lol supposedly mark henry deadlifted and squated over 900 lbs in high school raw. I know he did those feats but looks like it was done in high school. Was wondering if this was true?
“Mark wasn’t just any kid, at the young age of 10 Mark was 5 foot 1 and weighed in at 215lbs! His mother quickly gave Mark a weight set and Henry noticed what was heavy for everyone else was easy for him. In 1993 as Henry entered high school, he shattered the high school squat world record and squatted an amazing 933lbs with minimal gear! And then to make a statement, Henry squatted 953lbs deep, a record that would stay for over a decade! Mark also set the record in the deadlift, deadlifting 903lbs in high school, which is 20lbs off of the greatest deadlift ever witnessed a decade after by Andy Bolten! Later on, in 1996 Henry wasn’t just the best powerlifter in America, - No-No, he was also the Captain of the Olympic team in the clean and Jerk! Amazingly, Henry could clean nearly 500lbs and he was making headlines constantly in the weight lifting world.”
That article is full of inaccurate statements (not to mention grammar and spelling mistakes). Henry was born in 1971, which makes him 22 in 1993 and not a highschool freshman. He squatted 936.5lbs in the USAPL when he was 19. He deadlifted 903.75lbs in the USAPL when he was 24. Neither of these lifts were done “raw.”
[quote]ChaseT wrote:
That article is full of inaccurate statements (not to mention grammar and spelling mistakes). Henry was born in 1971, which makes him 22 in 1993 and not a highschool freshman. He squatted 936.5lbs in the USAPL when he was 19. He deadlifted 903.75lbs in the USAPL when he was 24. Neither of these lifts were done “raw.”[/quote]
thanks for information article was definitely biased to him.
Henry’s 903 dead was raw, just a singlet and belt, the 947 and later 953 squats were with belt and knee wraps,
I grew up about 30 minutes from Silsbee and we lifted agianst him in THSPA meets, he totalled 2000 at the state meet with an 800 squat and a 500 raw bench (USPF rules, single ply) and very rarely took all 3 attempts. He did the USPF seniors the summer after he graduated and placed 2nd to karwoski in the supers breaking the IPF Jr dead record with a pull in the mid 700’s.
here is the link to the THSPA state meet records, most of the regional records are higher since the kids play it very conservatively at state to keep from bombing: the different divisions are for school sizes, henry still holds the large school total record, but a kid from smaller division broke it last year