You're An Olympic Weightlifter If...

Training Powerlifting
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[quote]shizen wrote:
FightingScott wrote:
Sorry, but Box Squatting is superior to any other form of squatting.

http://uk.youtube.com/results?search_query=travis+mash&search=Search

Is this a joke, because travis has poor form and any olympic lifter will tell you that using chains and bands with the oly lifts is a bad idea. Also he lifts less then Chinese women, who are lighter then him.

Also no box squatting is not the superior lift, that is subjective, don’t hold what westside thinks as the best as law. [/quote]

+1

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[quote]FightingScott wrote:
Sorry, but Box Squatting is superior to any other form of squatting. [/quote]

LOL

43

Travis Mash videos burn my eyes. Please stop.

44

When you think maxing out is piece of cake compared to a regular workout.

45

That big dude has an insane vetical though, look at his plyo videos.

46

[quote]elano wrote:
That big dude has an insane vetical though, look at his plyo videos.[/quote]

you think travis has an insane vertical lol? Frank Yang/Bruce Lee 2.0 楊士毅 - Training Mixtape 跳高與重量訓練集 - YouTube check out what a good vertical can do on box’s, frank yang actually has account here and posts also.

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I think because Travis was a good powerlifter people started to see him for more than he was when he started with the oly stuff.

I started to dislike him when he started talking about beating Coan’s total. He may have totalled higher, but Coan was in a different class.

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[quote]shizen wrote:
elano wrote:
That big dude has an insane vetical though, look at his plyo videos.

you think travis has an insane vertical lol? Frank Yang/Bruce Lee 2.0 楊士毅 - Training Mixtape 跳高與重量訓練集 - YouTube check out what a good vertical can do on box’s, frank yang actually has account here and posts also.

[/quote]

Yeah, that guy is a machine. He is very, very strong for his size.

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  • If you do lower back work more than once a week

  • If training lower back every workout is not “overtraining”

  • If you don’t have a back injury from
    Rows
    Squats
    Deads

  • If you believe a seat in a gym is for resting between sets rather than a place to do your set.

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[quote]GMH454 wrote:

  • If training lower back every workout is not “overtraining”
    [/quote]

nice… and to follow up

-and neither is squatting on every workout.

51

oh man i remember a similar thread, i basically say this and always do this…

  • if you cant make it back to the locker room after your squat day…

  • if when you done with deadlifts your hand calluses look like old vagina’s…

52

You’re only an Olympic lifter if you have lifted in the Olympics. Only.

If you train like an Oly lifter, you’re just someone who trains like an Oly lifter.

53

You leave the gym not quite sure how you got chalk in your hair and on the back of your top

54

[quote]Sick Rick wrote:
You’re only an Olympic lifter if you have lifted in the Olympics. Only.
If you train like an Oly lifter, you’re just someone who trains like an Oly lifter.[/quote]

Olympic weightlifting is the name of the sport. The only reason it has ‘olympic’ in the name is to distinguish it from other types of lifting.

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[quote]dfreezy wrote:
The only reason it has ‘olympic’ in the name is to distinguish it from other types of lifting.
[/quote]

Like, you know, to get big and strong. It’s not that kind of lifting.

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[quote]Otep wrote:
Like, you know, to get big and strong. It’s not that kind of lifting.[/quote]

Sense you’re making not any.

57

When you never feel as manly as when you’re in a tight suit with high heels.

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[quote]dfreezy wrote:
Otep wrote:
Like, you know, to get big and strong. It’s not that kind of lifting.

Sense you’re making not any.

Oh wait, you were being sarcastic and exemplifying the humor in the concept that there are different kinds of lifting. Sorry, didn’t see that there the first time.[/quote]

No problem.

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  • People know you’ve been scratching your dick due to the huge chalk mark on your crotch

  • you look for spandex shorts to keep your dick/balls tucked back to avoid them getting upper-cutted by the bar

  • you grow a patch of chin hair under your chin to “pad” it when the bar inevitably smkoes it on the way up during the dizzy 3rd rep of a jerk set

  • You lacquer your thumb nail in class/work/public to keep it from gettng broken

  • instead of pick-up basketball you and your friends have ad-hoc box jumping competitions and hurdle jumping races

  • There is only one place in town you can train properly at

-chris

60

I never realized how much of this stuff I agree with.

  • You hook grip beer mugs

  • You chalk up before helping friends move

  • In a joke picture of buddies flexing, they’re showing off their arms, but you’re raising your shorts to show off your legs

  • “Cleans” or “Squats” is the answer to EVERY question when someone asks you what exercise to do.

  • if someone asks you how to increase their bench you say “why?”

  • You’re under 6 feet tall but can easily dunk a basketball…and you don’t even like basketball.

  • anytime you see pvc pipe/broomstick/etc long enough you overhead squat with it

  • you stretch for no fucking reason

  • front squats solve EVERYTHING

  • you have palms like a lumber jack even if you live in the city

  • you stare blankly when someone asks what you can bench.

  • your mom thinks you have a tumor or some kind of swelling and realizes it’s just your traps.

  • your jerk session requires chalk not lube

  • the ironmind catalog is like the Toys R Us “wish book” to you

  • you can pronounce eastern bloc names in a perfect accent

  • (70% x 3)3, (80% x 2)3, (85% x 1)3 – and other crazy # variations schemes make perfect sense to you.

  • you have notebooks filled with # schemes like that which leads your roommate to think that you are either

A) a terrorist
B) a mad scientist
C) the dude from “a beautiful mind”