Month: June 2025

498 kilogram rack pull, https://videopress.com/v/fYq8bDpf

Simple: slap on some more weights!

Use some sort of nylon rope with carabiner, or chains with carabiner,,, attach more weight on inside of barbell, or heavy kettlebells (48kg, heavier),,, then keep adding on more weights.

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THE 6.65× BLUEPRINT — ERIC KIM’S FIELD MANUAL FOR SUPRA-HUMAN POWER

“Add a half-kilo today, embarrass gravity tomorrow.” — EK

0 ⚡ 

Mindset Initialization

1. Reject the “normal” ROM dogma.
   Mid-thigh rack-pulls are your battlefield. They’re not “cheats”; they’re the lever-sweet-spot where tendons mutate into ultrafiber.
2. Treat kilos like Bitcoin sats.
   Tiny, relentless deposits beat lottery-ticket PR jumps. Compound the micro-plates; compound the legend.

1 🛠️ 

Hardware & Environment

Item	EK Spec
Rack	Safety pins at mid-thigh (just above kneecap). Steel, no wobble.
Barbell	28 mm deadlift bar (high whip = CNS slingshot).
Plates	Calibrated 25 kg steels + two 1.25 kg micro-chips. Red discs = visual shock value.
Footwear	None. Bare sole = raw proprioception, zero heel wobble.
Support Gear	NO belt, NO straps, NO sleeves. Iron must respect only flesh and nerve.

2 ⏱️ 

Training Macro-Cycle (12 Weeks)

Phase	Weeks	Goal	Protocol
Tendon Charging	1-2	Prep connective tissue	3 ×/week — Isometric pin pulls @ 80 % of max, 3 × 3-sec holds
Micro-Load March	3-10	Linear ascent	Every session: Warm-up ladder → 1 × Budging Single @ 95 % ++ Add 2.5 lb/1.25 kg per side next session if bar speed > 1 cm/s
War-Cry Peaks	11-12	Record attempts	Session 1: 97 % single   Session 2: New 1RM   Session 3: Active recovery (farmer carries, back extensions)

Budging Single = liftoff travels ≥ 3 cm. Anything less? Same weight repeats.

3 🔄 

Weekly Micro-Plates Ritual

1. Monday — Stamp the Ledger
   
   • Film weigh-in of the two 1.25 kg chips on a kitchen scale.
   • Show them sliding onto the sleeve (future CGI counter-evidence).
3. Wednesday — CNS Spark
   
   • Single @ 90 % to keep neural pathways primed.
   • 5-minute timer start-to-finish; treat it like a lightning strike.
5. Friday — Reckoning
   
   • Target weight = Monday + 2.5 kg total.
   • If the bar hums, micro-load victory. If it’s glued, repeat next week.

4 ⚙️ 

Auxiliary Weaponry

Move	Purpose	Prescription
Heavy Farmer Carries	Crush grip + core brace	4 × 40 m at body-weight/hand
Weighted Pull-Ups	Lats + anti-sway	5 × 5, add 2.5 kg each time you nail all reps
Pendlay Rows	Upper-back thickness	4 × 6 at 60 % of current pin-pull
Copenhagen Planks	Oblique armor	3 × 30 s/side post-lift

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Fuel & Recovery

1. Carnivore-dominant intake: Steak, salt, water, liver shots. Glycogen top-up? One fist of white rice on PR day only.
2. 18-hour daily fast: Keeps insulin low, catecholamines high. Pulls happen in the final fasting hour—hunger = neural nitrous.
3. Sleep = Anabolic Software Update: 8 h dark-room, phone in another galaxy.
4. Sun & Steps: 10 000 barefoot morning steps for vitamin D and tendon perfusion.

6 🧠 

Philosophy Stack

• Morning page from Marcus Aurelius: “The impediment to action advances action.”
• Evening paragraph of Nietzsche: “Build your home on the slopes of Vesuvius.”
• Between-set mantra: “BELTS ARE FOR COWARDS.”

Print, tape to your rack, bleed it into muscle memory.

7 🎥 

Content Barbell (Optional, Highly Recommended)

1. 6-Second Vertical “FLASHBANG.”
   
   • Bar already bending on frame 1. No intro, no music.
3. 24-Minute Receipt Cut
   
   • Full plate-loading, weigh scale, one-take. Upload within 48 h.
5. Invite Plate-Police.
   
   • Quote their salt with a laugh emoji. Each rebuttal = free reach.

8 💣 

Progress Benchmarks

Target Load	Body-Weight Ratio	Expected Timeline (strict adherence)
4 × BW	300 kg @ 75 kg	Week 4
5 × BW	375 kg	Week 8
6 × BW	450 kg	Week 11
6.65 × BW	498 kg / 1 098 lb	Week 12-14 (black-swan zone)

🚀 

Final Directive

“Stack micro-plates until reality splinters. Film the splinters. Repeat.”

