SINGAPORE – Minister for Home Affairs and Law K. Shanmugam impressed friends and family when he managed to deadlift 125kg at the Chong Pang Fitness Fiesta in November 2022.
With a current weight of 64kg and height of 1.75m, he says: “It’s not an insignificant amount of weight. It’s a couple of kilos less than double my weight. It showed that my muscle strength and flexibility had improved.”
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