catalog

Well-known member
cycled to the stooodio this morning - had to get the bike out and pump the tires, and there's no basket, will have to get one.
but was nice. bit bumpy.

shining lights on uncle version today.

also interesting what jenks says here, from the other thread

It’s the kind of detail that you notice when cycling- the ridges and folds of the land that travelling in a car flattens out.

this is totally true - even a very small incline on a bike is a slog, whereas if you are walking it, it's barely perceptible.
 

luka

Well-known member
The great Belgian lifter Serge Reding presses 502 pounds here in 1971 at the Worlds, after the clean. This man was strong . It is quite likely that you don’t know anybody who can press their own bodyweight, let alone 502. There is not a human being on the planet now that can press 502 pounds overhead from a standing position, much less clean it first. And here’s how far we have traveled backwards from 1971: three minutes after Reding did this magnificent press, Vasily Alexiev beat him by 5 pounds. Granted, he had quite a knee kick, but again – there is no one alive today who can do it. Doesn’t that make you feel like we’ve lost something, collectively? As a species? It does me, and there ought to be men that can do this. Maybe it will be you.
 

luka

Well-known member
. The bar is laying there on the floor, looking at you as if to say, “Press me over your head. It’s the obvious thing to do. Can you, boy? Are you strong enough??” And you say, “But I’d rather press you after I lay down on the bench over there. That’s just as cool, right? And it makes my pecs bigger too!” And the bar says, “Well, if you have to, put me in the rack and THEN press me overhead from there. That’s still a man’s press.” But you say, “Aw c’mon, bar. Just load up in the bench and let me press you that way. I can do more weight on the bench, and I can work my chest.” And the bar says, “Okay, pussy.”


Because this is really the deal: the bench press lets you handle heavier weights, and there’s a place for that. The bench is a legit lift. And “chesticles” are handy at the beach, I get that. But if the real reason you don’t want to press is the fact that you don’t want to confront a hole – probably a gaping hole – in your strength, then the bar is right: you’re a pussy.
 

DannyL

Wild Horses
I'm not doing 1 rep maxes in my current training cycle but I max out at about 65k currently on my bench. I could probably get 70 I think for one. Squat otoh last week I did 80 for reps and it felt like nothing. Going to take 90 for a test drive later on today.
 

woops

is not like other people
I'm not doing 1 rep maxes in my current training cycle but I max out at about 65k currently on my bench. I could probably get 70 I think for one. Squat otoh last week I did 80 for reps and it felt like nothing. Going to take 90 for a test drive later on today.
what language is this
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Looks a bit silly, still, three different people asked me this week if I have been working out so I guess I look a bit like that myself nowadays.
 
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