The post-lift celebration? I do that after every comment I leave here. I'll be back in just a second.
I hope, for his sake, that we don't have to throw down over this.
lamo! you dont know a damn thing about the true strength of a nodic teuton
They prefer to be called "vertical teutons".
I'm not going to watch that because I'm assuming it's NSFW.
Why does he wear red stockings?
max
['It's safe for work, except for the AC/DC.']
Totally amazing vertical leap, btw.
I would guess that the stockings complete the sausage-casing look.
Wide stance there, out of necessity. Must wear pants out at the thighs, rubbing together.
my pre-blogging rituals
So much explained so quickly.
Is "to throw down" a verb everywhere in the US?
Off-topic: It's toward the end of a very long post that I haven't actually read, but there's this: "I linked earlier to this discussion on a very orthodox Universalist blog (Unfogged) of Singapore".
Umm.
orthodox Universalist blog
When were you going to tell me?
Ogged, do you push your laptop just a few inches farther away with your toe before posting?
14, it's actually not that confusing. The discussion is the discussion of Singapore started by alameida, and he explains (sort of) what he means by "Universalist", so ...
17: Yeah, I sussed that much out of it. Still, if I had to describe Unfogged, that wouldn't be my first choice.
If incorporating as an "Orthodox Universalist" institution is the way to get some of those faith-based grants from the National Institute of Blogs, I see nothing wrong with it.
At the very least, you could get tax-exempt status.
Also, it's no wonder that they have to crank up the music, because deadlifting is really boring.
Yeah, while I know it's an amazing athletic feat, to look at it's pretty much "Oh. You stood up."
Not being a weightlifting devotee I had forgotten that deadlifting meant just getting the thing off the ground, and initially thought his first successful lift was actually a failure because, you know, he dropped it without putting it over his head, or even getting it up on his chest. This misinterpretation made the whole manic performance seem even more bizarre.
Think of how many times stronger than Megan that guy is, or than me. But it's a pretty specialized feat, and doesn't look like he can use it for much else.
Those World's Strongest Man competitions are much more fun to watch.
He could probably lift the back end of your car off the kid you just ran over.
Also, opening those really stubborn jars.
Those World's Strongest Man competitions are like crack. I don't know why. But I suspect it has to do with the setup of most of the competitions. Gym is for wimps! Watch Bjorn lift seven big rocks and put on pillars! Watch Hans hold iron bar till arms fall off. Is gut.
29: Okay, sure, he could help out around the house. But a man like that is expensive to keep. How many calories would he eat in a day?
Yeah, I love to watch those. Magnus ver Magnusson is my hero.
And to respond slightly more seriously to IDP's point about specialization, the deadlift works a lot of muslces in your legs, arms and back that you use for pretty much everything. If you're only going to do a few lifts, that's a good one (assuming you take care with your form and how much you lift and don't fuck up your back).
Yeah, deadlifts are really pretty much about picking heavy stuff up in a fairly ordinary and useful way. How else do you move the couch?
How many calories would he eat in a day?
People like that don't measure in calories, they measure in calves or pre-schoolers. Answer: four.
25: IDP I thought you were like the moving king. Lift boxes much?
Are "Magnus" and "Magnusson" assumed names, or is there some kind of weightlifter/competitive lumberjack caste in Scandinavia?
36: how many five year olds could you eat in a sitting?
A lot of the WSM competitions seem to be just extreme versions of pretty common farmboy activities. Carry this heavy thing. Lift this heavy thing and put it up high. Lift this other heavy thing using a different muscle group.
how many five year olds could you eat in a sitting?
Are they trained?
40: or, in the case of the truck pull, farm implement/animal activities: "pull this heavy thing a ways."
Squat, deadlift, snatch, clean and jerk. What a nasty sport.
41: with a fine white wine sauce.
A lot of the WSM competitions seem to be just extreme versions of pretty common farmboy activities.
Good thing they left out the sheep fucking.
43: Also, guys spotting. I suspect it's the steroids that throw off their manstrual cycles.
How else do you move the couch?
You tell the help to move it, obviously. Jeez.
46: A recent study shows that guys spot the best in the week immediately prior to their manstrual cycle.
Magnus ver Magnusson is my hero.
Drinky Drinkerson is my hero.
38: He's from Iceland: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magn%C3%BAs_Ver_Magn%C3%BAsson
Good thing they left out the sheep fucking.
Well, they can't televise every minute of the contest.
52: Tell that to ESPN 8, "the Ocho."
"Oooh, he takes a nasty hoof to the shin. Magnus is struggling to keep it up. He needs to beat 1:07 to take the lead in the competition."
53: you realize there are now 9 ESPN channels, right?
Iceland is rich in sheep.
One of the World's Strongest Man winners was a Welshman named Gary Taylor. A tiny 270 pound Finn named Jouko Ahola is the present champion.
56: Don't you mean "so-called Welshman"? Losing a few steps there, old timer...
55: Two of them are HD versions of another two! Also, ESPNU? Why not just point a webcam at Joe Paterno's ass?
58: go one better: colon-cam.
First down!!
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What Ogged said about deadlifts.
It's one of the best all around lifts there is. Works the hell out your major muscle groups in your back, butt and legs, and in a movement and sequence very similar to the movements for sprinting, jumping, etc. If you want to run faster and jump higher, do some deadlifts.
I was always under the impression that deadlifts were mostly exercised by organized crime...
I think that people should squat and snatch more, for good health. One squat and one snatch every day adds 2.1 years to your life.
Jeebus, I just noticed the bar bending on the guy's last attempt. That's insane.
What's the line: "If the bar ain't bending, you're just pretending." My gym, as a courtesy to its more pathetic members, offers rubber bars for this very reason.
I'm outing myself as a non-body-builder here. I should imagine this is a surprise to precisely no one.
Magnusson is an machine. Dude is deadlifting in the upper 900 range. Last I saw anyways. I don't follow it that closely. As far as I know, only Andrew Bolton has broken 1000 in the deadlift.
I saw a guy bench 500lbs once; the bent bar looked so absurd.
A friend of mine has a combined lift total [squat, deadlift, benchpress] of well over 1000 lbs. That seems unimaginably out of reach, never mind doing nearly 1000 for a single lift.
Yeah, I have a cousin who was a competitive weightlifter in Iran, where it's a big sport, and the stuff he could around the house as a matter of course seemed superhuman.
offers rubber bars
With styrofoam weights!
It's way fun. Also, the weights have big numbers painted on them, but the fact that they're in ounces is in tiny print.
I work out at Clown Gym.
That seems unimaginably out of reach
You're about my size, (5'9 170-180 lbs). I bet you could do it easier than you think. I can maintain a 270-280 bench and a 370-380 deadlift without crazy levels of training or anything, and I'm pretty obviously not a huge guy. I don't squat anymore as it was starting to feel like it was grinding my left knee joint.
Ogged though sounds like he's definitely not built for powerlifting.
With styrofoam weights!
Actually, those exist.
Ogged though sounds like he's definitely not built for powerlifting.
You got that right, brother.
77: All powerlifters are gay, but not all gay dudes are powerlifters.