The Official Powerlifting and Strongman Family Appreciation Thread: Part XIX

[NorthStrong]

Fam which wraps do I go with?

[meaantje]

It'd probably take me twice as long to get my suit on without someone helping. Be much harder to do equipped if you're alone.



Don't know about all the others but the super cent is cut symmetric, shouldn't matter which way you put it on.

I see even some people with those super cents put it on backwards. But if its symmetric it wont matter at all then

Fam which wraps do I go with?

set in the THP's looks better if you ask me.

[Larfleeze]

So I'm probably years behind on this stuff since I don't follow the instagram heros of powerlifting, but I've been seeing people talk about the "massthetics" guys on youtube. (Don't know if they're on instragram/********/et.). I saw one of their videos was on my recommended list from youtube so I said wtf, I'll see what its all about..

Worst idea ever. For one, all their videos are over 30 minutes long. Really? I hate watching more than 15 seconds.

secondly, wtf??? Whats up with the clothes and the just over all weird gay attitudes. Maybe I'm just too old but I don't get it. If that's what powerlifting is going to become then I'll find something else to do.

I'm not that old and I don't get it either. It's like half an hour of a weird gremlin looking dude holding a camera up to his face and making gay comments then trying to act all badass. They also go to great lengths to let everyone know how much they supposedly don't care about youtube, they're constantly talking about how they don't give a fuk, couldn't care less etc..pretty cringeworthy

[308smk]

308s will send you a Rage-X to bench in.

I'm not that cruel. Might as well send him a giant wad of wet toilet paper, probably get more pounds from it.

[GourleyMan]

Don't know about all the others but the super cent is cut symmetric, shouldn't matter which way you put it on.

I feel like when I put mine on backwards its more supportive in the chest, and the one time I bothered to compare forwards and backwards it seemed to be faster. But, it could very well be in my head.

[NorthStrong]

Dennis Cornelius just posted a 770x3 squat on youtube. That guys squat technique is ****ing perfect imo. One of the most under appreciated lifters there is around right now.

[308smk]

Dennis Cornelius just posted a 770x3 squat on youtube. That guys squat technique is ****ing perfect imo. One of the most under appreciated lifters there is around right now.

Yea I saw that on the ol insta and was like wat...

Dude is a freak.

[NorthStrong]

Yea I saw that on the ol insta and was like wat...

Dude is a freak.

Love his style on the lifts. His squat is beautiful, chest up, elbows down, sitting back with nearly vertical shins and as soon as the bar slows on the way up hips shift forward and goes back into the quads. Also one of the best full meet IPF benchers I think too.

Seems like he trains with a very basic kinda system too which appeals to my 80s powerlifting fanboy. Just a lot of heavy weights in the 1-5 range on the main lifts.

[Larfleeze]

Love his style on the lifts. His squat is beautiful, chest up, elbows down, sitting back with nearly vertical shins and as soon as the bar slows on the way up hips shift forward and goes back into the quads. Also one of the best full meet IPF benchers I think too.

Seems like he trains with a very basic kinda system too which appeals to my 80s powerlifting fanboy. Just a lot of heavy weights in the 1-5 range on the main lifts.

People with good squat form make me jealous as fuk,
training partner/gf has an ultra narrow stance and stays almost totally vertical even during a max. She basically just leg presses the weight while my hips decide to ride off into the sunset and wait on the rest of me to catch up

[JRMoore82]

Dennis Cornelius just posted a 770x3 squat on youtube. That guys squat technique is ****ing perfect imo. One of the most under appreciated lifters there is around right now.

Geez man!! Nice share!

[arian11]

Blame Summer can train single ply all on his own. It can be done.

I'm learning all on my own, have yet to squat in the suit with a person even in the gym. So got both sides of the spectrum.

[notforeveryone]

every time i get in my shirt i hate myself...until the top set where i finally have the shirt sitting right.

least im moving the weights fast. sigh.


wonder if some of you gear whores could chime in. ive successfully squatted 550 straps up. the other day on my top set (465), i put my straps up (just to see) and could not stop shaking. i got one rep, shaking..started to go for a second but felt so shaky that i re racked it.

ive only ever shook like that when i walked out 600 and held it.

[MF83]

Just caught up 13 pages of this thread. Good AM reading material.

Was co-meet director and MC of a 32 person meet out here a couple weeks ago. That was dope. Takes a lot to put a meet together though, I tell you what. Brandon is known as "The Wheat City" so the "Westman Embark Open" unofficially became "The Wheat Meet" ft prizes like a box of Mini Wheats for best junior, Ben Langley's 466 wilks. Good times. Was cool to be on the mic as my provincial squat record got taken by forum member Rileh. Kid's gonna be a big deal some day soon. Another youngster - a 19 year old guy named Michael Chan who trains non-specifically for "overall athleticism" pulled 606lbs in the 66kg class beltless. That was pretty impressive.

Learning a lot about nutrition lately. In that 6 week period between finishing school and graduating/starting work as a psychiatric nurse, taking it easy and doing a 1000 Cal deficit/training hypertrophy these days. NorthStrong and I have been talking love of powerbuilding in my log. Never thought I'd be hyped to do 3 minute rest interval 5x10 squats <60% but here I am, jonesin'.

[JamesG6626]

Just caught up 13 pages of this thread. Good AM reading material.

