[Gus]

you done 200 yet youth??

[mark s]

thats my bestest.did 180 ok this week so shall try and beat it in a couple of weeks

[douglas]

When you did 200 mark how many reps at 180 could you do? 3?

[mark s]

i cant remember how many i could do in a set.i do remember 180 feeling ok so stuck 1/2 a plate a side on and it felt a lot heavy but did it.i used straps on wrists and a belt

[Fultonius]

I can't believe you were once a climber and now are admitting to using wrist traps for deadlifting. 

[mark s]

guilty as charged.
i did intend to climb last weekend but was too cold for a potter around.off work today and tomorrow but its raining in leek now,so once the little un has gone to my mums im off to the gym hehe

once the weather gets better i will climb again.until then gym rules the roost.

[douglas]

Straps make sense as a climber deadlifting...

[Stubbs]

How come?

[a dense loner]

Because very few climbers won't be able to lift 200kg with their hands

[Stubbs]

I'm pretty sure I could point you at a lot of climbers who would struggle to lift 200 kg with their hangs. For the average 60 kg midget would that not require similar grip to hanging off a bar with 140 kg of added weight?

[douglas]

Average 60kg midgets don't deadlift 200. Deadlifts tire the grip is a way that is not applicable to climbing strength. Therefore it is better to lift with straps and train fingers on a fingerboard. A lot of people on here say don't use straps, but do they even lift. Probably not.

[Falling Down]

I don't use straps

[a dense loner]

Neither do i

[mark s]

I use them at the heavier end of what i can lift .my grip will go before my back and its my back i want to feel the weight.theres plenty other lifts if do and only deadlifts with straps.my grip hasn't suffered as at work when we are bored we squeeze the scales and i easily beat the other lads.

[a dense loner]

Don't worry shaz I don't lift 200kg.

I said neither do I cos I wanted to be as random as falling down

[mark s]

haha,bet you could if you tried for a bit,you and ben arnt the usual shape you see climbing.

[Falling Down]

Certainly not at the moment at any rate.

[a dense loner]

I don't know about you FD but I'm taking shaz's remarks as a compliment 

[Paul B]

I don't use straps

Neither do i

but then again I certainly am nowhere near 200kg, that'd be over 3 times my bodyweight!

I use them at the heavier end of what i can lift .my grip will go before my back and its my back i want to feel the weight.theres plenty other lifts if do and only deadlifts with straps.my grip hasn't suffered as at work when we are bored we squeeze the scales and i easily beat the other lads.

Brilliant. The yellow pages dropped off a stack of books for the flat blocks where I live and it made me remember the phonebook tearing incident/thread. I also spent a good few minutes trying to tear one whilst waiting for the lift (yes, lift). Obviously I failed, and they're not even full thickness anymore!

[Stubbs]

Yeah I bet you're shit at climbing though Paul, if you can't deadlift 200kg or tear a phone book!

[a dense loner]

Who mentioned climbing?

[Stubbs]

I did, just then.

[Falling Down]

I don't know about you FD but I'm taking shaz's remarks as a compliment 

Damn right..   

[SA Chris]

when we are bored we squeeze the scales

Those long winter days must just flit by.

[mark s]

it can get competitive lol
we have got to do a fitness test at work now and some had it done on tuesday.it reads body fat % muscle % muscle in each quarter of body etc etc .you get a print out of it at the end
didnt get time to do mine yet but lots of comparing was going on.