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#475 Re: Legendary feats of strength
January 01, 2017, 02:17:10 pm
I did the Lopez test and scored 63 kg added on a 14mm edge, and the following day I thought someone had hit me all night long on the lower back with a sledgehammer, despite having only 50 kg at my waist with a harness.
Adding 100kg is also a logistic chore I think!

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#476 Re: Legendary feats of strength
January 01, 2017, 02:21:06 pm
I would happily pay for someone to film this man's feats.
The Internet deserves it. We deserve it. He deserves it.

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#477 Re: Legendary feats of strength
January 01, 2017, 02:43:58 pm
Yeah, I'm wondering.
For negatives at the moment, I have the 10kg vest, with the 11.3 plate tucked in the front. An 8kg divers weight belt. Hooked over that belt, I use an old rigger's safety belt, from which I hang two 25ltr jerry cans full of sand at 22kg each. To give me 73.3kg (plus gear weight).

I'm thinking I need to buy an 18kg vest and wear it over the 10kg vest and try to hang another 11.3 plate on that (most vests have a D ring for that.

I can't imagine hanging any more at the waist, that 44kg cuts me in half now.

100kg is the same as a whole me, on me, plus my 11 year old daughter!

This is a pointless feat, therefore I must try.

(Think I'll see if I can hang the small rung with the 73.3 first before I buy the weight vest, though).


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#478 Re: Legendary feats of strength
January 01, 2017, 05:37:01 pm
Something that really surprised me the first time I tested Steve Mac was that he claimed to be much weaker on the full crimp (I'd just apologised to him for saying he wasn't allowed to do his max test in full crimp as we have reservations about injury risk) on a single joint edge. At whichever arm angle he fancied. 

I said, no ways you must be wrong. At which point he quickly proved me wrong and hung quite a lot more in a open 4 finger grip! So, Haydn you can safely say you're better than Steve in this grip.

If I had the time each session to test it all (and could get round the fatigue factor) I think it'd be really interesting to score and aggregate the scores for the 3 grip positions for all people. Possibly this would be the gold standard for testing and also levels of correlation.






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#479 Re: Legendary feats of strength
January 01, 2017, 05:49:59 pm
Have witnessed Sam aka Beef doing 1 armers with a big (water) fire extinguisher in the other hand, so no doubt that that would be him doing the same with 40kg added.

Is he training to take Shaz's crown as Britain's strongest fireman?

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#480 Re: Legendary feats of strength
January 01, 2017, 06:25:08 pm
Since when is 6 foot not tall?

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#481 Re: Legendary feats of strength
January 01, 2017, 06:38:42 pm
Since when is 6 foot not tall?

I keep tellin' ya....

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#482 Re: Legendary feats of strength
January 02, 2017, 08:19:09 am
Since when is 6 foot not tall?

From my perspective 6 foot is below normal...

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#483 Re: Legendary feats of strength
January 06, 2017, 10:33:04 pm
Some new strength routines to follow here.
Maybe keep the volume low as the music is a bit grating.
Lots of ledgendary feets
Keep up the psyche in 2017!
« Last Edit: January 06, 2017, 10:45:35 pm by jfdm »

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#484 Re: Legendary feats of strength
January 08, 2017, 06:02:45 pm
Lots of ledgendary feets
Sorry JF, I'm particularly strict about what constitues a legendary feat of strength.
The video is well cool and is full of great feats of athleticism, but in my opinion the only feat worth mentioning is the weighted L-sit muscle-up at 4'15".

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#485 Re: Legendary feats of strength
January 08, 2017, 08:41:03 pm
I agree.

The "Legendary Feats of Strength" thread is a sacred ground for many of us, and it should remain as such.
No slacklining, no yoga, no irony are allowed.
We are strength talibans, barbell crusaders, power addicts with no sense of humour or compassion.
We want to dominate, and we are right.

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#486 Re: Legendary feats of strength
January 16, 2017, 09:28:54 am
Has anyone ever done a one armer on a pinch?

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#487 Re: Legendary feats of strength
January 21, 2017, 08:09:14 pm
Has anyone ever done a one armer on a pinch?

what kind of pinch are we talking about? I can one arm a pinch if it's a positive one

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#488 Re: Legendary feats of strength
January 21, 2017, 08:30:43 pm
I assume luke means a completely parallel one. I.e a 2x4 beam in a roof

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#489 Re: Legendary feats of strength
January 21, 2017, 08:59:06 pm
I assume luke means a completely parallel one. I.e a 2x4 beam in a roof

Yeah, I meant this

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#490 Re: Legendary feats of strength
January 21, 2017, 09:09:12 pm
I remember reading an article about how someone had done this. They had a positive edge on the fingers side of the beam and would sand a bit off every week until it just left the beam.

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#491 Re: Legendary feats of strength
January 22, 2017, 10:26:07 am
I would happily pay for someone to film this man's feats.
The Internet deserves it. We deserve it. He deserves it.
There is a video of the fire extinguisher one armers that Beef's girlfriend posted on facebook, don't think it's gone public though.  See if they can be persuaded to post it on youtube...?

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#492 Re: Legendary feats of strength
April 09, 2017, 06:05:35 pm

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#493 Re: Legendary feats of strength
April 09, 2017, 09:11:30 pm
Monster

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#494 Re: Legendary feats of strength
April 15, 2017, 04:35:48 pm
https://www.instagram.com/p/BS5ph2glNVn/

Certainly not legendary but it felt easier than it normally does. I put it down to having a take away last night and the extra calories helped.

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#495 Re: Legendary feats of strength
April 15, 2017, 05:19:23 pm
Beast!
You left three in the tank.

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#496 Re: Legendary feats of strength
May 02, 2017, 11:30:42 pm
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this looks suspiciously like a one arm hang on a shallow ring finger mono https://www.instagram.com/p/BTcUp5JAfkE/

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#497 Re: Legendary feats of strength
May 03, 2017, 08:37:32 am
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Ah, I really wish I could go back in time, to the happy days at the beginning of my climbing career training obsession, when all the training was about fingerboarding.
Now, there are too many things, boards, weights, conditioning, they distract me from The Only Thing That Matters.
Brilliant.

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#498 Re: Legendary feats of strength
May 03, 2017, 09:55:51 am
Nice. What takeaway was it??

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#499 Re: Legendary feats of strength
May 03, 2017, 10:14:37 am
Sorry Fiend, I don't get what you mean...
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