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Man Pushes Past Cancer & Blindness to Weightlifting World Record!

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At 5-foot-9 and 208 pounds, Charles King seems and looks like a powerhouse. One of the kind of guys that can push things out of his way, yet still is a gentle teddy bear. As a matter of fact, he pushes hundreds of pounds of weight at the gym.

As a matter of fact, King has worked up to 285-pound squats, 319 pounds on the bench press and a 451-pound deadlift.

So yes, King can still do all of that, but he does it without being able to see.

In 2012, he set three world records at the United States Association of Blind Athletes for squatting with 264 pounds, bench pressing 281 pounds and deadlifting 407 pounds.

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The Army veteran lost his sight when he was 39. When he first got diagnosed with hereditary acute glaucoma, the diagnosis that took his sight, it initially sent him into a spiral of a deep, dark depression, alcoholism and drug abuse. He left his family to live on the streets, hoping to die there, he admitted.

To say King was skeptical of his own abilities, is an understatement.

He started lifting in the college gym. A gym employee would walk the blind man from machine to machine. Exercise helped relieve the frustration of a new life with a disability.

“I’ve been blind for 25 years. Just in the last 12 years or so I’ve come to understand what blindness is as far as being able to navigate and accept it,” said King, a post-Vietnam war veteran honorably discharged from the Army for health reasons.

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“I call it maturing into the disability.”

It took King six months to perfect his squat form using a light broom handle before he could graduate to a weighted bar.

King now works out at three gyms, three days a week, taking multiple buses just to…

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