Henry Thomason (308) competed on Saturday, October 2nd at the NASA East Tx Regionals in Tyler, TX.
Henry managed a 1003 squat,benched 661 (missed 705) and deadlifted 639 for the All-Time NASA Total Record for All Weight Classes (2303 @ 308). In addition, Henry secured NASA 1# spot for Outstanding Lifter Coefficient NASA Top 100 in All Weight Classes (beating out Mike Ewoldsen KS). Henry has moved up to #3 on Powerlifting Watch lifter rankings.
[quote]Wrah wrote:
Do the powerlifters train anything else but the squat nowadays…[/quote]
No. “The powerlifters” don’t train anything other than squat. There is a large movement going on now to just declare the squat the only movement in powerlifting competitions. And there is no longer a weigh-in. Your class is determined by how many sleeves of oreos you can eat in a single session or within an hour, whichever is shorter.
[quote]jsmiley07 wrote:
Yeah but multiply suits and tight wraps don’t help much on the deadlift.[/quote]
very true, however nasa is a single ply organization that only allows 2meter knee wraps. even without gear a lot of larger lifters however are able to get more out of their squat than their deadlift. take for instance robert wilkerson, 975 raw(with wraps) squat but only a 600 pound deadlift.
I didn’t mean to take away from his squat in my earlier post. 1000lbs is a lot of weight that would crush me. However, I do hate to see a guys squat be so high and his benchpress higher than his deadlift. A high squat is fine but a 3-400lb difference is too much in my opinion. A lot of the time it is coming down to improvements in suits and wraps rather than strength gains.
[quote]sub3g wrote:
Your class is determined by how many sleeves of oreos you can eat in a single session or within an hour, whichever is shorter.
double stuff of course[/quote]
Damn… I can never compete again. I am allergic towards that substance. Perhaps I need to start my own federation. And of course, the only lift we should compete in would be the squat. Haha!
[quote]jsmiley07 wrote:
I didn’t mean to take away from his squat in my earlier post. 1000lbs is a lot of weight that would crush me. However, I do hate to see a guys squat be so high and his benchpress higher than his deadlift. A high squat is fine but a 3-400lb difference is too much in my opinion. A lot of the time it is coming down to improvements in suits and wraps rather than strength gains.[/quote]
Magnus Ã?nnerud from Sweden is famous for his extra weight he gets from the single ply gear. He gets 120kg extra at most. Squatted 391kg when his best non-suited max was 270.