While watching avengers with my son, he asked me, ‘What’s the biggest thing you’ve ever lifted’ And it got my thinking, outside of the gym what’s the best/ greatest/ most impressive thing you’ve ever lifted. A couple to start this off, I once managed to pick up an anchor that was in my friends ga…

The worst thing about being knows as someone who lifts weights is that you get asked to move all manner of heavy things, pianos, rocks, cast iron baths, washing machines, and most of the time it involves one or more flights of stairs. I remember years ago I was building a deck for the back of my ga…

[image] simo74: The worst thing about being knows as someone who lifts weights is that you get asked to move all manner of heavy things, pianos, rocks, cast iron baths, washing machines, and most of the time it involves one or more flights of stairs. Pianos! Agh! They’re too shiny and delicat…

Clean and pressed a storm drain lid when I was 20 working construction. We were pouring the concrete floors of the boxes that house the water and let it drain via the slope to the pipes and I’m like “I…think I can press this if I get it to my chest” and my middle aged boomer foremen just cheered me …

Industrial Strength! Sometimes when I didnt want to make a bunch of little chunks I’d bang sidewalk sections at the break joint and just throw those in the truck pretty much whole.

[image] rugby_lifting: outside of the gym what’s the best/ greatest/ most impressive thing you’ve ever lifted. Not quite a lift, but one of my personal favorite non-gym uses of strength was rolling with a BJJ blue belt as a white belt and basically “posting up” to make my arm immoveable when …

[image] atlas13: dude was nicknamed “studfinder” for the rest of the time I knew him I wish I had a nickname with a story like this behind it! Good stuff.

Carrying mom to the ambulance gurney. Died in her bedroom from cancer, hospice. Glad I was able to do that for her. Call your mom fellas.

I got quite a few from being in construction since I was 16. I guess one that comes to mind was back in the summer…I was doing a bit of roofing and the last three rows had poly under it. Managed to roll it up like a sushi roll if you know what I mean for the length of the house, picked it up and car…

At the risk of sounding like a liar… my team and I once carried a hurt dude and his kit (and all ours obviously) a mile out to the truck at night under sporadic contact after a ~19 mile movement and multiple contacts that day. Easily the hardest physical thing I can ever remember doing. They were st…

What’s Your Greatest Feat of Non-Gym Strength?

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Glad to see you’re back around. Please update your world record charity thread from last year. A bunch of us have been looking forward to hear what happened.

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