When we talk about how PEDs improve performance in sports e.g. All times are GMT-5. Actually, I've worked at keeping everything the same since it worked before and seems to be working OK now as well. they're listed as pending cause someone turned in teh record forms and until ipf looks into this, they're pending. The problem was discovered on Thursday. 1983 Mens Senior Nationals Dan, like Ed and Fred Hatfield, has proven that the little man is in! WTF!! This year, at 52, Mike just won 4 gold medals in the Pan American Games. I also was a shotput and discus thrower and won Athlete of the Year in New York in 1964. Doug Hepburn: Might, Muscle & Miracles Anatomy of Strength. Just lift it! The great Mike Bridges spent years training three times per week, squatting twice, deadlifting once or twice, and benching two and sometimes three times within any week. (BUT he's not alone, there will be some very angry WOMEN TOO on this! Many powerlifters even on high level don't train more than 3-5 times a week. He totaled just 1,780 pounds 231 pounds, or 11.5 percent, less than hed lifted four months before. yea i was thinking about trying this because i want to compete eventually in single ply gear and natural. Assistance work may have consisted of a few sets of curls and little more yet in the opinion of many, me included, Mike can be crowned as one of the top few lifters of all time. And he held a special "women's gateway open" with lifters all breaking WR's TOO..WHERE WAS THIS MAN's BRAIN??? Here's my finger today. anyway, im in agreement with most everyone here, that is, there is no way any record should be taken away because of this. Mel has benchpressed 535lb, squatted 535lb and deadlifted 600lb. Its also important to note that competitions use different weight-class systems. if you're meant to be in this sport, you are already more durable over the years than most gym lifters. In 1956 in Minneapolis my buddies and I, Reps and sets ranged from 510 to 10-15 sets of lower reps, to the aforementioned 50-rep sets on some exercises,. Then the bar hit the supporting brace below the bench on the left side. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. I have a Texas Power Bar and it weighs 20kg. The call to drug-test powerlifters had been gaining momentum in the sport since the mid-1970s. My training put me at 835-580-800-2215. Squat: 365kg/804.69lb I heard from a reliable source that a lot of effort was made to remedy the situation but it was what it was. The problem was discovered on Thursday. I walked around and found a check-in counter down a hallway. Powerlifting champion and Hall of Famer Mike Bridges has officially endorsed KT Tape as his choice for pain relief and muscle support. MIKE BRIDGES As a 50-year-old, set records in the squat and bench press. 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. I couldn't sleep on the flight. HOWEVER, if you're the meet director and you're running an IPF qualifier with potential world records, YOU are responsible for making sure the bar is good. The 20kg TPB used to be approved by the IPF, until they didn't pay the licensing fee, so there are undoubtedly some IPF World record which have been set using a TPB. In 1983, the IPF began to test athletes for performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). I don't care if this was your first nationals and you came in last, you still shouldn't have to lift with the wrong equipment. Hes laid down a base of muscle that doesnt just dry up when the drugs do. This happened to Mike Bridges. Will Democrats Rally Behind President Biden In 2024? His total outdid his closest competiton by some 150lb. 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. In the meet Paul tore a quad and broke an ankle. The numbers from these competitions arent perfect; for example, the IPF just started hosting a raw championship,6 so there are only three years of comparable data. He sewed the two pieces together temporarily while they made arrangements for me to meet a helicopter at the University of Dayton arena to fly me and my wife Carol to Louisville, Kentucky. in the NFL, Major League Baseball and the Olympics what were really talking about is how the drugs make an athletes muscles more efficient in terms of strength and recovery. Records should not have to be sacrificed because of this. Reply . Its a shame his feats arent hailed about today. they cut it fine by sending it to you thast close to a meet. Everyone knows that politics are stupid when it comes between a person and a hard earned accomplishment but if they let it stand then everyone will say "hey, what could have so-n-so done on a Texas Power bar instead of those whippy Ivankos?" 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". Ivanko pays them a lisence fee to approve their stuff and Texas Power Bar doesn't! It can be said that in a way he is a carbon copy of Ed coan. I've never really changed anything. Sams donation to powerlifting is stupendous! Oh they won't have to erase the meet results, no. 1. They keep raising the standard. 