Zach Roloff had much to be proud of recently, despite growing family drama with Matt and the farm.PEOPLE highlights this factTLC’s Reality Star Roloff attempts to lift significant weight in a recent episode.
Reality TV star attempts to do a trio power lifts. He completes a deadlift and bench press before moving on to a back-squat. His wife Tori and their two children, Jackson and Lilah, are there to cheer him on. Josiah, their third baby boy, is also with them, but he isn’t there.
“I’m really focused on the squatting,”Roloff explains in the preview clip for the new episode. Roloff’s goal is to lose 385 pounds. He says he will achieve that weight. “beaten the record by four pounds.”
“It’s impressive to watch anyone to lift that much weight,”During the exhibition, Roloff’s stepfather Chris Marek spoke. Roloff and Amy’s mother Amy were married at Roloff farms for cameras. It was their dream wedding in all the years since she divorced Matt Roloff. “Also to see someone Zach’s size. It’s even much more impressive. That’s gotta be sending a good message to Jackson, that size doesn’t matter. And Zach is leading a great example.”
Roloff was able to do a good squat, but felt that he was lifting more than he expected. “I lifted that thing up, and I’m like, ‘This is heavy!'”He says this in the preview. “I’m like, ‘Do they have the right weight on?'”
He was relieved to have reached his lift goal. Jackson shared with him a special moment and told the cameras how it felt. “I was pretty stoked,”He elaborates. “This is the end of a really long journey of working out and getting to this moment. I was really excited!”
Roloff’s success comes at a difficult time in his life. This was due to his father Matt’s drama. Roloff, the elder, revealed that he was selling his family farm. This angered Zach.
“A lot of hurt feelings have happened over everyone. We’re not innocent in all this either. But, it is what it is. It’s not our call,”ET was informed by Zach Roloff “The whole family built the equity of that place and built it to what it is. But it’s not any of our calls but my dad’s. That’s his call, which is fine. I wish it maybe was played out a little bit more honest leading up to it. I have my own family to focus on.”
They did manage to find peace and were able to celebrate Jackson’s birthday a week later. Zach still disputes his father’s public version of events.