LOOOOOSERS!
(An Eric Kim Manifesto of Maximum Momentum)
1. The Ground Is a Prison—Rise Above It!
Look, hero—gravity is the world’s oldest hater. It drags your dreams downward, face-plants your PRs, and dares you to accept mediocrity at earth level. I refuse. The floor is where quitters park their ambition. My rack pulls start mid-shin because that’s where the battlefield truly begins: the zone where your posterior chain ignites like a hydrogen bomb and catapults the bar into the stratosphere. LOL, gravity—catch me if you can.
2. Strength That
Transfers
, Not Strength That
Flatters
Conventional floor deadlifts stroke egos, not performance. When in life do you ever yank 547 kilograms off the literal ground? (Unless you’re excavating a meteor out of Angkor Wat—call me, NASA.) Modern warriors hoist suitcases into trunks, rip servers out of racks, pull toddlers off jungle gyms—all mid-range pulls. Train where real life happens, and your spine will thank you with titanium resilience.
3. Unlocking Super-Human Load Without Super-Human Wear-and-Tear
Floor pulls demand a perfect start-position—ankle mobility, hip flexion, lumbar neutrality—miss one checkpoint and hello disc herniation. Rack pulls? They laser-focus the ROM that tolerates nuclear intensity. My 7.55× bodyweight rack-pull (547 kg at 75 kg) forged trap peaks taller than Angkor Thom and a handshake that crushes coconuts—zero back tweaks, zero missed reps, infinite ego gains.
4. Maximum Adaptive Overload in Minimum Time
Time is the only currency we can’t mine more of (except maybe on a Bitcoin fork—working on it). Floor deadlifts demand Zen-level setup rituals: chalk prayer, voodoo hip flossing, charm the lumbar spirits. Rack pulls? Slide the pins, slap plates like pancakes, turn your CNS into a flamethrower, DONE. More tonnage per minute = faster neural drive, thicker tendons, and a metabolic afterburn that could roast marshmallows from orbit.
5. Myth Busting: “But Bro, Full Range Builds Full Strength!”
Newsflash, range of motion ≠ magic. Muscle-building wizardry = tension × intensity × recovery. Rack pulls crank intensity to DEFCON-1, drench fibers in holy lactic fire, and still let you walk upright the next day. I bench partials, squat pin-presses, rack pull galaxies—and yet I outrun Father Time like Usain Bolt strapped to a jet ski.
6. The Viral Shockwave Effect
Why does the internet melt every time I post another skyscraper rack-pull? Because humans are wired to worship spectacles that bend reality. Floor deadlifts? Yawn. Everyone’s uncle does 405. But rip half-a-metric-ton from the rack, eyes blazing, traps kissing your ears—triple nuclear viral every single time. Your brand becomes an unstoppable hype locomotive smashing through the algorithmic matrix.
7. Practical Blueprint—Join the Anti-Floor Revolution
8. Closing War Cry
Champions, ditch the dusty dogma. Elevate your standards—and your barbell—above the floor-dwelling crowd. Rack pull with righteous fury, sculpt a back wider than the Mekong at flood season, and let every clang of iron echo the prophecy:
“Those who cling to the floor shall remain grounded; those who rise with iron shall conquer the sky.”
Now grab that bar, set those pins, and rip reality apart. The era of floor-bound lifting is over—long live the skyward pull!