Yeah he was right. The movement standards of powerlifting competitions are going to be a significant challenge. 1986 1st World Powerlifting Championship I seem to remember Mike Bridges getting stiffed on a squat at the USAPL Nationals in 2004. I checked my watch and had three hours to sleep and make the flight. For example, 7 sets x 3 reps at a lower percentage (50-60%) of . 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. George has put his time in and i know we all appreciate Georges effort in supporting the game through his participation. It is not the training intensity per workout that changes as a lifter ages; it is our training frequency (recovery period allowed) that must be adapted. A 13 year old Ed saw Bill Kazmaier powerlift on television and he was instantly hooked. At 49 it was 2006 lbs. how long did u have the bar before you opened it? [/quote] [/quote] I am aware of the wrong bar that was shipped because I warmed up with it in the warm up room. My middle finger and both the fingers on each side were caught. You won't believe my luck. Putt Houston. now with more Bom Chicka Wahwahhhhhh. Bridges weighed just. "Bars dont grow on trees, what would you have done in this situation??" We took off and I told him what happened. Guys felt like they had to take them to stay competitive, and that became problematic, Gaynor said. The International Powerlifting Federation Hall of Fame began in 1978 to recognize powerlifters who had competed in the IPF and officials who had shaped the IPF. Good luck to all of them. Didn't he check up the rule-book? 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. Powerlifting had one federation, one national champion, Gaynor said. Heres how those numbers compare for each lift.7. It's NOT a 45lb bar. The rule states only official approved bars can be used for the setting of world records. Peoria, IL. 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. 2023 ABC News Internet Ventures. if you're meant to be in this sport, you are already more durable over the years than most gym lifters. No one expects any more of you. Everything else is the liquid inside the glass. Why should IPF bend rules for 1 fed in its group rather than for another.(and since they only do that for rus or ukrwellthere's your answer). It can be said that in a way he is a carbon copy of Ed coan. Best Lifts: I invited several well-known lifters of that time: the great Mike Bridges, Terry Dillard, Dave Waddington, Steve Wilson, and Mark Chaillet. That number is even more amazing when you consider that at the 1968 German powerlifting championships, 176-pound Arnold Schwarzenegger squatted 460 pounds. The bar we used was 45lbs plus the collars. 711 still weighs 711 on a Texas Power Bar or an Ivanko! Since the bar and collars must weight 25kg(55.115lbs) and the TPB and collars would weigh 56.023(25.4kg). I walked around and found a check-in counter down a hallway. oh yeah and IPF who gets the SPONSOR FUNDING EVERY YEAR for keeping them APPROVED. way to go!!! What Powerlifting Tells Us About The Effects Of PEDs Harold put on a great meet. In response to a question about how his training has changed as he has gotten older, powerlifting legend Mike Bridges. Thread Tools. If they were lifetime PR's for you as well, then even greater congratulations are indeed in order! 80's Power Lifting Stars - NECKBERG 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. Records should not have to be sacrificed because of this. I like my ProKinetics and I recommend you try them! To this day 37 years later, I don't know why I tried to bail out from that bar. Squat: 365kg/804.69lb So as we got off the plane Paul was waiting for us to step off the plane. Sams donation to powerlifting is stupendous! I drove it to within an inch from locking it out. Wow. 7. I lowered it, but too slow. Once inside and rolling, they put the piece of finger that came off in some of the ice and stuck it in my sweatshirt pocket. When you squat 800 pounds, every joint in your body needs to be optimally aligned. That's when Bridges competed in the ADFPA (American Drug Free Powerlifting Association). fed ex, several people with bars in ATTENDANCE who could have had fed ex deliver them, there's NO EXCUSE in this day and age. This happened to Mike Bridges. ALL THOSE RECORDS ARE NOW DEAD TOO. Pacificos best competition lifts are an 832-pound squat, 592-pound bench press (without a bench shirt), a 771-pound deadlift, and a 2061-pound total. 