ANTI, MI (WXYZ) – A Michigan powerlifter is being hailed as a superhero after his quick actions helped save a man pinned under a rolled-over vehicle.
Ryan Belcher, works out and trains at the gym five days a week. It’s a place he credits for giving him extra strength on a day he needed it the most.
“I just lifted and started pushing the vehicle as hard as I could,” Belcher said.
Belcher isn’t your normal powerlifter.
“What’s weird is it’s easier for me to not know the weight,” he said.
On Thursday afternoon, Belcher heard something outside his workplace.
“I just hear a big smash and, as I look out, a crowd of people are coming and this vehicle is flipped upside down and my first instinct was to just take off out there,” he said.
A crumbled Jeep lay on its roof, and just a few feet away, there was a car with front end damage.
“As I approached the one vehicle in the middle of the lane, she was awfully bloody and I made sure she was OK and she responded with yes I’m OK,'” Belcher said.
Ryan’s attention then turned to the man trapped under the two-ton Jeep, begging for help.
“Half of his torso was outside of the vehicle and the other half was still underneath in the vehicle. I had no other choice. It was either save a man or not believe in myself. So I just reached in did what I had to do,” Belcher said.
