Plague of Strength

Lifter Snapshot: August Johnson, the Ripped-and-Ready Strongest-Man-On-Earth-Not-Named-Louis-Cyr About Whom You Never Heard Because of Cyr’s Fat Ass

Jamie Chaos

Speaking as a person who very seriously decided to stop being chubby at 15 years old, I am bitter I learned of Cyr and never of August Johnson, because I continue not to care about the weightroom ministrations of the horrendously fat. Thus, I present to the people of my mindset an alternative to Louis Cyr, who only managed to get lean enough that his bones were actually visible in spots through his skin for this story: meet the old timey motherfucker who’d have John Haack’s records if he were alive today, August Johnson.

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Jamie Chaos
I am a former all-time, all federation world record holder in raw powerlifting at 181lbs, a record I broke just to say fuck you to the internet’s “lifting” community and the powerlifting community at large. Over the last ten years I’ve written over 500 articles on strength training, nutrition, and supplementation, and continue to do so simply to fight the tide of weakness and sadness that currently pervades the scene I’ve called home for the better part of three decades. I’ve got personal trainin certs, BodyPump and BodyCombat certs, a BA in History and East Asian Studies from the University of Arizona, and MBAs from the Vienna University and University of South Carolina on my side, in addition to some sick lifts and a hell of a lot of rage. What the fuck have you got?

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