Obliterate Your Deadlift PR With These 5 Moves

Mark Bell, professional powerlifter and owner of the Super Training Gym in West Sacramento, California, has seen some powerful people swagger through his facility. But when a guy from Lubbock, Texas, named Cailer Woolam strolled in and started doing 500-pound bent-over barbell rows, Bell was taken aback.

"OK, after a certain point it just gets to be flat-out stupid," he says. "There are people dying to deadlift that much, and he's rowing it like it's nothing."

Compared to Woolam's deadlift record, Bell was right: It really was nothing—at least not for Woolam, who works as an assistant grocery manager at a supermarket when he's not lifting ungodly amounts of weight in the gym. Competing in the 198-pound class, Woolam has officially deadlifted 900 pounds. In the 220-pound class, he's gotten up to 927 pounds, making him the current world record holder for that class. And that's not even the amazing part. There's the insane amount of weight he lifts—and then there's way he...

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