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Published 20:13, August the 9th, 2009
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Strongman

Cushing carries pro workout routine to NFL

Feel the painSome of Cushing’s achieve-ments in the weight room:225 He benched 225-pounds 35 times.600 He flipped a 600-pound tire five times in less than 15 seconds.
 
Feel the pain

Some of Cushing’s achieve-ments in the weight room:

225 He benched 225-pounds 35 times.

600 He flipped a 600-pound tire five times in less than 15 seconds.
 

Go ahead and goggle at Brian Cushing’s strength. He still does.

“There are definitely times during a game that I just marvel at what my body is able to do,” the Houston Texans linebacker said recently. “Sometimes during a moment, my body just responds and I do something without even really knowing what I am doing, like flip a guy. And I wonder ‘did I really just do that?’ It all comes from what I do with my lifting.”

Cushing’s lifting, which started during his prep days at Bergen Catholic, hasn’t changed now that he’s in his first NFL training camp with Houston. A first-round pick out of USC, Cushing’s exploits in high school are still legendary. After all, it was those countless hours of dead lifts, squats and tire throws that chiseled Cushing into a starting rookie linebacker.

Power lifting transformed his 5-foot-11, 165-pound high school frame into a 6-foot-3, 245-pound strongman. Cushing has more pound-for-pound muscle than any other Texans’ linebacker. Not bad for a rook.

“Lifting has always been a part of me,” said Cushing, before a strongman competition at Overtime Sports in Jersey last month.

KRISTIAN DYER
 
 
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