Bench pressed 435lbs twice this morning....

MacLeod

Actually thats just the 2nd time. And Im not antagonizing others, just you. I can't help myself, you're sexy when you're mad.

Lighten up dude. Cody's been making fun of me for nearly a decade......and he's even shorter than you!

concealer404

The butt pain in this thread is palpatible.




I'm a whopping 5'9" and 155lbs these days. I bet i could bench 70lbs. Maybe 72lbs if i had a good breakfast.

bobman1235

concealer404 wrote: »

The butt pain in this thread is palpatible.




I'm a whopping 5'9" and 155lbs these days. I bet i could bench 70lbs. Maybe 72lbs if i had a good breakfast.

Ha, you and me both. You can spot me, we'll take turns benching an empty 70-lb bar.

Huck344

MacLeod wrote: »

I remember my days. July 2002 with a 600 pound raw squat and watching the mirror in front of me. My eyes blood red. Veins bulging out of my forehead and then the trickle of blood coming out of my nose. Funny thing is, that was the proudest day of my life. Never did it again either.

Wow! That is awesome!!! My max squat wasn't even close to yours. Back in '06 I squated 495 3 times. I thought my spine was going to collapse. My eyes looked like they were about to pop out of my head. As soon as I was done, I immediately hobbled over to the trash can and puked. It was still one of the greatest gym moments of my life. Three days later, I injured my C5 in my neck while doing a warm up set of lat pull downs. I've never come close to lifting anything that I used to. I can't believe a 115 lbs pull down could ruin everything. I wasn't even pulling to the back. Turns out I have some type of degenerative thing in my neck.

BIZILL

i love this thread.

concealer404

I just squatted.

bdaley6509

Lol...too funny.

MacLeod

Huck344 wrote: »

Wow! That is awesome!!! My max squat wasn't even close to yours. Back in '06 I squated 495 3 times. I thought my spine was going to collapse. My eyes looked like they were about to pop out of my head. As soon as I was done, I immediately hobbled over to the trash can and puked. It was still one of the greatest gym moments of my life. Three days later, I injured my C5 in my neck while doing a warm up set of lat pull downs. I've never come close to lifting anything that I used to. I can't believe a 115 lbs pull down could ruin everything. I wasn't even pulling to the back. Turns out I have some type of degenerative thing in my neck.

Damn that sucks dude. Sorry to hear that.

I was lucky in my heavy days that I never injured myself. I powerlifted for nearly 15 years before moving on. I always went really slow in upping my weights so I think thats why I stayed injury free.

I lift almost all machines now. I still keep my bench at 405 purely for ego's sake though but I dont do squats or deadlifts anymore. I didnt quit because of injury but I believe I simply maxed out. I believe everybody has their NATURAL limit and since Ive been 100% drug free since I started, 425 bench, 600 squat and 550 deadlift was it for me. After hitting these numbers I was never able to really improve and about 2 years ago I actually started going backward. So now I lift more for size. Not so much bodybuilding cause I love junkfood too much but just to be big. Ive got reverse anorexia and always see myself as that skinny little dweeb I was back in high school.

Personally I think weightlifting is the fountain of youth. Not just hardcore bodybuilding or powerlifting but even basic weight training with moderate weights. It works not only your muscles but builds bone density, strengthens ligaments and tendons, boosts your immune system, works heart and lungs and increases the metabolism. Im in my 20th year now and I know Ill be lifting til Im 80.

wz2p7j

Jstas wrote: »

Again, you are not my friend and I don't take anything you say to be a joke. Here's an idea, leave me alone and I will forget you exist.

Hey, here's another idea, we don't have to be friends but I don't want to be enemies either - life is too short. And I'll probably keep joking around with you because you are a "fountain of straight lines" at times with your attitude. :D Plus I like a good laugh.

And feel free to poke some good hearted fun at me as well, I can take it. Just stop the confrontational crap, OK? It's not funny and you can do better. :D

Chris

mrbigbluelight

hearingimpared wrote: »

Nah not big enough but I played four years with the Upper Darby Sharks semi-HO league.

Fixed !



......probably shouldn't have done that ........


