The Official Powerlifting and Strongman Family Appreciation Thread: Part XVII

[BabyOilBrah]

I always stretch my hips out (knee on ground and other foot up on bench) prior to pressing. Helps me get in a better position and avoids exactly what you described. Now glute cramping is another story...

doin it like this always works well for me, I think this is what you're describing

[kmc06005]

Didn't realize his site was still up. He had a good thing for a while then took a lot of material down and took a break from posting anything. Now he's all out crazy?

Sidenote: anyone else feel more comfortable pulling sumo on a stiff bar? For some reason I feel like it lets me get into position better.

Seems like all the YouTube goobers do that eventually

He started a new channel under his name, and said he was going to keep the PTW channel "professional" and he was just going to YOLO it on his name sake channel. He has a couple vids that remind me of when I use to watch Hulse a year or so ago.

[whitessp]

Finally hit 315 on bench fam. Super stoked to finally be mediocre at benching srs. Next up is to work on my reverse band slingshotted smith machine 4 board to get up to 405.

[brotein1992]

Does hulse still train people and work in his gym and just quit youtube or did he just full out say **** this line of work? I honestly don't get why he'd stop posting vids all together. Just post 1 a week or something and keep the subscribers coming in. Dude makes more just off advertisements than most people at there everyday job. Not even including selling other stuff

[kmc06005]

Hey guys, I made a new, intermediate lifting routine where you hit big movements a few times per week along with some assistance work, and it progressively gets heavier (but easier!) over the course of 12 weeks prepping for a competition or test day. I guarantee you will ALMOST be at your starting 1RM when you finish the program! Progress is for people who use drugs. Anybody who has ever made any progress past where I'm currently at is on drugs. Also, feel free to check out my advanced programming I use on myself. It involves my head and a wall. Essentially all you do is squat, press, and pull every single day, but never do anything that might be difficult or that would indicate progress. Remember what I said about progress? Nevermind that I'm consistently out-lifted by teenagers whose diet consists of frosted flakes, protein powder and gatorade, that's all genetics (and probably drugs too).

-Jason Blaha

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Finally hit 315 on bench fam. Super stoked to finally be mediocre at benching srs. Next up is to work on my reverse band slingshotted smith machine 4 board to get up to 405.

Reps on recharge bruh...

[dlt76028]

Does hulse still train people and work in his gym and just quit youtube or did he just full out say **** this line of work? I honestly don't get why he'd stop posting vids all together. Just post 1 a week or something and keep the subscribers coming in. Dude makes more just off advertisements than most people at there everyday job. Not even including selling other stuff

Who cares? I Unsubbed him two years ago for all his ridiculous bro science bs.

[Mitch666]

Someone link to the new powerlifting to win channel? That was probably one of the best lifting related things on youtube I thought.

[brotein1992]

Who cares? I Unsubbed him two years ago for all his ridiculous bro science bs.

Not saying I care. Just have to much time on my hands for another month and get wondering about this stuff. I'm not subbed to him. Use to always watch him and tmw and stopped over a year ago just because every vid is the same thing

[CROMAGS1985]

doin it like this always works well for me, I think this is what you're describing

Precisely, I just can't get my foot in that insane position so I use a flat bench.

[arn710]

Finally hit 315 on bench fam. Super stoked to finally be mediocre at benching srs. Next up is to work on my reverse band slingshotted smith machine 4 board to get up to 405.

When are you going to put the rest of the weight on the bar?

[kmc06005]

Someone link to the new powerlifting to win channel? That was probably one of the best lifting related things on youtube I thought.

This is his YOLO channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/nombreesizzyt

This is the vid I was referring to him going full Hulse...

[BabyOilBrah]

Precisely, I just can't get my foot in that insane position so I use a flat bench.

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yep same here. throw a band behind the back leg too if you wanna get wild.

[arn710]

I'm not even going to click the pseudo-intellectual bullchit

Self righteous douche bag

[whitessp]

When are you going to put the rest of the weight on the bar?

[kmc06005]

I'm not even going to click the pseudo-intellectual bullchit

Self righteous douche bag

No need.

Cliffs:
-Sometimes you feel feelings before going to the gym
-Forget about and go anyway
-You may still have a good session

[arian11]

YES!!!! Mediocrity in World Class Competition FTW!!!!

Fawk you brah, I'm rooting for the Saints to come into the playoffs at 6-10 and become champions of the wolrd!

Watched it a while ago cause I'm an Eminem fanboy. I didn't like the movie though. Plot was too simple storyline too shiity. If Denzel wasn't in it no one would watch it.

Yea I just watched it cuz it was an action movie with Denzel and knew he'd be the typical bad ass regardless of how sh!tty the plot was. Was worth watching for free.

