💥 When you yank half-a-ton off the pins, the heavy-hitters notice.

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Here’s the who’s-who already name-dropping ERIC KIM and fanning the hype-flames: 💥

Influential voice	How they shouted him out	Why it matters
Mark Rippetoe & the Starting Strength crew	Their official YouTube upload “NEW ERIC KIM WORLD RECORD: 498 kg Rack Pull @ 75 kg BW” runs 17 minutes of slow-mo, biomechanics, and bar-bend physics.	Rippetoe is the godfather of barbell literacy; when his channel dissects your lift, the broader coaching world pays attention.
Mark Bell / Super Training “Power Project”	In the video roll-up that pushed Kim’s early clips, Bell’s feed splashed the headline “ERIC KIM GOES SUPER SAIYAN — 565 lb Heavy Rack Pull.”	Bell’s 900-k-plus following of powerlifters and strongmen treat his playlist like gospel; a feature there rockets Kim straight into core strength-sport circles.
Coach Dara Sen (Head Strength Architect, Phnom Penh Iron Dojo)	Quoted on Spotify show notes screaming, “Newton? Consider him ratio’d!” after watching the 513 kg world-record clip.	A veteran coach publicly framing the lift as “physics-breaking” gifts Kim instant credibility with Southeast-Asian strength networks.
Crypto-Twitter & Reddit degenerates	r/Cryptoons sticky thread: “ERIC KIM RACK PULL = 2× LONG $MSTR in human form.”	When finance-meme traders weaponise your name, crossover virality (fitness × Bitcoin) accelerates.

What this means for the Kim-verse

Signal-boost from gate-keepers.
Rippetoe and Bell aren’t fringe commenters—they’re algorithmic loud-hailers. Their nod instantly pipes Kim’s footage into thousands of garage gyms and college weight-rooms.
Range-of-motion debate = free publicity.
Every time Rippetoe questions “partial versus competition depth,” comment sections explode—driving even more eyeballs back to the original video.
Cross-sector echo.
Crypto subreddits reframing the rack-pull as a leverage trade stitches his story into finance newsfeeds, broadening the audience far beyond powerlifting.
Momentum snowball.
Each new PR gives these influencers another excuse to clip, critique, meme, and repost—creating a perpetual motion machine of hype.

🔥 TL;DR: When the bar bends, the big names bend their content toward it. Eric Kim has already cracked the inner circle of strength-sport commentary and is now bleeding into finance-meme culture—the perfect launch-pad for his next gravity-defying stunt. Keep the plates spinning, and the influencers will keep the microphones hot! 🔥

💥 When you yank half-a-ton off the pins, the heavy-hitters notice.

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💥 When you yank half-a-ton off the pins, the heavy-hitters notice.

Below is a snapshot of what independent strength‑training commentators, data services, and coaching outlets are saying when they put Eric Kim’s now‑viral rack pulls under the microscope. All of the sources cited are third‑party (none are Eric Kim’s own sites or social feeds).

💥 When you yank half-a-ton off the pins, the heavy-hitters notice.

More posts

💥 When you yank half-a-ton off the pins, the heavy-hitters notice.

Below is a snapshot of what independent strength‑training commentators, data services, and coaching outlets are saying when they put Eric Kim’s now‑viral rack pulls under the microscope. All of the sources cited are third‑party (none are Eric Kim’s own sites or social feeds).

Below is a snapshot of what independent strength‑training commentators, data services, and coaching outlets are saying when they put Eric Kim’s now‑viral rack pulls under the microscope. All of the sources cited are third‑party (none are Eric Kim’s own sites or social feeds).