Modern powerlifters are some of the strongest people in history. So I wiped the blood off with my coat and pushed the pin back down my finger. This was thursday--start making calls. Our flight out of LA was fine. Mike Bridges' DVD series. A 13 year old Ed saw Bill Kazmaier powerlift on television and he was instantly hooked. Just what do I mean? It was a national meet. I must have said 5 pounds which was a 2.5kg jump[MCJ2]. Now all the anonymous guys can come on here and bash the IPF for requiring approved equipment for records. Deadlift: 369.6kg/814lb. best of luck to everyone concerned with this! Lou: You had a lot of lifters come stay with you such as Mike Bridges who you said was the strongest man under 200 pounds. Benchpress: 272.1kg/599.88lb There's a big difference between exposure and mastery! George has spread his body weight from 242 pounds all the way to the high 300s. My training poundage started climbing again and I felt more and more like busting it in the gym again. I tried to roll over but couldn't. It went all the way down except for about half an inch. At 198 he went 450-315-440 to win. Squat: 410kg/903lb if indeed he's been robbed before, then he's pretty tough for sticking in there and coming back. A week later Mac and I were on a jet headed for Los Angeles. I've never really changed anything. "Reports have surfaced that the IPF will take those records from Bridges,,,,,," Heres how those numbers compare for each lift.7. It was a beautiful day to drive, but once we got 50 miles away, Mac said we needed to pull over. I used to be able to recover from training each area twice a week. It's unfortunate that an error like this had to happen, but the bar we were using was just fine!! Results 1 to 5 of 5 Thread: Mike Bridges Training ? So, even if drugs arent in an athletes system, he might be lifting heavier because he used PEDs a few years ago. So the facts are the facts guys stop being a bunch of cry BABIES! Who is that? He went back and opened the trunk and brought back two tall, really cold bottles of beer. In a Conjugate Method training program, dynamic effort training is typically focused on increasing the At Westside, we use dynamic effort training to improve our rate of force development. This is the biggest USAPL meet of the year. At a national level meet you should have equipment more than 2 days prior to a meet. One official got yelled at for asking about the bar while my boyfriend was checking his rack height later on thursday. I heard from a reliable source that a lot of effort was made to remedy the situation but it was what it was. I seem to remember Mike Bridges getting stiffed on a squat at the USAPL Nationals in 2004. Also known ad Dr. Squat. In fact, the folks in Missouri have always done a great job. Let's hope they get confirmed soon. But there is one man that comes to mind that was contested by the fact he could be beaten on a bad day if someone else had a great day. How is this the USAPL shooting themselves in the foot? Deadlift: 320kg/705.48lb. Multi Time World Champion. The bar we used was 45lbs plus the collars. then on the other days he would go between 50-80% of his max for extra volume. Some powerlifting meets drug test, and some dont. I invited several well-known lifters of that time: the great Mike Bridges, Terry Dillard, Dave Waddington, Steve Wilson, and Mark Chaillet. The rescue squad got there in 10 minutes and away I went. We did not know this in advance. But when Bridges took the stage later that year at the International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) championships in Gotenborg, Sweden, and fired off the three lifts, his typical strength wasnt there. I also know you were never cocky or arrogant, but totally confident and fun when I was around you. It is one thing to beat someone by all those he beat, so we want to remember him too. What happened? Mike Bridges at the Central AAU Sr. Championshipos, April 1978, with a world record 585 squat He broke the world total record 3 times at this meet Lemenager photo The one finally Au- 27, 1978. USAPL, was it "modified rules" which were in effect this time? No one ever say a word to him no matter what.The Conversation. BUT, as a lifter at the meet who is not capable of setting world records, I was very happy when I learned that we would be using a Texas Power Bar. I recall weighing less after a meet back in those days. Fantastic story. Ivanko pays them a lisence fee to approve their stuff and Texas Power Bar doesn't! You might say not bad well let me tell you this, maybe 12 super-heavies have done 630 plus, but Sam, at 275, has out-benched at least half of the twelve. They had time to get another bar!!! When you talk about bench pressing, I have to enter Teds name for he is the only other person to do what I have done , bench press in excess of 700lb. Deadlift: 