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. Bench: 227.5kg/501.55lb He has broken over 100 combined Nationals and World Records in his storied career. Some powerlifters compete in divisions in which they can wear squat suits and bench shirts, which can put them in better form and help increase lift numbers. Raw Unity lifters outdo IPF competitors by about 3 to 4 percent and USAPL competitors by 17 to 18 percent. He was and is the strongest man under 200 pounds I ever saw. I checked my watch and had three hours to sleep and make the flight. I can honestly say 848 would have gone up. A 220 pounds, Joe squatted 837lb. screw it. that is bullshit. (course they also did drug tests on mike but odds are those won't be a problem). So as we got off the plane Paul was waiting for us to step off the plane. When they had reattached my finger weeks earlier, they put a long pin through the top of the finger. Everything else is the liquid inside the glass. Ted did 705lb., a record! and the Squat at an astonishing amount of 804 lbs. Mike's lifts are pending on the IPF website. Privacy Policy. they had TIME TO FIX THIS. Joe came alive within months with some lifting that is still admired today. Was this in Tampa? [quote=Brian Mc][quote=Travis Werner]I really hope the IPF overlooks this and lets the record stand. When he first saw Vince hecould tell he had dropped down to 198,then he saw me all bulked up and ready for battle. The 20kg TPB used to be approved by the IPF, until they didn't pay the licensing fee, so there are undoubtedly some IPF World record which have been set using a TPB. Powerlifting differentiates between world records set at tested and non-tested competitions. Perfect I went around and took off my coat made a pillow out of it then took off my watch, laid it down, and fell sound to sleep. I hope this does not come true. I went to get up but the pin was hooked into the carpet and I couldn't move. Hewon nine consecutive IPF World Powerlifting Championships from 1971-1979 (198-pound to 242-pound weight classes) and set 54 world records during his powerlifting career. I saw the Gestapo in action first hand at the Master's Nationals and again today at a local meet. "But it weighed MORE so he should the record for sure!" [/quote]The Ivanko bars were not used because they arrived from the manufacturer without center knurlings. It was a bold move, because the USPF was popular its competitions were even nationally televised. they can replace usapl, remember? 5. . But, when you're not doing this program, feel free to use varying rep ranges if you feel you can handle it. Show Printable Version; 04-21-2012, 04:33 PM #1. HOWEVER, if you're the meet director and you're running an IPF qualifier with potential world records, YOU are responsible for making sure the bar is good. Size didnt mean anything to him. Then, around the mid-70s, people realized that taking huge doses increased their lifts, said Bob Gaynor, a powerlifting historian and competitive lifter from the era. To: Chip Hultquist..would like to know more about your hip replacement; facing the same thing..30+ yrs of powerlifting. John is what every new young powerlifter wants to be. He trained with Don Cundy the first to make an 800 deadlift, and Jerry Gones who would wear a superhero suit at a meet and a wig. Video of Mike Bridges' Raw Challenge Squats. Tony Carpino agreed to fly in and ref and help out. Ivanko bars are awfulthey are outrageously whippy and the non-standard knarling makes setting up for the deadlift quite confusing. Most guys at the USAPL meet, on the other hand, tend to not do steroids, he said. .4kg is way over the allowed variance of weight. Multiple World Champion Weight Lifter IF they used the same Texas Power Bars for that WOMEN's MEET, THE WORLD RECORDS THERE TOO ARE NOW NOT VALID. We can still make new gains and new PR's well into our master careers but we have to listen to what our bodies are telling us more. We both didn't try to make weight. He finally pulled out the pin and said it may never be straight again. George is to be feared, and why not , it isnt everyone who can squat 985 and total 2369lb. (course they also did drug tests on mike but odds are those won't be a problem). Mike Bridges - 512 lb Raw Bench @ 181 lbs (232.5 @ 82.5 kgs) 2,478 views Aug 19, 2016 35 Dislike Share Save Lexington Plummer 1.52K subscribers From the 1982 USPF Sr Nat'ls, Mike Bridges. The movement standards of powerlifting competitions are going to be a significant challenge. People need to have a reality check, as if Harold thought ..hey, let me sabotage this meet and give them a non-approved bar. to the meet director - sorry this sounded so strong. 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. 1986 1st World Powerlifting Championship #1 mike bridges training style 05-07-2008, 02:14 AM ive read about mike bridges and his records. 