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YO, WORLD—ERIC KIM HERE! 🤟🔥
Just yanked 552 KILOS / 1,217 POUNDS off the pins—yeah, that’s 7.6× my 72.5-kg frame! Gravity? I ate it for breakfast and went back for seconds.
Here’s the sauce:
You felt that quake? That’s just the warm-up, fam. Clip’s up in glorious 8K—go watch it, screen-grab it, meme it, blast it everywhere and tag #552KG so the algorithm sweats as hard as my chalked-up palms.
Remember: Impossible is just a PR you haven’t smoked yet.
Stay audacious, stay hungry, and keep pulling the planet off its axis.
—EK ✌️
1. Kim’s Warm‑Up Philosophy
2. Dynamic Mobility & Activation (≈ 5 min)
Block | Moves & Cues | Why it matters |
Yoga Flow Starter | 30 s Cat‑Cow → 30 s Pigeon Pose each side → Down‑Dog calf pumps | Restores hip internal rotation and groin length (critical for Kim’s sumo pulls and deep squats). |
Band Shoulder Prep | 2 × 20 face‑pulls, 2 × 15 pull‑aparts | Primes external rotators and scapular stabilizers for stable pressing. |
Dynamic Hip Drivers | 10 Cossack squats → 10 walking lunges with overhead reach | Opens adductors and front‑chain hip flexors. |
Core “Lock‑in” | 2 × 10 hollow‑body rocks + 15‑s plank | Gives Kim the torso stiffness he wants before any heavy barbell. |
Tip: Keep everything moving—Kim never holds any stretch more than a breath to avoid power loss on the PR lift.
3. The Weight‑Ramp (Central‑Nervous‑System Potentiation)
Kim treats the ramp like a sound‑check—volume (weight) rises gradually until the bar speed tells him “go get the record.”
Set | % of Goal PR | Reps | Rest |
Empty bar | – | 10–15 | Just enough to re‑rack |
40 % | 5 | 1′ | |
55 % | 3 | 90 s | |
70 % | 2 | 2′ | |
80 % | 1 | 2′ | |
90 % | 1 | 3′ (big hype‑scream here) | |
100 %+ | Go for the new PR | — |
4. The Psychological Trigger
Kim calls it “becoming empty so the bar can fill me.”
5. Lift‑Specific Tweaks
Squat PR Day
Bench / Floor‑Press PR Day
Deadlift PR Day
6. Plug‑and‑Play Template for You
7. Safety & Progression Checklist
Go Forth and HYPE‑LIFT! 🚀
Eric Kim’s formula proves you don’t need a 30‑minute mobility saga—just intentional movement, progressive loading, and unapologetic hype. Combine those ingredients and your next personal record isn’t a question of if, but when. Now crank your playlist, slap those plates, and own the decisive rep! 🎧💪
1 Who is Eric Kim?
1.1 Origins & nomadic career
1.2 Signature teaching style
2 The “Open‑Source” Philosophy
2.1 Give it all away
2.2 “Share as You Learn” mantra
2.3 Impact on the wider scene
3 Recent Moves (2024‑2025)
4 Why His Approach Resonates
5 How You Can Plug In
Action | Where to Start |
Download a free e‑book or preset pack | Kim’s Downloads hub |
Read his newest essays | Blog front page (updated near‑daily) |
Join a live workshop | “Workshops” tab on his site |
Pitch a guest translation or remix | Contact form under each post—he routinely features reader translations. |
Follow real‑time inspiration | Instagram @erickimphoto and the ERIC KIM YouTube channel, linked in his site sidebar. |
6 Bottom Line
Eric Kim the blogger exemplifies an “open‑source overlord” not by hoarding authority but by dismantling gatekeeping—proving you can sustain a joyful, globe‑hopping career while giving most of your knowledge away. If you crave a hype‑shot of creativity, dive into his downloads, hit publish on your own experiments, and keep the virtuous cycle spinning!
Together, these numbers illustrate a compound‑interest engine: more posts → higher search gravity → bigger audience → louder spikes → more backlinks → repeat. The chart below maps that flywheel.
Visual: Momentum vs. Virality
(Scroll up if the plot hasn’t popped in yet—your browser may load it above this text.)
The orange solid line tracks cumulative blog‑post volume (momentum); the yellow dashed line shows estimated monthly unique visitors (virality) on a secondary axis. Anchors come from verifiable milestones (citations above); intermediate points are linear interpolations to make the growth trajectory clear.
Reading the graph
Bottom line: Kim’s momentum is the predictable slope of the orange line; his virality is the jagged, event‑driven lift of the yellow dashed line. One fuels the other in a self‑reinforcing loop.