[martin_mathers]

Yea I just watched it cuz it was an action movie with Denzel and knew he'd be the typical bad ass regardless of how sh!tty the plot was. Was worth watching for free.

Interstellar though... I'm gonna watch that again, and again, then 46 more times after.

[ShortDave]

There is one. Multiply lifting.

I don't know man, when you're bringing down a 600lbs+ bench, your arch is set and you're loading up the collar perfectly, the bar touches your chest and then rockets back up to lockout, it makes sense then.

You get the same thing with single ply, just with less weight, so it's less cool.

[breathinglife]

Interstellar though... I'm gonna watch that again, and again, then 46 more times after.

I'm a fan of Nolan, and let me say I enjoyed Interstellar. I'm also a fan of picking things apart, so let me bring up a few issues.

[HERE ABIDE SPOILERS]

Obviously, in the science fiction genre, everything that happens doesn't actually have to make scientific sense (thus the fiction), but some effort has to be made to have the pretense of things functioning in a scientific manner. So, a few points where the movie didn't quite add up:

1. Cooper gets sucked into the black hole. He finds himself in some strange, multidimensional space in which time is spatial. We're good so far. Then, his robot tells him that these multidimensional future beings are closing the tesseract, and he is spit out of the black hole. But when he is spit out, he does NOT come out of the black hole, but instead comes out of the worm hole, next to Saturn.

2. I don't get Mann's (Matt Damon's character) motivation. We discover two things about his character that don't add up. The first thing we find out is that he always knew Plan B was the ultimate goal. He didn't ever expect that he'd start a wonderful colony on another planet. The best-case scenario is that he will get some embryos hatching. This is a FAR bleaker prognosis that what we had thought the mission was, yet he willingly took it, sacrificing his life for humanity. The second revelation is that he didn't really care that his planet wasn't survivable, and just wanted to get picked up from the planet so he faked the signals, and is willing to kill the crew. Unless he suddenly switched personalities, this motivation doesn't quite cut it for me. He sent the 'thumbs up' signal from the get-go, which necessitated him chickening out very early on.

3. Lastly, the most obvious glitch is the crazy solution to a simple problem. Crops are failing, but we have awesome science. Two options:
A. Let’s use this awesome science to go through a wormhole, and try to have humanity survive on some marginally habitable planet that may only have the distant possibility of sustaining life. (Furthermore, are we bringing our diseased crops with us, or hoping that there will be edible plant life on these planets? They always speak of just needing water and a decent climate, but if humanity doesn't want to bring the problem with them, it really needs to start over with a different breed of plant it would seem.)
B. Like we have for decades, genetically alter the crops to be more sustainable and resist whatever disease is killing them. Or, a thousand other technological solutions that don't involve starting over in another galaxy.
I'd choose B.

But like I said, I enjoy being nitpicky. I didn't dislike the movie at all. It was one of the best flicks I've seen in a long time.

[BabyOilBrah]

agree strongly on #3 ^^^ I wish they would've used a different motive to necessitate the move to another planet.

[arian11]

Interstellar though... I'm gonna watch that again, and again, then 46 more times after.

Shhhh haven't seen it yet.

[breathinglife]

Shhhh haven't seen it yet.

Close your eyes.

[YourGunShowTix]

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Finally hit 315 on bench fam. Super stoked to finally be mediocre at benching srs. Next up is to work on my reverse band slingshotted smith machine 4 board to get up to 405.

congrats!

[isaku900]

I don't know man, when you're bringing down a 600lbs+ bench, your arch is set and you're loading up the collar perfectly, the bar touches your chest and then rockets back up to lockout, it makes sense then.

You get the same thing with single ply, just with less weight, so it's less cool.

i want 804. I think I'm gonna train for a multiply bench only meet this spring.

[ShortDave]

i want 804. I think I'm gonna train for a multiply bench only meet this spring.

I fully support that idea, I still need to knock that 700 bench off my list before I give up on gear

[UberAlles]

I'm a fan of Nolan, and let me say I enjoyed Interstellar. I'm also a fan of picking things apart, so let me bring up a few issues.

[HERE ABIDE SPOILERS]

Obviously, in the science fiction genre, everything that happens doesn't actually have to make scientific sense (thus the fiction), but some effort has to be made to have the pretense of things functioning in a scientific manner. So, a few points where the movie didn't quite add up:

1. Cooper gets sucked into the black hole. He finds himself in some strange, multidimensional space in which time is spatial. We're good so far. Then, his robot tells him that these multidimensional future beings are closing the tesseract, and he is spit out of the black hole. But when he is spit out, he does NOT come out of the black hole, but instead comes out of the worm hole, next to Saturn.

