Introduction

Sri Chinmoy is a fitness advocate in the most powerful sense of the term.

While a youth in India, Sri Chinmoy was seventeen-time 100m sprinting champion and two-time decathlon champion of his spiritual community, the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. After coming to the United States in 1964, he completed over 200 road races, including 21 marathons and five ultra-marathons.  He is the founder of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team which sponsors over 500 fun runs, marathons, ultra-marathons and triathlons annually.

His most recent sporting exploit has seen him lift stupendous weights including lifting up the equivalent of his own bodyweight 100 times in 23min 43sec, a one-arm dumbbell lift of 3,210 kg and a 203lb dumbbell wrist curl with both his left and right hands! Using a modified calf-raise machine, he has performed many spectacular lifts, including elephants, two grand pianos, a helicopter, even a small aeroplane.Sri Chinmoy Lifts-2

Sri Chinmoy’s weightlifting feats are performed not to proclaim his strength, but to reveal the power latent within us all: “When I lift heavy, heavy weights- elephants and so forth- I try to inspire my fellow citizens.

They can also try to inspire others in a similar way, but it does not
have to be with weightlifting. They can write extraordinary poems, compose songs or do something else in any walk of life.













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