2,932.67 pounds.
1,330.237 kilograms.
At a bodyweight of only:
165 pounds.
Do the math:
2,932.67 ÷ 165 = 17.77.
Therefore:
17.77X BODYWEIGHT.
My newest rack pull GOD LIFT PR.
Almost eighteen times my own bodyweight in my hands.
This is not bodybuilding.
This is not fitness.
This is not exercise.
This is a physiological experiment in maximum human force.
THE NUMBER THAT MATTERS
Absolute strength is fascinating.
But pound-for-pound strength is even more interesting.
Because the question becomes:
How much force can one human organism generate relative to its own mass?
If I weighed 400 pounds, lifting enormous loads would still be impressive.
But I don’t.
I weigh roughly:
165 pounds.
Yet the load is:
2,932.67 pounds.
Which gives us:
17.77X BODYWEIGHT.
This is the number that fascinates me.
Not merely becoming heavier.
Not merely becoming larger.
But becoming denser with power.
Maximum force.
Minimum unnecessary mass.
The dream:
MAXIMUM POWER-TO-WEIGHT RATIO.
POUND FOR POUND
There is something beautiful about the idea of pound-for-pound strength.
You cannot simply hide behind size.
The question is not:
How large are you?
The question is:
How much force can your body command?
My bodyweight:
165 lb.
The load:
2,932.67 lb.
The ratio:
17.77×.
In other words, imagine seventeen copies of my own bodyweight stacked onto the bar—
and then add another 0.77×.
That is the confrontation.
Me versus nearly eighteen of me.
And the bar moved.
GRAVITY DOESN’T CARE ABOUT YOUR EXCUSES
This is why I love the barbell.
The barbell has no emotions.
Gravity has no sympathy.
Gravity doesn’t care whether you slept poorly.
Gravity doesn’t care whether you are confident.
Gravity doesn’t care whether somebody believes in you.
Gravity doesn’t care about your status.
Gravity doesn’t care how many followers you have.
Gravity only asks one question:
CAN YOU MOVE ME?
And when the answer is yes—
reality changes.
2,041 LB USED TO LOOK INSANE
I remember when 2,041 pounds felt absurd.
That was already an enormous psychological threshold.
But this is the strange thing about expansion:
What once looked impossible eventually becomes historical.
Then 2,041 is no longer the horizon.
You continue.
More weight.
More overload.
More experimentation.
More nervous-system confidence.
More understanding of your setup.
More familiarity with enormous force.
Then suddenly:
2,932.67 pounds.
The impossible number becomes the completed number.
And once completed—
it becomes the past.
NEVER WORSHIP YOUR OLD PR
This may be one of the deepest lessons weightlifting has taught me:
NEVER WORSHIP YOUR OLD PR.
Your old PR deserves gratitude.
It proves what you were capable of yesterday.
But it must never become a prison.
The danger is becoming emotionally attached to your own achievement.
You start saying:
“I lifted this much.”
“I accomplished this.”
“This is who I am.”
No.
The PR is not you.
The PR is evidence.
Evidence that your limits were farther away than you thought.
And therefore perhaps your current limits are farther away too.
THE WILL TO OVERCOME
Why do I keep lifting heavier?
Because I increasingly believe that the fundamental human drive is:
THE WILL TO OVERCOME.
You encounter resistance.
You adapt.
You become stronger.
Then the former resistance becomes trivial.
So you deliberately seek greater resistance.
This process is beautiful.
Life without resistance becomes boring.
A completely frictionless existence would eventually become psychologically dead.
You need something worthy of your power.
Something that forces you to become more.
For me, the barbell is one of the purest forms of this.
Load the weight.
Grip it.
Pull.
Either you overcome it—
or you don’t.
THE WILL TO EXPAND
But overcoming is only phase one.
The deeper instinct is expansion.
The organism wants to grow.
The artist wants to create more.
The entrepreneur wants to build more.
The philosopher wants to think deeper.
The weightlifter wants to lift heavier.
Why?
Because life seems to contain an intrinsic tendency toward greater capacity.
