Ronnie Doing Stones!!!

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[quote]MachineAZ wrote:
baretta wrote:
look at me, i compete in strong man competitions so therefore i am awesome. I am stronger than ronnie and therefore i am a better person. If i wanted, with all my muscle mass, i could do very well in body building, but ronnie, 8 time mr. olympia can’t do any strong man stuff because body builders are weak.

just reiterating your own words.
give respect where respect is due. ronnie doesn’t do any strong man competitions but to say he is weak is just plain foolish. if he trained for it, like you mentioned you have, then I would guess he would do better than average, given his strength levels as a “non functional” bodybuilder.

Reiterating my words? Are you sure?

Where did I say I was awesome? I didn’t.

Where did I say I was stronger than Ronnie? I didn’t.

Where did I say I could well in bodybuilding? I didn’t.

Where did I call Ronnie weak? I didn’t.

You sure do have a jealousy or reading issue.

I don’t give a flying shit what you COULD do. It’s about what CAN do right now. And the fact is most bodybuilders would suck at strongman. Just as most strongman would suck at bodybuilding.

Isn’t that common sense?[/quote]

It must be jealousy of a person who comes across as being closed minded.

you dont care about what you COULD do, then why bother training anymore for anything, why get better? just give up strongman because you have already been the best you possible can.

you’re the only one here saying strongmen cant compete in bb’ling and bb’ers cant compete in strongmen. the only one…think about it.

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[quote]E-man wrote:
I think this could be the next Dungeons and Dragons.

“Yea well Ronnie has 6 strength points and 3 stone power plus 20 invincibility Olympia lives.”

“Dude, everybody knows that Marius has 12 strongman hit points and Polish power on his side plus all the Met-rx rejuvenation rations he needs.”

[/quote]

Mwah-ha-ha

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In my own opinion, bodybuilding is the most difficult out of all the strength sports.

Think about it, training for strength sports is enjoyable, its easy because you look forward to it and want to do it.

All the strength sports require similar training, the only difference between them is, bodybuilding requires extreme dieting all year round whether its bulking or cutting, for this reason bodybuilding is the more difficult sport.

Ps. I am not a bodybuilder so its not a biased opinion. And ronnie is a beast lol.

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[quote]superscience wrote:
In my own opinion, bodybuilding is the most difficult out of all the strength sports.[/quote]
In my opinion, some people will put their maximum effort into their chosen sport. Some people won’t go as far.

Argueing about which one is ‘harder’ is ridiculous as there will always be those contenders in every sport who will take it as far as their bodies will allow.

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[quote]MachineAZ wrote:
Prof X, here is what I said since you continuously seem to put words into my mouth.

I’m sorry but it’s much easier to put on a speedo and diet down for a contest then it is train and compete in strongman. They are two different things on your body. Strongman has more injuries and more demands on your body.

Still waiting to hear how what you do to lose that extra 2% bodyfat (from 7% to 5%) to be at contest level changes the above paragraph.[/quote]

Well at least you didn’t put a HA!! after that one.

You appear to be a very combative person, that’s too bad. And, we don’t care if you are laughing when you write something.

You might want to flip a garden hose or something, helps with the pent up frustration.

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[quote]E-man wrote:
I think this could be the next Dungeons and Dragons.

“Yea well Ronnie has 6 strength points and 3 stone power plus 20 invincibility Olympia lives.”

“Dude, everybody knows that Marius has 12 strongman hit points and Polish power on his side plus all the Met-rx rejuvenation rations he needs.”

[/quote]

But can Ronnie roll a 20 saving throw? That is the question.

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[quote]Magarhe wrote:
meanpete wrote:
Ronnie has just passed this kidney stone. And is putting it on the shelf because he thinks it is a keeper.

man, if that’s a kidney stone, I’d hate to see his manhood

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can’t be much left after exploding out a stone that size.

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[quote]t-ha wrote:
superscience wrote:
In my own opinion, bodybuilding is the most difficult out of all the strength sports.
In my opinion, some people will put their maximum effort into their chosen sport. Some people won’t go as far.

Argueing about which one is ‘harder’ is ridiculous as there will always be those contenders in every sport who will take it as far as their bodies will allow.
[/quote]

Very true about people putting their max effort into sports, but for me i would see some sports harder than others, just my view.

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My GOD you are all INSANE.

Stop being stupid. You are all smarter than that.

We are not arguing that there is no strength in bodybuilding or that there is no muscle mass in strongman etc…

We are talking about THE ELITE LEVEL.

To place in the top 10 in strongman, bodybuilding, powerlifting, table tennis, whatever, takes a tonne of dedicated effort and specific skills and discipline and years of effort.

The disciplines are competitive enough to make it really, really hard to “do well” at two of them at once.

Strongman, bodybuilding, powerlifting have a pretty good crossover for various reasons. Not just similarity in the training, but any person who does well in one, must have good muscles etc… that will help in the others.

But not in table tennis, necessarily. You get my point.

Now, you could argue something like, ANY strongman in the top 10 could palce in the top 100 bodybuilders if they put effort into it for a few years.

Or, you could say, take any of the top 10 bodybuilders and they could get perhaps in the top 100 strongmen, again with a few years training.

But if you think you can take any of them and just switch them around in say 6 months, I’d say forget it.

Maybe Ronnie, just maybe. Or perhaps in a year, or two years.

