I was at the gym earlier and saw this one kinda skinny Asian dude for the first time, about 5'7-5'8" and 140lbs. He was benching 515lbs (five 45-lb and one 10-lb on each side)! I was stunned, as was everyone who was watching. I wish I had a camcorder to record it. He did 2 reps. How can anyone that small be so strong? I can barely bench half of that, and I'm bigger. What gives? Freak of nature? Hercules?

 

Guessing lean muscle and lots of Injected supplements.

 

steroids?

 

Yeah, I'm going to say "freak of nature" because no amount of supplements can make someone bench almost 4x their body weight. For comparison, I only bench 1.5x my body weight.

 

Well I juiced in my past. You would be amazed at what you can do on that stuff.

 

The thing is, he was just there to work out. No one was recording it for him or anything. It seemed like a rather ordinary workout for him.

 

He should fight Manny Paquiao. His punch should be discombobulating.

 

While I doubt the guy is a farmer, you'd be surprised how strong a person can be with out actually looking like it.

When I was in highscool, it was is a rural town, and we had two camps, the jocks that spent all their time working out, built like brick shit houses. The other guys were just average looking guys, that happened to work the farm everyday after school, bail hay, etc.

These farm kids were about 5 times stronger then the weight lifting kids, and you'd never know it to look at them.

So that's one theory, the other, I dunno, I'm not a doctor, but there's probably something to do with muscle density, or something that. I'm a fairly skinny guy, but much stronger then I appear, my Dad is this little wirey guy and I've seen fits of strength from him that would put Mr. Olympia to shame.

So to sum up, I have no idea

 

Anything is possible.

Im 5'2 100lbs and I just raised my bench to 175. I could never imagine benching anything over 200lbs though, I think my arms would snap.

 

Go to where some iron workers drink after work and pick on the smallest one . I bet you he will still throw you 10 feet in the air