Strongest Man To Ever Walk The Earth

Louis Cyr, was a famous French Canadian strongman with a career spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His recorded feats, including lifting 500 pounds (227 kg) with one finger and backlifting 4,337 pounds (1,967 kg), show Cyr to be, according to former International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness chairman Ben Weider, the strongest man ever to have lived.



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Strongest man to have ever lived; Paul Anderson

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Worlds Strongest Man

There may be some people that will disagree with this the title but the facts cannot be denied. Paul Anderson holds the record for the most weight ever lifted by a human being. If you look in the Guinness book, you will see that Paul Anderson lifted 6,270 pounds with his legs and back in 1957. No one has ever, nor will probably ever top that feat. Not only was he amazingly strong, Paul Anderson has influenced many lives and made many peoples lives better.

Growing up

Paul Anderson was born in 1932 in Toccoa Georgia. At age 5 Paul was diagnoses with Bright’s disease. Bright’s disease was what kidney disease used to be called. That term hasn’t been used for quite some time. Paul’s parents were told that he couldn’t play outside and would likely be weak and frail all his life.
Paul’s mom put him on a high protein diet, and made him push himself physically all through his childhood and teens. Paul played football in high school and went to Furman University on a football scholarship. He began experimenting with weight lifting and soon found that he could lift more than anyone else on the team, right from the start.
Paul Anderson left college to pursue weight lifting. He had to make most of his training equipment, because there were no barbells or other equipment that offered enough weight for Paul to train with. He made bars out of tractor axels and wheels, and even used a huge safe on a special leather strap to do squats on a platform in his yard, just to be able to train with enough weight to get stronger.

Source: georgia encyclopedia

Amazing Feats of Strength

In 1955 Paul went to the Soviet Union, and won the world weightlifting championships by a huge margin. Paul Anderson was squatting 900 pounds for reps at exhibitions; the world record at the time was in the 650-pound range. Paul later squatted 1160 pounds at muscle beach before credible witnesses, and again before a national TV audience on the Ed Sullivan show. Paul was the first man to ever squat over 700 pounds. He was also the last American to win a gold medal in the super heavyweight division.
The feat he holds the Guinness record for was lifting a table with people sitting on the table. He would get under the table, squat down and lift the table off of the floor with his back and legs.

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