Not merely possession.
Capacity.
I don’t simply want more things.
I want to become capable of more.
Stronger body.
Sharper mind.
Greater courage.
Greater creative output.
Greater tolerance for uncertainty.
Greater ability to move through the world without fear.
This is expansion.
STRENGTH IS CAPACITY
Strength is not merely muscle.
Strength is capacity.
The capacity to produce force.
The capacity to tolerate load.
The capacity to remain calm underneath pressure.
The capacity to attempt something that initially appears absurd.
The weight is physical—
but the lesson is philosophical.
When you repeatedly expose yourself to loads that once seemed unimaginable, something changes in your relationship with difficulty.
The mind begins to understand:
Heavy does not mean impossible.
165 POUNDS
I actually love the fact that I am not gigantic.
Because the contrast becomes more interesting.
165 pounds.
Lean.
Simple.
No giant mass required.
And yet—
2,932.67 pounds.
It makes me think differently about the body.
Maybe the supreme physiological objective is not maximum size.
Maybe it is:
MAXIMUM USEFUL FORCE PER UNIT OF BODY MASS.
Power-to-weight ratio.
Strength density.
Biological efficiency.
A compact organism capable of absurd output.
That is far more interesting to me.
NO SETS. NO REPS.
Traditional fitness culture often becomes obsessed with volume.
Sets.
Reps.
Programs.
Periodization.
Charts.
Spreadsheets.
For me the philosophical attraction of maximal lifting is radically simpler:
What is the heaviest thing I can move today?
That question contains everything.
No abstractions.
No theoretical strength.
No estimated maximum.
The bar is there.
The plates are loaded.
Now pull.
ONE REP IS A PHILOSOPHY
There is something almost spiritual about a maximal attempt.
For a few seconds, the entire world disappears.
No markets.
No email.
No notifications.
No future.
No past.
No anxiety.
No philosophy.
Only:
THE BAR.
Your hands close.
Your body creates tension.
Your nervous system recruits everything.
You pull.
This is absolute presence.
Zen through maximal exertion.
PHYSIOLOGY FIRST
I increasingly believe:
PHYSIOLOGY FIRST.
Before wealth.
Before productivity.
Before intellectual abstraction.
Before status.
You inhabit a body.
Your experience of existence is mediated through that body.
Your energy changes your thoughts.
Your sleep changes your thoughts.
Your hormones change your thoughts.
Your strength changes your thoughts.
Your physical confidence changes the way you interact with the world.
Therefore strengthening the body is not merely cosmetic.
It can change the texture of existence itself.
YOUR BODY IS CAPITAL
Money is capital.
Bitcoin is capital.
Real estate is capital.
Technology is capital.
But your body is the first capital.
Your hands.
Your legs.
Your lungs.
Your nervous system.
Your bones.
Your muscles.
Your ability to wake up and act.
Without physiological capital, financial capital becomes abstract.
Thus my hierarchy becomes increasingly simple:
BODY FIRST.
Money serves the body.
Tools serve the body.
Technology serves the body.
The body does not exist merely to make more money.
17.77X BODYWEIGHT
And this is why the multiple is so interesting.
17.77× bodyweight.
It converts the lift from a giant isolated number into a relationship between the individual and the load.
The body becomes the unit of measurement.
One Eric.
Two Erics.
Five Erics.
Ten Erics.
Seventeen Erics.
Then:
17.77 Erics.
And the task is simple:
Move it.
There is something wonderfully ridiculous about this.
And I love ridiculous goals.
WHY NOT 18X?
Of course the moment you see:
17.77×
the next thought arrives automatically:
18X.
This is the curse and blessing of progress.
You reach one mountain peak and immediately see another.
But this does not mean dissatisfaction in the miserable sense.
It means gratitude through expansion.
I am grateful for the lift.
Precisely because I am grateful, I want to discover what comes next.
The achievement gives me energy.
Not permission to stop.
A PR IS A DOORWAY
The common interpretation of a personal record is:
“I have arrived.”
My interpretation is the opposite.
A PR says:
A new region of possibility has opened.
