Fitness World Records

MightySaxon performed a 120-pound dumbbell clean. His body weight during the attempt was 198.41 pounds.

Thommy Ohlund balanced a 30-kilogram dumbbell on top of an eight-kilogram fixed dumbbell on his palm.

Thommy Ohlund curled a dumbbell weighing 25 kilograms while juggling two tennis balls.

Thommy performed inclined bench press reps using two dumbbells weighing a total of 138.4 pounds. He is over 45 years old.

Michael Joseph Drouin, a 68-year-old Navy veteran, rowed a 75-pound dumbbell for 10 reps with each arm at a gym in Elk Grove, California. Bracing one knee and one hand on a flat bench, he pulls the dumbbell from below the bench up to his chest, then switches sides, all in one continuous video. Drouin trains with spinal hardware from his neck to his lower back and a replaced hip, and his outlook is simple: we were given one life, so live it regardless of age.

Matthew Lawson loaded a 35-degree plate-loaded leg press to 750 kilograms at a gym in Bathurst, Australia, and knocked out eight straight calf raises with it. His legs stay locked straight through the whole continuous set, moving the sled with nothing but his ankles, and he finishes by walking the camera around the sled to show the stacks of 25 kg and 20 kg plates on every horn. That's three-quarters of a tonne, moved by two calves, eight times in a row.

Matthew Lawson loaded seven 20 kg plates, 140 kilograms in all, onto one arm of a plate-loaded Viking press at a gym in Bathurst, Australia, and pressed it overhead with his left arm for eight straight reps. A Viking press is a standing shoulder-press machine worked through lever arms with handles at head height; on this one each arm moves on its own, and the continuous video shows the other arm parked while the left handle travels from shoulder height to full lockout eight times in a row, with the seven-plate stack in view the whole way. Seven plates, one arm, eight reps.

Michael Drouin performed seated presses eight times using a total of 320-pound weights. He is 64 years old. Michael is a Navy veteran, former bodybuilder, physically challenged with full spinal hardware and right full hip replacement. He strives to continue to work out regardless of his medical conditions.

Stefan Popovic loaded 354 pounds of plates onto a seated tricep press machine at a gym in Calgary, Canada, and pressed it for five full reps. The handheld video circles the machine during the set, showing the stacked plates as he drives the handles from bent elbows down to straight arms, with a short pause before the last rep. RecordSetter counted all five lockouts in the continuous clip. Not bad for a lifter who says he weighs under 185 pounds.

William Neal Quackenbush performed five full-range repetitions on an angled leg press loaded to 1,502 pounds in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, the day after turning 62. Full range here is his own standard: bend the knees to roughly 90 degrees on every rep, deep enough to load the legs through the whole movement, but stopping short of the joint angles that tend to wreck older knees and hips. The sled carries plates stacked out to the ends of both pegs, and the set was filmed in a single continuous shot, with a separate clip verifying the loaded weight.

Ryan Brown used a total of 1,050 pounds of weight in performing a hammer strength seated row.

James "Tater" Cook of Omega Force Strength Team viking pressed two men weighing a combined total of 610 pounds.

Isaiah Tolbert pressed 847 pounds on a 45-degree leg press at a gym in Snellville, Georgia, three days before he turned 13. Before the lift he shows the camera the sled's 167-pound label and the plates loaded on both sides, then lowers the sled into a deep knee bend and drives it back up to nearly straight legs in one continuous take. The total counts the plates plus the sled, as the rules require. Not a bad way to sign off on age 12.

Thommy Ohlund performed a one-arm bench press using a 155-pound barbell. He is 52 years old.

Thommy Ohlund performed a one-arm Olympic barbell curl using a 42.90-kilogram barbell. He is 52 years old.

Steven J. performed a one-armed table curl using a 117-pound dumbbell. He is 15 years old and his body weight during the attempt was 185 pounds.