Brian Siders

Brian Cameron Siders, born on 11 September 1978, is an American world champion powerlifter who has also taken part regularly in the Arnold Strongman Classic, and is regarded as one of the strongest men ever in pressing movements. He began lifting in high school with a focus on the bench press, turned to squatting and deadlifting in the winter of 1997 and entered full powerlifting meets from 1998, training six or seven days a week in a gym he built at home. He set world record totals at the 2004 USAPL Senior Nationals and the 2004 IPF World Championships, and held the IPF world record in the bench press at 352.5 kilograms and a total of 1,180 kilograms in the super heavyweight class. In strongman events he shares the Apollon's Wheels record from the 2009 Arnold Strongman Classic and once held the Hummer tire deadlift record.