Then Canada’s strongest man, Michaud challenged Cyr to best him in a boulder lifting competition. (my little research) He then weighed two hundred and seventy pounds, but his general lifting body weight was around three hundred and fifteen pounds. Reputable witness Oscar Mathes said the lift was closer to a straight-legged press. Accounts of the day recall how Cyr disarmed and subdued the combatants and then made a citizens arrest, carrying both miscreants, one under each arm, to the local police station. chest normal 59 1/2" and thighs 33" with other parts to match the increase in weight, being at the time a heavier 365 lbs.

(7) The hauling strength of four very heavy dray horses (two each side) failed to pull his arms apart. Louis Cyr died in Montréal on November 10, 1912 of a kidney ailment. It was on this historical occasion, on 19 January 1892 that Cyr pressed the pre-mentioned 273.75 lb. All rights reserved. From 1883 to 1885, Cyr served as a police officer in With little reward at this early foray into professional weightlifting, Louis was forced to seek other employment, fate taking a hand in his decision when he apparently stepped into, and broke up, by sheer physical force, a dangerous knife fight. Needing to take long breaks between lifts, Cyr was eventually declared the winner, When Cyr died, the lifting community mourned the loss of a true great. Although Dr. Dudley A. Sargent, famous Harvard University physical director recorded measuring Louis Cyr in 1895 when Cyr was 32 years old and weighed 291 lb (132 kg). He held the world record in the back lift at over 4,300 lbs., but reportedly made no big effort on this so could have lifted considerably more. We next find Cyr back in America, drawing the eyes of the world to his great back-lifting feat, on May 27th, 1895, at the museum of Austin and Stones in Boston, Mass. But these competitions, popular though they are, are relatively recent phenomenon. Returning home from work one day, Cyr came upon a farmer’s wagon that had become stuck in a ditch on a muddy path. Consisting of 18 'bulky' men. 3- Doing the heaviest Bent-press (dévissé) in history. Conor Heffernan is Assistant Professor of Physical Culture and Sport Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Bodybuilding.com℠ and BodySpace® are trademarks of Bodybuilding.com.
As body-building guru Ben Weider notes in his 1976 biography of Cyr, the military press, the style Cyr employed, is immeasurably more difficult than the contemporary clean and jerk method.

Weight on this occasion was estimated at 3,635 lb. He built his strength and won the admiration of many but it was unlikely that many in the United States or Great Britain knew Cyr’s name at this time.

In 1882, while working as a logger, Louis married Melina (née Gilbert dit Comtois).Soon proving his immense strength, he was urged by friends to enter the exciting, albeit highly precarious world of professional strong men, lifting mainly crude solid or shot filled weights. He stunned the crowd by lifting a horse clear off the ground. With this superb reference, Louis joined the police, becoming for several years a genuine police officer. Several generations have come and gone, however, since Louis Cyr arose and showed what he could do. If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your

In fact, an upcoming French movie is being made of his exploits. (5) Barrel of cement standing on end, put on shoulder by the use of one hand only: 141 kilos (approximately 310½ pounds). Ben Weider, who was privileged to access family archives, was even more generous giving arm size 24 inches (61 cm), forearms 19 inches (48 cm), and calves, the disputed 28 inches (71 cm), following a similar line to Jowett.While several of Cyr's feats of strength may have been exaggerated over the years, some were documented and remain impressive. February 24, 1922: officially clean-and-jerked 201.5 lbs with only one finger. Lifting super massive heavy weights can be in 2 different categories. The World’s Strongest Man began in 1977 and the Arnold Strongman Classic kicked off in 2002.Such questions plagued the lifters of the early 1900s.

Louis Cyr (1863-1912) was a French Canadian strongman with a career spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We’ve heard of some crazy historic back lifts before: Canadian strongman Louis Cyr reportedly back lifted 4,300 pounds (loaded with 18 men on a raised platform).