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Steroids in Powerlifting and Olympic Weightlifting

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Clint Darden shares his opinions on steroid use in Powerlifting and Weightlifting. Powerlifters: testesterone, little deca (primobolan, equipoise), anavar, d-bol, anadrol, halotestin Olympic Lifting: is all about recovery, growth hormone, anavar, testosterone (in off season) Looking forward to your opinions / experiences (if you have any, since I don’t). Update: Check out the Top 10 Banned Substances […]

Deadlift Form Check with Mark Bell

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Mark Bell talks you through a form check of a 317.5kg (700lbs) deadlift at 96kg bodyweight. I didn’t understand the name of this guy. Nick Cogy? Anyway, nice lift with interesting shoulder pop and some good tips form Mr. Bell. PS: If you are wondering about the app he is using, it looks like it’s the Coach’s […]

Kirill Sarychev Comes Close to a 318kg Bench Press

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Kirill Sarychev (315kg Bench Press) took 2 shots at a 318kg Bench Press. This happend at a qualifying meet for the 2013 Battle of champions in Dobele, Latvia (08.12.2012). They allowed 4 attempts. He made 290kg, 307.5kg, before he missed 318kg twice. Afterwards he said that he made an error lowering the weight, letting it drop too far down. […]

Harrison Maurus 140kg Squat at 12 Years Old

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Here are some nice lifts from a young gun. Harrison Maurus squats 140kg at 12 years of age. If you look through his other vids, you can see that he is using the Texas Method. Great numbers so far. Let’s hope he keeps lifting. All lifts from the meet. 140kg Squat 72.5kg Bench 150kg Deadlift

Juha Virtanen Deadlifts

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Here are some heavy deadlifts by Finnish lifter Juha Virtanen. The clips are from 2010, but I hope he kept pulling massive weights in the meantime. 380kg Here he works up to 360kg for 2 reps. 340kg x4 300kg x8 in what looks like the same cave we saw Miika training in.

Danny Nemani New Zealand Record Breaker

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Danny Nemani had a good powerlifting meet and broke some national records. Squat: 290kg, 310kg, 320kg (he did 330 in July) Bench: 170kg, 180kg (=PB), 185kg (5kg PB) Deadlift: 270kg, 285kg (unofficial NZ Raw Record), 295kg x = 790kg Total (7.5kg PB and 2 x unofficial NZ Raw Records)

Eric Lilliebridge 400kg World Record Squat

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Eric Lillibridge squatted 400kg (881lbs). Youngest and lightest person to ever squat 400kgs raw w/ wraps. All time Junior and Open world record. Previous open world record raw w/ wraps was 395kgs – 870lbs, beat it by 11lbs! And here are his thoughts about the meet and choice of weights. Update: Warm Up Reps