Thread of awesome

[ColoWayno]

PR'd Deadlifts today. It's not much for a guy whose been around here as long as I have, but still awesome.

5x340 lbs.

[Greg C]

PR'd Deadlifts today. It's not much for a guy whose been around here as long as I have, but still awesome.

5x340 lbs.

Nice job Wayno. Never forget you are competing with yourself and the Reaper. That's the only bit that matters.

[Tom Narvaez]

700lbs safety squat bar squat. 5'11", 225lbs.

[Jsutt]

God that looked like a warmup.

[PaulBeech]

I pulled 365#5 pretty cleanly!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dMl...e_gdata_player

[JohnRoman]

700lbs safety squat bar squat. 5'11", 225lbs.

He has reportedly benched 475# and the S&C coach held him from going higher.

[Tom Narvaez]

I think a 700# safety bar squat with that speed means he has a decent chance to hit 800+ @ 220 (without wraps). A safety bar squat is biomechanically similar to a front squat. The current world record for a wrapless squat @ 220 is 782. And that's with a 24hr weigh-in and a 20#+ water cut.

I guess we should mention for the unawares that he's a football player who couldn't really care less about his squat poundages.

[mwhities]

Awesome for me again:

[DPMuller]

Awesome for me again:

Luckily for you, even though your belt matches your knee sleeves, the shoes clash, so you're safe.

Seriously - this video does belong on this thread. Again.

[JohnRoman]

I think a 700# safety bar squat with that speed means he has a decent chance to hit 800+ @ 220 (without wraps). A safety bar squat is biomechanically similar to a front squat. The current world record for a wrapless squat @ 220 is 782. And that's with a 24hr weigh-in and a 20#+ water cut.

I guess we should mention for the unawares that he's a football player who couldn't really care less about his squat poundages.

I think he did care about the weights. He had a lot of ankle problems early on and that got him to training much harder. He saw the results (staying healthy and being able to play) so that built a hard-nosed weight room work ethic for him in high school. He did complain that the S&C coach at Alabama was holding him back and wouldn't let him add pounds to the bar for his lifts. Story goes that the coach wouldn't let him go above 600# on squat. So Trent responded by doing it for reps and sets across. Similar story on the bench.