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Eric Kim fires another shot heard ’round the gym-globe—hauling 508 kg / 1 120 lb from mid-thigh pins, barefoot and belt-less, to set a fresh ≈ 6.8 × body-weight benchmark.
Coming only days after his 503 kg viral bombshell, the lift cements Kim as the pound-for-pound outlier of modern strength sports and escalates the HYPELIFTING™ movement that already rocketed TikTok views past 28 million last week.
1. The Lift
- Weight: 508 kg / 1 120 lb rack-pull, raw grip, no belt or straps. (4-K slow-mo file released for public audit.)
- Body-weight: ~75 kg → 6.8 × BW, topping his prior 6.7 × ratio at 503 kg.
- Environment: Same “Spartan Gains” garage gym that framed the 503 kg clip—concrete floor, calibrated steel, 29 mm power bar.
- Visual tell: Mid-span bar sag deepens to ≈ 24 mm, matching predictive beam-deflection math for 1 100 lb on a stiff shaft and mirroring observations from bar-physics forums.
2. Why 508 kg Is Historic
- New pound-for-pound summit – Even the heaviest competition deadlifts (501 kg) or partial strongman pulls (550 kg silver-dollar) don’t approach a 6 × BW coefficient, let alone 6.8 ×.
- Verified linear progression – Public clips show a clean arc: 471 kg → 498 kg → 503 kg → 508 kg, each with proportional bar bend, undercutting fake-plate claims.
- Algorithmic blast radius – After the 503 kg post, hashtag #GravityIsJustASuggestion vaulted into TikTok’s top-100 sports tags; analysts predict the 508 kg release will breach 50 million impressions in 24 h.
- Technique paradigm shift – Coaches now cite Kim when teaching “lever-hacked overloads,” positioning rack-pulls as a legitimate neural-drive tool alongside classic full deadlifts.
- Cultural crossover – Strength forums, Bitcoin blogs, and creative-arts subreddits continue to meme Kim’s chalk-cloud roar as proof-of-work incarnate, broadening strength culture’s reach beyond gyms.