Larry Pacifico

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Larry Pacifico
Born
Larry Pacifico

(1946-01-17) January 17, 1946 (age 73)
Other names"Mr. Powerlifting"
Occupation Powerlifting
Height5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Weight190 lb (86 kg)(in 1999)
Competition record
Powerlifting
Representing Flag of the United States.svg  United States
AAU World Powerlifting Championships [1]
1st197190kg
1st1972110kg
IPF World Powerlifting Championships [2]
1st1973110kg
1st1974100kg
1st1975100kg
1st197690kg
1st1977100kg
1st1978100kg
1st1979100kg
AAU US National Powerlifting Championships [3]
1st197090kg
1st197190kg
1st1975100kg
1st197690kg
1st1977100kg
USPF National Powerlifting Championships [4]
1st1979100kg
2nd1984100kg

Larry Pacifico (born January 17, 1946) is an American former world champion powerlifter. [5]

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Larry won nine straight IPF World Powerlifting Championships from 1971–1979. [6] Larry won a total of 102 competitions and set 54 World Records during his powerlifting career. [7]

Powerlifting strength sport

Powerlifting is a strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: squat, bench press, and deadlift. As in the sport of Olympic weightlifting, it involves the athlete attempting a maximal weight single lift of a barbell loaded with weight plates. Powerlifting evolved from a sport known as "odd lifts", which followed the same three-attempt format but used a wider variety of events, akin to strongman competition. Eventually odd lifts became standardized to the current three.

Larry is widely regarded as one of the greatest powerlifters of all time, and goes by the nickname "Mr. Powerlifting". [8]

3 time World's Strongest Man winner and 2 time IPF world champion Bill Kazmaier once stated, "The first time I went to a powerlifting meet and saw Larry, I think he was probably six or seven on his World Championships and he was pretty much-how would you say?-a god in powerlifting. He could go to any class that he wanted to. He could pretty much lift whatever weight on the day he wanted to." [9] 4 time IPF powerlifting champion and 1979 World's Strongest Man winner Don Reinhoudt said of Larry, "I look at Larry, an idol to all of us here-nine time champion and Larry will always be the legend of all time to us." [10]

Worlds Strongest Man Strongman competition

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The 1979 World's Strongest Man was the third edition of World's Strongest Man and was won by Don Reinhoudt from the United States. It was his first title after finishing second the previous year. Lars Hedlund from Sweden finished second after finishing third the previous year, and Bill Kazmaier also from the United States finished third. The contest was held at the Universal Studios, California.

Larry was inducted into the York Barbell Hall of Fame on June 28, 1998. [11] Larry currently owns his own gym and is a personal trainer in Dayton, Ohio. [12]

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Best competition lifts

Squat (exercise)

In strength training and fitness, the squat is a compound, full-body exercise that trains primarily the muscles of the thighs, hips and buttocks, quadriceps femoris muscle, hamstrings, as well as strengthening the bones, ligaments and insertion of the tendons throughout the lower body. Squats are considered a vital exercise for increasing the strength and size of the legs as well as developing core strength. Squats are typically used to tone back, thigh, and hip stability. Isometrically, the lower back, the upper back, the abdominals, the trunk muscles, the costal muscles, and the shoulders and arms are all essential to the exercise and thus are trained when squatting with the proper form.

Bench press exercise of the upper body

The bench press is an upper-body strength-training exercise that consists of pressing a weight upwards from a supine position. The exercise works the pectoralis major as well as the supporting chest, arm, and shoulder muscles such as the anterior deltoids, serratus anterior, coracobrachialis, scapulae fixers, trapezii, and the triceps. A barbell is generally used to hold the weight, but a pair of dumbbells can also be used.

Deadlift power sport

The deadlift is a weight training exercise in which a loaded barbell or bar is lifted off the ground to the level of the hips, then lowered to the ground. It is one of the three powerlifting exercises, along with the squat and bench press.

Best exhibition lifts

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