DISCLAIMER: HI is not a HO, has never been a HO, does not associate with HO's, nor particularly approves of HO's.

I'm just post HO'ing.

mrbigbluelight

All this weight-lifting talk is making me tired ....... can't reach ..... the ...... remote ............ gawd help me .... I'm stuck on a repeat of "History Detectives" ...... it's one with Elyse Luray, though ........... all good .....

Demiurge

MacLeod wrote: »

All Im saying is that size is extremely important.

I agree that it is incredibly important. I'm 6' 6" and 270 right now and while that might not mean much on its face it means a lot in a physical confrontation with a small fry when you:

1.) Know how to fight.

2.) Have a rage switch that doesn't turn off easily.

Little guys like to pretend it doesn't matter, but any little **** that runs like the Energizer Bunny with a Napoleon complex will get served up cold every time. I don't use any rules when fighting, either. You want to come at me its on and I will take your **** down whatever it takes. I definitely inherited the ability to go nuts from my dad's side of the family. Crazy stories there.

Fighting outside of a competitive match is unbelievably stupid, of course, but I looking back to my bar dwelling days draws a few smirks. I'm just glad I never got shot.


You all have mighty large penises, though.

tonyb

Getting shot... the great equalizer when size or skill is not on your side. Definately something to worry about in todays world of drunk bastages.

wz2p7j

Demiurge wrote: »

I agree that it is incredibly important. I'm 6' 6" and 270 right now and while that might not mean much on its face it means a lot in a physical confrontation with a small fry when you:

1.) Know how to fight.

2.) Have a rage switch that doesn't turn off easily.

Little guys like to pretend it doesn't matter, but any little **** that runs like the Energizer Bunny with a Napoleon complex will get served up cold every time. I don't use any rules when fighting, either. You want to come at me its on and I will take your **** down whatever it takes. I definitely inherited the ability to go nuts from my dad's side of the family. Crazy stories there.

Fighting outside of a competitive match is unbelievably stupid, of course, but I looking back to my bar dwelling days draws a few smirks. I'm just glad I never got shot.

I took on a guy your size in a bar fight when I was younger. I'm about 6 foot 180 lbs. I cracked the guy as hard as I could square in the forehead, not realizing how big he was, hoping to knock him out. Didn't faze him. He stood up to his full height and I found myself on my back real quick with the guy just whaling away at me. I was moving my head around as fast as I could and some of the punches connected but mostly the guy was punching the floor around me (ouch)! Finally my buddy Tony grabbed me by the legs and dragged me out from under this dude. Glad I lived thru it with minimal damage :eek::eek:

Chris

Demiurge

tonyb wrote:

Getting shot... the great equalizer when size or skill is not on your side. Definately something to worry about in todays world of drunk bastages.

Ugh, no doubt, man. Some of these clubs now a days are crazy. I didn't realize it until I got a job as a bouncer at O'Danny's in Milwaukee (closed now) years ago how many wannabe gangsters were totin' around guns in bars. I've seen a lot of crazy stuff go down doing that job and it definitely soured me real quick on hanging out at bars (besides the cost and monotony of it all).

We don't have CCW here, so it made things a lot worse.

wz2p7j wrote: »

I took on a guy your size in a bar fight when I was younger. I'm about 6 foot 180 lbs. I cracked the guy as hard as I could square in the forehead, not realizing how big he was, hoping to knock him out. Didn't faze him. He stood up to his full height and I found myself on my back real quick with the guy just whaling away at me. I was moving my head around as fast as I could and some of the punches connected but mostly the guy was punching the floor around me (ouch)! Finally my buddy Tony grabbed me by the legs and dragged me out from under this dude. Glad I lived thru it with minimal damage :eek::eek:

Chris

haha. :eek:

I've seen some smaller friends of mine dish out some real **** whippings, too, even to guys much bigger than them. Some of them don't have that proverbial 'off' switch either.

The smart thing, of course, is to avoid fights all together and watch other people make idiots of themselves.

cnh

You guys do realize the 'size' is 'relative'? Right? You can see this pretty quickly when, for example you encounter the Chinese B-Ball team or an NBA team. 6'6" is pretty short next to an NBA center who's at least 7'1"-7"6"?