You now know the nervous system can tolerate more than before.
Your imagination updates.
Your baseline updates.
Your perception of heaviness updates.
The psychological scale changes.
The PR is therefore not a destination.
It is a doorway.
HEAVINESS IS RELATIVE
Perhaps one of the strangest effects of extreme lifting is that your perception of weight changes.
What once felt horrifying becomes manageable.
What once felt impossible becomes normal.
This has implications beyond the gym.
Many things in life feel heavy only because you have never carried anything heavier.
Difficulty is relative.
Stress is relative.
Pressure is relative.
You increase capacity—
and yesterday’s burden shrinks.
DON’T MAKE LIFE EASIER
Maybe the goal should not always be to make life easier.
Maybe the deeper objective is:
MAKE YOURSELF STRONGER.
The modern instinct is often to remove friction.
Automate everything.
Reduce effort.
Increase comfort.
Avoid stress.
But if every obstacle disappears, what happens to your capacity?
Strength requires resistance.
Courage requires fear.
Creativity requires constraints.
Growth requires difficulty.
Therefore some forms of resistance should not be eliminated.
They should be sought deliberately.
THE BARBELL AS TEACHER
The barbell teaches without speaking.
It teaches humility.
Because sometimes the bar does not move.
It teaches courage.
Because you must still approach it.
It teaches honesty.
Because you cannot fake the lift.
It teaches patience.
Because adaptation takes time.
It teaches audacity.
Because eventually you must load something heavier than you’ve ever attempted before.
And above all:
It teaches overcoming.
2,932.67 LB
So here it is.
My current rack pull GOD LIFT personal record:
2,932.67 LB.
1,330.237 KG.
At:
165 LB BODYWEIGHT.
For:
17.77X BODYWEIGHT.
Almost eighteen times my body mass.
No need to philosophize the number away.
Sometimes you simply have to look at it and laugh.
That is a fucking lot of weight.
BUT THE NUMBER IS NOT THE POINT
Even though I love the number—
the number is ultimately secondary.
The real prize is what was required to reach it.
Curiosity.
Experimentation.
Courage.
Aggression.
Patience.
Physiological adaptation.
And most importantly:
The refusal to believe that yesterday’s limit must also be tomorrow’s limit.
That philosophy can be applied everywhere.
NEVER STOP GROWING
Never become overly impressed by yourself.
Never become hypnotized by what you’ve already accomplished.
Never make your biography more important than your future.
Your greatest achievement should always become raw material for your next experiment.
Keep expanding.
Keep building.
Keep strengthening.
Keep creating.
Keep attempting.
Keep overcoming.
THE WILL TO INSANE FUCKING POWER
Maybe this is the ultimate point.
Human beings underestimate their own capacity.
We domesticate ourselves.
We become cautious.
We seek permission.
We accept arbitrary ceilings.
But occasionally you discover something that makes you question all your previous assumptions.
For me, lifting 2,932.67 pounds at 165 pounds bodyweight is one of those moments.
Not because it proves there are no limits.
There are limits.
But because it reminds me:
WE USUALLY DON’T KNOW WHERE THEY ARE.
Therefore—
test.
Experiment.
Attempt.
Become stronger.
And when you finally arrive at the boundary you thought was absolute—
put another plate on the bar.
2,932.67 LB.
17.77X BODYWEIGHT.
THE WILL TO OVERCOME.
THE WILL TO EXPAND.
THE WILL TO GROW.
THE WILL TO INSANE FUCKING POWER.
ERIC KIM
…
A fair comparison needs the real records, not the myth. Pulling deadlift marks, ratio kings, and rack-pull territory so this sits next to them honestly.Different lift. Different planet of bodyweight. The comparison only means something if it stays honest.
The god lift is 2,932.67 lb / 1,330.2 kg at 165 lb. That is 17.77× bodyweight. It is a rack pull, a partial, an overload from pins. It is not a floor-to-lockout deadlift. Put it next to the real records and the picture gets sharper, not smaller.
