Squats the story - the Off Topic Thread...

Remmy

the drifter wrote: »

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/naas-thieves-make-off-with-20000-haul-of-steak-504073.html

oh **** ya!!!

''everybody wanna be a bodybuilder but nobody wanna pay no 20k for steaks themselves''..

dartstothesea

Dayum. How long could those vacuum packed steaks stay good for?

itsallaboutheL

dartstothesea wrote: »

Dayum. How long could those vacuum packed steaks stay good for?

Not frozen?

Not very long.

itsallaboutheL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHN33hPmhfk

FML

Edwardius

itsallaboutheL wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHN33hPmhfk

FML

****ing Clarence :mad: :P

He should be getting drunk in a field at his age, not making everyone look bad!

itsallaboutheL

I think we should all chip in together and send him a bird and enough cider for at least 3 years.

Remmy

he probablly trains in that eastern bloc part of Cork.Thats why he's so strong..

pmurphy00

there was a woman in the gym on saturday
reading a ****ing book on the cross trainer...:mad::mad::mad:
how can i seriously deadlift and look at that..
i considered telling her a few things..i mean c'mon..
rant over.

Hanley

pmurphy00 wrote: »

there was a woman in the gym on saturday
reading a ****ing book on the cross trainer...:mad::mad::mad:
how can i seriously deadlift and look at that..
i considered telling her a few things..i mean c'mon..
rant over.

Get over yourself. Seriously.

Being 'hardcore' is getting your work done and pushing yourself no matter what. Not b*tching about other people to show how cool and elitist you are.

pmurphy00

its just annoys me..
people pat themselves on the back way too quickly
people who train at super low intensity if she took the
stairs to they gym on the 4th floor she would probably have got more
out of it then her cross trainer effort..
i found it painfull to watch

i just wish people were more informed..
but yes it is all about yourself...agreed
the 8 treadmills in my gym are often taken up with
8 people walking at 2-4km/hr..
and yes this makes me angry..

TommyKnocker

^^

People who pay their gym fees the same as yourself are entitled to use the equipment and at whatever tempo they chose. In any gym I have ever been in, the use of equipment was on a first come basis.

If the treddies were all taken and I wanted to do cardio, then I switch to a cross trainer, spin bike or rower or run outside, simple.

Frogdog

Remmy wrote: »

he probablly trains in that eastern bloc part of Cork.Thats why he's so strong..

Kerry! Not C*rk! :mad:

squod

pmurphy00 wrote: »

its just annoys me..
people pat themselves on the back way too quickly
people who train at super low intensity if she took the
stairs to they gym on the 4th floor she would probably have got more
out of it then her cross trainer effort..
i found it painfull to watch

i just wish people were more informed..
but yes it is all about yourself...agreed
the 8 treadmills in my gym are often taken up with
8 people walking at 2-4km/hr..
and yes this makes me angry..

You'll never make a body builder. Low intensity workouts over longer periods of time ftw. 20mins of flapping about < over an hour on a bike or cross-trainer.

pmurphy00

squod wrote: »

You'll never make a body builder.

no i probably wont..
none of the people im referring to are bodybuilders
it was just as rant..

liamw

pmurphy00 wrote: »

i just wish people were more informed..

jive

gymsoldier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE_gAYkQghU

the drifter

them curbs...they be awful high...

discus

the drifter wrote: »

them curbs...they be awful high...

Quality!

When I was 13, I worked at a place on the North Strand in Dublin. There was a lovely family who ran a newsagent which was targetted weekly by junkies to get some cash - usually by holding a syringe to one of the lovely sisters throats.

Anyway... One sunny saturday, there was roadworks being done. The lads on the job had been there all week, and they knew the girls who ran the shop (16, 21 and 25, all beautiful). The panic alarm went off after 2pm, and some junky ran past my shop and the roadworks... chased by 5/6 builders all armed with tarmac rakes. He got the hiding of his life just beside the fire station... He.. aheam... tripped and fell under the railway bridge, and received injuries that were not explained... And somehow unwitnessed .

gymsoldier

Haha these stories are all like the guy who goes into A&E with a bottle lodged in his ass, "how'd it get there" they ask, "i tripped and fell on it" hahaha

boomtown84

gymsoldier wrote: »

Haha these stories are all like the guy who goes into A&E with a bottle lodged in his ass, "how'd it get there" they ask, "i tripped and fell on it" hahaha

they're actually completely different.........go to bed!!:D

dave80

discus wrote: »

Quality!

When I was 13, I worked at a place on the North Strand in Dublin. There was a lovely family who ran a newsagent which was targetted weekly by junkies to get some cash - usually by holding a syringe to one of the lovely sisters throats.

Anyway... One sunny saturday, there was roadworks being done. The lads on the job had been there all week, and they knew the girls who ran the shop (16, 21 and 25, all beautiful). The panic alarm went off after 2pm, and some junky ran past my shop and the roadworks... chased by 5/6 builders all armed with tarmac rakes. He got the hiding of his life just beside the fire station... He.. aheam... tripped and fell under the railway bridge, and received injuries that were not explained... And somehow unwitnessed .

I've a similar story , wen I was 12 I worked in a shop in phibsboro, junkie comes in wit syringe full of blood, the owner of the shop was reading the paper at the time so he rolls it up at beats him back bout 10-15 wit it, until he's able to grab a broom and beat the **** out of him, owner says to me afterwards 'no witness no problem'

itsallaboutheL

Bet that curbed his enthusiasm for larceny

cc87

Well worth a read

http://spartan367.blogspot.com/2011/01/planet-earth.html

itsallaboutheL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf7wUJIek_E

discus

I may have been very drunk when I spoke to G86! Therer were a few boardsies with me, but they didbn't have the kohones to expose themselvves...

d'Oracle

cc87 wrote: »

Well worth a read

http://spartan367.blogspot.com/2011/01/planet-earth.html

LOL.