And for those of you who've seen World's Strongest Man competitions...some of those guys who win are only between 6' and 6'3" but weigh 300 or more pounds of freakish muscle? I don't care how tall you are you're not going to take someone with that kind of strength? Few world class Olympic lifters...even in the unlimited weight class have ever been exceptionally tall? Taller yes but not real tall....no center of gravity there...too high!

Speaking of Strong man competitions...is anyone old enough to remember the body builder Franco Columbo (spelling) Arnold's friend and training partner....

5'5" 185lbs..and could easily do bench sets of 10 reps with over 400lbs! How many six footers would like to grapple with that? I wouldn't!!

Relativity...let's forget about the 'pissing contest' here. Weight-lifting is a wonderful sport for anyone and great for the aging...hint...hint. My father died in his mid-80s of an unknown abdominal aneurysm, till then he moved around like a 50 year old. Did mild weight lifting, worked out on pull-up bars and push-up bars and did 100s of abdominal exercises almost every day. He wasn't the biggest or the strongest. But I bet he could take most of us on this Thread if we were his age REGARDLESS of how BIG we were in our 'youth'. Because those big guys sometimes degenerate a lot faster than the smaller guys like jstas and cstmar01 above!

So keep it cool and get to the GYM and do 'something'--it's GOOD for YOU!

cnh

MacLeod

I remember Franco Colombu. The Sardinian Strongman. I think he said his best bench ever was 500. But yeah, he was a munchkin and that was back before all these really good horse steroids bodybuilders are taking now so thats a ton of weight.

The guys nowadays are a joke. Arnold was 6'2" and weighed 240 and looked awesome. Now you got Jay Cutler at 5'9" and weighing in at 305 and looks terrible. The huge, bloated belly thing is the worst part.

ohskigod

man, this thread has turned into a sword-fight something fierce. I'm gonna talk about how Obama is tanking the Country just to get this thread shut down. . I own tons of guns too, and missiles....big shiny missiles...... and I'm throwin **** links here soon, just gotta pick which ones



oh Dooooroooo!!!!!!! Keennnny booooy! where is ya at! lol

/thread

cnh

Lifting Weights is good for you at any age. Certainly that's not a thread stopper.

cnh

ohskigod

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=sense+of+humor&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

audiobliss

ohskigod wrote: »

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=sense+of+humor&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

I just don't see where you get off posting stuff like that on a forum!!

hehe

hearingimpared

Demiurge wrote: »

I'm just glad I never got shot.

tonyb wrote: »

Getting shot... the great equalizer when size or skill is not on your side. Definately something to worry about in todays world of drunk bastages.

I've been shot under my left arm and stabbed in my shoulder, neither of which is a pleasant experience. The shot wound went right through the under part of my tricep under the shoulder and although a shock, I was able to bowl over the shooter with a charge to get away from him. I passed out about three blocks away.

The stab wound was much, much more painful and serious, I could feel every inch of that cold steel go in. Again adrenalin got me out of that fix but I had lost a lot of blood and ended up in the hospital for three days.

I don't know that things are that much different today unless you find yourself in the inner city.

All I know is that I never want to go through that again and thank God that neither incident maimed me or put on the wrong side of the dirt.

The feeling of being Superman and not having that 'proverbial' off switch in my late teens and twenties it got me into a lot of brawls and those two incidents.

I'm very happy to walk away from a confrontation or talk my way out of it these days although I must admit even at 55, I feel a little dink to my ego even though I know better. That youthful rage and switch is hard to get over and I believe is tatoo'd in one's brain but ya just have to learn how to reel it in.

Fighting is a stupid way to settle an argument, I say that now but in my youthful stupidity thought it was the only way.

Dave you be a big feller!!!

hearingimpared

ohskigod wrote: »

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=sense+of+humor&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

audiobliss wrote: »

I just don't see where you get off posting stuff like that on a forum!!

hehe

I'm glad I caught the invisible text Michael or else I would have thought you lost your mind!

shadowofnight

Demiurge wrote: »

I agree that it is incredibly important. I'm 6' 6" and 270 right now and while that might not mean much on its face it means a lot in a physical confrontation with a small fry when you:

1.) Know how to fight.