367.5kg/810lb, Full Article:George Hechters incredible weight loss, Doug Furnas (Birth date: december 11, 1959 Died march 2, 2012). But those accepting the pay of the sponsorship fees do not have to suffer with the bars, merely to take the money and thus approve themjust like at times platforms/stages at ipf worlds have sagged under the larger squatters, only to be considered "acceptable". What can be said about a guy that can do exploits like that? Tony Carpino agreed to fly in and ref and help out. Mike gave it hus all and was a supporter of the sumo-style deadlift and is one of the first to use it effectively. Trying to figure this out with the same type hip replacement as Rickey Crain. The call to drug-test powerlifters had been gaining momentum in the sport since the mid-1970s. Actually the whole meet was against the rules of the USAPL. There was no 220 class yet. If possible, structure your training as follows: Mon - Bench day Weds -Deadlift day Fri - Squat day Day 1 (Monday) Bench day: The rule said small jump of 2.5 kg would nullify a third and that is how I lost the bid for my 10th world championship.Lou: Tell us about your most memorable world championship.Larry: That would be my first in 1971 against John Kanter. 1980-11-07, USA-VA, Arlington. I dont drug test at Raw Unity for a couple reasons, said Eric Talmant, who organizes and competes in Raw Unity, an event considered by some to be the Super Bowl of American raw powerlifting. All who made the world team will still make the world team, all the totals are official. Michael Easter is an associate editor at Mens Health magazine. [/quote] BUT, as a lifter at the meet who is not capable of setting world records, I was very happy when I learned that we would be using a Texas Power Bar. All of Mel's lifts are done in extremely strict style. Wow! Michael. Mac was frantic. Squat: 365kg/804.69lb SPECIAL. Within three hours I was on the operating table. 4. And in some years at Raw Unity, a weight class might only have two lifters (an athlete has to be very strong to qualify for the event). wouldnt u think for a comp that big, that everything would be above board, regardless of what you think the rules should be? How about dougs billing squat 985lb. To many, the author included, a case can be made for Bridges being among the best three lifters in the history of the sport. :), [quote=Anonymous][quote=Jeff Fiss]Harold put on a great meet. John has totaled just around 2300! Reports have surfaced that the IPF will take those records from Bridges due to the fact that Texas Power Bars were used at the event instead of IPF approved equipment. They keep raising the standard. In that meet there were four men who would become IPF World Champs: Milt McKenzie, George Crawford, Vince Anello and, last but not least, Larry Pacifico, the subject of this article. What has Dan done for the game? 1984 Honolulu, Hawaii Bridges missed three squats of 562 pounds. No one should have to put up with this BS. He was right.After 10 yearsfrom 1970 to 1980I won my first nationals with my first top-ten bench. Although my preparation for the event was right on schedule to maximize my strength, I feel certain that the confidence that comes with improved body mechanics and alignment allowed me to turn on every ounce of strength I needed to set my 23rd world record. Mike's. Best Lifts: Guess we will never know for sure since neither one of us heard it first hand. Wouldn't it still be a Masters National USAPL record? The world is blessed with FED ex overnight, next MORNING. This will be different for different people as we are all genetically different as to how we age. While they were undoubtedly unbeatable, they were untested for the most part. This. Absolute stupidity. It was stuck in about four inches down. That has got to be more dangerous that squatting without wraps. only thing worse than being old is being an old fart. Mike Bridges - 755 lb Deadlift @ 181 lbs (342.5 @ 82.5 kgs) Lexington Plummer 1.59K subscribers 3.8K views 6 years ago Mike Bridges deadlifts 755 lbs on his third attempt to consolidate a. Putt Houston. now with more Bom Chicka Wahwahhhhhh, http://usapowerliftingforum.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=12709. One time while weighing in Larry was standing on one foot just to bug him. I am aware of the wrong bar that was shipped because I warmed up with it in the warm up room. How many more times will you shoot yourself in the foot? Best Lifts: Mike is going to get robbed because it's an IPF rule, tpb isn't approved equipment and so he's getting american records. "Bars dont grow on trees, what would you have done in this situation??" We had a five-hour layover. Bob Matz would judge meets and was down right scary to look at. My finger was bleeding and I was sweating and I had to make that flight. Ivanko bars are awfulthey are outrageously whippy and the non-standard knarling makes setting up for the deadlift quite confusing. At Na- tionals Bridges the bt . They run around $140 a piece, and I dont want to pass the cost onto the lifters, because I honestly think that the majority of elite guys in the sport just dont care that much anymore. 