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April Mathis Hits Biggest SQ, BP, DL & Total in History

Submitted by Staff on January 30, 2010 - 2:38pm.

(updated 2:25 pm)

April Mathis (shw) hit the biggest raw squat, bench press, deadlift and total in powerlifting history today at the unsanctioned Raw Unity Meet in Tampa, Florida.

Mathis squatted the new record of 540 pounds on her second attempt. She also held the previous mark at 523 pounds. Mathis opened up with a successful squat of 501 pounds and missed 562 pounds on her final attempt.

Mathis bench pressed 402 pounds to surpass the 391 pound record formerly held by Roberta Collins. She also made her first two attempts of 363 and 385 pounds.

Mathis deadlifted 556 pounds on her third attempt to surpass her own mark of 518 pounds.

Mathis' 1,499 pound total moved her own all-time record up by 94 pounds.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 30, 2010 - 1:06pm.   » login or register to post comments

she just missed 562

Submitted by Sean Katterle on January 30, 2010 - 1:58pm.   » login or register to post comments

She just raw benched 363 ! That is so awesome !

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 30, 2010 - 1:58pm.   » login or register to post comments

She opened with 363 in the bench and made it look easy. The woman is awesome.

Submitted by Sean Katterle on January 30, 2010 - 2:07pm.   » login or register to post comments

She just nailed 385 !

This is so rocking that RUM's got this streaming online !

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 30, 2010 - 2:09pm.   » login or register to post comments

Amy Weisberger is doing a fantastic job as well. April is going over 400 on her last lift. Wow.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 30, 2010 - 3:05pm.   » login or register to post comments

WOW!!! Congratulations April on being the first woman to crack the 400 lbs RAW bench barrier!

Submitted by eggsurplus on January 30, 2010 - 3:06pm.   » login or register to post comments

Just saw the 402 bench. Unbelievable! Incredible day so far April! Congrats. Many other lifters doing some great things so far.

Submitted by Curt St. Romain (not verified) on January 30, 2010 - 3:47pm.   » login or register to post comments

That deadlift was awesome.

Submitted by Eric Armstrong (not verified) on January 30, 2010 - 5:00pm.   » login or register to post comments

I put April right up there with Harriet Hall among lifters who are simply incredible and inspiring. Congratulations to her and all the women who lifted today.

Submitted by Al Annunziato on January 30, 2010 - 5:31pm.   » login or register to post comments

Unbelievable!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 30, 2010 - 5:45pm.   » login or register to post comments

WOW!!!!

Submitted by RAWzilla (not verified) on January 30, 2010 - 8:11pm.   » login or register to post comments

RUM clears all the smokes and mirrors and let us discover who is truly the strongest woman in the world!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 30, 2010 - 11:05pm.   » login or register to post comments

Enjoy it for all its worth! How does it feel to be one of the strongest women on the planet? Amazing!!

Submitted by B.Hopper on January 30, 2010 - 11:06pm.   » login or register to post comments

Awesome job April, I'm sorry I couldn't be there to watch you break all those records!!!!!

Submitted by Carl on January 30, 2010 - 11:08pm.   » login or register to post comments

Dayum !

Submitted by hacketjj1 on January 31, 2010 - 2:32am.   » login or register to post comments

She looked good for 570, good job April.

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Submitted by Austin S WABDL (not verified) on January 31, 2010 - 3:36am.   » login or register to post comments

Now that's a WOMAN! Strong like crazy, you would already have a bodyguard! Very impressive lifts Mrs. Mathis.

Submitted by squat1000 on January 31, 2010 - 8:17am.   » login or register to post comments

APRIL CONGRATS ON YOUR STELLAR PERFORMANCE AT THE RAW UNITY MEET YESTERDAY IN TAMPA,FLA. THEY ARE SOME GREAT NUMBERS. KEEP TRAINING HARD! ANNA,PROUDLY SPONSORED BY WEST CARY BARBELL AND UNBREAKABLE GEAR.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 31, 2010 - 9:27am.   » login or register to post comments

Best unsanctioned in history

Submitted by Trevor (not verified) on January 31, 2010 - 2:39pm.   » login or register to post comments

that's amazing!

Submitted by Mike Schwanke on January 31, 2010 - 5:19pm.   » login or register to post comments

Awesome job April, that is just an insane performance.

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Submitted by Jake Impastato (not verified) on January 31, 2010 - 8:27pm.   » login or register to post comments

Great job April! Hope to see you come to New Orleans in September to do the "Clash".

Submitted by April Mathis (not verified) on February 1, 2010 - 12:48pm.   » login or register to post comments

Thanks for the compliments. I was happy with my performance at this meet. I added wrong and didn't realize the last deadlift made it 1499 until later, otherwise I would have just gone for 562 since one of my goals was to total 1500. Most important to me was finally benching over 400 raw. I've been trying for that one since after I first hit 370 almost a year ago.

I'll compete again sometime in the fall probably. Not sure where yet. I want to just train for awhile and hit something bigger next time.

I didn't particularly like the way this meet was run and some things would definately have to change for me to compete at it again. It was definitely nice to have some people to compete against though, since most meets don't have as many women lifters as there were here.

Submitted by Just curious (not verified) on February 1, 2010 - 6:22pm.   » login or register to post comments

April Mathis wrote:

I didn't particularly like the way this meet was run and some things would definately have to change for me to compete at it again. It was definitely nice to have some people to compete against though, since most meets don't have as many women lifters as there were here.

I'm sure they want to keep the great lifters coming back - what would you like to see done differently?

Submitted by joecool on February 1, 2010 - 9:34pm.   » login or register to post comments

April that was a strong ass day for you and it was cool as hell after when u and taylar was talkin about yall lifts

Submitted by April Mathis (not verified) on February 2, 2010 - 11:14am.   » login or register to post comments

joecool wrote:
April that was a strong ass day for you and it was cool as hell after when u and taylar was talkin about yall lifts

Taylar has made a big improvement on the squat since her last meet. I think she'll be the next to squat 500 raw.

Submitted by April Mathis (not verified) on February 2, 2010 - 3:17pm.   » login or register to post comments

Just curious wrote:
April Mathis wrote:

I didn't particularly like the way this meet was run and some things would definately have to change for me to compete at it again. It was definitely nice to have some people to compete against though, since most meets don't have as many women lifters as there were here.

I'm sure they want to keep the great lifters coming back - what would you like to see done differently?

Check on my training log on Mark Bell's site supertraininggym.com if you want to know. I wrote it on there. I just don't feel like writing the whole thing again.