Strongwoman Inez Carrasquillo’s Overhead Pressing is On a Different Level

The activity of strongwoman can be not only incredibly demanding but also a difficult and competitive activity to make a name for one’s self. Inez Carrasquillo, a climbing star in the activity, does not have this difficulty. Her latest astonishing feat is a 136-kilogram (300-pound) log push carried out on Feb 2., 2022. It breaks (unofficially) the present-day entire world record and is a strongwoman’s heaviest press ever completed from the ground.

You can look at the raise underneath, at first posted to Carrasquillo’s Instagram.

According to Carrasquillo’s caption, the elevate was “300X1 on the worst log at any time.” And, seemingly, this has been a little something the strongwoman has been in pursuit of for a little although: “Been chasing a 300lb push off the ground and I required this acquire,” she added.

Carrasquillo’s 300-pound push shatters the earlier world record by two and a 50 percent lbs ., set by Andrea Thompson throughout the Planet Top Strongman’s “Feats of Power Series” in July 2020. Nevertheless, mainly because Carrasquillo did not finish the push in a official aggressive setting, the file is not yet hers. The past time Carrasquillo did officially contend was when she finished fourth in the course of late final year’s World’s Strongest Woman, in accordance to BarBend.

It’s critical to distinguish amongst the log Carrasquillo lifted, how she managed the push, and the a single Thompson lifted. Carrasquillo experienced a a lot more compressed log with bumper plates attached farther out, whereas Thompson used a wider, additional extended log. To wit, Carrasquillo commenced her push from the ground, even though log presses commonly start off from elevated pads.

Carrasquillo, a 3rd-area finisher in the 2021 Formal Strongman Games, showed off her immense urgent likely by successful the famed Log Press for Reps phase. There, she pressed a 106.5-kilogram (235-pound) log 12 instances. And in a a different coaching session, Carrasquillo hoisted an axle bar loaded with 300 kilos overhead a few times. 

But it’s her current log press feat that drew the focus of the power entire world. The “Texas Titan,” Gabriel Pena, had nothing but praise for the dazzling up and comer.

“Absolutely outstanding [Inez]! I quite significantly search ahead to watching you create new pages in the publications of heritage more than the coming several years.”

Somewhere else in the group, Thompson herself had nonetheless to remark about Carrasquillo’s feat publicly. But her trainer, Laurence Shahlaei—an achieved strongman himself—noted that he considered Carrasquillo’s raise was “Awesome.”

Eventually, Canadian World’s Strongest Male lifter and the proprietor of the Hummer Tire Deadlift World Document, JF Caron, interjected only by protecting, “That’s incredibly remarkable.”

With an eye-popping moment like this driving her, substantial strides are definitely on the horizon for Carrasquillo. For somebody who has claimed to want to be the world’s strongest female in the previous, how could they not be?

According to her trainer Alec Pagan, Carrasquillo is competing in the 2022 Arnold Amateur Strongman Championships from Mar. 3-5. If this titanic of a log press foreshadows what the in close proximity to future holds, we can only assume additional fireworks from Carrasquillo in entrance of the better energy globe at significant.

Highlighted Image: @ines_strongwoman on Instagram