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Strength & Speed- 10th edition has just arrived. It's a fun fact book, four years in the making. Intensively researched. World records for every age from 5 to 100 in all strength & speed events that can be authenticated. Be amazed at the heaviest and lightest performers for each event. For example, consider the 264-lb shot putter who also high jumped 6'6 at that weight. Learn about the lightest man to put a 16-lb shot a distance of 60 feet. Use our tables to compare yourself with others your age in many events in track & field, weightlifting, powerlifting, and even pullups. Discover the barrier breakers and record progressions in the sports above. Learn astonishing facts such as Frank Richards allowed a 104-lb cannonball to be fired at his stomach from a cannon 6 feet away. It knocked him off his feet, back into a net. He not only survived but did this daily as part of a circus act. Be impressed with versatile athletes. Throughout the book we describe people who starred at many different events. This book has 319 pages and over 120 photos.
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New World Record in the Orangutan Hang
Orangutan Hang is hanging from a chin-up bar with one hand--this applies to humans only. On October 8, 2009, 12:30 pm, Matt Bogdanowicz broke his old record of 1:45 with 1:46.5 left handed with Dale Harder timing the event in Castro Valley, California. Matt, 40, 5'9, 147.2, went into the zone. He also holds the right hand record of 1:37, but was able to do only 1:29.9 today.
Revisions for this site are in progress.
Page 2 Information is now up to date and is about the latest book with a cover photo. Please go below and click on page 2 for more info. Also ignore p.3 description of Strong, Stronger & Strongest--it's out of stock for the rest of 2009 at least. Also on p.5 ad for our newsletter please add $2 to all of those prices.
Grip Strength Dynamometer Records
Dynamometers are instruments used by health professionals and others to measure grip strength. Most types are squeezed with one hand using just the force of one's grip. Below are world records, or at least world bests, for marks made with the Baseline hydraulic dynamometer. Baseline,Jamar, Rolyan and Preston dynamometers produce the same results. Other brands are not directly comparable. Records made on the Robert Baraban Grip Tester, a spring dynamometer, are actually a little tougher than the first two brands named. The records below have all been done correctly--no bracing with the other hand nor other parts of the body are allowed, nor a jump start where one of the needles causes the other needle to jump. All of the marks have been witnessed by Dale Harder or other reliable sources. We are currently developing an all-time list and hope to have it on-line soon. Below are records listed by age, record squeeze in kg, name of person, and date. Single age records are listed thru age 19. Starting at age 35 the records are for 5-year groups--i.e. 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, etc. Missing age groups over age 35 indicate that an older person has a better mark than anyone in that age group. Likewise, under age 20, younger persons have the record if their marks are superior to those of older people.
Male Grip Strength Baseline Dynamometer Records
Records presented as follows include information in this order: age, kg of grip strength, name of athlete, venue, and date. Age 2, 13 kg, Dillon Harder, Castro Valley CA, 122703; age 4, 14 kg Dillon Harder, Castro Valley CA, 072206; age 5, 15 kg, Dillon Harder, Castro Valley CA, 122706; age 6, 20 kg, Dillon Harder, Castro Valley, 080108; age 8, 34 kg, Nate Fowler; McPherson KS, 092307; age 12, 45 kg, Nathan Bryant, Oakland CA 071407; age 13, 60 kg, Thomas Rice, Castro Valley CA, 021202; age 15, 72 kg, Al Negete, Livermore CA, 021206; age 16, 80 kg, Alexander Wong, Livermore CA, 021206; age 18, 115 kg, Wes Peart Tucson AZ 071507; open record, 122 kg, Dave Brown, Pleasanton CA, 090404; age 45, 112 kg, Myles Wetzel, McPherson KS, 092207; age 50, 99 kg, Frank Henry Pleasanton CA, 090207; age 55, 93 kg, Ian Percy, Pleasanton CA, 083003; age 65, 86 kg, Dale Harder, Petaluma CA, 122705; age 70, 80 kg, Dale Harder, Castro Valley CA, 083107; age 75, 68 kg, Vince Sempronio, Napa CA, 101202; age 80, 53 kg, Bob Hutchings, Castro Valley CA, 102102; age 90, 42 kg, Clyde Myers (1), Salina KS, 021206; age 100, 24 kg, Frank Murray, Hayward CA, 071305; (1) witnessed by Al Myers et al.
