/p>\n

​The Olympic weight classes are as follows:<\/p>\n

Men’s weight classes<\/span><\/p>\n