arnold prep videos some big weightts
Poundstone is awesome. New Englander, too!
just outrageous strength. I saw him break the world record in the axle clean and press last summer at Mohegan Sun, it was 414 or 416, now he’s hitting it for 2 reps…guys the man.
Ebomb I believe it was 414 lb, but that’s just crazy hitting that for 2 now.
I wish I could have made it to the Arnold Classic.
damn it, i just lost my fucking jaw, mustve dropped on the floor on something
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I’ve never been this floored by a strength video…
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that music is kickass… what is that metal gear ost or something?
he will be WSM one day…probably multiple times. he’s been so close, and his intensity will eventually take him there.
anyone else find it weird that in the black and white bit at the beginning there was DP in the foreground smashing a huge axel to pieces, but in the background was a load of people trudging away doing their cardio ‘workout’? seemed like a bizarre contrast…
Did anyone else catch the name on the wall in the background when he was benching? About the 1:35 mark…
Edit: of the second video
The part that says Waterbury fitness? the sign for the womens room?
[quote]stumpy wrote:
Did anyone else catch the name on the wall in the background when he was benching? About the 1:35 mark…
Edit: of the second video[/quote]
He’s from Waterbury, CT.
[quote]malonetd wrote:
[quote]stumpy wrote:
Did anyone else catch the name on the wall in the background when he was benching? About the 1:35 mark…
Edit: of the second video[/quote]
He’s from Waterbury, CT.[/quote]
Ok I’m an idot and thought it had something to do with Chad Waterbury
Does he also compete in powerlifting? I didn’t think that strongmen trained the bench, I know they get carry over in the axle press from it, are there other lifts that it helps?
[quote]Eric 2.0 wrote:
he will be WSM one day…probably multiple times. he’s been so close, and his intensity will eventually take him there. [/quote]
Winning the Arnold, as he has the last two years, is probably a greater achievement than winning WSM. It’s probably also a better judge of who the real worlds strongest man is too. There is a reason Pudz has declined to enter the last few years… Judging by the events Poundstone does he cares more about winning the Arnold then WSM anyway, but I’m sure someone here actually knows him and could confirm or deny that.
I saw him at the Arnold yesterday and it was a real treat. He could have come close to 20 reps on the DB clean and press, but he just did enough to win.
[quote]Kansky wrote:
Does he also compete in powerlifting? I didn’t think that strongmen trained the bench, I know they get carry over in the axle press from it, are there other lifts that it helps?[/quote]
he trained as a powerlifter and competed as one in his youngeger years, did powerlifting then strongman. amazin to see how his strength has improved, he slipped a disk doing 1 rep max deadlift with 360kg now he does it for 10 reps
I got to see the Circus Dumbell, and the Hummer Tire Deadlift on Saturday. He was very impressive in both strength and physique.
[quote]stokedporcupine8 wrote:
[quote]Eric 2.0 wrote:
he will be WSM one day…probably multiple times. he’s been so close, and his intensity will eventually take him there. [/quote]
Winning the Arnold, as he has the last two years, is probably a greater achievement than winning WSM. It’s probably also a better judge of who the real worlds strongest man is too. There is a reason Pudz has declined to enter the last few years… Judging by the events Poundstone does he cares more about winning the Arnold then WSM anyway, but I’m sure someone here actually knows him and could confirm or deny that. [/quote]
He may view it as a greater achievement to win the Arnold, or maybe not. But I think he really wants the WSM because of how close he came two years ago, and simply because he’s a true competitor, and its a title he doesn’t yet have.
As you can see in this video, he has a poster of the moment he lost to Mariusz in the WSM hanging up in his gym, and definently uses it for motivation.
This guy is a beast i saw him at the arnold. The last strongman event was to step inside and carry a 1000 lb. square apparatus up something like a 50 ft. ramp in the fastest time. There were some guys who couldn’t move it 5 feet. When he stepped into the square he bent down and picked it up “just to see how it felt” and then put it down! - all before he started. He finished in 9 seconds. Then he proposed to his girlfriend onstage which was pretty cool.
Oh and at the arnold he had a torn left tricep, a torn pec, 3 herniated discs, and an injured left foot. Would never have believed it if he didn’t say it himself.