Female Grip Strength Baseline Dynamometer Records
World Strongest Man of 2009 is Over
On the island country of Malta in the Mediterranean qualifying heats for 30 wanna-be "World's Strongest Man" contestants were held. Top two winners of each heat qualified for the finals which were held over three days October 1-3, 2009. Finalists were: Derek Poundstone USA, Louis Philippe Jean CAN, Zydrunas Savickas aka Big Z LIT, Brian Shaw USA, Phil Pfister USA, Mariusz Pudzianowski POL, Laurence Shahlaei GBR, Travis Ortmayer USA, Terry Holland GBR and Dave Ostlund USA. There were 7 events in all. Day 1: Fingal's Fingers which is lifting up 5 or 6 heavy "fingers" or pillars (heaviest one probably about 550 lb) from the starting position where they lay on the ground, lifting them up by one end and standing them up so they went past perpendicular and fell over. Most fingers turned over in the fastest time won. Zydrunas Savickas blistered a new world record of 28.69 seconds for the win. 2nd place in 32.08 Ostlund, 3r in 32.37 Shaw. Farmer's Walk was the next event. Weight of the implements unknown to me. 1st, Pudzianowski by a mile in 25.05 seconds. 2nd, 31.63 Poundstone. 3rd, 33.54 Shahlaei. Event 3: Plane Pull weighing 93,000 lb,a loaded Airbus 320-200 was pulled for 25m (82'). Winner, 38.19 Hollands; 2nd 40.24 Savickas; 3rd 40.53 Ortmayer.
Second Day: Axle Lift Overhead--with a 341 lb axle for the most complete lifts ground to overhead in 75 seconds. 1st, 9x Savickas; tie for 2nd, 8x Poundstone & Pudzianowski. Event 5: Boat Pull with a 300 kg (661 lb) up a 20m (65'7) slope. 1st, 32.44 seconds, Shaw: 2nd, Pudzianowski; 3rd, Ortmayer. Big Z either finished last or near last and lost points big time.
Third Day: Car Deadlift. 350 kg (771 lb) car was lifted for the greatest number of reps in 75 seconds. 1st, Savickas; 2nd tie between Pudzianowski & Poundstone; tie for 4th Shaw and Hollands. Atlas Stones: 5 stones weighing from 100 kg (220 lb) to 160 kg (352 lb) were loaded onto barrels in a race against time. 1st, Ortmayer. Big Z beat Pudzianowski and it was all over.
Final Results: 1st, Savickas; 2nd, Pudzianowski; 3rd; Shaw.
World Championship Highland Games at 2009 Pleasanton
Pros:Sean Betz won the pro clasee, Harrison Bailey III was 2nd, and Daniel McKim 3rd. Amateur Men: Chad Gustine won, John Odden 2nd and John Collins 3rd. Amateur Women: Summer Pierson 1st; Adriane Blewitt 2nd; Kristen Rhodes 3rd. Amateur Women Masters age 40+: Karyn Dallimore CAN 1st, Kris Stuteville, 2nd; Kym Ross Pollard 3rd. Men's Masters 40-49: Dr. Shawn Baker 1st; David Youngberg 2nd; Eric Wechter 3rd. Men's Master 50+: Kel Mulrey 1st; Kevin Youngberg 2nd; Jay Lyttle 3rd. Unofficial dynamometer Results: This was a fun thing that your editor does. He carries around a Baseline dynamometer and tests everyone who is willing. Top man: Dave Brown 111 kg. Top woman: Adriane Blewitt 69 kg. Top woman 35+: Dr. Brook Baker 53.5 kg. Age 6+ female--Faith Vierra, 18 kg, new age record for girls age 6. More Information: Subscribe to Dale Harder's Strength & Speed Newsletter--these games were covered in the Oct. 2009 issue with many photos.
Goerner Grip (overhand grip) Deadlifts
854 lb (387.5 kg ) by Brad Gillingham, Trencin SLO, IPF world championships, 11-17-02. Brad was 331 lb, height 6'4.5.
