Man lifts 1,555 pounds in a deadlift

[mart]

It seeems that when we sees guys lift massive amounts of weight, they don`t look like the typical "cut" body builder. They look more like the guys from "worlds strongest men". I must be a much different type of training (and diet)?
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=What+a+man+deadlifting+1,155+lbs+looks+like

 

[ronan]

He is Lucky he didn't pop his o-ring !

 

[stormin]

Didnt even look like to much effort for Big Z there. Sure he could've had a few more pounds on.
The strongman deadlift is different than the olympic deadlift, due to starting bar height being higher, so much heavier lifts are possible.

You're right about the physique being different. The legendary Jon Pall Sigmarsson, four times worlds strongest man, used to diet for body building comps and bulk up for strongman comps a difference of around 30 to 35 kg. The extra muscle mass being required for strongman.

 

[Dave Sherwood]

He ain't been shopping with my wife.

 

[500e]

He ain't been shopping with my wife.

 

[inchpincher]

Impressive but your title is 400lbs more impressive!

 

[bigegg]

A body-building exercise regime is designed to "pump" the muscles - to make them as large as possible (sort of - they have to be in proportion), and is done strictly for appearance - regardless of actual strength - Typically in multiple sets of 6-8reps at a reasonably high weight - and using many different variation on an exercise to ensure that all parts of a muscle experience growth (this is the "body sculpting" part) such as (as a simple example) instead of a "normal" bench press, incline (head/body raised to 30/45/60 degrees) and decline versions (head/body dropped to 30deg), with half movements (either from chest to halfway up, or from halfway up to peak)
The diet is restrictive in that it is high protein (from muscle growth) but also calorie/fat controlled to decrease body fat, so the muscles are more obvious.

A powerlifter, in general, trains for strength, and power (as in speed of muscle contraction). Typically by starting with 4-6 reps at a high weight, then increasing the weight, and dropping the reps until single lifts at maximum weight are performed (to failure).
These are usually simple, (compound) exercises - a full benchpress, but done "explosively".
Specialised movements are usually only done to target a specific weakness (such as after an injury)
Diet is typically high protein/high carbs to encourage muscle recovery and give enough energy to train - fat restriction is optional

As a guide, my gym used to have a saying - bodybuilders eat steak and egg white, and chicken breast, and plain white rice, and skimmed milk. - power lifters eat cheeseburgers, and whole chickens, and chips, and body builders. Washed down with guiness

 

[the snooper]

Impressive but your title is 400lbs more impressive!

what a let down
and the tyres were filled helium

 

[brightspark]

they may be able to lift all that weight but they cant sustain it all day, i had a weightlifter working for me he bragged he could lift ever so many kg. i gave him a job of removing 14 -8 foot twin light fittings and replace them with new ones. the fanny couldnt even hold one up with one hand and screw them up with the other on his own . theres not a days work in them

 

[Pete.]

I'm impressed with the fact he got it off the floor, bu tI'd like to see him try it again with a bar that doesn't bend

 

[Sean]

gym bunnies just dont have any stamina seen it in outdoor pursuits work and site work.

 

[mart]

A body-building exercise regime is designed to "pump" the muscles - to make them as large as possible (sort of - they have to be in proportion), and is done strictly for appearance - regardless of actual strength - Typically in multiple sets of 6-8reps at a reasonably high weight - and using many different variation on an exercise to ensure that all parts of a muscle experience growth (this is the "body sculpting" part) such as (as a simple example) instead of a "normal" bench press, incline (head/body raised to 30/45/60 degrees) and decline versions (head/body dropped to 30deg), with half movements (either from chest to halfway up, or from halfway up to peak)
The diet is restrictive in that it is high protein (from muscle growth) but also calorie/fat controlled to decrease body fat, so the muscles are more obvious.

A powerlifter, in general, trains for strength, and power (as in speed of muscle contraction). Typically by starting with 4-6 reps at a high weight, then increasing the weight, and dropping the reps until single lifts at maximum weight are performed (to failure).
These are usually simple, (compound) exercises - a full benchpress, but done "explosively".
Specialised movements are usually only done to target a specific weakness (such as after an injury)
Diet is typically high protein/high carbs to encourage muscle recovery and give enough energy to train - fat restriction is optional

As a guide, my gym used to have a saying - bodybuilders eat steak and egg white, and chicken breast, and plain white rice, and skimmed milk. - power lifters eat cheeseburgers, and whole chickens, and chips, and body builders. Washed down with guiness

That is a very good explanation defining the distinction. I`ve never seen it explained before, but what you say makes a lot of sense, and the way you put it across is easy to understand.

