Hi. My name is Eric and I have a problem. I never expected it and I didn’t plan for it. It just happened. And now, I’ll never be the same. Hardly a minute passes when I don’t think about it, salivate, and get the shivers. My own grandmother cringes in fright when she even hears about “it.”

Yes, folks, I’m a deadlift-aholic. I don’t just want to pull; I want to pull every minute of every day for the rest of my life. I dream about grinding out heavy pulls where the bar seemingly bends in half, and I jump at the opportunity to do speed pulls so quickly that I nearly castrate myself with the bar. This passion has led me to a ranking in the Powerlifting USA Top 100 for my weight class, and the brink of a 1RM of 3.5 times my body weight.

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