G86

discus wrote: »

I may have been very drunk when I spoke to G86! Therer were a few boardsies with me, but they didbn't have the kohones to expose themselvves...

Expose themselves?!

Looks like I had a lucky escape so.....:p

squod

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzdzJB3foGM

Mellor

Has he lifted 460.0kg before? I've seen lots of attempts from the last 4 years.

The current record is 460.4kg (1015lbs) I think?

squod

I can't figure it out at all. Popped up a s a new vid on the youtube is all I can say.

Hanley

squod wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzdzJB3foGM

I assume that's from last weeks bodypower expo in the uk.

Benni pulled 1,015lb, which is 460.4kg. Bolton tried to break the record by 0.1kg. That's kinda sad.

Hanley

Mellor wrote: »

Has he lifted 460.0kg before? I've seen lots of attempts from the last 4 years.

The current record is 460.4kg (1015lbs) I think?

AFAIK Bolton's best is 457.5kg.

dave80

Hanley wrote: »

I assume that's from last weeks bodypower expo in the uk.

Benni pulled 1,015lb, which is 460.4kg. Bolton tried to break the record by 0.1kg. That's kinda sad.

Am I right in saying benni did it raw and bolton uses gear?

the drifter

benni >> bolton

end of

Hanley

dave80 wrote: »

Am I right in saying benni did it raw and bolton uses gear?

Benni's was raw, yes.

Brian?

Hanley wrote: »

Benni's was raw, yes.

How much does gear help with deadlifting?

squod

Hanley wrote: »

I assume that's from last weeks bodypower expo in the uk.

Benni pulled 1,015lb, which is 460.4kg. Bolton tried to break the record by 0.1kg. That's kinda sad.

Outside of official meet. Is that even allowed?

Da Za

I can't answer this from experience yet but Hanley can.
It really depends on the individual, style of pulling, gear being used- Single or multi-ply etc.

Hanley

briankeating wrote: »

How much does gear help with deadlifting?

The better a technical lifter you are, the more it helps.

For me, maybe 5-10kg. For Bolton... I honestly don't know. Somewhere in the region of 20-30kg perhaps? His best raw pull was never that far behind his best equipped.

I always felt much 'healthier' and found recovery from a workout easier if I was training in equipment. So that's certainly a factor too.

Brian?

Hanley wrote: »

The better a technical lifter you are, the more it helps.

So the technique is the same regardless of gear, unlike wearing a bench shirt?

For me, maybe 5-10kg. For Bolton... I honestly don't know. Somewhere in the region of 20-30kg perhaps? His best raw pull was never that far behind his best equipped.

I always felt much 'healthier' and found recovery from a workout easier if I was training in equipment. So that's certainly a factor too.

Cheers.

Hanley

squod wrote: »

Outside of official meet. Is that even allowed?

Benni pulled his in lb, Bolton pulled in kg. They both selected legal weights, so yup, perfectly fine.

briankeating wrote: »

So the technique is the same regardless of gear, unlike wearing a bench shirt?

There's subtle differences.

cc87

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8nSHzAE5CQ

COH

Hanley wrote: »

There's subtle differences.

The only point of reference I have with regards to equipped lifting is a brief stint in a squat suit, and found that to be far more technical than raw lifting, but the weight was far greater than raw lifts. I've never heard of deadlift suits giving people huge extra poundages, particularly using a conventional stance. Did you find the technical gap between deadlifting raw and equipped to be as great as between raw/equipped squatting?

I always felt much 'healthier' and found recovery from a workout easier if I was training in equipment.

Is that just because the percentage carryover from the equipment was relatively small in proportion to the support the equipment gave you?

Mellor

the drifter wrote: »

benni >> bolton

end of

After Hanley confirmed boltons best, i found this. I assume it'd still official.

The record for a raw deadlift (a deadlift performed without the aid of a deadlift suit where only a belt is allowed) is 461.3 kg (1015 lbs) by Benedikt Magnússon.

The record for an equipped deadlift (a deadlift performed using a deadlift suit using a standard bar and plates where straps are disallowed) is 457.5 kg (1,009 lb) by Andy Bolton.

Although, 1015 is closer to 461.4lbs
In case people haven't see nit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTF_aseJdS8

squod

Hummer tyre deadlift. A taller deadlift like. An event that Glenn Ross once held the record for. Benni beaten this year by a few people, Mark Felix & Zydrunas Savickas for example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgOyX-PYjFE

Hanley

COH wrote: »

The only point of reference I have with regards to equipped lifting is a brief stint in a squat suit, and found that to be far more technical than raw lifting, but the weight was far greater than raw lifts. I've never heard of deadlift suits giving people huge extra poundages, particularly using a conventional stance. Did you find the technical gap between deadlifting raw and equipped to be as great as between raw/equipped squatting?

The technical gap’s much less, but I was never a great technician in a DL suit so that that for what it’s worth.

Is that just because the percentage carryover from the equipment was relatively small in proportion to the support the equipment gave you?

I felt healthier in equipment in general tbh. I know my elbows were basically destroyed last year, but I doubt I could have kept that intensity up raw and kept making progress and remained injury free.

Edwardius

Dear gym,
buy these please :P

d'Oracle

They look like some sort of mobility aid.

And by mobility I mean old folk getting around, not the new black.

Hanley

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