that marvin needs to up his cardio if he wants to be taken serious here!!!
On September 6th, 1953 at a Strength and Health Picnic in YORK PA. Eder benched 480lbs in strict style, no arching or bouncing and just failed with 500lbs. (His best bench was to be 530lbs later). Two years later in an article in the April issue of Strength and Health (Hoffman’s mag) Marvin is featured in a report as working out in YORK Barbell Club with Dave Sheppard and a comment, "Only ineligibility for AAU membership prevents Eder from setting an official world record for the press, when he worked up to 325lbs at under 200lbs b/w in the mid heavies class". He was then parallel squatting with 50OLbs. The late Art Zeller, with whom Marvin trained said, 'I remember seeing Marvin doing parallel dips with a guy who must have weighed close to 40OLbs wrapped around him. He was only 18 or 19 years old when doing these phenomenal weights" '(Source Art Zeller in Muscular Development July 1988). In fact his single parallel bar dip with 434lbs at 198lbs b/w. has never been approached.
Eder also made a straight-arm pullover with 210 lbs at 197lbs b/w. David Willoughby author of reference book Super Athletes and numerous training and serious in depth articles. the famous authority, rated this as best lift on record. (Your author D.G. made 120lbs at 140lbs b/w good enough to win a medal, and tough enough to really appreciate Eder's lift). Mighty Pat Casey the legendary power lifter later in 1985 rated Eder as "Pound for pound the strongest man who ever walked the face of the earth". Most other strength historians and armchair experts agree. Marvin's own choice was John Davis.