1980 IPF Men's World Powerlifting Championships. How about a total of 2105 lb at 181lb body weight. fed ex, several people with bars in ATTENDANCE who could have had fed ex deliver them, there's NO EXCUSE in this day and age. Mike is a World IPF Champion, IPF World Record Holder, 2008 Masters World Champion with 4 Gold Medals, and 2007 World Bench Press Gold Medalist. Wow. That all said, heres how the average lifters totals (squat, bench press, dead lift) at the competitions compare. anyway, im in agreement with most everyone here, that is, there is no way any record should be taken away because of this. Mike Bridges (Powerlifter) Inger Blikra (Powerlifter) Subrata Dutta . Something like this should never have been overlookedEVER ! (course they also did drug tests on mike but odds are those won't be a problem). I weighed 150 pounds back then.Lou: When you moved to Dayton what was your occupation? I can honestly say 848 would have gone up. Really, then what would you have done if the meet director, technical sec were standing together when they opened the box from Ivanko to find the wrong bar had been sent? This was the best meet I've been to everything was done possible to make this the best meet for lifters and judges also for whoever came to the Meet! Larry: Yes. I invited several well-known lifters of that time: the great Mike Bridges, Terry Dillard, Dave Waddington, Steve Wilson, and Mark Chaillet. Where are my safety guys screaming about that? $29.95 each. When we talk about how PEDs improve performance in sports e.g. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. Larry was the one getting all of the attention setting American records before World records were official. The fees are a way to generate revenue to help pay expenses. But, when you're not doing this program, feel free to use varying rep ranges if you feel you can handle it. The bigger the glass, the more of everything else you can do. All other things being equal, the stronger you are, then the quicker you run, the harder you hit, the higher you jump, the faster you throw. We landed in St. Louis five hours later. [/quote]The Ivanko bars were not used because they arrived from the manufacturer without center knurlings. His name was Mike Bridges. I just went to a baseball game and payed $18 for a lousy $10 hat. (365.5 kg). He got his little finger caught in a sliding door. They were called Spanjam. [quote=Jeff Fiss]Harold put on a great meet. 5. lol. My middle finger and both the fingers on each side were caught. not screwing up in front of the WORLD. I have seen a lot in 50 years as powerlifting has introduced me to all of my friends as well as most good and bad memories. Mike was in powerlifting from the first days of the IPF in the early 1970s. WTF!! 3 Star CrossFit. The meet always attracted the very best lifters in the country and 1978's version was no exception. Everything at this meet was ran by the guys in the uniforms! Things like how they trained in the beginning. True, Jack. @Michael_Easter, Steroids (6 posts) check out the. I was married three times.Lou: How many world records did you break in your illustrious career?Larry: 54Lou: I know you had rivals along the way. [/quote] WAS THE PAPER IT WAS WRITTEN ON WAS THE RIGHT SIZE! Just a few years before, powerlifters had been using PEDs in low doses to help their muscles recover; maybe they gained a bit of an edge, but it wasnt overtly noticeable. Giant to appreciate his size. Thanks.Louie Simmons. Where are my safety guys screaming about that? So as we got off the plane Paul was waiting for us to step off the plane. Sure, some bars are exactly the same but some payed a license fee to the IPF and some did not--they have a choice. the lousy knurling on ivanko bars is now a serious problem and despite their paying of the fee, ipf should seriously consider kicking those bars out UNLESS they can be corrected to have more sufficient knurling. Some have tested and non-tested divisions; others randomly test a minimum of 10 percent of their lifters; and the rest the majority, in fact dont test at all. Harold, your meet was excellent!!!! 