^^That is combined from different weight and age divisions and different PL authorities throughout his career, starting in his late teens.^^
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
^ I’m not sure he’s ever even squatted, but he tossed the number out like it was no big deal then back peddled down to 5-hundo when I called him out on it. He wouldn’t budge from there. You could tell he had no clue what “3 plates” meant. He then said “you’re making me want to go back to the gym to see where I’m at”. I’ma bet him a paycheck he can’t even get 2 plates to depth. I’ll keep y’all posted.[/quote]
Keeping with the theme of the thread, pics or it didn’t happen!
[quote]BHappy wrote:
MattyXL wrote “My cousin is like this, everything I have done he has double when he was 18…its like talking to Uncle fucking Rico.”
Just tell him i will commit suicide at 80. Will he say he will do it at 160 or if you are lucky at 40?[/quote]
LMAO!!
[quote]strangemeadow wrote:
On the other end of the spectrum, there’s a dude at my gym, a doctor who’s 53. I’ve know him for a year, shot the shit once every other week in between sets. Turns out he is the only guy in the states to have DL’ed over 500 in over 5 decades. Holds 40 or so records (in all of the various PL groups) and 4 international titles. I just found this out a month ago from somebody else. When I asked him he totally played it down. [/quote]
Like a boss
We had a 130lbs wanker at a gym I used to work at that would load every 45 lbs plate in the place (1300 pounds +/-) onto the leg press and proceed to execute, at best six inches of moment for 2-3 reps. This would be followed by a 5 minute walk around the place, presumably to alert his bro’s he was leg pressing before another killer set. I maybe could have tolerated him if he ever unloaded the machine or cleaned up the stain of hair gel he left behind. Unfortunately he brought business into the place and the manager thought he was worth keeping around, so we had to deal with him.
[quote]strangemeadow wrote:
^^That is combined from different weight and age divisions and different PL authorities throughout his career, starting in his late teens.^[1]
You should get his autograph.
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[quote]harrypotter wrote:
[quote]strangemeadow wrote:
^^That is combined from different weight and age divisions and different PL authorities throughout his career, starting in his late teens.^[1]
You should get his autograph.[/quote]
You should suck my dick.
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[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
Alright, I’m not the biggest guy in the world but look like I’m in pretty good shape, and because of that I get approached about all things workout related. It usually starts with “what ya bench?” And when I reply I get the"I used to bench (insert made up number)" or “my cousin can…” And despite the fact I know they’re talking out their ass, I usually let it slide. But, in the last two weeks I’ve had two separate coworkers (superiors actually) tell me something so fucking stupid I couldn’t let it go.
First, the area director of my dept tried to tell me he can currently run a 4.3 40. This guy’s early 30’s, about 5’5" and maybe 150 lbs. That was so fucking stupid I had to call him out, and we ended up arguing about how my middle aged area director could keep up with a young Randy Moss in a sprint. I then of course challenged him to a sprint and he hit me with the ol’ “just did legs yesterday” routine and I could only nod and walk away. He also tried to tell me he can do 72 ( SEVENTY-TWO) pullups in a row. You can imagine my reaction to that…
Yesterday, my manager was asking about leg training. We were going over some things and he said that when he was in high school wrestling (which he told me several times he was"gifted in") that he set the school record in the squat at 650 lbs. This kid is 5’7"and 150 lbs soaking wet. “No you didn’t” fell out my mouth without even thinking, and I explained to him that that would be a world record and yada yada yada, and he started back peddling til he wound up at 5-hundo.We argued for awhile and he hit me with the “I’m pretty sure I got at least 5 hundred, 'cause I remember being really proud of that” to which I could only laugh and excuse myself.
So, either my company exclusively promotes closet physical specimens or I’m surrounded by morons.
Got any big fish gym stories to share?[/quote]
That’s hilarious!! I mean, how do you call out/belittle your boss without being rude. A 4.3 40? 72 pullups??!! LMAO!
I knew a dude a few years back that was quite a ‘one-upper’. Me and a buddy egged him on and he ended up stating that he once did a STANDING OH PRESS OF 315LBS AT A BODY WEIGHT OF 179!
Of course, that was with “loose form” and before the obligatory “shoulder issues”.
I overhead a teenage Jersey-Shore-Looking-Bro talking to his friend and giving him lifting advice. Along some of the other amazing comical shit he spouted were that:
- training shoulders were worthless, since we can spend more time benching
- training triceps should be secondary to “bis” since you can’t see 'em
- squats are “fat big-guys”
- running is for calves
- end every workout with “8 burn sets of wrist curls”
no shit.
he had a bunch of other gems but i forgot them.
“I used to be big like you back when I played ______”
You haven’t heard it all until you’ve been around a high school football team. They laugh at me when i explain i cannot squat 225 for more then a couple reps. For them a squat is anything more then a knee bend.
[quote]jtownlax wrote:
You haven’t heard it all until you’ve been around a high school football team. They laugh at me when i explain i cannot squat 225 for more then a couple reps. For them a squat is anything more then a knee bend. [/quote]
Nope, high school is full of gold.
[quote]jtownlax wrote:
You haven’t heard it all until you’ve been around a high school football team. They laugh at me when i explain i cannot squat 225 for more then a couple reps. For them a squat is anything more then a knee bend. [/quote]
He who squats deepest laughs the loudest. Or something like that.
I don’t tell my numbers here because no one would believe them.
“Nards, you’re 255lbs and you’re squatting 185?!?!”
Killograms I hope? And I hear stuff like " as strong, or could do it in my prime and ect" from relatives. Well I used to hear that, when I had a good 30 less pounds or so on all of my lifts.
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
I wonder how many of the stories in this very thread are bullshit…lol. [/quote]
Agreed. I get comments about my size, but rarely has someone come up to me and claimed to have been stronger or bigger when they were younger. I also don’t get too many people making strength claims around me. I get lots of people asking for workout advice they won’t ever use, but that is about it. In fact, to be honest, 99% of any reaction I get is positive.
Ive called bullshit on people way too many times. The worst is in the bar. Then its the old guys who were at one time in 1990 in good shape but exaggerate there size and strength way too much. Its more fun to just argue than let it slide because then you get the bumbling fuckers going back on there claim EVERY time.
I (well my father used to) know a person who claims to his visalus followers than he has a guinness world squat record of 1100lbs and a leg press of 3600lbs. Whenever he is challenged on facebook by outsiders he change the subject by saying to his followers:'‘YOU R GONNA GET Ur BMW really soon and Ill give U the keys in person oN stage!’'Those followers seems to thinks he is god, but he really is just a a loudmouthed dipshit without a high-school education.
[quote]p-dub wrote:
Ive called bullshit on people way too many times. The worst is in the bar. Then its the old guys who were at one time in 1990 in good shape but exaggerate there size and strength way too much. Its more fun to just argue than let it slide because then you get the bumbling fuckers going back on there claim EVERY time.[/quote]
I really don’t understand why anyone would care. I mean, unless these guys are somehow interrupting your workout or something. I just don’t see this much.