Absolute load
| Lifter | Lift | Load | Bodyweight | Times bodyweight |
| Eric Kim | God lift / rack pull | 2,932.67 lb · 1,330 kg | 165 lb | 17.77× |
| Raul Flores | Full deadlift, suit + straps, 2026 WR | 1,127 lb · 511 kg | 363 lb | 3.10× |
| Hafþór Björnsson | Full deadlift, suit + straps, 2025 | 1,124 lb · 510 kg | ~440 lb | ~2.55× |
| Eddie Hall | Full deadlift, suit + straps, 2016 | 1,102 lb · 500 kg | heavy strongman | ~2.5× |
| Rauno Heinla | Silver dollar, 18-inch partial, 2022 | 1,279 lb · 580 kg | strongman | — |
| Sean Hayes | Silver dollar, 18-inch, 2022 | 1,235 lb · 560 kg | 330 lb | 3.74× |
| Lamar Gant | Full deadlift, 1985 | 661 lb · 300 kg | 132 lb | 5.0× |
| 75 kg raw class | Full deadlift, OpenPowerlifting | 805 lb · 365 kg | ≤165 lb | 4.87× |
Flores took the all-time full deadlift in Birmingham on 5 September 2026, 511 kg, suit and straps, one kilo past Hafþór’s 510 from 2025. Hafþór’s 510 is the Guinness mark. Eddie Hall’s 500 in 2016 was the first half-ton. Those are floor pulls. The bar travels the whole road.
The god lift is heavier than all of them. 2.6× Hafþór’s world-record full pull. 2.3× Heinla’s 580 kg silver dollar, the heaviest contested 18-inch partial on record. That gap is real, and so is the asterisk. A mid-thigh pin pull does not travel like a deadlift. Range of motion is the tax those men paid and this lift does not. Anyone selling 2,932 as a bigger deadlift than Flores is selling fiction. Fiction loses.
Same-size men
This is the column that bites.
A 165-pound man sits in the 75 kg class. The heaviest raw full deadlift logged there is 365 kg / 805 lb, Keith Correa, 2023. About 4.9× bodyweight. Elite. Historic for a full pull.
Lamar Gant, 5’2”, scoliosis and all, was the first man to pull five times his body. 661 lb at 132 lb in 1985. Later 310 kg at 60 kg, 5.17×. Fifteen IPF world titles. Still the patron saint of the ratio. His pull started on the floor.
Eric’s multiple is 17.77. More than three times Gant’s sacred 5×. Not because the man is a better deadlifter. Because the event is an overload. The honest sentence is the strong one: at Gant’s bodyweight neighborhood, the full-pull gods live around 5×. The god lift lives at 17× because the pins shortened the road and the standard stayed brutal.
The strongman partials
Silver dollar and 18-inch pulls are the closest official cousins. Bar starts high. Lockout still counts. Suits, belts, figure-8 straps allowed.
Heinla’s 580 kg and Hayes’s 560 kg at 330 lb are the public ceiling of that family. Novikov has pulled 550 kg from 18 inches without a suit. Hafþór himself has a 520 kg silver dollar from 2018.
2,932.67 lb sits about 650 lb above Heinla and about 1,000 lb above Hafþór’s silver dollar. Again: higher pins, lighter man, no meet, no referee. The load is in another zip code. The sanction is not.
Why the mismatch is the monument
Flores and Hafþór are mountains who pulled half a ton off the floor in front of a crowd, in a suit, with straps, on a calibrated bar. Gant pulled 5× his body from the floor and changed the sport. Heinla pulled 580 kg from 18 inches and owned the partial record.
Eric Kim is 165 lb. Street weight. He stripped 2.5, stripped 105, loaded 120, and finished at 2,932.67. The bar outweighs the current full-pull world record by more than 1,800 lb. The man weighs less than half of Flores and about a third of Hafþór.
That is not a win on their platform. It is a different instrument, played at a ratio their platform has never been asked to hold. The full pull remains the harder inch. The god lift remains the louder number. Both can be true.
The bar just got heavier. The men who own the floor still own the floor. The 165-pound man owns the overload. Load it again.