Squats the story - the Off Topic Thread...

cc87

and the protege

Dathai

Went to Nandos. Think I just ate 2 whole chickens. Getting the sweats. Free refills ftw.

Da Za

RIP Vasily Alexeev

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1677475.php/Soviet-weightlifting-icon-Vasily-Alexeev-dies

Edwardius

Sports illustrated article and interview about Alexeev from 1975

Humble chap! RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ngko5tAwkk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS7DsrynWWo

JJayoo

6'3'' 260pounds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKSmqc3eHSE

Mellor

^^^ Wasn't he De Franco's poster boy

Hanley

Mellor wrote: »

^^^ Wasn't he De Franco's poster boy

Correct!

Michael 09

Hanley wrote: »

Correct!

Picture didn't load on my computer but I'm presuming it's Cushing?

Hanley

Michael 09 wrote: »

Picture didn't load on my computer but I'm presuming it's Cushing?

Yup it's a vid of Cushing crushing a dude.

Michael 09

I'll have a look when I get home so, he's a big unit in fairness!

Beanmachine

This was posted in the Leinster Rugby thread, Thought i would repost it here as it might be of interest to people in here aswell. Leinster's new Gym facility near UCD. Looks really like an american college/nfl gym. Click on the pics to enlarge them.

http://www.3rddimension.ie/news/leinster-rugby-gym/

Brian?

Beanmachine wrote: »

This was posted in the Leinster Rugby thread, Thought i would repost it here as it might be of interest to people in here aswell. Leinster's new Gym facility near UCD. Looks really like an american college/nfl gym. Click on the pics to enlarge them.

http://www.3rddimension.ie/news/leinster-rugby-gym/

I'm not sure there are enough barbells.

JoeyDoh

I'm pretty sure that is the new Ucd sports centre, I remember reading a few months back in the university observer that Leinster and Ucd struck a deal together.

So here's hoping student have access to that facility!

squod

That's gonna be a mess of plates and dumbells. The fittest bloke there will be the one who has to tidy up.

Nervous Wreck

So many bars.......

Thud

Nervous Wreck wrote: »

So many bars.......

definitely not enough cross trainers

Hanley

Y'all realise it's just a mock up, right?

JoeyDoh

I just realised that those pictures are computer generated.

CGI is getting scarily good!

banshee_bones

For anyone who hasnt seen post of the day!

nbrady20009

Isn't crossfit fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDDyxXyf6UU

JJayoo

There just crossing over into strongman territory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6agvB5mBvY

Jarren

nbrady20009 wrote: »

Isn't crossfit fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDDyxXyf6UU

Someone is going to get hurt me thinks

Tigger

jarecki1976 wrote: »

Someone is going to get hurt me thinks

how much do those plates weigh?

d'Oracle

Tigger wrote: »

how much do those plates weigh?

4.5 or 5 kg each.

Nate--IRL--

Tigger wrote: »

how much do those plates weigh?

Too much, by the looks of it.

I am aghast at that video. Pure stupidity.

Nate

Tigger

d'Oracle wrote: »

4.5 or 5 kg each.

whatsw with the reverse grip
i dead 180 an i dont reverse grip

Inspector Coptoor

Nate--IRL-- wrote: »

Tigger wrote: »

how much do those plates weigh?

Too much, by the looks of it.

I am aghast at that video. Pure stupidity.

Nate

Ffs - retarded altogether.
Jesus wept

Nervous Wreck

Wow.

DamienH

Just out of interest, can continental c&js be used in weightlifting competitions i.e. the olympics?

gymfreak

Surely that video was a piss take, yeh????

d'Oracle

Tigger wrote: »

whatsw with the reverse grip
i dead 180 an i dont reverse grip

Do you deadlift 180 double overhand with an axle?

Can't say for sure, not having been there.

An axle is by definition wider than than an oly bar, making it a lot harder to grip.
A lot of strongmen use the alternate grip to get it up there because of the combination of the thickness and weight. You'll see poundstone doing it in that video JJayoo posted. There is a video on youtube of Magnuss Samuelsson using a mixed grip which he then shifts to the crook of his arm on the supinated side. And he has an incredible grip.

At the risk of sounding snide, you often see people utilizing techniques in crossfit videos with little to no regard for why the techniques may be necessary. (Although this could be said for a lot of videos people put up.)

d'Oracle

DamienH wrote: »

Just out of interest, can continental c&js be used in weightlifting competitions i.e. the olympics?

Nope.

Glowing

Can someone explain why those girls have a sh1tload of weight on the bar and seem to be really struggling- is it normal to be learning that type of move with that much weight to start with? Or do they know what they're doing and the bar is just too heavy? I was wincing through that vid ...

Brian?

Glowing wrote: »

Can someone explain why those girls have a sh1tload of weight on the bar and seem to be really struggling- is it normal to be learning that type of move with that much weight to start with? Or do they know what they're doing and the bar is just too heavy? I was wincing through that vid ...