1. And Don Reinhoudt the SHW world champ. Mike Bridges On Training As A Master | Powerlifting Watch On another note, the IPF will truly commit a crime if they take Mike's records due to this smallest of technicalities. But it will inevitabably follow the same process. C'mon. thanks Jeff Mumaw. Actually the whole meet was against the rules of the USAPL. Dr. Kunitz would go back and forth from one to the other to the other. See you in Georgia! You had Mike Bridges who astonished the world with his absolute dominance and ground breaking lifts. Mike Bridges (1982) WORLD RECORD (181 lbs / 82.5 kg) POWERLIFTING TOTAL For all weight classes, world records in bench press, squat and dead lift are, on average, 7.9, 6.0 and 6.4 percent heavier, respectively, when the competition doesnt test for PEDs. Best Lifts: . Whats more, nearly every powerlifter who competed at the U.S. competition and went on to the IPF event saw a significant drop.2. It will be a **** shame if Mike is stripped of these records. [quote=Jack Marcus]I do not understand why the IPF is being bashed over this unfortunate incident. I went to get up but the pin was hooked into the carpet and I couldn't move. :), [quote=Anonymous][quote=Jeff Fiss]Harold put on a great meet. it matters what the rules actuially are!!! I'm sure if anything does happen like records being reversed, the people who are invloved will only use this as motivation to exceed their previous lifts. The one thing that keeps Lee from the world record total is a poor deadlift. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. 1981Mens Senior Nationals And they'd be American records. its not the fault of the ipf, but the stuff up of the meet directors!!! Mike Bridges - Bridges was one of the greatest powerlifters of all time, competing in the 165 and 181 pound classes. Mike's. The fact that Teds total may have been low does not depreciate the astronomical effort he has left us with. Mike Bridges 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. Strength is like a glass, said lifting coach Brett Jones, who is considered one of the best trainers in the country. I went 760, 810, 832. If this is how the IPF treats their lifters it's no wonder that the WPC Eurasian Cup has 635 lifters pre- registered to lift! if i were running the damned thing, i'd be double checking EVERYTHING. 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. Second, the guys that want to do drugs and get around a test can and will. On the other end of the spectrum, USA Powerlifting (USAPL) vehemently tests lifters, and its slogan is Americas choice for drug-free strength sport.. :)[/quote] Within the circuits of power lifting, Mike is known as The Legend. 6. 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. Dan, like Ed and Fred Hatfield, has proven that the little man is in! George has spread his body weight from 242 pounds all the way to the high 300s. The distinction between the groups histories with strength-enhancing drugs is important because these drugs dont just flush out completely they can leave a lasting impact. Dan has benched 400lb in his class when most men in his class were approaching the 600lb barrier . Or will the USAPL overlook something again? C'mon. 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. [quote=Jeff Fiss]Harold put on a great meet. Steroids have been clearly shown to increase muscle mass, and theres a direct correlation between muscle cross-sectional area and the ability to produce force, said Brad Schoenfeld, an exercise scientist at the City University of New Yorks Lehman College. Several people in the area had Ivenko Bars--within 2oo miles I bet there were four available. View Profile View Forum Posts . A meet with the quality of lifters, albeit the lack of numbers it has previously enjoyed, SHOULD have been prepared to entertain world record attempts. yes. Another set of interesting data is world records. LARRY PACIFICO | Westside Barbell DUMB, the man had spanking new Ivanko weights and ER rack on the platform, to think that the bar was his underminding the rules is plain stupid. 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. Just lift it! he did this for 10 years and kept progressing but he's unreal. As a lifter who has done both USAPL and IPF meets, I suspect you will be denied your records as they both are inflexible and it's the rule book. Arnold Schwarzenegger (3). Rogers post about changing the frequency of training seems to fit. But when Bridges took the stage later that year at the International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) championships in Gotenborg, Sweden, and fired off the three lifts, his typical strength wasnt there. [quote=TheGymMuse] For example, at a drug-tested meet in 2002, Mike Booker squatted 551 pounds but weighed just 132 pounds. I envied Larry for having such good training partners and a coach like Bob Matz. Well, if you have ever lifted with an Eleiko or Leoko bar, they are similar to a Texas, so I would state this wouldn't be that big of a deal and a DL record set on a TPB vs. an Ivanko is arguably harder to hold on to and more distance traveled. So in a desperate effort, I rolled to my left and the fucking pin pulled all the way out. Steve Powell has uploaded video of the first two squat attempts of powerlifting legend and pre-meet favorite, Mike Bridges (198), at the USAPL CON-CRET Raw Challenge at the Arnold Classic. With respect to direct lat work, you will neither find it in the detailed 1982 article by Ron Fernando, disclosing, I was there, front row at the USF SunDome in Tampa covering the contest for The Tampa Tribune when Jeff, Dave was 7 years my elder and my teen years weightlifting idol. Deadlift: 365kg/804.69lb. 1983 Mens Senior Nationals Bridges weighed just 173 pounds, but at the 1983 U.S. Powerlifting Federations (USPF) national championships, he bench pressed, squatted and dead lifted1 a combined 2,011 pounds. Ed did one bodybuilding show as a teenager but he did not like the idea of losing weight, he wanted to become as big as possible. 