A Marine assigned to California recently lifted more than 661 pounds, breaking the world record in her weight class by about 40 pounds.
A Marine stationed in California recently broke the world deadlifting record in her weight class by hoisting more than 661 pounds.
“You can push your body harder than you think it will go,” she told Task & Purpose on Monday about her accomplishment. “You cannot be afraid of the weight of the bar. I tell myself that I’m in control and I’m going to make the bar go wherever I want it – not the other way around.”
The Marine spoke with Task & Purpose about the record-breaking lift and her approach to training on the condition that she not be identified. A story on the Marine and the record-breaking lift posted on the military’s Defense Visual Information Distribution Service was taken down over the weekend after it generated a wave of online harassment, a spokesman for the I Marine Expeditionary Force told Task & Purpose on Monday.
