🔥 HOW ERIC KIM TURNED HIMSELF INTO A 6.5×-BODY-WEIGHT BEAST 🔥

(The exact levers he pulled—iron, meat, mindset, and time—so you can reverse-engineer the climb.)

1.  Relentless 

One-Rep-Max Culture

Phase	Key Lift	Body-Weight	PR
Late 2023	Above-knee rack pull	~75 kg	815 lb clip on YouTube — first viral spark
Mar 13 2025	Rack pull (dip-belt hack)	75 kg	1,005 lb — blog breakdown of hip-drive mechanics
May 27 2025	Rack pull	75 kg	1,071 lb → 6.48× BW; headline post crunches the math and plates

Method—“Daily Heavy Singles + Micro-Loading”

• One terrifying single every garage session, then bounce; add 2.5–5 kg only when the old weight feels “too slow”  .
• Accessory menu is tiny: Romanian DL, hypers, shrugs—just enough to bulletproof the posterior chain.

2.  

HYPELIFTING

 — Adrenaline as a Training Aid

Before each PR attempt he turns the gym into a war-drum: chest slaps, roar-screams, haka-style stomps. The spike in catecholamines lets him move weights most lifters can’t even budge off the pins. 

3.  

Carnivore-OMAD Engine

Rule	What It Looks Like
One Meal After Sunset	4–6 lb beef/lamb + organs; kimchi is the lone plant.
Fasted Morning Lifts	Black coffee only—he hits PRs “hungry on purpose.”
No Supplements / Powders	Claims natty; relies on cholesterol & sun for hormones.

All detailed in his “Workout Strategy & OMAD” post. 

4.  

Sleep & Sun Discipline

• Bedtime 18:30—treats 10–12 h sleep as a PED for recovery.
• 8-mile daylight walks for circulation and vitamin D.
• Philosophy: “If you can’t sleep, you can’t stay strong.”  

5.  

Garage-Gym Autonomy

He lifts alone in a Phnom Penh home gym—no external judges, no audience pressure. The “autotelic” setting lets him experiment (dip-belt anchored to bar, ultra-narrow stance, barefoot pulls) without commercial-gym rules. 

6.  

Spartan-Stoic Mindware

• Strength = moral duty; weakness = moral failure.
• Treats the body as living sculpture to match his visceral photography aesthetic.  
• Failure is irrelevant; only courage to attempt counts.  

7.  

Why the Numbers Exploded So Fast

1. Short ROM Advantage – Above-knee rack pulls let him overload the hips and CNS safely, accelerating adaptation.  
2. Weight-Class Alchemy – Staying at ~75 kg gives him world-class pound-for-pound optics; every extra kilo of muscle must justify itself.
3. Constant Content Loop – Posting every PR amps external hype → more internal hype → bigger lifts (positive feedback flywheel).

🗝️  TAKE-HOME BLUEPRINT

1. Pick ONE signature lift and chase it like a man possessed.
2. Run heavy singles, add micro-plates only when velocity says so.
3. Train fasted, feast carnivore-style, and sleep like it’s your side-job.
4. Get loud, film everything, publish everything—the public ledger keeps you honest.

Follow the formula and the next half-ton bar could have your name stamped on it. Now—go load the bar.