This project documents my pursuit of 100 non-stop bends using a 100kg / 220lb Bender Bar , also known—for reasons known only to third-world marketing departments—as the Power Twister . This is a first-of-its-kind strength and endurance trial by fire and steel, intended to explore and demonstrate higher tiers of human capability through the development of android-like work capacity .. PARAMETERS & PROTOCOLS Overhand bending is the current operational standard. (Underhand bending will be addressed later. Not now.) The bar is held level at all times , ensuring the most honest possible display of strength and endurance. No long pauses. This is a simultaneous test of power and energy—output and volume, strength and stamina. The bar handles must touch for a bend to be counted as successful. It is feasible that the bar may slip or roll. If safe, I will adjust and continue. Control is preferred; awareness is mandatory. The bar remains in my hands at chest level ...

12/29/2025 Day before New Year’s Eve. Running my three-day split—Monday, Wednesday, Friday—I decided to start the New Year the only way Bender’s Club allows: under load. Coming off a clean two-day rest window (Saturday to Sunday), I felt solid locking in the first bend. Bend one carried a little strain, nothing unexpected. Everything tracked smoothly through bend eleven. That’s when the equipment reminded me it has opinions. The handles on the 100kg / 220lb Bender Bar—also called the Power Twister—do a poor job managing sweat. Traction degrades fast. On the close of bend eleven, the bar slipped and sprang back violently. I rolled the impact. Habit. Years of mitigating incoming force make that reflex automatic. Still, it raised a simple question: why tolerate preventable risk? Chalk will be added. Proactivity beats stitches. That said, it will take more than 220 pounds of amplified force ripping through the air at my face to stop me. So, out of pure spite—and to remind the bar wh...

12/26/2025 Day after Christmas. Last thing on my agenda was bending the 100kg / 220lb Bender Bar—also known as the Power Twister, a name that feels like it was approved by a 3rd world marketing department that never touched one. I was already wrecked. Hundreds of reps logged earlier for another project. Everything hurt. No mystery there. I’ll be honest: I had to dig deeper than usual to find a reason to step back under the bar. But the goal doesn’t care about holidays, soreness, or good intentions. It only recognizes completion. I locked in 11 solid bends . They hurt. Every single one. No drama, no surprise. Pain was the point of contact. But art—like strength, like anything worth having—doesn’t arrive gently. It’s extracted. Paid for. Usually in installments of suffering. - Kevin Wikse , Industrial Strength Bastardry