Was co-meet director and MC of a 32 person meet out here a couple weeks ago. That was dope. Takes a lot to put a meet together though, I tell you what. Brandon is known as "The Wheat City" so the "Westman Embark Open" unofficially became "The Wheat Meet" ft prizes like a box of Mini Wheats for best junior, Ben Langley's 466 wilks. Good times. Was cool to be on the mic as my provincial squat record got taken by forum member Rileh. Kid's gonna be a big deal some day soon. Another youngster - a 19 year old guy named Michael Chan who trains non-specifically for "overall athleticism" pulled 606lbs in the 66kg class beltless. That was pretty impressive.

Learning a lot about nutrition lately. In that 6 week period between finishing school and graduating/starting work as a psychiatric nurse, taking it easy and doing a 1000 Cal deficit/training hypertrophy these days. NorthStrong and I have been talking love of powerbuilding in my log. Never thought I'd be hyped to do 3 minute rest interval 5x10 squats <60% but here I am, jonesin'.

Good stuff. What was the hardest or most unexpected part about putting a meet together? And you're training for hypertrophy on a 1000 cal deficit?

[MF83]

Good stuff. What was the hardest or most unexpected part about putting a meet together? And you're training for hypertrophy on a 1000 cal deficit?

Finding out the gym owner wasn't letting us use her benches and weights for the warmup area... At 8pm the night before... Scrambled hard - had to sneak steal/borrow a weightset from the old male dorm weight room (AFTER PACKING/MOVING FOR 12 HOURS), got people to bring weights to the meet and had to sign waivers at another gym to borrow two benches, two 45s and a bar. Haha, pulled it off.

Yeah, to keep muscle and ultimately strength on a cut. Mike Israetel, Paul Carter and others have written a lot on this.

[martin_mathers]

Finding out the gym owner wasn't letting us use her benches and weights for the warmup area... At 8pm the night before.

This kind of bullshiit pisses me off. Don't let people hold a goddamn powerlifting meet in your gym if you're so anal about other lifters touching your stupid equipment. Especially if you're getting paid too. I was at an RPS meet once and Gene brought two sets of equipment, one for warmup and one for the platform. This meet was at a crossfit gym and there were LOTS of lifters. The day of the meet the owners wouldn't let anyone even approach their squat racks, bars, benches and weights and warmups were pretty much a mess. A bunch of racks and bars just sitting on the other side of the gym while everyone was lining up for one mono. Dumbest **** I'd ever seen.

[JamesG6626]

Finding out the gym owner wasn't letting us use her benches and weights for the warmup area... At 8pm the night before... Scrambled hard - had to sneak steal/borrow a weightset from the old male dorm weight room (AFTER PACKING/MOVING FOR 12 HOURS), got people to bring weights to the meet and had to sign waivers at another gym to borrow two benches, two 45s and a bar. Haha, pulled it off.

Yeah, to keep muscle and ultimately strength on a cut. Mike Israetel, Paul Carter and others have written a lot on this.

Holy crap.. good job pulling it off I'd be livid. One of my first meets the competition platform was also the warm up platform lol. Only ~15 lifters so one flight, but I saw firsthand how much of a mess an inadequate warmup area was when the old lady opening at a ~90 kg deadlift started complaining she was having to wait so long for everyone after her. One guy had to drop his opener because they decided to start before he could even warm all the way up.

Interesting approach. Good luck w/ it.

[SPFjudge]

Dennis Cornelius just posted a 770x3 squat on youtube. That guys squat technique is ****ing perfect imo. One of the most under appreciated lifters there is around right now.

Love his style on the lifts. His squat is beautiful, chest up, elbows down, sitting back with nearly vertical shins and as soon as the bar slows on the way up hips shift forward and goes back into the quads. Also one of the best full meet IPF benchers I think too.

And his fukking head is up. Gives me more ammo against the Mike T look at my dick while I squat fan boys.

[NorthStrong]

And his fukking head is up. Gives me more ammo against the Mike T look at my dick while I squat fan boys.

And he has music on. That's bad for peaking and stuff, makes you weak af.

[wollo7]

And his fukking head is up. Gives me more ammo against the Mike T look at my dick while I squat fan boys.

funny you mention that as I have been playing around with that for some reason lately

I had no idea mike T looked down at his dink whilst squatting, I've always done it but don't know why

a few months ago, I started keeping my head up for deadlifts and it has helped tremendously. so naturally I've started to do it for squats but am undecided

dear diary

[BYOBB]

And his fukking head is up. Gives me more ammo against the Mike T look at my dick while I squat fan boys.

[NorthStrong]

Someone in here was asking about what THP stood for the other day I think eh?

I just found out what it means: "Titan High Performance".

#wrapresearch.

[Larfleeze]

Someone in here was asking about what THP stood for the other day I think eh?

I just found out what it means: "Titan High Performance".

#wrapresearch.

Cheers man. My guess was Titan Horsepower

[JRMoore82]

Cheers man. My guess was Titan Horsepower

Can we just go with this one?

[dang111]

And his fukking head is up. Gives me more ammo against the Mike T look at my dick while I squat fan boys.

How about the darth vader breathing?

[SPFjudge]

[TrettinR]

Oh cool, are we starting an argument about ~30 degree difference on head placement during the squat. That's interesting.

[SPFjudge]

Oh cool, are we starting an argument about ~30 degree difference on head placement during the squat. That's interesting.

ain't nothin changed since you've left homie.

[TrettinR]

ain't nothin changed since you've left homie.

Apparently nothing like a reminder how uninteresting/obnoxious topics of conversations can be around here

[martin_mathers]

Apparently nothing like a reminder how uninteresting/obnoxious topics of conversations can be around here

Well then let's talk about how you left us like an irresponsible dick. Didn't even bother saying goodbye.