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If Belkin pulled 430kg he would beat Zahir for the best (raw with wraps) Wilks of all time.

yes, you are. it is raw with wraps. previous record holder was Andrei Malanichev (485kg). However, I don't know what competition/federation was it where Alhazov squatted 500kg.

most, if not all, top powerlifters train abs. many train them at the end of every training session. hope that sounds convincing enough.

there is not much competition to crush. I wonder why he is still in IPF. so many more big guys outside.

they are good if you just started lifting. and no, they can't improve your bench.

none of it is interesting, imho :)

Classic Raw in IPF is just 4 years old or so. Of course many of those lifters competed equipped previously.

And of course most of them are using PEDs....

I think you actually quite right. probably a double ply suit.

That is definitely not true. Yarymbash totaled 1270kg back in 2008. And he did that in the 125kg/275lbs class!
Way before Konovalov or Sumner were on top of their games. Konovalov's best total is...

Being Russian myself, I follow closely Russian powerlifting community. Belkin is not interested in equipped lifting. At least not in the foreseeable future. People "pushed" him to try equipped...

most likely not happening. Also, who would be there to watch? Malanichev is done with equipped lifting. Yarymbash is retired (at least as of now). So is Freydun. Belkin is done with equipped as well....

squatting deep makes huge difference. anyone with enough experience knows that. there is a reason for a depth rule. having said that, squatting 4 bdws is not unheard of at a top level (esp. among...

exactly. that's 6 years ago.....
Also, those were equipped competitions (if I'm not mistaken).

yes. One school of thought is that when working on weak points in bench one can just do different variations of the benchpress. For example, if locking out is a problem, instead of doing triceps...

the primer mover in the bench are pectorals and shoulder muscles (in that order). triceps is only responsible for the lockout.

No Norris? Did Jesse Norris ever do a major international IPF competition?

4 pounds cut barely qualifies as a cut.....all you have to do is sit on a zero carb diet the day before, then no dinner the evening before the weigh-ins and no food or drinks on the day of weigh-ins...

sure. if no progress then need to try something different.
there are lots of example of great lifters who did shoulder presses. Ed Coan used to military press some obscene weights. Kevin Oak likes...

front shoulders are used in bench press. but not in the same way as standing overhead press (I guess that should be obvious....vector of force is different).
I personally find that standing press...

almost none of those help increase bench press. e.g. I find almost zero correlation between the front barbell press max and bench press max.
Although it might depend on the technique. I bench with...

Kevin can seem arrogant...what happened there? Pete is a nice guy (when not on tren lol)