A strength-training gym aptly named Legendary Strength celebrated its grand opening with an unusual spectacle — a truck pull.
But it wasn’t just any truck pull. Felton resident Logan Christopher, the gym’s founder, dragged a 3,000-pound Mazda pickup with five people in its bed — using only his hair.
“This is not fun,” Christopher told onlookers as his long blond hair was fastened to a hook that would attach to a chain on the truck. “This is very painful.”
Even so, the stunt might as well have been a walk in the park for the 6-foot-2, 185-pound Christopher. He’s done about a dozen truck pulls with his hair, including an 8,800-pound antique fire truck in Ohio.
“He made it look very easy,” Keith Wells of Aptos said. “I was expecting it to move slightly, but he just went.”
Wells was invited by Yusuf Clack of San Jose, a proponent of kettle bell training, who went to see Christopher’s demo.
“What I get from him is creativity,” Clack said.
Christopher also performed a wrestler’s bridge — supporting his weight with his head and neck — and invited Tyler Bramlett, his longtime friend and fellow strongman, to smash two concrete blocks placed on his stomach.
“You need to believe you can and use a lot of mental toughness,” Christopher said of the feats of strength.
The chiseled 25-year-old graduate of Harbor High School got his start with his website, www.legendarystrength.com, where he sells books and DVDs related to unusual strength building exercises, such as hoisting kettle bells, handstand push-ups, bending nails with one’s hands and many others. He maintains the value of free weights and exercises to improve fitness.
Christopher studied the work of famous strongmen and gradually developed techniques that have led to feats of strength such as bending horseshoes with his bare hands and tearing decks of cards and phonebooks.
Christopher has opened his first gym in the Camp Evers shopping center in Scotts Valley, where he hopes to train individual clients and maybe offer group lessons.
Legendary Strength is at 208 Mount Hermon Road, Ste. 2.
For information: 216-6048.