I wish I knew. The stupid plates confuse me, if they only weigh 5kg then why not a 20 on each end for jaysus sake.

Michael 09

That has to be a p1ss take?

Glowing

I really don't think it is! What is the normal procedure for learning that move anyone?

d'Oracle

briankeating wrote: »

I wish I knew. The stupid plates confuse me, if they only weigh 5kg then why not a 20 on each end for jaysus sake.

I would guess that its just easier to add 10kgs at a time.
I have a bar with 10kgs loaded. I want to add 10. I have 2 choices.
1) Remove the present 5kg plates and load on 10 kg plates.
2) Load on 5kg plates.

And so on...

Or it just could be cos it looks bigger, standard crossfit video procedure.

Michael 09 wrote: »

That has to be a p1ss take?

Its people at a strongman course, learning the Axle lift, with many of them doing badly with it and one or two doing pretty well with it.

Brian?

d'Oracle wrote: »

Or it just could be cos it looks bigger, standard crossfit video procedure.

I think this is the real answer, I've seen the same carry on in a few videos.

Turbo_diesel

nbrady20009 wrote: »

Isn't crossfit fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDDyxXyf6UU

Holy Sh1t!! That video is fookin hilarious. Surely extracting the urine???

d'Oracle

Glowing wrote: »

I really don't think it is! What is the normal procedure for learning that move anyone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecZNF4p5_i0

Its not olympic lifting.
The issue isn't technique, its that a couple of those girls really just aren't strong enough for the weight.

I'm sort of having trouble seeing what all the fuss is about.
Like, this is pretty far down the hierarchy of retarded crossfit videos.
Compared to Gas-masks, Softball throws and lionising a girl for bulling through a tearing shoulder labrum, this is pretty much average gym behavior.

Dathai

Jesus, even the dog is missing a leg. I wonder what WOD it lost that on.

blah88

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WElh1LVBQyc

You 'mirin?

the drifter

Watched Warrior the other night...he is freaking huge!!!

rubadub

gymfreak wrote: »

Surely that video was a piss take, yeh????

its not liked anyway
71 likes, 3,068 dislikes, over 100,000 views and comments disabled.

Using the thick bar is interesting for an exercise like this, I find I can actually overhead press more weight with thicker dumbbells, and I can manage far less weight if deadlifting with a thick bar (in my case fat gripz), so it would make it quite different than using a normal bar with more weight.

Satanta

I think part of Hardy's body shape was down to the fact that he was shaping himself for playing Bane in the new Batman movie. It's all about the traps with Bane

GASMANN

excuse my ignorance but is that reverse grip deadlift/power clean/jerk an actual lift tought by crossfit ? im being serious by the way

squod

d'Oracle wrote: »

A lot of strongmen use the alternate grip to get it up there because of the combination of the thickness and weight. You'll see poundstone doing it in that video JJayoo posted. There is a video on youtube of Magnuss Samuelsson using a mixed grip which he then shifts to the crook of his arm on the supinated side. And he has an incredible grip.

Apollon's Axle. The plates don't move independently of the bar. The wheel is welded to the axle.

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

The axle in the vid is probably a 2'' bar with no collars or bearings. A little different I'd say. Unofficial record set this year BTW. An amazing lift. (192kg)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-CkSn1YOR4

Barry.Oglesby

GASMANN wrote: »

excuse my ignorance but is that reverse grip deadlift/power clean/jerk an actual lift tought by crossfit ? im being serious by the way

That exercise is known as the continental clean. It's a technique used by the savagely strong to safely get extremely heavy weights from floor to overhead. It seems however, that it has been co-opted by the savagely average to get weights part of the way over their heads in as ugly and unsafe a manner as possible, forgoing all considerations about form, biomechanics and safety.

Or just skip my paragraph and say it's Crossfit.

d'Oracle

GASMANN wrote: »

excuse my ignorance but is that reverse grip deadlift/power clean/jerk an actual lift tought by crossfit ? im being serious by the way

Crossfit use a lot of different exercises from a lot of different sports/exercise regimes etc.
All crossfit gyms are free to programme how they see fit. So some may teach it, some may not. I don't think anyone would think of it as a core exercise of crossfit like say a power clean or clean and jerk.

In some crossfit gyms they use strongman stuff, probably as a consequence of Rob Orlando, a crossfit gym coach/owner, high profile Crossfit athlete, former strongman and teacher of the Strongman certification which this video may have come from.

The lift you are referring to is a continental clean.
The continental clean is a strongman lift and is as as old as the hills.

d'Oracle

squod wrote: »

Apollon's Axle. The plates don't move independently of the bar. The wheel is welded to the axle.

The axle in the vid is probably a 2'' bar with no collars or bearings. A little different I'd say. Unofficial record set this year BTW. An amazing lift. (192kg)

Its still a bastard when it gets anyway heavy.