Raw Deadlifts
"Raw Deadlifts" means dead lifts performed without a special suit. K= knee wraps i = done at an IPF meet. n = national meet. d = druq disqualification. * = unofficial. Dead lift suits started showing up in 1986, although a few lifters had used squat suits as an aid for the dead lift before that time. Input included from Gus Rethswich, Herb Glossbrenner, Bruce De Rosier, Michael Soong and Kevin O'Rourke.See a longer list in "Dale Harder's Strength & Speed Newsletter."
410 kg (904 lb) Wohleber, Dan, Sandusky OH, 121282, bw 268, ht. 5'8e
410 kg (903 lb) Kenady, Doyle, Honolulu HI, 040686, bw 305, ht. 5'10
410 kg (903 lb) Henry, Mark, Wilkes-Barre PA, 071695, bw 405.8, ht. 6'3
402iw kg (886 lb) Kazmaier, Bill, Columbus GA, 112981, bw 330, ht. 6'2
401.5iw (885 lb) Reinhoudt, Don, Chattanooga TN, 050373, bw 357, ht. 6'3.5 Key: i = IPF or international powerlifting federation; e =estimated.
Chinups (chins/pullups)
It appears that Lee Chin-Yongs claim of 612 continuous chinups is unproven. It seems that contradictory evidence in the Guinness World Records book of 1997 suggested that the record for chinups in one hour was 445 continuous chins. There's no way that Chin-Young could have stayed on the bar for over an hour doing continuous chinups. Other popular claims seem to lack visual evidence and proof that chinups were complete--i.e. chin clears the bar on each rep and arms extend on the bottom for each rep. We believe that the authentic record is by Burkhard Meier GER, 30, 5'9, 165, who did 88 consecutive pullups on March 6, 1989 in an annual 4-event competition in Riese, Germany. He actually did 95 pullups but 7 were thrown out by the judges as being incomplete.
We have a list of age records for chins/pullups done strictly and consecutively. Males and females have separate records. We have a separate list of chins/pullups age records for one-rep maxima (maximums). Sometimes the record is just a chinner's bodyweight, in other cases it's his/her weight plus extra weight attached. The open record with substantial evidence to support it is a 380 lb chinup by Tim Fergus AUS, 178 lb + 202 extra weight. It happened circa 1983, witnessed by Peary Rader, publisher of Iron Man, issue April 1983. The lists above plus similar age records for one-arm chinups, two-finger pullups, and even one-finger chinups are available with documentary photos in our Strength & Speed-10th edition described at the very top of this page.
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| Dale Harder winning 2002 World Highland Games for Masters Age 65+. |
Mission
We publish three unique books and a newsletter:
1. Strength & Speed--is a fun fact book like the Guinness Book and Ripley's Believe It Or Not combined. Find the age records, bodyweight records,and sometimes height recordsfor the bench press, squat, dead lift, snatch, clean & jerk, press, curl,track & field events, pullups, and pushups. We also have age and weight records for the highland games, farmer's walk, all-around lifting, the Inch Dumbbell, Dinnie Stones, Basque lifting, strong man events including the Arnold Scwarzenegger Strongman, grip strength, and football among many others. We also have tables so you can compare yourself with others of your age in many of these events. Please see page 2 of this website.
2. Strong, Stronger, Strongest- Out of print -This book has the biographies and strength feats of over 100 strong men from many areas--weightlifting, powerlifting, strongman including Arnold Schwarzenneger's Strong man, World's Strongest Man, IFSA, grip feats, wrestling, Basque lifting, highland games, shot put, arm wrestling, etc. These bios include: Chuck Ahrens, Alexeev, Paul Anderson, Andre the Giant, Apollon, Randy Barnes, Mac Batchelor, Andy Bolton, Dave Brown, John Brzenk, Pat Casey, Ed Coan, Jon Cole,Louis Cyr, Miles Darden, John Davis, Marvin Eder, Clay Edgin, Garry Frank, Gama, Brad Gillingham, Hermann Goerner, Joe Greenstein, Shane Hamman, Mark Henry, Doug Hepburn, Alexander Karelin, Bill Kazmaier, Doyle Kenady, Antonio Krastev, Alexander Kurlovich, Salem Jabar, John Marx, Scot Mendelson, Karl Norberg, Brian Oldfield, Inaki Perurena, Anatoly Pisarenko, Pudzianowski, Don Reinhoudt, Reza Zadeh, Cannonball Richards, Zydrunas Savickas, Arthur Saxon, Schemansky, Brian Siders, Sigmarsson, Taranenko, Topham, Wilhelm, Jim Williams and others--see page 3.
