Video: Texas center squats 1,005 pounds to break own state record
By Lynden Ostrander
Mar 2, 2017, 11:11am
Football player Joseph Pena is the real life Hulk after shattering own lifting record by 75 pounds.
Video: Texas center squats 1,005 poundsSee the mammoth senior complete an otherworldly lift.Joseph Pena of
Holy Cross (San Antonio, Texas) is the real life Hulk.
The 6-foot-1, 340-pound senior broke his own state record Saturday by squatting 1,005 pounds with just a squatting suit and a lifting belt at a Texas High School Powerlifting Association meet.
He broke his record by 75 pounds and squatted more than a half ton. But establishing records is nothing new for Pena.
The powerlifting prodigy set the junior and sub-junior world record in 2016 with an 805-pound raw squat,
according to muscleandfitness.com.
Pena also plays center in football and helped steer the 11-2 Knights to the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools Division 2 state semifinals this season.