2.) Have a rage switch that doesn't turn off easily.

Little guys like to pretend it doesn't matter, but any little **** that runs like the Energizer Bunny with a Napoleon complex will get served up cold every time. I don't use any rules when fighting, either. You want to come at me its on and I will take your **** down whatever it takes. I definitely inherited the ability to go nuts from my dad's side of the family. Crazy stories there.

Fighting outside of a competitive match is unbelievably stupid, of course, but I looking back to my bar dwelling days draws a few smirks. I'm just glad I never got shot.


You all have mighty large penises, though.

ohskigod wrote: »

man, this thread has turned into a sword-fight something fierce. I'm gonna talk about how Obama is tanking the Country just to get this thread shut down. . I own tons of guns too, and missiles....big shiny missiles...... and I'm throwin **** links here soon, just gotta pick which ones



oh Dooooroooo!!!!!!! Keennnny booooy! where is ya at! lol

/thread

Great posts

I was content to just read this great thread...but all this talk about weight lifting and fighting got me riled up here after 2am in the morning. Both things passions of mine for many years...starting young at 9 years old in martial arts...then the actual fighting tournaments by around 11 years old till around 18 years old.

The high you get before/during/after the fight is like no drug in the world.

As for weightlifting , I had a freakish combination of genes...a father who is only 5'10" but looked like a gorilla with his shirt off...who at 76 still walks around without a shirt and I hope I look half that good at that age. And my grandfather on my mothers side , who was 7'1" tall along with all of his brothers......I ended up 6'5" 300lbs with the freakishly huge arms/chest/shoulders.

Hurting my back and shoulder a few years ago put an abrupt end to all of my physical training or activities...no more riding my quad either...nada........hopefully my soon upcoming back surgery lets me get back in the game. And NO pot belly yet either...haha.


Here is a picture taken on this fathers day...pretty rare that someone actually got a shot of me and lived , yes I am holding a toy that we do not discuss here on this forum....but the picture nor the context are NOT about the banned toy so please moderators let this one be...its just a rare pic that I am in...I had no idea how cool this picture was going to turn out that one of my friends took.

I had no clue that great american flag was waving right in the middle of the picture...I had no clue he took the picture while the toy was functioning ( Thought he was filming by then...not taking pics ...whats funny is the guy who took the picture dwarfs me at 6'7" 345 pounds...but in the theme of the thread I can still kick his **** ) ...and 6 of the empty 45 auto cases are clearly visible still in the air when he snapped the shot.

All those things came together in one pic ( This year I could only play with the lightweight pistol and light rifle cartridge toys with little or no recoil because of my back/shoulder issues)...so please read moderators.....this has nothing to do with the banned item....it's just to show I fit right in with all these scary beasty men in this thread.











Carry on.....

audiobliss

hearingimpared wrote: »

I'm glad I caught the invisible text Michael or else I would have thought you lost your mind!

Haha, just playing my role in this thread!

viva la revolucion!

ohskigod

hearingimpared wrote: »

The stab wound was much, much more painful and serious, I could feel every inch of that cold steel go in. !!!

said it before and will say it again, Knives scare me ALOT more than guns. Criminal types are more apt to kill you with a quiet weapon than one that makes alot of noise......at least the criminal types I worry about.

Lots of people underestimate how deadly knives can be, and if your within 5-10 feet*, a knife is far more dangerous to me than a gun.


* alright, 10 feet might be a stretch, but you know what i'm saying.

MacLeod

hearingimpared wrote: »

I've been shot under my left arm and stabbed in my shoulder, neither of which is a pleasant experience.

You've been shot AND stabbed?! Damn man, you must be a real A-hole.

Demiurge

cnh wrote: »

You guys do realize the 'size' is 'relative'? Right? You can see this pretty quickly when, for example you encounter the Chinese B-Ball team or an NBA team. 6'6" is pretty short next to an NBA center who's at least 7'1"-7"6"?