2. I don't get Mann's (Matt Damon's character) motivation. We discover two things about his character that don't add up. The first thing we find out is that he always knew Plan B was the ultimate goal. He didn't ever expect that he'd start a wonderful colony on another planet. The best-case scenario is that he will get some embryos hatching. This is a FAR bleaker prognosis that what we had thought the mission was, yet he willingly took it, sacrificing his life for humanity. The second revelation is that he didn't really care that his planet wasn't survivable, and just wanted to get picked up from the planet so he faked the signals, and is willing to kill the crew. Unless he suddenly switched personalities, this motivation doesn't quite cut it for me. He sent the 'thumbs up' signal from the get-go, which necessitated him chickening out very early on.

3. Lastly, the most obvious glitch is the crazy solution to a simple problem. Crops are failing, but we have awesome science. Two options:
A. Let’s use this awesome science to go through a wormhole, and try to have humanity survive on some marginally habitable planet that may only have the distant possibility of sustaining life. (Furthermore, are we bringing our diseased crops with us, or hoping that there will be edible plant life on these planets? They always speak of just needing water and a decent climate, but if humanity doesn't want to bring the problem with them, it really needs to start over with a different breed of plant it would seem.)
B. Like we have for decades, genetically alter the crops to be more sustainable and resist whatever disease is killing them. Or, a thousand other technological solutions that don't involve starting over in another galaxy.
I'd choose B.

But like I said, I enjoy being nitpicky. I didn't dislike the movie at all. It was one of the best flicks I've seen in a long time.

2. he sent the OK signal because he knew if he did a ship would swing by and that it could save him. he was probably optimistic at first when he started the mission that that planet could be potentially habitable, but upon exploring he realized it wasnt. the hopelessness, loneliness and general despair and misery drove him stir/cabin crazy.

3. in the fictional universe, they simply determined that the earth was a lost cause so they used advanced physics to build a habitable starship (which is an actual scientific concept)

[martin_mathers]

I'm a fan of Nolan, and let me say I enjoyed Interstellar. I'm also a fan of picking things apart, so let me bring up a few issues.

[HERE ABIDE SPOILERS]

Obviously, in the science fiction genre, everything that happens doesn't actually have to make scientific sense (thus the fiction), but some effort has to be made to have the pretense of things functioning in a scientific manner. So, a few points where the movie didn't quite add up:

1. Cooper gets sucked into the black hole. He finds himself in some strange, multidimensional space in which time is spatial. We're good so far. Then, his robot tells him that these multidimensional future beings are closing the tesseract, and he is spit out of the black hole. But when he is spit out, he does NOT come out of the black hole, but instead comes out of the worm hole, next to Saturn.

I feel like they might have mixed up the ideas of blackholes and wormholes. But then they had a famous theoretical physicist on their production team so maybe it's the physics that I don't understand.

Edit: or maybe Cooper thinks it is a black hole, but it turns out to be a worm hole. Since the entrance of a wormhole could technically be a blackhole?

Shhhh haven't seen it yet.

I should have read up on some relativity and wormhole stuff before watching it lol.

[breathinglife]

2. he sent the OK signal because he knew if he did a ship would swing by and that it could save him. he was probably optimistic at first when he started the mission that that planet could be potentially habitable, but upon exploring he realized it wasnt. the hopelessness, loneliness and general despair and misery drove him stir/cabin crazy.

3. in the fictional universe, they simply determined that the earth was a lost cause so they used advanced physics to build a habitable starship (which is an actual scientific concept)

No, obviously I understand Mann gave the signal so someone would pick him up. He just wimped out far too quickly / easily for someone who would have committed to such a bleak mission. It's not that it doesn't make any sense--just that it doesn't seem quite a viable way of functioning.

And yes, in the end, they did decide against moving to another planet. But still, I don't understand why the starship worked better than earth. Why did it have to be in space? Why not build that exact same enclosure, and grow all the nice plants, but not launch it all the way to Saturn? Much easier. It doesn't NEED to be in space. It just seems cooler that way. Any spores/bacteria/etc. that the humans could bring to a sealed, earth bound enclosure would present the same problem in space.

[308smk]

Knee wraps vs. reverse bands for overloading the squat in a raw lifter... thoughts?

Wraps by far.

I don't know man, when you're bringing down a 600lbs+ bench, your arch is set and you're loading up the collar perfectly, the bar touches your chest and then rockets back up to lockout, it makes sense then.

You get the same thing with single ply, just with less weight, so it's less cool.

This. Less weight is always less cool.

[isaku900]

I fully support that idea, I still need to knock that 700 bench off my list before I give up on gear

technically i do too since i missed 705 both times i attempted it in competition.