[quote]Professor X wrote:
Yes, but even he dropped them to the ground first.[/quote]
Next time I catch him pressing, I’ll ask if he can rack them without dropping them first. If I describe this debate to him, it might be all the motivation he needs to do it.
Looks fairly believable except for how he just pops up with them with no effort. It would look weird seeing him training with guys twice his size.
If he’s 141lb, how is he so easily able to rock his body forward with ~150% of his total bodyweight resting on his upper torso, and become vertical? This is physically impossible unless he had his feet anchored down in order to perform an abdominal crunch, otherwise his feet would flail aimlessly.
The way he effortlessly pops up at the end–wouldn’t this just be an indication of good muscle ENDURANCE as opposed to super-human strength?
Fake. Look at the skinny friend he had to pretend to spot him. Most spotters for dumbbells that heavy don’t even take their hands off the lifter’s elbows! Not to mention that the lifter is tiny.
I’m not trying to be a hater, I’m always proud when somebody backs up his talk by actually lifting the weight, but is the guy’s ego so tiny that he has to press fake weights?
I’m not sure why any gym would have fake dumbbells in the first place. They might fool the Planet Fitness crowd for a while but once a really big guy decide to do some shrugs he’ll know and demand his membership fees back.
The only explanation I can see, other than fake dumbbells, is some genetic aberration in his muscle attachment points giving him better leverage.
5’6" and 140 pounds is very difefrent from 5’11" and 140 pounds. I hope you realize that.
[quote]dragonmamma wrote:
I think it’s real. My mentor at the gym, a Coast Guard instructor, weighs about 140-lbs (but is shorter at about 5’6") and I’ve seen him press 100-lb DBs and drop them to the ground with good form, making it look fairly effortless.
Of course, I think he might be an android; the guy never breaks a sweat even after several rounds of suicide sprints.[/quote]
Something does not match here, not just the weight of the lifter. Its the way he’s put together, they way he gets up with the dimbbells, everything. The 140-150 pound dudes who can handle such weights are usually a good bit shorter (effectively more muscle),…this kid just does not cut it.
[quote]ElbowStrike wrote:
The only explanation I can see, other than fake dumbbells, is some genetic aberration in his muscle attachment points giving him better leverage.[/quote]
[quote]Professor X wrote:
rsg wrote:
but it does look suspicious how easily he handles the weights afterwards.
That’s what stands out more than anything. If he even showed some level of fatigue after the set when carrying them, I would believe it more. Most lifters moving that much and more would set the weights down, rest and THEN put them up. He jumps up with them after the set as if he isn’t even winded. [/quote]
Yep, agreed. He just drops 140% of his bodyweight on his chest, rolls up, and throws the weights on the rack – nope. Also, the way the weight ‘jiggles’ back into place on the rack doesn’t seem to resembe anything north of, say, 85 lbs. In my experience, when you set down 100 lbs, it doesn’t bounce into the rack like that.
If it’s legit, more power to him – and maybe T-Nation needs to interview him for an article. But IMO too many things don’t add up.
I agree - he does not act like he is holding a total of 200 pounds in his hands. At all. ESPECIALLY for a 140 lber.
THIS is impressive and actually looks real -
[quote]UkpairehMombooto wrote:
5’6" and 140 pounds is very difefrent from 5’11" and 140 pounds. I hope you realize that.
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I do–that’s why I mentioned it. Still, he’s a wiry little guy; you would definitely underestimate his strength if you met him.
His lack of upper leg development leads me to believe his femurs would have SNAPPED while sitting there on the edge of the bench!
Who knows, who cares, what does he have to show for all that stregnth? Some terribly developed triceps, a lopsided chest, forearms as wide as my di… Total lack of back development. Who cares!
[quote]GrabAKimber wrote:
Who cares![/quote]
I do!
It looks like it’s at a real gym…
so in the kid’s defense he may actually think those are legit 100s
but that still leaves the question of wtf gym buys fake weights
[quote]dragonmamma wrote:
UkpairehMombooto wrote:
5’6" and 140 pounds is very difefrent from 5’11" and 140 pounds. I hope you realize that.
I do–that’s why I mentioned it. Still, he’s a wiry little guy; you would definitely underestimate his strength if you met him.
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I think the point is, if you can hop up with that much weight after a set without even being winded, then his max should be MUCH heavier. Why would he only go up to 110lbs? If 100lbs is damn near effortless, where is the video with him actually straining to get 140lbs in the air?
The way the weights sway back as they connect at the top of the press aren’t the way real DB do.
I can do the 100s for reps and I’m 180lbs. My flat bench sucks.
Why isn’t there a video of him trying to get the 140s up? Maybe because he’s smart enough to not max out on a supplementary exercise. And putting up dumbbells for the first rep is the hardest part. It’s possible that this guy can’t even get up the 120s.
Maybe this kid can only bench 250 and just rocks with dumbbells. Maybe since he focuses on chest so much, his leg and back musculature is lagging behind. This is one way to explain his light weight.
Don’t count out the idea that maybe this guy is just an exceptional person with good relative strength. Theories about the dumbbells and the gym being fake or being CGI is just crazy. What’s more likley? A skinny teenager is good a bench or a skinny teenager found a special effects film crew to help him simulate a mildly impressive weightlifting feat. And if you think this kid actaully did go through some expensive, complicated hoax to fake bench these dumbbells then why…
If I were going to go through the trouble of faking a bench press video, I’d probably put it to music, use some 23mm film stock, and bench two Chevys on the end of an absurdly shaky bar. I’d have myself doing it on top of a mountain with thunder in the background too.
[quote]FightingScott wrote:
Maybe since he focuses on chest so much, his leg and back musculature is lagging behind. This is one way to explain his light weight.[/quote]
Are we looking at the same person? Every one of his muscles are undeveloped. Look at his chest, then look at his triceps. They’re about the same small size.
[quote]FightingScott wrote:
Maybe since he focuses on chest so much, his leg and back musculature is lagging behind. This is one way to explain his light weight. [/quote]
Dude, EVERYTHING on that kid is lagging behind.
About 25 years ago at PSU I was a 148 pound lifter. My max bench was 235-240 or so. Not great or anything.
We had a simple bench deadlift meet at PSU one saturday and I was one of the referees. I was refereeing the 148s and I saw a guy who had his opener at 350. This was before bench shirts, btw.
I was going to redlight him for being a smartass. Funny thing is, he took the weight out of the racks, lowered it waited fort he press signal, and just blew it up.
He then did 375 and 385. the world record was something like 415 to maybe 429 then btw. Later I saw that this fellow did a 405 in an official meet later that year.
This guy looked no bigger or stronger than me. You’d guess he was a 240-280 or so bencher. He didn’t have short arms, was about 5’8" and just didn’t seem to have to much muscle.
but he was very strong. Some guys are like that.