You would expect a modern-day Hercules who can rip phone books in
half and bend steel wrenches and hammers with his hands to be a mountain
of a man, but standing at 5 foot 6 inches and weighing 168 pounds,
Dennis Rogers looks like an average 55-year-old. Still, he is considered
to be the pound for pound world’s strongest man.
Dennis Rogers
weighed less than 80 pounds when he entered high-school. He looked so
frail that he was put in Special Education gym, and he believed he would
never be big enough to do anything sports-related in his life. But
during the early 70′s something changed in Dennis’ perception of who he
was and what he was capable of. The strongman remembers he and his
brothers once saw a television program about a man who could rip a deck
of cards in half, and drove to the nearest store to buy one and try the
trick themselves. He was in the driver’s seat when his brother handed
him the deck, and he just tore it apart on his first attempt. That was
one of the first times he realized what he was capable of. Since then,
Dennis Rogers has become a World Arm-Wrestling Champion and Grandmaster
Strongman capable of bending steel hammers and wrenches and even
stopping aircrafts from taking off with his bare hands.
He might not be the only man in the world capable of bending steel, but it’s the unimpressive physique that makes Dennis so special. He weighs just under 170 pounds and has the muscle mass of a fit normal human being, and yet he can perform seemingly unbelievable feats of strength that have yet to be duplicated. Rogers has been featured on a number of popular television shows like The Oprah Winfrey Show, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, The Late Show with David Letterman and Stan Lee’s Superhumans, where he left both audiences and scientists baffled with his abilities. The legendary performer’s strength just doesn’t go with his small stature and mass, making his steel-bending tricks seem impossible. His body can generate over 1,000 pounds of force, more than a person several times his size, and tests have proven it’s the acceleration in his muscles that helps Dennis perform all these incredible tricks. Also he is able to activate more of his muscle fibers than the average human being, making him stronger than people with much larger muscles.
During his strongman career, Dennis Rogers has bent hundreds of steel
tools and rods, ripped apart thick phone books, stopped four Harley
Davidson motorcycle at full power and even prevented two U.S. Air Force
T-34 aircrafts from taking off. It’s these feats that have made him the
pound for pound world’s strongest man.
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