 

[mart]

gym bunnies just dont have any stamina seen it in outdoor pursuits work and site work.

What would you say the reason for this is? Could it be that not enough cardio is done in their training schedules, or something else?

 

[brightspark]

What would you say the reason for this is? Could it be that not enough cardio is done in their training schedules, or something else?

the reason being is there not doing hard graft 7 days a week. i had arm muscles like popeye years ago riving large armourded cables overhead .installing lighting trunking and fittings up and down stairs 60 times a day .water skiing and off road biking. it takes a few years to build that up. not just a few hours a day with a few poxy weights. we call them carpet carriers round our way cos they walk round with there arms out and hands against there waist

 

[Sean]

What would you say the reason for this is? Could it be that not enough cardio is done in their training schedules, or something else?

Ive no idea used to get body building types coming on some of my courses and they had trouble walking up a hill with a full rucksack they sweated and puffed and constantly drank sports drinks - folk built like whippets would carry the same packs over the same terrain without breaking sweat

similarly on site work had to move some bi fold doors so i could tile under them The foreman was a bodybuilder and built like a brick ****house two of us held the door and took the weight while the 3rd man undid the fixings at the top track, Foreman was hiuffing an puffing after the door dropped 3rd man had a go about me struggling with the weight - i was fine, foreman had to be somewhere else urgently.

perhaps its to do with the 2 differing types of muscle fibers Ive always been a lanky/skinny type but excelled at any endurance activity couldn't run really fast but could run all day up hills and down dales.

 

[bigegg]

As I said above - there's a heck of a difference between a body builder and a powerlifter. (A "weight lifter" could be either).
Certainly for some of the "world's strongest men" events, stamina plays a part - but over 10 minutes, not 10 hours!
Body builder's do not train for stamina - they can't - because the typical exercises for stamina actually reduce muscle size. Nor is the diet conducive with stamina. A smallish amount (20-40%) of the energy reserves for stamina events come from fat stored in or near the muscles. A body builder purposely reduces those reserves to make his muscles more prominent. The reason most long distance athletes are "like whippets" is because they are constantly using and restoring those fat reserves, so they never have time to build up as in a more sedentary person

I was a martial-artist (heavy weight judo/jiu jitsu, before it became "MMA"), but was definitely "brick outhouse" - 16st, 5'7, and <10% body fat.

Not so much now, but at the peak of my fitness - say in my mid 20s, in a typical week, mon-fri I would run 14 miles a day (7 miles to and from work - where I spent most of it stacking 20-30kg rolls of fabric),
2 hours in gym lifting heavy weights + an hour's cardio (rowing machine usually) tues + thursday,
Jiu Jitsu training 3hrs a day mon, weds, fri, saturday.
Sunday was my day off, and I'd typically have a 5 or 6 hour walk in the dales, or a cycle to the coast (140 mile round trip)

I ran the Leeds 1/2 marathon in 1996 - 2hrs 12minutes, quite proud of that against the lanky stick insect types that usually compete in the long distance running stuff.

 

[dannyp]

work mucsel and gym muscel are defantly diffrent.

never thought of myself as being fit more like fat but some years ago when doing a lot of plastering i got dragged into an arm wresteling compotion against various soposedly fit / strong gym people. quite suprised how littel strength some of the really strong looking ones had, and how littel endurance the rest had. but holding a trowel for 9+ hours a day might have had something to do with it. now i'm playing with steel have nowhere near the stamina in my arms but probay more power.

as for running i've allways been useless at that proaly carry a gas bottel further walking than i can run

 

[SBK]

A phrase that springs to mind is being builder fit.
anyone who has started working on site will understand.

 

[owas]

Fast twitch muscle fibres - lifting weights, so alot of energy in a short amount of time
Slow twitch muscle fibres - endurance, maintaining an average amount of strength over a period of time

Powerlifting has definitely helped with all the manual work I do, the powerlifting/strongman side usualy does.
Bodybuilding not so much.

 

[marlinspike]

Bodybuilding is definitely about appearance, proportion, and definition as opposed to strength. I read somewhere that Arnold Schwarzenegger had to lose some weight and bulk to play Conan the Barbarian because his thighs were too big to run properly.

It's interesting how different body shapes and sizes are good at different things. I remember years ago in the BBC series 'Superstars' the little skinny guys were always better at the dips because the musclely big blokes couldn't support their own weight.