Cpl. Jonathon Bailey recently bench-pressed 402.2 pounds to set the Arizona record for his age and weight class. Now the the 21-year-old Afghanistan war vet has his eye on breaking the world record of 507 pounds this November at the World Association of Benchers and Deadlifters’ World Bench Press and Dead Lift Championship. Bailey, 21, is pretty confident he’ll get there. “I’m at about 455, so I’m about 60 pounds away,” he said. “I’ll have it by November.” Sixty pounds in four months? Bailey should write a book on lifting if he pulls that off. Read more about his quest…
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So I’m flipping through the print edition of the Washington Post this morning, skimming the front-page article about the daily lives of our top-ranking national security leaders. After the jump, on page A10, there’s a picture of a guy working out, bench pressing 100-pound dumbbells. Pretty impressive, I’m thinking. I glance at the caption and — holy hell, it’s Adm. Mike Mullen, the 63-year-old Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff! Dude is a beast! The caption says Mullen wakes up every day at 3 a.m., and heads to the Navy Yard gym by 4 a.m., downs a protein shake…
