5. Kyle Kane – Lifted 308 Pounds When He Was 12. Nicknamed “Little Arnie”
When you get the nickname “Little Arnie”, how do you not get included in this list? When Kane was only 12 years old he became the strongest boy in his age bracket when he lifted 22 stones (308 pounds), which was more than twice his own body weight.The previous record was 236 pounds, so Kane clearly was beasting it on this day.
Kyle started kickboxing at the age of 4 and by the time he was 9 was a black belt. When talking about his love of weight lifting, he said “’I just want to be as muscly as I can be. Hopefully one day I can train in the Olympics or compete in the World’s Strongest Man but failing that, I’d like to be a professional bodybuilder like my dad. People may think I’ve been pushed into weightlifting, but I wouldn’t do anything I didn’t want to do. I do this because I love it. Other kids my age hang around the streets, I like to train. It feels sensational to have broken a world record. It’s not something many 12-year-olds can say they’ve achieved. But this is just the beginning I want to keep breaking records and setting a new world record every year if I can.”
At the time, Kane was able to shift 600 pounds with his legs, bench press 200 pounds and deadlift 309 pounds.
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