Power Clean, Squat, Bench 1RM's

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Dug up an old CD with some 1RM footage taken years back.

and no im not sitting here just laughing at everyone else. Im in the video at 3:40 with a pretty epic miss myself, as well as later around 4:42 with my ass one mile off the bench.

its worth noting before anyone else points some things out:

  • no one was ever shown proper squat depth and therefore, never hit acceptable depth once.
  • the spotting technique was ok for the most part but still some close calls
  • everyone turned their incline into flat bench by lifting their ass as high as possible
  • most people turned their flat bench into a decline bench by again, lifting their ass as high as possible

in summary: too much ego, not enough technique

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OK think back to when you were in high school, you maybe had better form then these kids do, but I guarantee that you weren’t as strong as them, regardless if they dont lift to powerlifting standards. Your post screams insecurity to me.

They may not have perfect technique, but damn them kids are strong.

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Oh shit my bad, this was you. then in that case LOL you kids were strong. My apologies.

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haha yeah no worries man. i was right there along with them learning the ways of the iron world. was usually the hard way a lot of the time.

thought it might be worth a laugh not just at others but myself as well.

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you guys are lucky. there just isnt the same physical culture in highschool in the uk, and you aint allowed in the gym to use the weights till youre over 18. (sigh) maybe id now be repping 500lb in the squat instead of working towards it for 1

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[quote]creeep wrote:

thought it might be worth a laugh not just at others but myself as well.[/quote]

The weights you are movin is no laughing matter lol

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I enjoyed watching it, thanks for posting. The form was pretty bad, but nothing that cant be fixed with a few training sessions.

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The first video chopped off the last 3 minutes.

Here’s part II

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This looks like a saturday night live sketch.

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This looks like every afternoon at my gym when the two local high schools let out…

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Is this high school footage though? It says SFU on the platform.

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Its Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, near Vancouver… not at a high school.

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oh man the cleans are awesome. and i love the guy squatting at ~2:40 in the first vid, takes his hand off the bar, reaches for the rack, awesome.