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. I've never really changed anything. Deadlift: 285kg/628.32lb(WR). It was the first issue where my name wasn't there for the first time in 10 years. Then the bar hit the supporting brace below the bench on the left side. How about dougs billing squat 985lb. He went on to win seven national and three world titles. My hand was slipping off the bar when it hit. I had plenty of ice packed around my hand. Come on, guys.Mike LIFTED the f***ing weight! they say he found out thursday. We are not EliteFitness.com. I checked the rules on the USAPL site and they just referenced the IPF rules. do you think that maxing every week will hinder progress? 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. TPB makers stood to gain by keeping the sponsorship fee up, after all, it's a BUSINESS.[/quote]. I recall weighing less after a meet back in those days. Deadlift: 367.5kg/810lb, Full Article:George Hechters incredible weight loss, Doug Furnas (Birth date: december 11, 1959 Died march 2, 2012). NO ONE HAD THE RIGHT BARS!! Exhibition lifts include an 885-pound squat, 610-pound bench press, and 815-pound deadlift, for a total of 2061 pounds. No one ever say a word to him no matter what.The Conversation. Mike Bridges indeed used anabolic/androgenic steroids (along with everybody else) to amass his several world record squats and totals in the IPF. 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. To many, the author included, a case can be made for Bridges being among the best three lifters in the history of the sport. Tragedy struck again on our way back to Dayton. I can attest to that because I lifted in the Master's Nat's in Charlottesville, VA and along with a IPF Cat I ref, pointed out a number of infrations which where simply explained away. I was married three times.Lou: How many world records did you break in your illustrious career?Larry: 54Lou: I know you had rivals along the way. 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. That includes making certain that the equipment is acceptable. In powerlifting, competitors vie to lift the heaviest weight possible for one rep. If this is your first visit, be sure to
Terry Todd isn't merely the United States' first national powerlifting champion (in 1964 and '65), he was also the first man to total 1,600, 1,700, 1,800, and 1,900 pounds. I doubt it, that's wishful thinking and USAPL is at fault. not screwing up in front of the WORLD. Larry: We had a great team back then and I will always look back to the early days without so much politics. My finger was bleeding and I was sweating and I had to make that flight. After getting out of the Army I started to compete in and around Ohio. As I'm now fast closing on 49 I find my biggest problem is not overtraining, but under-recovering. why someone running a meet like this waits to the last second anyway is a damned good question. I dont drug test at Raw Unity for a couple reasons, said Eric Talmant, who organizes and competes in Raw Unity, an event considered by some to be the Super Bowl of American raw powerlifting. Steroids split us into two federations. Over time, more groups broke off from both the USPF and drug-free federation, splintering the sport further. We landed in St. Louis five hours later. Ivanko bars are awfulthey are outrageously whippy and the non-standard knarling makes setting up for the deadlift quite confusing. 3. dont lie to everyone who questioned the bar and keep insisting it was an old Ivenko bar. Gaynor said most powerlifters think PEDs give them about a 7 to 12 percent increase in strength. Mike Bridges Training - Starting Strength the only people who are happy with those lousy bars are benchers. 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. I could not believe it Paul was calling my room and even trying to send girls to my room. 1980 IPF Men's World Powerlifting Championships The events just bring in two different powerlifting cultures. IPF did not return requests for comment. To: Chip Hultquist..would like to know more about your hip replacement; facing the same thing..30+ yrs of powerlifting. The manufacture send Bench bars with the middle knurling missing and no one in the area had the right bars!