I am not saying they don’t have the potential, just that they have all specialised so much to get in the elite level it will take an effort to crossover.

If they could crossover willy-nilly, they would be doing it.

I think people are completely overlooking the elite level of it all. It takes 10x the effort to make a 1% improvement at that level in any discipline.

PS I like Ronnie, good on him.

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Why the fuck do people keep putting “strongmen” in quotes? Like it’s a fake sport or something?

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[quote]DLboy wrote:
Why the fuck do people keep putting “strongmen” in quotes? Like it’s a fake sport or something?[/quote]

Why did YOU do it? There’s your answer.

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[quote]DLboy wrote:
Why the fuck do people keep putting “strongmen” in quotes? Like it’s a fake sport or something?[/quote]

It might be less of a fake sport if “walking with two refrigerators on one’s back” wasn’t an event.

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[quote]Ren wrote:
E-man wrote:
I think this could be the next Dungeons and Dragons.

“Yea well Ronnie has 6 strength points and 3 stone power plus 20 invincibility Olympia lives.”

“Dude, everybody knows that Marius has 12 strongman hit points and Polish power on his side plus all the Met-rx rejuvenation rations he needs.”

But can Ronnie roll a 20 saving throw? That is the question.[/quote]

I’ve lost at least 100 testosterone points reading the inane drivel and whiney bullshit proliferating this thread.

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[quote]harris447 wrote:
It might be less of a fake sport if “walking with two refrigerators on one’s back” wasn’t an event.
[/quote]

Why does that make it fake? Why’s that different than “throwing a ball made of cowskin?”

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[quote]harris447 wrote:
DLboy wrote:
Why the fuck do people keep putting “strongmen” in quotes? Like it’s a fake sport or something?

It might be less of a fake sport if “walking with two refrigerators on one’s back” wasn’t an event.
[/quote]

I’m dumbfounded by your statement. That’s call a Yoke walk, which is an event in the sport of strongman which can be quantitatively and objectively measured.

Whereas with bodybuilding, you’re getting JUDGED on someone’s subjective opinion on how you look. That my friend is called a CONTEST.

Or a beauty pagent. HA!

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[quote]MachineAZ wrote:
harris447 wrote:
DLboy wrote:
Why the fuck do people keep putting “strongmen” in quotes? Like it’s a fake sport or something?

It might be less of a fake sport if “walking with two refrigerators on one’s back” wasn’t an event.

I’m dumbfounded by your statement. That’s call a Yoke walk, which is an event in the sport of strongman which can be quantitatively and objectively measured.

Whereas with bodybuilding, you’re getting JUDGED on someone’s subjective opinion on how you look. That my friend is called a CONTEST.

Or a beauty pagent. HA![/quote]

First off: does no one get fucking jokes anymore?

Second: the strongman comps do themselves a disservice when they lift fridges and cars and shit. Are the stones, fingers, etc. not enough? Does deadlifting 700 pounds not impress? Are you not entertained?

When they lift goofy shit, it makes them look goofy; a Stupid Human Trick with chalk and knee wraps.

And please don’t start the whole ‘bodybuilding isn’t a sport thing.’ It’s been done to death, and Israel and Hezbollah have a better chance of coming to an agrement.

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I still think he’s just lifting a swiss ball.

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[quote]harris447 wrote:
MachineAZ wrote:
harris447 wrote:
DLboy wrote:
Why the fuck do people keep putting “strongmen” in quotes? Like it’s a fake sport or something?

It might be less of a fake sport if “walking with two refrigerators on one’s back” wasn’t an event.

I’m dumbfounded by your statement. That’s call a Yoke walk, which is an event in the sport of strongman which can be quantitatively and objectively measured.

Whereas with bodybuilding, you’re getting JUDGED on someone’s subjective opinion on how you look. That my friend is called a CONTEST.

Or a beauty pagent. HA!

First off: does no one get fucking jokes anymore?

Second: the strongman comps do themselves a disservice when they lift fridges and cars and shit. Are the stones, fingers, etc. not enough? Does deadlifting 700 pounds not impress? Are you not entertained?

When they lift goofy shit, it makes them look goofy; a Stupid Human Trick with chalk and knee wraps.

And please don’t start the whole ‘bodybuilding isn’t a sport thing.’ It’s been done to death, and Israel and Hezbollah have a better chance of coming to an agrement.

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That’s funny, I think a lot of people would like to see strongman use MORE everyday objects. Most people dont lift, so to them, hteres no difference between a 250 or a 385lb stone, both are “really heavy.” A 500 lb deadlift is “awesome.” A car deadlift on the other hand, gives them something to which they can relate.

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[quote]harris447 wrote:
Second: the strongman comps do themselves a disservice when they lift fridges and cars and shit. Are the stones, fingers, etc. not enough? Does deadlifting 700 pounds not impress? Are you not entertained?

When they lift goofy shit, it makes them look goofy; a Stupid Human Trick with chalk and knee wraps.
[/quote]

KBC beat me too it, but I believe the general public can relate better when strongman move common “stuff” as opposed to poundages.

Most people don’t lift, let alone deadlift, so they can’t appreciate the difference between a 500 pound pull and a 700 pound pull. But everybody has been around a car, and everyone knows a car is heavy. So, a strongman walk with 700 pounds or so, or he can walk with a couple of refrigerators. Many people have moved or tried to move a fridge before; therefore they can relate to and appreciate the fridge moving more.

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