1983 Mens Senior Nationals they're listed as pending cause someone turned in teh record forms and until ipf looks into this, they're pending. I suddenly woke up startled and couldn't remember where I was. It was the first issue where my name wasn't there for the first time in 10 years. Ivanko bars are awfulthey are outrageously whippy and the non-standard knarling makes setting up for the deadlift quite confusing. some even fresh from factory seem unduly "slick"! If he would choose to use the best gear of today, it would be crazy. the only people who are happy with those lousy bars are benchers. Tragedy struck again on our way back to Dayton. KT Tape is the first-ever kinesiology tape to come in pre-cut strips specifically designed for consumer use. Today, there are about eight larger federations and tens of smaller ones. I called him and he got me in and said it might never straighten out again. Best Lifts: And Don Reinhoudt the SHW world champ. Will Democrats Rally Behind President Biden In 2024? Cookie Notice I slept on the flight down and drifted in and out for the next eight hours, but I was able to watch most of the operation not only mine but both of the other two as well. My hand was slipping off the bar when it hit. I could not believe it Paul was calling my room and even trying to send girls to my room. Dr. Kunitz would go back and forth from one to the other to the other. Dan, like Ed and Fred Hatfield, has proven that the little man is in! The squat racks used at that meet were illegal as they could possibly get accoding to mandates of the IPF. mark. Peoria, IL. And they probably DID! You should tell the cycling community about your insoles. It's NOT a 45lb bar. I saw the Gestapo in action first hand at the Master's Nationals and again today at a local meet. Ed Baueuscroft of California. Well, if you have ever lifted with an Eleiko or Leoko bar, they are similar to a Texas, so I would state this wouldn't be that big of a deal and a DL record set on a TPB vs. an Ivanko is arguably harder to hold on to and more distance traveled. All rights reserved. Jesse Rodgers, I agree. My friend Eric Stuber and the two side spotters couldn't even react in time. Larry: We had a great team back then and I will always look back to the early days without so much politics. oh yeah and IPF who gets the SPONSOR FUNDING EVERY YEAR for keeping them APPROVED. When powerlifting, you train with three exercises in mind: Bench press, squats, and deadlifts. I came up with a wrestling singlet with legs, but somehow George Langas took the idea and sold them under the name Spanjam, which I distributed.Lou: You had a lot of lifters come stay with you such as Mike Bridges who you said was the strongest man under 200 pounds. When planning ahead for the meet today, I had to ask myself if I was capable of creating conditions in which records could be set and make it known to the lifters who entered the meet today whether the conditions in which they would find would or was not condusive to setting any records. Squat: 260kg/573.2lb(WR) Consider this 2008 American Physiological Society study, which found that the benefits of steroids in powerlifters can last several years beyond when the drugs leave their body. I envied Larry for having such good training partners and a coach like Bob Matz. On the morning before the meet we opened 2 brand new shipping tubes from an IPF approved manufacturer and they contained bars that did not have center knurling. So, I think I can back my ideology up pretty well. I ran to a restaurant and grabbed some napkins and ran to the gate just in time to board. they cut it fine by sending it to you thast close to a meet. Well, the bar didn't cooperate. Dan has benched 400lb in his class when most men in his class were approaching the 600lb barrier . If they were lifetime PR's for you as well, then even greater congratulations are indeed in order! Mike's best official lift was 608 made in 1977. That's when Bridges competed in the ADFPA (American Drug Free Powerlifting Association). If dan can get his bench together, lookout! so yes, some records were set with tpb. [/quote] Terry Todd isn't merely the United States' first national powerlifting champion (in 1964 and '65), he was also the first man to total 1,600, 1,700, 1,800, and 1,900 pounds. Bridges was one of many record holders or top level men that included Marvin . The ProKinetics Natural Body Balance Insoles naturally help me align my feet and knees just right without me consciously having to alter my posture. 6. LARRY PACIFICO "Mr. Powerlifting" set 54 world records in an 18-year career. He has broken over 100 combined Nationals and World Records in his storied career. Ken Lain DVD's. Tape 1 - Add 50 to 75 lbs To Your Bench Press. 3. dont lie to everyone who questioned the bar and keep insisting it was an old Ivenko bar. I trained Mac for a year. This happened to Mike Bridges. You had Mike Bridges who astonished the world with his absolute dominance and ground breaking lifts. :)[/quote] Jim Just lift it! But just how much horsepower and torque do athletes gain? He was inducted into the York Barbell Hall of Fame on June 28, 1998.

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