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. First offcongrats M.B on the records. About 45ish I began to realize that I couldn't recover from that frequency any more. Louie Simmons I am aware of the wrong bar that was shipped because I warmed up with it in the warm up room. It is the one meet I would EXPECT to see someone do a good record break! Hahahahah!!! I am aware of the wrong bar that was shipped because I warmed up with it in the warm up room. Best Lifts: No one ever say a word to him no matter what. Mike Bridges (Powerlifter) Inger Blikra (Powerlifter) Subrata Dutta . Thanks.Louie Simmons. Best Lifts: Good post, ya old fart! It seems that Jordans powerlifting was gone, but good fortune would be his as he began to train horses and became Australias top horse trainer.Lou: You know all the greats and beat them all: Marv, Phillips, Roger Estep the list is too long. Oh yeah, no squat suit until about 1976, and no disrespect, but the squat suits were not much. Then he came and got me. I recall weighing less after a meet back in those days. Week 7: 4 x 4 (55% of 1-RM) Week 8: Deload (50% of 1-RM) Week 9: 4 x 3 (75% of 1-RM) Week 10: 3 x 2 (90% OF 1-RM) This is a basic program to allow you to progress quickly. this meet director, the ipf (USAPL) refs who inspected the platform and weights, and the USAPL EC members present, tech sec, all of these should be held directly responsible for what was discovered thursday and they did not work to correct. Jons training lifts around 2300lb! northernhiro Additional comment actions. You know what I mean. Following this mind set I've won 10 Masters World Championships and broken 14 World Master's Records; and am also one of only 11 men over 50 to bench over 600 in competition. What Powerlifting Tells Us About The Effects Of PEDs. This means they have to use IPF-approved equipment on the platform. It's NOT a 45lb bar. You can train as hard as ever; but there will be a time that you have to allow more recovery time. only thing worse than being old is being an old fart. [/quote] Second, to the meet directors "if" they(IPF) actually does wipe out the records, it will be your fault, not the IPF's. $29.95. He was right. Weighing in at only 204 lbs, Mike not only went home with gold medals, but he also broke world records in the Deadlift at 650 lbs. Mike entered his first power lifting competition in 1976 and broke a world record in his very first competition. A week later Mac and I were on a jet headed for Los Angeles. Then a week after that, Frank Zane and I had a seminar in New Jersey. The events draw the best lifters in the sport of raw powerlifting, which means the men dont use assistance gear.4 As previously mentioned, Raw Unity doesnt drug test. on USA SOIL! Benchpress: 172.5kg/380lb Mike gave it hus all and was a supporter of the sumo-style deadlift and is one of the first to use it effectively. Now all the anonymous guys can come on here and bash the IPF for requiring approved equipment for records. If he would choose to use the best gear of today, it would be crazy. I started training at Bob Matzs gym in Toledo, Ohio, with George Crawford and Milt McKenzie, butwon world titles along with Larry.Larry would drive from Dayton to Toledo for four years using a simple 5-3-1 system. [/quote] I wonder how it would feel to have a 700+ pound bar slide down your back. 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. Bench: 260kg/573.2lb I slid under it and the bar hit me just over my left eye, tearing off half my eyebrow. Squat: 395kg/870lb Sign up for our newsletter and get new articles sent straight to your inbox weekly. ive seen a little on his training also here it goes mon-squat, bench max weight squat- 8,5,5,3,2,1,1,1max partial squat- 1x1 bench- 8,5,5,3,2,1,1,1 max wed-squat,bench light, max deadlift squat-8,5,5,3,1,1 about 50-60% of max All right reserved. Mike Bridges was the Ed Coan of powerlifting before there was an Ed Coan. They had time to get another bar!!! Quite simple and clear. Bridges' squat of 711 pounds, bench of 512 pounds, and total of 1,896 pounds are all new 198 class World Records. John has totaled just around 2300! 1985 Mens Senior Nationals Give me a TEXAS POWER OR OKIE. mark. In response to a question about how his training has changed as he has gotten older, powerlifting legend Mike Bridges. 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. Tests are cost prohibitive. 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! Bridges trained all three of the power lifts in the same workout, three days a week. He was a tremendous bencher. By this time I was pouring sweat and time was running out. Deadlift: 320kg/705.48lb. They had time to get another bar!!! At a national level meet you should have equipment more than 2 days prior to a meet. Benchpress: 265kg/584lb Payment methods: Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, and PayPal. While they were undoubtedly unbeatable, they were untested for the most part. Bridges was one of many record holders or top level men that included Marvin . 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. He started lifting at 58 and was that one-in-a-thousand who had that Special Super Strength. I'm fine Jesse! Mike Bridges ( Birth date: february 1, 1957) Who is that? 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". Modern powerlifters are some of the strongest people in history. Mike was the superlative powerlifter. It was a national meet. Dan is a poor bencher when it comes to fellows his weight, but he more than makes up for it in other two lifts. Author: Staff. 