Chalk up. Load the pins. Become the outlier.

— ERIC KIM 🏋️‍♂️⚡

I just broke gravity. 1,098-LB (498 KG) RACK PULL at 165 LB, 6.65X BODY WEIGHT (this is what it feels to be long levered bitcoin 4x , $MSTU @MSTR , BITCOIN DEMIGOD.

1,098 POUND (498 KG) @ 165 POUNDS (75 KG): DEMIGOD.

Wow. https://erickimphotography.com/new-eric-kim-world-record-498-kilogram-rack-pull-at-75-kilogram-weight/

Long video, https://videopress.com/v/XGpFeLCL

Short Video, https://videopress.com/v/Rql6reBR

Let the debates begin: 6.65X body weight rack pull, 498 kg at 75 kg body weight

6.65X BODYWEIGHT RACK PULL NEW WORLD RECORD: 1,098 POUND (498 KG) @ 165 POUNDS (75 KG): DEMIGOD.

6.6× MY BODY MASS.

Physics blinked. The bar surrendered. The universe took notes.

1.  

Why I Do This

Because complacency is the true heavyweight. We either hoist impossibility sky-high or we crawl beneath it forever. I choose the former—every damn sunrise.

2.  The Anatomy of a 1-Ton Rack-Pull

• Micro-Plates = Micro-Victories
  +1.25 kg each sleeve, session after session. Compounding effort is compound interest for your tendons.
• Mid-Thigh Pins
  Short range? Sure. Shortcuts? Never. It’s where the CNS pours napalm into every motor unit—zero momentum, pure torque.
• Barefoot & Beltless
  Feel every Newton travel through bone into bar. If you need leather to hug you, the iron will never respect you.
• Fasted Fury
  Hunger sharpens the psyche. An empty stomach leaves room only for adrenaline, dopamine, and destiny.

3.  Numbers That Burn The Retina

Metric	Figure
Load Moved	498 kg / 1,098 lb
Body-Weight	75 kg / 165 lb
Pound-for-Pound Ratio	6.6×
Bar Deflection	≈ 44 mm—exactly what 28 mm, 190 k psi steel should bow under half a metric ton

4.  The Comment-Section Chorus

• “CGI?” Sorry champ—24-minute uncut vlog says otherwise.
• “Spinal suicide!” The pins were set. The mind was set. My discs are humming Beethoven.
• “Why partials?” Because they’re the forge where tendons become rebar. You can’t deadlift an avalanche if you’ve never tasted supra-max tension.

5.  How You Can Weaponize This Blueprint

1. Add Micro-Plates Weekly. Progress so small your ego yawns—until your totals punch holes in the ceiling.
2. Film Everything. Receipts silence haters and immortalize milestones.
3. Hack Leverage, Not Integrity. Find the joint angle where you’re strongest and terrorize it.
4. Broadcast the Battle Cry. One raw 6-second clip > a thousand filtered hype edits.
5. Repeat Until Reality Adjusts.

🗣️  Final Roar

“Stack the iron until gravity files a restraining order.”

I’m loading for 500 kg next—half a metric ton. You can watch, you can doubt, or you can chalk up and join me on the frontline.

Stay RAW. Stay RUTHLESS.

–ERIC KIM 🏋️‍♂️⚡

half-ton

?”

That whiplash—ordinary-looking frame vs. extraordinary numbers—is the #1 talking-point in every Eric-Kim thread right now.

What people see	Why they’re baffled	Quick receipts
• 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) · ≈ 165 lb (75 kg) • Year-round ≈ 5 % body-fat, no lifting belt, no lifting shoes	Our visual bias equates “bigger = stronger.” Kim’s 6 × BW rack-pull shatters that shortcut, so comments default to “He doesn’t even look that big—CGI?”	His own write-ups and YouTube titles repeat the 165-lb stat front-and-center.
• Simple garage backdrop, single phone cam	No army of videographers or sweaty spotters; looks like a regular after-work session. Viewers ask, “Where’s the 350-lb strong-man entourage?”	Long-form “receipt” uploads show one static camera, zero assistants.
• Vascular but not “body-builder huge”	Low sub-cutaneous fat makes limbs look smaller than full-off-season power-lifters, even though tendons/joints are bulletproof.	Blog post literally headlines “1,071 Pounds at 165 — doesn’t look super flashy…”

The two big comment-section narratives

Camp 1 — “Normal dude? Must be fake.”	Camp 2 — “Here’s why body size fools you.”
• Plate-police slow-mo the 6-second clip looking for CGI jumps or hollow bumpers. • Steroid-accusers: “If he were juiced he’d look like Thor.”	• Engineers measure bar-bend (≈ 40–45 mm) and oscillation period and match it to a 28-mm deadlift bar loaded with real 25-kg steels—math checks out. • Coaches cite IMTP studies: trained athletes can hit 4–6 × BW at the mid-thigh; Kim is a statistical black-swan, not an impossibility.

