A massive senior from Pilot Point High School in Texas, Matt Poursoltani, has bench pressed 700 pounds, and a video of the feat is gaining massive hits on YouTube. The record for professional football bench press is only slightly higher at 705 pounds, set by former NFL player Larry Allen. With this amount of strength, Poursoltani could be a good prospect for college teams.
The hairy-chested and heavy-set Poursoltani is seen on the video in a packed room full of onlookers at the Texas High School Powerlifting Association event March 23 in Abilene, Texas. He sits down his 270-pound frame and, after a countdown by the spotter, quickly crushes the challenge and sets the record for the entire state of Texas.
Questions immediately arose on social media about the role that steroids played in this feat, especially given the recent spate of celebrity sports stars whose inhuman exploits were later linked to PEDs. Not Poursoltani. He chalked up his strength - a year over year gain of 130 pounds bench pressed - to working hard at the gym day in and day out. He also eats plenty of protein, including a reported "six sunny-side-up eggs" for breakfast and cold cuts sandwich for lunch.
"If you can't drive yourself that hard to come in here and work out, then it's probably just not for you," quipped Poursoltani.
Being so strong would win any young man a set of nicknames, and his happens to be "The Freak Show" for the incredible dissonance between the amount he lifts and the amount he weighs. Good luck to the young man as he pans out a future in whichever sport is lucky enough to land him.
