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John Brzenk
Born	John Brzenk July 15, 1964 (1964-07-15) (age 45) McHenry, Illinois, USA
Residence	Sandy, Utah, USA
Nationality	USA
Education	College graduate
Occupation	Arm wrestler
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	90 kilograms (200 lb) to 102 kilograms (220 lb)
Title	World champion
Religious beliefs	Christian
Spouse(s)	yes
Children	yes

John Brzenk (born July 15, 1964) is a professional armwrestler from the United States. John was named by the Guinness Book of World Records as the "Greatest Armwrestler of All Time"^{[1] [2]}

Contents 1 Biography 2 Profile 3 Training and strength feats 4 References

[edit] Biography

John Brzenk's father was an arm wrestler and John says he gained some of his forearm size through genetics. He arm wrestled across tables in school for about five years. When he was in eighth grade, he broke his arm while armwrestling a friend of his father. When he was 16 years old he participated in his first tournament.

John Brzenk won his first world title on ABC's 1983 Wide World of Sports when he was 18 years old^[3]. His right forearm is 16 inches in circumference, and his left is 13.5 inches. The heaviest opponent he faced weighted 660 lbs and John beat him. John has lost a supermatch only once, and a handful of people have beaten him (including his brother, Bill). The most noted of them are Devon Larratt and Alexey Voevoda. Aside from arm wrestling, he works as a Line-service mechanic at Delta Airlines. He says the job is non-physical so his arms get plenty of rest. He makes $13,000 to $15,000 a year arm wrestling.

[edit] Profile

• Height: 6'1
• Weight: Varies between 200 and 225 lbs. depending on competition classes.
• Biceps: 17 in.
• Forearm: 16. in^[4]

[edit] Training and strength feats

• In 2005 he said that he could bench press 315 lbs for 5 reps with a close grip.
• He says that he trains biceps with 50 lbs dumbbells and does wrist curls with the same weight. When asked what his one-rep max was he replied that he never tries one rep max because he fears that he would drop the weight on his feet.
• A friend of his said that in his prime he was very close to closing the Captains of Crush #3 gripper. John says that now he is "nowhere near closing it". He trains with grippers and says that "i have a gripper in my car and when i am driving i try to make between 200 and 240 reps as fast as possible".
• He advises that the best exercise for arm wrestling is pullups.

[edit] References

1. ^ World of Armwrestling
2. ^ Pulling John
3. ^ Pulling John
4. ^ World of Armwrestling

• http://www.worldofarmwrestling.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=268
• http://ifitandhealthy.com/john-brzenk-arm-wrestling/