Maryana Naumova, the 13-year-old powerlifting phenomenon who can bench a whopping 240 pounds, isn't the only teenage lifter catching the public's attention. Pilot Point High School senior Matt Poursoltani is another young weightlifting prodigy who is shocking people with his incredible strength.
He already had a lot to celebrate when he set a personal best bench press of 670 pounds at a regional meet in Ponder, Texas. But he took on an even heavier (literally) achievement at the State Finals, where he and his team were aiming to top the 700-pound barrier at the Texas High School Powerlifting Association meet in Abilene.
"I call Matt the freak show—what he does is spectacular, better than anyone else in the country. People's jaws just drop when they see him," says his coach in this behind-the-scenes training video.
Poursoltani is a 5'10", 270-pound football player who decided to concentrate on lifting after suffering a knee injury. “When I tore my ACL, I didn’t have anything else to do, so I benched every day. I had to do something; it’s all I had,†he said according to Reporter News.
http://www.muscleandfitness.com/new...ties/texas-high-school-kid-benches-700-pounds
He already had a lot to celebrate when he set a personal best bench press of 670 pounds at a regional meet in Ponder, Texas. But he took on an even heavier (literally) achievement at the State Finals, where he and his team were aiming to top the 700-pound barrier at the Texas High School Powerlifting Association meet in Abilene.
"I call Matt the freak show—what he does is spectacular, better than anyone else in the country. People's jaws just drop when they see him," says his coach in this behind-the-scenes training video.
Poursoltani is a 5'10", 270-pound football player who decided to concentrate on lifting after suffering a knee injury. “When I tore my ACL, I didn’t have anything else to do, so I benched every day. I had to do something; it’s all I had,†he said according to Reporter News.
http://www.muscleandfitness.com/new...ties/texas-high-school-kid-benches-700-pounds
. The only thing the uil bans here are steroids non-prescribed. It's highly competitive here so one has to have an edge 
Really... This is why the bigger, faster, & stronger hs students live in north tx and the scrubs dwell around that houston area :lol:. Excepting katy & twhs. I wonder why those two excel and the other hss don't compete too well on the gridiron :read:? Hmmmmmm... If one ever played lol or competed against others here, you would easily understand. Otherwise, you have no choice but to make an assertion.