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. Just lift it! This was thursday--start making calls. Mike Bridges The Peoria Powerhouse as told to POWERLIFTING USA by Herb Glossbrenner Great Form from the beginning. Best Lifts: I wonder how it would feel to have a 700+ pound bar slide down your back. Had Wade Hooper eclipsed his squat record, for example, which was also QUITE possible, then what would this meet director say! Many years ago, Mike Bridges was one of the reasons I started powerlifting. A winner of five world championships and several world record. See, they cannot make an exception for a USA lifter because USA would beef huge IF a russian had an improper bar and broke records too price of having approved bars, weights, and rules. In my opinion, it's a horrible situation all the way around. Every so often an athlete shows an exceptional talent in his sport that baffles the mind. I don't think I would even care if the IPF recognized it personally. I am aware of the wrong bar that was shipped because I warmed up with it in the warm up room. That has got to be more dangerous that squatting without wraps. Harold, your meet was excellent!!!! Although he seldom works them, he has pressed 300lb from behind the neck and military pressed 325lb. GIVE ME A BREAK. But it will inevitabably follow the same process. it matters what the rules actuially are!!! way to go!!! [quote=Jack Marcus]I do not understand why the IPF is being bashed over this unfortunate incident. And it's still very hard for me to write after all these years. Log in or register to post comments Since the bar and collars must weight 25kg(55.115lbs) and the TPB and collars would weigh 56.023(25.4kg). That might not seem like much, but because these guys lift so much, it translates to between 30 and 344 pounds. My total at around age 46 was just under 1700. [quote=Anonymous]And squating without center knurling??? Deadlift: 320kg/705.48lb, Lee Moran (Birth date: may 17, 1955 Died july 15, 1999). Kyrsten Sinema's Odds Of Reelection Don't Look Great. Mike's best official lift was 608 made in 1977. I lifted my hands up and that's when I saw it. [quote=Travis Werner]I really hope the IPF overlooks this and lets the record stand. It's unfortunate that an error like this had to happen, but the bar we were using was just fine!! I was completely drained. Now that I know the whole story from Harold I feel bad about the situation and my earlier comments. A winner of five world championships and several world record. It is one thing to beat someone by all those he beat, so we want to remember him too. American Drug-Free Powerlifting Federation, 2008 American Physiological Society study, How The Federal Reserve Is The Shadow Branch Of The Government, Why Original Predictions About The War In Ukraine Were So Off. Mine was over first. Arnold Schwarzenegger (3). XTREME SQUATTING-book, XTREME DEADLIFTING-book, & ADVANCED POWERLIFTING TECHIQUES-DVD. I didn't know exactly what they were but I knew there would be some kind of difference between the bars. The TPB was usewd because it DID have center knurlings. In powerlifting, competitors vie to lift the heaviest weight possible for one rep. Be it football, hockey, basketball etc, all the organizations have license fees payed to them for everything from clothes to what glove, stick etc will be used, and in return they are the only vendors allowed to sell or have equipment used. Dan has benched 400lb in his class when most men in his class were approaching the 600lb barrier . Carl said "I realize that rules are rules but, don't shoot the horse because the jockey was overweight." All of Mel's lifts are done in extremely strict style. Jeff King: An update on a Bodybuilding Legend, Consent Management Platform by Real Cookie Banner. They took me to Grandview Hospital where a doctor friend of the family met us. The top of the pin stuck out about a quarter inch with a tiny loop that bent around. 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. Dans statue, not his weight, makes him unusual for the hings that he has done. Mac's first meet was two months before this when he qualified to lift in Victorville. We are not EliteFitness.com. Our flight out of LA was fine. The manufacture send Bench bars with the middle knurling missing and no one in the area had the right bars! Putt Houston. now with more Bom Chicka Wahwahhhhhh. 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? And there were no bench shirts until 1984, so his bench was raw as they say nowadays. The power lifts are the bench press, squat and dead lift. Gaynor said lifters at the IPF event have been more likely to get around drug tests, take PEDs leading up to the competition or have a history of PED use. Things like how they trained in the beginning. how long did u have the bar before you opened it? And Don Reinhoudt the SHW world champ. Source: As told by Larry Pacifico from Pacifico Power Systems (July 2017) On October 4, 1980 I lifted at a meet in Dayton, Ohio that I promoted. The rescue squad got there in 10 minutes and away I went. Try Squatting with all that weight with a smooth middle! why someone running a meet like this waits to the last second anyway is a damned good question. For more information, please see our 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. 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. That includes making certain that the equipment is acceptable. then on the other days he would go between 50-80% of his max for extra volume. Needless to say, the routine listed below, is designed to work on each of these lifts. [/quote] 1984Mens USPF Senior Nationals: In total, the lifters at Raw Unity put up about 17.44 percent more weight than the lifters at the USAPL competition and 3.46 percent more than those at the IPF meet. What reports? animate dead mtg combo, dead bird in dream islam,
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