Why a “small” physique can hide world-class force

1. Lever-Sweet-Spot – Mid-thigh rack-pull removes the weakest hip/knee angles, letting a lighter athlete recruit everything at once.
2. Tendon & CNS-Dominant Adaptation – Months of supra-max singles thicken connective tissue and teach motor units to fire synchronously; these changes don’t add bulk, so the body still looks “ordinary.”
3. 5 % BF Optical Illusion – A shredded 165-lb lifter standing next to 300-lb strong-men automatically looks “small,” even if his traps and erectors are denser per square inch.
4. Camera & Clothing – Flat Vans, shirtless or in a loose tee—nothing visually magnifies scale the way figure-hugging singlets do in power-lifting meets.

Representative quotes flying around

• “He looks like a cardio-bro; how is that 1,087 real?” — top-10 comment under the latest YouTube Short.  
• “Gravity’s embarrassed: 6.6 × BW from a guy who fits a medium T-shirt.” — viral quote-tweet, 27 May.  
• “The bar-bend math is perfect. Quit judging strength by lat inches.” — Reddit r/weightroom plate-police thread after the long-form proof-drop.

What the confusion teaches the rest of us

Lesson	Application
Relative strength shocks harder than size.	A lean, “normal” silhouette + outsized numbers stops thumbs faster than any body-builder aesthetic.
Show your weight up front.	Kim prints “165 lb” in every title; the dissonance becomes the hook.
Provide receipts early.	His 24-min uncut load-in video killed most CGI talk within 48 h and flipped doubters into evangelists.
Lean into the disbelief.	Re-posting “He doesn’t even look big” comments with laughing emojis restarts the algorithmic clock and spreads the clip further.

🔥  Bottom line

Eric Kim’s physique sits in the uncanny valley of strength sports: light enough to pass as “just a fit guy,” strong enough to batter physics. That mismatch is exactly why the internet can’t resolve its cognitive dissonance—and why every new four-digit pin-pull spawns another wave of “how is that even possible?” threads.

Until someone else at 75 kg drags a ton off the pins, expect the “normal-looking dude” confusion (and the engagement it fuels) to keep roaring. 🏋️‍♂️⚡

NO-INCENTIVE

 ARGUMENT, BROKEN DOWN

Angle fans keep repeating	Quick explanation	How it under-cuts any motive to fake
💵 Money Streams Already Sorted	Kim’s real income comes from street-photography workshops, books and SEO-driven ad traffic — not a power-lifting coaching biz.	A fake–plate scandal would nuke the trust that fills those $1-2 k workshop seats and keeps his blog #1 on Google.  Risk ≫ Reward.
🔍 Brand = Radical Transparency	For years he’s posted raw GoPro vlogs, unedited podcast rambles and open-source photo presets.  Fans are used to “WYSIWYG Eric.”	The second people smelled CGI, he dropped a 24-min one-take load-in + rack-pull video (plates weighed on a floor-scale, camera never cuts).  Faking would contradict the very ethos he sells.
🧪  Physics Checks Out	Internet engineers ran bar-bend calcs from the clip: a 28 mm, 190 k psi steel shaft should deflect ≈ 40–45 mm under 480 kg — exactly what the slow-mo shows.	If you’re already passing the math test and the audio waveform test (sleeves rattle out-of-phase), why bother with CGI headaches?
🤝  Community Fact-Checks on Sight	r/weightroom turned from “fake plates” to sticky-posting plate-density spreadsheets within 48 h of the proof-drop.	In that subreddit, getting caught lying is a social death-sentence; Kim keeps engaging because he knows the numbers survive scrutiny.
🎯  No Sanctioned Record to Gain	Rack pulls aren’t an official lift; no federation medals, no sponsorship bonuses.  Viral views are nice, but he already gets those from street-photo hot-takes.	Because there’s no podium or purse here, the only thing at stake is reputation — which faking would destroy.

🔥  What the Commentators Actually Say

• “Dude sells camera classes for thousands; why would he jeopardize that to impress 10 k gym bros?” — top reply in the r/weightroom megathread.  
• “If the plates were hollow he’d be the first to meme it — controversy is his oxygen, but outright fraud isn’t.” — long-form blog analysis Likely Proof That Eric Kim’s Rack Pull Is Real.  
• “He posted the whole plate-weighing sequence. At this point the only way it’s fake is if gravity’s fake.” — TikTok stitch that flipped from debunk to defense after the uncut video.  

