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    STRENGTH HAACKS

    Jan 28, 2022 5 minutes

    John ‘Bilbo Swaggins’ Haack is not the tallest or the heaviest powerlifter, but pound for pound the 28-year old American is certainly one of the world’s strongest. In September 2021, he set a new world record in the raw (without knee pads) 90kg bodyweight class. He managed a combined one-rep max total in the squat, bench press and deadlift of a massive 1,005.5kg (340kg squat, 263kg bench press, 402.5kg deadlift). Not only did this effort smash his own previous world record (set in 2019) by almost 70kg, it also beat the raw records of the guys in the 100kg and 110kg class for good measure.

    Despite punching so far above his weight, and knowing how to put it all on the line when competing at the highest level, Haack is unassuming and relaxed in person, and still holds down a full-time day job as a chemist. Men’s Fitness caught up with

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