3. Sports Comparisons...You Can Compare Apples to Oranges--Use decathlon-like scoring tables to compare track & field athletes, weightlifters, raw powerlifters, IPF lifters, and other power lifters, highland games, stone lifting, golf, rock climbing, pullups, pushups, situps, and athletic feats in 32 sports--see page 4.
Dale Harder's Strength & Speed Newsletter--covers grip sports, all-around lifting, strong man, weightlifting, powerlifting, highland games, track & field especially the shot put, discus, and other sports. See page 5.
Dynamometer (grip) All-Time List. Under development. see page 6.
News & Links
Please see page 7.
Profile
Dale Harder, the main author, has a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley, an M.A. from S.F. State, and taught school at every level from kindergarten to college. He is a former world champion and world recordholder in age 65+ Scottish highland games in 2002. In his youth he was on the track teams of Oakland HS, Oakland JC, and University of California at Berkeley. He briefly held the school record in the discus throw at OJC. He was also on weightlifting teams for the Oakland YMCA and S.F.State College. While at S.F. State, he competed against San Quention Prison in weightlifting. When at UC Berkeley, he was captain of the Berkeley YMCA volleyball team against San Quentin. He participated in the Irish Games at Moraga, California, and five or six Scottish highland games starting in 1962 in Invergordon, Scotland, including the 2002 World Masters' Highland Games. He's currently the unofficial world record-holder for age 65+ on the Baseline grip dynamometer with 86 kg done at age 68 and wr holder with 80 kg for age 70+. He recorded a chinup with 50 extra pounds at a bodyweight of 231, in competition at age 65. He also did two chinups with 101 lb in his youth. His best vertical jump was 32"; his best standing long jump was 9'7.5" with toes behind the line, and 10'5 in Olympic style (toes over but not touching the sand pit dug out to a depth of 4"). His other feats (with no coaching) were pretty modest: press 210, snatch 205 split style, clean & jerk 280 (split), clean 285, raw squat 335 (Dale's 6'5 and has extra long legs), bench 245, dead lift 475, 1" dead lift from the rack 805, 1" squat from the rack 805. All lifts were done with only a weightlifting belt and a bodyweight between 220 and 251 lb, and obviously no drugs. He did: 37'5" put with a 22 lb stone--the latter in Inverness, Scotland in 1962.He did 20 one-arm pushups. When 15, he pushed a 1932 Buick, weighing about 3000 lb, up a 20-degree grade for about 100 feet, pushing from the rear bumper while a friend steered.. In 1958, at 21, he was told he wouldn't live another 20 years because he had a hole in his heart the size of a half dollar, unless he had an operation--which he did and survived--thanks to Dr. Frank Gerbode and Dr. Norman Shumway at Stanford Hospital. In or about 1998 his heart went crazy and surged up to a pulse of 230. He walked home, drove to the hospital and was given defibrillation. Later he had cardiac ablation which totally solved the problem--thanks to Dr. Charlie Young of Santa Teresa Hospital in San Jose.
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Dale Harder has taught school for 35 years at every level from K-college extension classes. He taught mainly math, science, reading, English & geography. He has authored over 60 books ("Think Tanks sold 10,000 copies), created 4 games ("Frac Jack" sold 10,000 copies) and 6 software pieces (none of which sold over 200 copies), and served as a mentor teacher, district math coordinator for Fremont Unified Schools and moonlighted as a tutor. He's followed strength & speed sports for 50 years and has created sports comparions tables, like decathlon scoring, for 32 sports including 3 versions for powerlifting--raw, IPF, and other.
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