Single ply. He hasn't done 240 in competition yet, but a couple of times in training. He benches 200kg raw.
Oh, and BTW you might note that he weighed 119kg two years ago.
Last edited by hbriem; 06-16-2011 at 02:52 AM.
Rob contacted me to get him fit, he has now trained with me for 3 weeks. Rob is a primary school teacher. His first session his joints hurt, his third session he said,
"Before they hurt, now my knees feel kind of wobbly and numb, what is that?"
"That's called fatigue, Rob. It comes about through strong exertion. You are perhaps unfamiliar with this, but will learn more about it in coming sessions."
"Okay cool."
Today in his sixth session he boasted that he and the kids had watched a movie about Usain Bolt, they went outside and tried their 100m sprint times, "And I beat all the kids!"
"Congratulations, you are faster than a bunch of eight year olds."
"Hey last time we tried some of them beat me."
"Next we must work on your upper body, to ensure you can beat all the eight year olds in an arm wrestle."
"Wasn't there a Stallone movie about arm wrestling?"
"Yes, Over the Top."
"That's awesome."
We got to talking about cheesey 80s movies, which led to talking about Dolph Lundgren, apparently he is a popular singer in Germany. Here is a clip where Dolph karate-chops blocks of ice while singing A little less talk a little more action baby.
Some of my clients are a little odd.
Last sat I was squatting in one of the three racks when I was asked "I want to do some shrugs, how many sets do you have left?" Ignoring that he had no business doing shrugs it was a reasonable enough enquiry...except for the fact that he didnt also enquire about the guys in the two other racks who were using them to curl.
Last edited by LimieJosh; 06-16-2011 at 04:54 AM.
So I was on my last bench set last night, and it's "open house" night at the gym where all the trainers try to sign on new clients. I was looking around for someone in between sets to give me a spot (I'm doing AMRAP on my 3rd sets right now), when this small hispanic female trainer comes up to me, points to barbell and says, in lovely broken english "would you like me to straddle you?". Not sure if I was being propositioned or offered a spot, I pulled out my ear buds, smiled and asked politely if she could repeat that, with the same exact line as before.
Long story short is that other than when my father is at the gym the same time as me, it was the only person there who actually knows how to spot someone benching, despite her weighing less than what I was benching. Not a single bit of help or hands shooting in front of my face until the bar stopped moving and started going down. We than talked about why I was using a narrower bench grip and my shoulder problems she suggested some rotator cuff exercises I should be doing, which were somewhat similar to the routine I use. I was surprised for sure.
While I was benching though, there was a skinny kid dressed like some Appalachian hillbilly hipster load up the barbell on the adjoining bench press with 5lbs of weight total, straddle the bench, put on the spring collars, and do a few set of curls ... less than 5' away from one of the two racks that has a straight bar 50lb barbell sitting in plain sight.
The first one is T bar rows, which one of Ahnolds favourite exercises. BB'ers who actually lift heavy weights seem to love them. But its pretty stupid to do them these days as most gyms usually have tons of dedicated row-apparatus and very few barbells which are easily damaged by such tom-foolery. Most gym rats are way too lazy o put the weights back afterwards too.
You will also learn that most BB'ers and experienced gym rats absolutley love using gym apparatus in exotic ways which they were never designed for. For example, the leg press at my gym is used equally as much as a rows & shrugs machine. The cable station regularly has 45lb plates strapped onto it to add extra resistance to it when people are doing exercises that only a dumb ass would do at a cable station.