Travis Airman breaks bench press world record

[The Patriot]

Five hundred and fifty-one pounds can look like a lot of things. The engine block on a mid-size car, for example, comes in at about 500 pounds. Your average adult male tiger, while a little out there, likewise weighs in at the quarter-ton range. On Sept. 13, to Tech. Sgt. Kenneth Cook, 551 pounds looked like 12 plates of iron on a long bar.


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