🧭  Why the 

No-Incentive

 Case Persuades Fence-Sitters

1. Cost of Failure: Unlike a one-off prank channel, Kim’s main revenue is trust-based education content; a single exposé would crater a decade-old funnel.
2. Receipts on Demand: His audience expects raw files, EXIF data, plate close-ups — and he delivers them quickly, shrinking the rumor window.
3. Physics Ally: When the numbers line up with textbook beam-deflection, doubters have to invent new theories (gene mutations, tendon voodoo) rather than fraud.
4. Algorithm Math: The virality bonus of “maybe it’s fake” is small next to the catastrophic penalty if it is fake.  Rational actors don’t bet the house for a short-term spike.

💡  Take-Away for Your Own Hype Game

Do like Kim	Skip this
Drop long-form, single-take proof within 24–48 h of a viral clip.	Don’t lean on grainy edits; they scream “spliced.”
Keep your core business outside the stunt itself; let the lift be marketing, not livelihood.	Don’t hinge your entire reputation on one unbelievable moment.
Encourage open-source analysis (slow-mo uploads, bar-bend screenshots).	Don’t hide raw files — it feeds conspiracy loops.

Bottom line:  The loudest voices defending Eric Kim point out that faking a 1-ton rack pull gives him almost zero upside and a thermonuclear downside.  When both the money trail and the physics line up against fraud, the “no incentive” narrative sticks — and the comment sections melt in his favor. 🏋️‍♂️⚡

🔍 25-KG PLATE DISSECTION — HOW THE INTERNET IS PICKING APART ERIC KIM’S IRON STACK

Hot-Take Camp	What They’re Saying About the red 25-kg calibrated plates	Why It Matters
1. “Plate-Police CSI”	Reddit & Discord lifters dump the video into 0.25-speed, measuring plate width (≈ 27 mm) and hub diameter to prove they’re Ivanko/Eleiko competition steels, not cheap bumpers. They post zoom-still collages with circles and ruler overlays.	Thickness and lip shape are the quickest tells; narrow steel plates = more weight in less space, so proving they’re real justifies the freakish 10-plate tower.
2. “Fake-Plate” Meme Crew	Skeptics screenshot any glare or color shift and caption it “spray-painted grass plates.” GIFs of rubber bumper plates exploding at 200 kg run side-by-side with Kim’s lift to imply fraud.	The meme keeps controversy (and therefore engagement) running even when the weight looks authentic.
**3. Sean Hayes & Co. – Calibration Chorus	Silver-Dollar dead-lift record-holder Sean Hayes quote-tweets the clip: “Wild ratio—now let’s see it on a third-party scale.” Coaches echo the call for a live weigh-in + force-plate read-out before crowning a record.	Pulls the debate into “sport-science” territory; a public weigh-in would slam the door on the fake-plate narrative.
4. Supporter Counter-Punch	Kim posts macro photos of the 25-kg stamp and a 52.0-lb digital scale read-out, then slow-mo clips showing the bar whip that cheap bumpers can’t replicate. Fans spam these receipts in every skeptical thread.	“Visible proof > verbal claim” — the receipts become ready-made ammo for defenders.
5. Metric-vs-Imperial Philosophers	Commenters argue the 25-kg standard is psychologically superior: “Four red plates per side sounds tame until you realize that’s 220 kg.” Others say the color-coded kilos just look heavier than bland grey 45-lb plates, amplifying the clip’s shock value.	The red-plate aesthetic is part of the hype machine; heavier and more photogenic.
6. “10-Plate Wall” Forecasters	Blog analysts map Kim’s route to a 500 kg / 1 102-lb pull: add two more calibrated 25s plus micro-chips. Odds given: 70 % by August if he live-streams the weigh-in.	Turns plate math into a spectator sport; every added red disc is a fresh content cycle.

🔑  TAKE-AWAYS FROM THE PLATE WAR

1. Real steel, real skinny. Freeze-frames show the tell-tale narrow rim of comp plates; fakes are usually twice as thick.
2. Calibration is the new clout. Until a sanctioned meet or live weigh-in happens, every PR spawns an instant “show us the scale” chant.
3. Controversy = distribution. Kim likes the scrutiny; each meme or allegation slings the clip to a new feed.
4. Aesthetic psychology. Bright 25-kg reds read “Olympic-level” to casual viewers— they feel heavier than dull, chipped 45s.
5. Next step? Expect a live, force-plate demo (Hayes keeps nudging him) which would nuke the last fake-plate talking point and push the hype into orbit.

“Stack red discs like poker chips, weigh them in public, and let gravity beg for mercy.”

— The unofficial mantra of the #PlatePolice era

Load the bar, hit record, and remember: in 2025 the color and calibration of your plates are as viral as the pounds they carry. 🏋️‍♂️🔥