Just say something about how you’d never seen that much weight moved on a sprinter squat, and that it’s an excellent and underrated movement, then ask how much he squats as you want an idea of just how much you can overload the quads with this exercise.
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If social media has any purpose at all, celebrating bullshit is it…
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585 on the bar. Not a single serious lifter in the area liked his post. That probably stung a bit.
He’s done a killer job in the gym overall, dropped a ton of weight and got reasonably strong too. Plenty besides a mile high 585 knee bend to hang your hat on.
This is why I call all my squats “Denver Squats” ala Clint Darden
Squats like ours would probably pass in some federation somewhere. This guy will probably need to create a new federation that allows bullshit squats, which I would actually get a kick out of. I think PL has room in the big tent for ego lifters of all levels of self delusion.
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I confess I want to make such a federation just to make powerlifters mad.
I don’t know of any other sport that gets upset with how OTHER federations play their game. It would be like the NFL screaming at the XFL.
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It would be funny as hell. I loved listening to grown men argue about who is stronger due to technicalities in rule sets, bad judging, you-name-it when I lifted with powerlifters. A fed like that would make heads explode. They wouldn’t get any weight lifted for at least a few days before they’d be done bitching about it.
I’d love to be part of making a promo video for it. Get some generic death metal playing with lots of screaming, then start pasting together your action montage. I’d go with shaky action camera shots of mile-high squats, aggressive, chalky high fives, customized extra-bend deadlift bars and bench presses where the spotters get to help you a little bit, a pause isn’t necessary and the bar just needs to get pretty close to your chest. As per the rules.
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Don’t forget your arse needs to be WAAAAAY off the bench. That can be the thing people in this fed bitch about instead of big arches.
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Can’t forget that!
On the subject of arguing about lifting weights, I was robbed of a good old-fashioned social media troll job last week. A friend of mine posted a video of a N. Korean Olympic lifter doing a heavy triple set of squats on facebook.
A powerlifter from the gym I used to lift at went form Nazi because this gal had a little bit of knee cave in her squat. This was a video of a world-class female lifter doing 2.5 BW for an ATG paused triple.
My BJJ instructor happens to be a somewhat recent gold medalist for Team USA master’s weightlifting, and he was trying to troll this guy into saying even more stupid things. He was doing great before the powerlifter realized he’s arguing with a weightlifting gold medalist about how to train for weightlifting. Apparently the powerlifter’s girlfriend knew my instructor and spoiled our fun.
Oh well, maybe some other time.
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Oh yeah I think I saw the same video on ATG on Facebook and people said the same thing
If you go this deep there’s no way around some caving and that’s it
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I’d put weight limits on the lifts.
Not even for any particular reason other than if you weigh X and squat, bench, or dead more than X * N, then you fuckin cheated. Period!
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And when you say a federation has “drug testing”, that should mean that you are testing DRUGS. That’s how language works.
"Alright, so we found out that, when the guys eat a lot of edibles, they’re not really interested in powerlifting. Meanwhile, the guys on cocaine are NOT doing a good job of waiting for the rack command. Like, at all.
But the dude on PCP just set a world record total. Once the cops have him restrained, we’ll let him know."
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What’s up with the guy over there talking about working together to set a total that transcends federations?
Ah yeah, that dude has taken a LOT of LSD.
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Define a LOT please.
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i’m starting to be worried i won’t be able to find the training equipment i need. i looked up amazon and the most furnished website for those things that we have here, and they’re completely out of items. the only things left are barbells selling at € 250, without the plates, and 45 lb plates selling for € 100 each. not to mention the benches and racks. that could easily cost me € 1000 and i can’t afford that.
i have also asked my gym to rent their equipment and the answer was no. i don’t know what to do
Maybe a couple of buckets and some bags of concrete for general weight.
When we had some Machu Pichu type bullshit concrete work to do we (me and one other guy) would run it in 5 gallon buckets, dump it in the forms, then run back for more, as fast as humanly possible. Sometimes for like 5 cubic yards or more.
Manual labour has been building big strong guys for a lot longer than barbells.
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I can’t believe we have to point that out to the dude who’s people built all of that fancy old stuff.
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Way too subjective for me to do so haha.
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Anything that’d constitute a PR?