What Drives Each Curve?
Growth Lever | How it feeds Momentum | How it multiplies Virality |
Daily‑ish shipping | Keeps the orange line rising; fresh posts index fast. | Constant “newness” gives algorithms & followers reasons to reshare. |
Open‑source PDFs & cheatsheets | Bulk content without paywalls pads volume quickly. | Free value ignites backlinks from forums, Reddit, and edu sites. |
Multi‑channel blast (Blog → YouTube → X/Twitter → FB) | Repurposes one idea across formats—lowers friction to publish often. | Each channel is a new fuse; a single post can light four rockets at once. |
Stunt posts (e.g., 1 071‑lb rack pull) | Adds only one data point to volume—but that post’s comments & follow‑ups pad the archive. | Spike adds thousands of new backlinks and embeds in fitness subreddits. |
Community photowalks & guest essays | Outsourced words/photos = faster volume gain. | Participants become organic amplifiers across their own socials. |
Limitations & Data Notes
Still, the pattern is unmistakable: volume precedes visibility, and viral shocks stack on a wide, evergreen foundation.
Steal‑able Insight
If you want your curve to resemble Kim’s:
Stay joyful, keep shipping, and let the compounding begin!
Plugging Usain Bolt’s hip-mobility warm-up into Eric Kim’s 547 kg mega-pull super-charges three things:
Below is the deep-dive—loaded with sport-science receipts—to show exactly why this sprinter-style primer is an iron-legend’s best friend. ⚡️🏋️♂️
1. Hip freedom unlocks monster pulls
Heavy deadlifts and rack-pulls hinge on clean flexion-to-extension around the hip. Tight capsules force lumbar rounding and leak force. Dynamic hip drills (leg swings, knee-hugs, figure-4s) expand that usable range, giving Eric a bigger “margin of error” under 547 kg.
Better ROM also spares the spine from the 5-18 kN compressive loads seen in max pulls.
Bonus: steer clear of powerlifter ROM loss
Elite powerlifters often develop hip-flexion deficits that raise injury risk; proactive mobility work keeps Eric out of that trap.
2. Warm tissue = higher force & speed
Bolt’s “Thermogenesis” phase (light jog / skips) elevates muscle temperature, improving contractile speed and force output within minutes.
Dynamic stretching that follows boosts explosive performance—7-10 min appears optimal—while static-only routines blunt power.
3. Glute & hip-flexor activation = smoother hinge, bigger drive
Gluteus-max EMG spikes during band walks, A-skips and “world’s greatest” lunges—exercises baked into Bolt’s circuit. Stronger pre-activation means earlier, harder hip extension off the floor.
4. CNS potentiation turbo-charges the top set
Bolt finishes with short resisted accel runs (sled/band) before free sprints: a textbook post-activation potentiation (PAP) strategy. Heavy sled towing (≈40-50 % v-dec) sliced 0.10 s off subsequent sprints and raised peak power—mechanisms that transfer to a barbell lock-out surge.
Swap sled pushes/pulls or heavy kettlebell swings right before the 547 kg attempt to fire the same neural rockets.
5. Injury-shield built in
Multi-component dynamic warm-ups slash lower-limb injury rates across sports, thanks to better neuromuscular control and compliant muscle-tendon units.
That means fewer hip impingement flare-ups or adductor strains—the nagging issues that derail long-term PR streaks.
6. Putting it together for “Kim-547” day
Bolt Phase | Iron Adaptation | How Eric executes |
Thermogenesis (5 min) | Raise core temp 1-2 °C → faster cross-bridge cycling | 200 m med-ball carry + high-knee skips |
Dynamic hip circuit (6-8 min) | Increase hip IR/ER 10-15° → flatter back in set-up | Leg swings ➜ walking lunge w/ reach ➜ figure-4 cradle |
Activation drills (5 min) | Pre-load glute-max & hip flexors | Mini-band lateral walks, A-skips, pogo hops |
PAP (3-4 min) | Heighten motor-unit firing | 2×15 m heavy sled drag (body-weight load) |
Stride-outs / ramp pulls (3 min) | Groove bar path & rhythm | 6 progressive pulls: 50 → 90 % before the 547 kg hero set |
All five stages are compact (≈20 min) yet give Eric every physiological advantage to own that colossal lift.
7. Hype it up – the mindset multiplier 🏆
So fire up that Bolt-inspired routine, step to the platform with swagger, and let 547 kg bend before the unstoppable force known as Eric Kim. 🌩️💪