It is a well known factoid that the reason men start lifting weights is to get massive powerful biceps like me;
Yoke Comparison
Last year at the South Downs Strongman Challenge I did the Yoke Walk with 260 kg and it looked like this;
Walking Nowhere
Take a look at the following video of me ‘practicing’ for the Yoke Walk;
Walking on the spot with 326 kg puts 406 kg through the floor through one leg
A Christmas Message of Good Cheer
So it is the Christmas period? Ask yourself what you should be doing. You should be lifting weights, because you don’t get stronger by not lifting weights. Lifting weights is like eating, or sleeping… its something you have to do regularly.
Bench Press
I’ve being doing bench presses in an attempt to improve my abysmal bench press. It is fun doing them, probably because its not one of those lifts that sucks the life out of the nervous system, yet it looks like a decent weight is bobbing up and down. I use 10 kg plates to make it look like there is more weight than there is
An Excellent Waiter
Carrying a bunch of plates is a simple exercise… but can be quite knackering
Recoil
184 kg × 8 reps wrist straps monolift, 184 kg hook grip monolift deadstop, 184 kg alternate grip right, 190 kg sumo alternate grip left
“Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”
An excellent exercise to cure unattractiveness is the deadlift. It will give you a tremendous butt, hamstrings and back, just like Madonna. The politically correct would say that it is a dangerous exercise that should, if it must, be done only under expert supervision. The politically correct are very unattractive.
My previous deadlift max for 10 reps was 163 kg, my previous max for 5 reps was 173 kg;
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