While Steph Curry is an absurdly good basketball player, I’m pretty sure a swift wind could knock over the Golden State Warriors star as the reigning NBA MVP isn’t exactly the most hefty a man.
But looks can apparently be deceiving, at least in the case of Stephen Curry as it’s been reported Steph Curry can deadlift 400 pounds.
Yes, you read that correctly – 400 pounds, otherwise known as four Steph Curry’s.
I kid, I kid. Sort of.
Via ESPN:
“He’s probably 10 times stronger than what people think,” Lyles says.
Exhibit A: Curry can deadlift 400 pounds.
The exercise the Warriors prefer is the trapbar dead lift, which is basically a safer way to mimic lifting a giant boulder off the ground. One of the primary muscles that it works? Yup, the gluteus maximus.
“Steph’s the second strongest on our team pulling that one,” Lyles says with a straight face. “For his size, Steph is ridiculous strong.”
Only center Festus Ezeli, who stands about seven feet and 270 pounds, can top Curry on that particular lift. That may be hard to believe, but that core power is the secret that unlocks Curry’s magic.
“We knew he was strong,” Lyles says, “but when he started pushing that kind of weight, I was like ‘This guy is just a freak.'”
You know, I’m not going to be the deny the idea that Steph Curry can deadlift 400 pounds, but somebody has to have a video of this right?
I mean, we can watch Stephen Curry hit shots from the tunnel but nobody has this on camera?
