Erica Kern
1998 Ms. International Results, 13th
1997 Ms. International Results, 14th
1996 Ms. International Results,15th
1995 North American, 1st Heavyweight and Overall Champ
1995 USA, 4th Heavyweight
1994 NPC Nationals, 5th Heavyweight
1994 Jr. USA, 1st Heavyweight
1992 Minnesota State, 1st Heavyweight
1992 Gopher State, 1st Heavyweight and Overall Champ
alot of very nice pics of her on the net…was always one of my favorites…the video really does not do her justice
it seems like if you trained in the 90’s around here that makes you ancient
Does anyone else think those plates are fake?
Come on people, the squat vid is a fake. I’m sure the woman is strong, but the plates are obvious fakes. The bar doesn’t even bend a LITTLE bit with 315 on it??? She’s probably squatting 135 total with all six plates.
I do! I was too scared to call it though, I figured I would just be called a jealous weakling or something.
Puting the plates on and racking and unracking look funny to me.
[quote]Der Candy wrote:
pushmepullme wrote:
I’ll say the same thing I said the first time I saw this video -
Squats are high
She’s bodybuilding, it doesnt matter.[/quote]
Somebody squats high in this thread, 2 free internets to poster with the correct answer.
The whole thing is wrong, the way she picks up the plates, puts them on the bar, unracking and racking is funny, the bar and the plates, with NO collars, don’t bend or move and don’t make a sound, and her effort level is exactly the same with 135 as with 315. OBVIOUS FAKE
in the related’s to that vid:
more 70’s style:
just plain good form:
[quote]koleah wrote:
Does anyone else think those plates are fake? [/quote]
I call definite fake for several reasons.
First, she picks up the plates and maneuvers them just a bit too easy, even at one point, putting an extra plate on the left side of the bar at a very awkward angle. Next, the plates are not moving or behaving in a manner I’d expect during the squats. No movement whatsoever. No rattle, no roll, no shake.
In addition, at the completion of her last set of 315 with 12 reps, she’s not so much as taking a deep breath. Finally, fake plates are used for BBs all the time during photo shoots and such. Gents, this vid is fake.
[quote]VealChop wrote:
Come on people, the squat vid is a fake. I’m sure the woman is strong, but the plates are obvious fakes. The bar doesn’t even bend a LITTLE bit with 315 on it??? She’s probably squatting 135 total with all six plates.[/quote]
A bar bending with 315 on it? That sounds like a cheap bar to me. I don’t ever remember a good Olympic bar bending with just 315 on it in all the time I have been lifting.
[quote]lewhitehurst wrote:
VealChop wrote:
Come on people, the squat vid is a fake. I’m sure the woman is strong, but the plates are obvious fakes. The bar doesn’t even bend a LITTLE bit with 315 on it??? She’s probably squatting 135 total with all six plates.
A bar bending with 315 on it? That sounds like a cheap bar to me. I don’t ever remember a good Olympic bar bending with just 315 on it in all the time I have been lifting.[/quote]
Not a pronounced bend, but a standard olympic bar found in any gym will behave a certain way under weight. Are you suggesting the video is not fake?
Or do you miss how she just handles 315 with no apparent stress to her body? Look at her body language! Even if you can manhandle 315 (and I can), your body, the bar, the weights - all behave in a certain manner.
I can’t believe anyone that lifts serious weights can view this video and not recognize the physical quirks.
Nobody is saying the bar should be ready to snap, and it shouldn’t be bent in a static position. But a bar with 315 on it, although not that much weight, should exhibit some slight bend, or spring to it when it’s being unracked, re-racked, at the bottom of a squat, etc. That is why any real metal plates, when used without, and usually even WITH clips, will rattle and roll and bang against each other when they are being lifted.
Bars are made to have some spring in them for better feel while lifting. Only heavy duty powerlifting bars are made to be much stiffer. Beyond just the bar not exhibiting any bend or spring whatsoever, nothing about the video looks real to me. Perhaps you just haven’t seen 315 on a bar that many times???
[quote]morepain wrote:
it seems like if you trained in the 90’s around here that makes you ancient [/quote]
I think my grandfather was born then.
the fake plate thing is standard practice in bodybuilding photography and video…it should not be a surprise to anyone.
[quote]Airtruth wrote:
morepain wrote:
it seems like if you trained in the 90’s around here that makes you ancient
I think my grandfather was born then.[/quote]
i hate you, LOL acttually i was training in the 80’s so i guess i am on my death bed about now
Some pretty gnarly bodybuilding porn vids on tube8.
Looked fake to me as well. But, with sexed up squats you have to be careful so it’s probably better she wasn’t using any real weight.
[quote]TheBodyGuard wrote:
lewhitehurst wrote:
VealChop wrote:
Come on people, the squat vid is a fake. I’m sure the woman is strong, but the plates are obvious fakes. The bar doesn’t even bend a LITTLE bit with 315 on it??? She’s probably squatting 135 total with all six plates.
A bar bending with 315 on it? That sounds like a cheap bar to me. I don’t ever remember a good Olympic bar bending with just 315 on it in all the time I have been lifting.
Not a pronounced bend, but a standard olympic bar found in any gym will behave a certain way under weight. Are you suggesting the video is not fake?
Or do you miss how she just handles 315 with no apparent stress to her body? Look at her body language! Even if you can manhandle 315 (and I can), your body, the bar, the weights - all behave in a certain manner.
I can’t believe anyone that lifts serious weights can view this video and not recognize the physical quirks.
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I didn’t care enough about the video to look past her with the 135. It was obvious from the title some guy with a female bodybuilder fetish posted what videos get him off, so after that I could have cared less.
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
Also saw this in related vids. I used to jerk it to this show almost every morning before middle school.[/quote]
Mmm. Monica Brant in pigtails. I could do some very bad things to her.
[quote]lewhitehurst wrote:
pushmepullme wrote:
I’ll say the same thing I said the first time I saw this video -
Squats are high; and
This makes me not want to squat in shorts.
So what would would you squat in? :-)[/quote]
Your shorts.
Wait, what?
315 at that height is much less impressive than 315 deep, is the only reason I called out the depth.
This has been posted on this forum before; maybe in SAMA or PW. We called it fake there too.
Bodybuilding/strength fetish guys (fetish, not specialized sexual interest) creep me out.