[quote]Brian14 wrote:
Yeah I really am the strongest, despite my weight. Theres only about 2,000 kids in my highschool and hardly anyone lifts. Even the football players dont lift anywhere close to properly or consistently. And no one knows anything about nutrition.
My wrestling experience was a bit wierd. I was a freshman and weighed 160 at the time. We didnt have a 171 pounder so I had to wrestle up a weight class and often face seniors. I knew that I was stronger in the gym than nearly anyone that I faced, however I only won about 30% of my matches. I guess my technique just sucked and my heart wasn’t completely in it.[/quote]
Interesting. It could just be a location thing too perhaps, I graduated around the same but our school was very pro lifting for the athletes and we had several students that competed in BB as well.
In regards to wrestling, Its demanding, i used to wrestle up occasionally for fun or to wrestle a star guy on the other team. The sport isnt for everyone. IMO its the most intense in every aspect (training, mental, competition) and no that isnt biased, i played football, ran track, play rugby in college, and have rowed crew.
any ways, i havnt even been anywhere near topic. Im in college so we have a wide spectrum in the lifting population. There are benches in the 400-500 range, squats 600-700 and DLs in the 650 range. (RAW)
[quote]Brian14 wrote:
Yeah I really am the strongest, despite my weight. Theres only about 2,000 kids in my highschool and hardly anyone lifts. Even the football players dont lift anywhere close to properly or consistently. And no one knows anything about nutrition.
My wrestling experience was a bit wierd. I was a freshman and weighed 160 at the time. We didnt have a 171 pounder so I had to wrestle up a weight class and often face seniors. I knew that I was stronger in the gym than nearly anyone that I faced, however I only won about 30% of my matches. I guess my technique just sucked and my heart wasn’t completely in it.[/quote]
ONLY 2,000? That’s the biggest school here in Iowa. Hell, my graduating class was ten people.
Also, I find it hard to believe that a school of two thousand couldn’t fill out all the weight classes.
[quote]Achilles of war wrote:
off subject, I didnt know Coan was banned from ipf for failing drug tests 3 x until i recently looked up info on him.[/quote]
Also off topic, I met Eddie Coan tonight at the XPC Bench Bash. What a guy.
[quote]frankjl wrote:
[quote]Zeppelin0731 wrote:
There’s one guy in my gym who I have seen squat 405 for reps, then I never saw him again, and another who does incline press with the 100 lb dumbbells late in the week. Other than that, there’s a couple kids that keep logs but never move up in weight, a few people who are using form that makes me worried for them (just scary to watch) or that wouldn’t pass as even a half rep, a bunch of guys on bro programs talking about muscle confusion all the time who never seem to get bigger, and a bunch of kids who just come and play around while they pass time in between their intramural basketball games and then leave and never come back.
-Zep[/quote]
Where you at in Ohio, brah?[/quote]
Im from Youngstown, and I go to school in Pittsburgh.
-Zep
[quote]EndersDrift2 wrote:
Gym I go to keeps meet lifts on the board for the OBB (Orlando Barbell) team. Anyone who competes can get their name on it although space has become a problem. Top 3 guys all have over 2k totals in meets and another guy moved down from Colorado and already had a 2k total. He’s doing the SPF Pro/Am next week so will probably get on the board after that.
There’s more members of the gym that can bench over 300 raw then there are that can’t. Squat probably 400 raw. Deadlift is the gym’s overall weakness and I’ve only seen a few capable of going over 500 raw.[/quote]
You lift at Orlando Barbell? I hate you.
Not really, but I am a tad jealous.
No one else deadlifts at the place I lift at, so I win by default.
Technique is the most important thing for wrestling. I’ve seen kids that could be considered “frail” with near-perfect technique wreck absolute monsters that had decent technique. It does help, but conditioning and technique are 10000x more vital.
In the gym recommendation box I put down record board. It will probably go to the same place the ghr, reverse hyper, specialty bars and competition bench suggestions went haha.
We don’t have a board or any sort of competing going on down at the University of Leeds here.
It’s a real shame and it’s the reason me and an oly lifter are looking to start a lifting society and get some organisation going… the amount of untapped talent that could do well in bodybuilding/powerlifting is crazy, such a waste.
In terms of what I’ve seen, nothing past 4 plate squat for a few, I believe the top bench is somewhere just over 4 plates, the most I’ve seen pulled in person is 5 plates (by me and one guy who massively outweighs me) but I know theres been 500+ pulls just nothing near 600. We used to have more powerlifters, including a guy with a 705 deadlift/1600 raw total (which I imagine would be our all time strongest lifter), but the whole hardcore vibe is somewhat lost when going from a small ‘strength & conditioning room’ that housed 15 at a time and everyone pushed each other… to a packed out super fitness facility with way, way too many members.
Lifting is nothing like your average American college numbers… lol
edit: ^ above is why I should probably train in Andy Boltons gym over here…