The Greatest Powerlifter of All Time Ed Coan, Dr. Andy Galpin, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Coach Travis Mash Barbell Shrugged #622
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2021
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Throughout his active career in international powerlifting competition Ed Coan has set over 71 world records in powerlifting.[4] He became the lightest person to cross the 2,400 lb. barrier in the powerlifting total (a sum of three lifts: the deadlift, bench, and squat). He set an all-time powerlifting record total at 2,463 pounds, even though at the time he was not in the heaviest weight class.
Coan's best result in a drug tested international competition is 1,035 kg (2,282 lbs) in the 100 kg weight class at the 1994 IPF Senior World Championships.[5] establishing a new world record at the time. Even though serving a lifetime ban from the IPF for doping, today Coan is among some people still acknowledged and regarded a legend in the world of powerlifting and spends much of his time mentoring young lifters coming into the sport.[3]
Coan's best single ply lifts:
- Squat - 1019 lbs (~462 kg)
- Bench press - 584 lbs (~265 kg)
- Deadlift - 901 lbs (~409 kg)[6] raw by today's standards with only singlet and belt
Total: 2463.6 lbs (1117.5 kg)
In this Episode of Barbell Shrugged:
- Why playing the long game wins in strength
- The perfect deadlift set up
- Why feel is the most important coaching tool for strength
- Setting 30+ world records in a career
- Why competing can hinder your progress
Connect with our guests:
Coach Travis Mash on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | Charge family this week on Barbell Shrug one of the strongest humans that has ever walked on the face of this earth |
| 0:05.5 | She's like 30 powerlifting world records when you're only competing against yourself in every single year |
| 0:12.0 | You go beat last year's PR that makes you the strongest man in the world |
| 0:17.7 | 30 something times in Rome what's actually super cool about this is the number of years that Ed Cohen |
| 0:24.5 | Was allowed not allowed but able to compete at such a high level very few injuries |
| 0:31.1 | We talk about all the training methodologies that go into staying strong for a very long time |
| 0:36.3 | Not just strong but like world class greatest of all time strong and you're going to learn how long but an |
| 0:43.9 | Approach in a process he took in this episode to being considered the greatest of all time before we get into the show |
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