And for those of you who've seen World's Strongest Man competitions...some of those guys who win are only between 6' and 6'3" but weigh 300 or more pounds of freakish muscle? I don't care how tall you are you're not going to take someone with that kind of strength? Few world class Olympic lifters...even in the unlimited weight class have ever been exceptionally tall? Taller yes but not real tall....no center of gravity there...too high!

Speaking of Strong man competitions...is anyone old enough to remember the body builder Franco Columbo (spelling) Arnold's friend and training partner....

5'5" 185lbs..and could easily do bench sets of 10 reps with over 400lbs! How many six footers would like to grapple with that? I wouldn't!!

Relativity...let's forget about the 'pissing contest' here. Weight-lifting is a wonderful sport for anyone and great for the aging...hint...hint. My father died in his mid-80s of an unknown abdominal aneurysm, till then he moved around like a 50 year old. Did mild weight lifting, worked out on pull-up bars and push-up bars and did 100s of abdominal exercises almost every day. He wasn't the biggest or the strongest. But I bet he could take most of us on this Thread if we were his age REGARDLESS of how BIG we were in our 'youth'. Because those big guys sometimes degenerate a lot faster than the smaller guys like jstas and cstmar01 above!

So keep it cool and get to the GYM and do 'something'--it's GOOD for YOU!

cnh

Sorry to hear you were born with the affliction of being a little man.

Demiurge

shadowofnight wrote: »

Great posts

I was content to just read this great thread...but all this talk about weight lifting and fighting got me riled up here after 2am in the morning. Both things passions of mine for many years...starting young at 9 years old in martial arts...then the actual fighting tournaments by around 11 years old till around 18 years old.

The high you get before/during/after the fight is like no drug in the world.

As for weightlifting , I had a freakish combination of genes...a father who is only 5'10" but looked like a gorilla with his shirt off...who at 76 still walks around without a shirt and I hope I look half that good at that age. And my grandfather on my mothers side , who was 7'1" tall along with all of his brothers......I ended up 6'5" 300lbs with the freakishly huge arms/chest/shoulders.

Hurting my back and shoulder a few years ago put an abrupt end to all of my physical training or activities...no more riding my quad either...nada........hopefully my soon upcoming back surgery lets me get back in the game. And NO pot belly yet either...haha.


Here is a picture taken on this fathers day...pretty rare that someone actually got a shot of me and lived , yes I am holding a toy that we do not discuss here on this forum....but the picture nor the context are NOT about the banned toy so please moderators let this one be...its just a rare pic that I am in...I had no idea how cool this picture was going to turn out that one of my friends took.

I had no clue that great american flag was waving right in the middle of the picture...I had no clue he took the picture while the toy was functioning ( Thought he was filming by then...not taking pics ...whats funny is the guy who took the picture dwarfs me at 6'7" 345 pounds...but in the theme of the thread I can still kick his **** ) ...and 6 of the empty 45 auto cases are clearly visible still in the air when he snapped the shot.

All those things came together in one pic ( This year I could only play with the lightweight pistol and light rifle cartridge toys with little or no recoil because of my back/shoulder issues)...so please read moderators.....this has nothing to do with the banned item....it's just to show I fit right in with all these scary beasty men in this thread.

Carry on.....

Awesome picture!

hearingimpared

MacLeod wrote: »

You've been shot AND stabbed?! Damn man, you must be a real A-hole.

Actually when I was stabbed, I was jumped by some black guys who were looking for some revenge the day Martin Luther King was killed. The gun shot was some jackass who THOUGHT I was fooling around with his wife, which I wasn't. I grew up in a highly volatile area, the first suburb of Philly which made us Yeadonites the enemy of the Philly gangs and the enemy of the rest of the suburbs in that they considered us Philly boys. It didn't matter whether or not you were a gang member you were viewed as the enemy because of living in Yeadon.

However, I was a real A-hole back then.:eek:;)


Louie the guy who shot me wasn't more than 8' away from me, I just happened to see the gun and rushed him which must have surprised him enough to miss my torso. I must have given him quite the football hit as it knocked him cold but we both went down from the blast me backward after the hit and he on his butt from my bowling him over, cause I was right on top of him, thank God, and gave me a chance to get up and run as far as I could. Now if he had a knife, I think I would have been in deep doo doo!