Chris Pruitt, certified personal trainer and WorkoutHealthy founder

Chris Pruitt

Chris Pruitt is a certified ASFA personal trainer and the founder of WorkoutHealthy, a fitness equipment retailer serving customers since 2007. He has more than 16 years in the fitness business, and he writes and fact checks everything published on Insider.

805 Pounds on a 198-Pound Frame: John Haack’s WRPF Squat World Record

John Haack driving upward with his 805.8-pound raw squat as three spotters track the bar.

John Haack squatted 365.5 kilograms (805.8 pounds) raw at 90 kilograms bodyweight, an all-time WRPF world record set at the 2024 Power Surge Pro/Am VIII. This article verifies the lift, checks a federation-tagging discrepancy in the public record, and looks at how it fits Haack's broader reputation as one of the sport's most balanced pound-for-pound lifters.

Ray Williams’s 1,080-Pound Raw Squat: The Heaviest Ever, But Never Officially Ratified

Ray Williams driving upward in a heavily loaded raw squat as four spotters track the bar.

Ray Williams squatted 490 kilograms raw at a 2019 USA Powerlifting meet in Columbus, still the heaviest raw squat ever recorded in competition. This article resolves conflicting event names, checks the "unofficial IPF world record" label against the sport's actual ratification rules, and explains why the heaviest number on paper is not always the official one.