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Its strange how many think sumos are easier than conventional. The biggest deadlifts in history are all conventional Benedikt Magnusson, Andy Bolton both over 1000lbs, Konstantinov, Koklyaev over 900lbs, even here in Oz Odell Manuel 400kg, George McLaren 375kg. There is no doubt though that some are more suited to sumo. Here in the gym we have 2 guys pull 300kg conventional, Martin should be next and he has switched to sumo, Dan has 290kg conventional and Roger has pulled 300kg but not in a comp, he too is conventional

Mixed grip, seldom or never change Used sumo if it enables you to pull more in competition. If your not competing, pull conventional, even sumo comp lifters do that for most of the year

The best effect I ever saw from Tabata was simple Thrusters, anything else, including squats, was soft

That should set off alarm bells

A few points. Training for martial yet never competing seems pretty pointless to me, just my opinion. Max's training partner is Daniel America, has his own gym but trains here 7 x week. He is 2 time World Kickboxing Champion. He shares the same view as me, in regards to his clients, the ones that never step in a ring don't do to well. Crossfit. Rick at Ironedge spotted that Max would do extremely well at Crossfit, bodyweight, powerlifting, weightlifting, speed, endurance. Offered to sponsor Max to train exclusively for Crossfit, with an eye to eventually being able to qualify for Worlds, eventually. Max actually laughed in Ricks face, not a chance in hell. Sounded like a good deal to me. So as far as anyone from PTC competing at Crossfit, besides Nina, not likely. Mitch if your goal is seriously to deadlift 100kg and run 100m, you dont need Crossfit mate. I know most of you think were just powerlifters, but our training helps everywhere. Max has run the 20m sprint in 2.69, check the AFL draft record, did a 14.6 beep test, stopped because there was no one left running at soccer training, has posted a National Qualifying weight lifting total in the gym, at 173cm can jump with no step and hang off a 10' ring. You know about his powerlifting. He is a sound athlete, but nowhere near what Rich Froning is, we have tremendous respect for Rich here at PTC, but he didnt get where he did doing WADS in boxes. Crossfitters are not very strong and powerlifters are not very fit, but its MUCH MUCH MUCH harder to get stronger than fitter. Lift like a lifter, then do sprints Thats my biased view

One of the issues I see with training in a Crossfit box is that you cant simply go in and train at most of them, you need to do the WOD. If any of you watch the World Games, those extremely fit strong athletes with the hot bods dont do much, if any, WOD's. Because no one knows whats coming up at Worlds, they train everything, but not in a WOD style. Armando is our weightlifting coach, he teaches the OL at Crossfit boxes in the area, because nobody there is truly qualified as an OL coach. I see that as a positive, having the sense to bring in an expert gets a tick from me. We also get many Crossfitters come in needing to increase their squat and deadlift strength, I've written about this too many times to bring it up again. Makes sense, want to get stronger, seek a PL coach. Another tick. So, no secret that to do well in Crossfit competition, you need some strength and technique, which is obviously best outsourced, what are you paying $2,500 a year for? Nina thought a switch to Crossfit would be good for her training, so we researched WOD's........she ended up doing the Male ones, in really good times, and she's never Crossfitted before, experience from the "better" Crossfitters that have come in shows us that they are not even close to what our powerlifters do. What I'm saying is, Max, Martin, Conor, Nina, Wayne etc will do much, much better at Crossfit than any Crossfitter from a surrounding box will do at powerlifting. This is not made up stuff, its from experience, I can quote figures etc, even have one training here 5 x week, from St Kilda, if I posted his numbers you guys wouldnt believe, I secretly recorded him to show Nina because she didnt believe me. Thats just my take on it, I'm sure someone else will have a different view, but please comment on guys and girls training in boxes, not the Elite that crossed over from other sports and dont do WODS, they dominate Worlds each year. Big cash, swimming, throwing, draws athletes from different sports, cant swim and throw in a box, why are they done at Worlds?

Boz absolutely nailed it. Crossfit as a sport is interesting and exciting, Crossfit as an exercise regime has some issues, good to see Boz knows them and understands them

Today at PTC

Front squats are the #1 assistance exercise we do for our powerlifters, along with high bar squats and pause squats. The whole team does these lifts on squats day

Now its big http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2013/09/24/13/53/weighlifter-fails-picks-weight-up-for-win

I love it lol

Next week............he deadlifted 320kg off blocks the next day. He honestly didnt have a mark on him and was in no pain, he only stopped his session because it was his last lift

Thats a sign Bozo

So can crossing the road

There are very few Olympic lifting gyms in Australia, 2 in Vic, HWC and Phoenix. Power racks are unheard of, they all use squat stands. Any missed front squat is simply dumped on the ground, hence the bumper plates I dont expect lifters or PT's in commercial to understand front squats, just like I dont expect a car dealer to understand why my car needs to tun 10 second quarters Very few gyms even have bumper plates, all Crossfit gyms do though. We have 26 x 25kg bumpers 26 x 20kg bumpers 14 x 15kg bumpers 18 x 10kg bumpers 4 x 5kg bumpers These are just the bumper plates, we also have calibrated plates and regular plates

Oh, sorry Bozo, misunderstood. He comes in about 5pm, I'll let you guys know lol

Martin has copped no shit, he misses a front squat every Saturday in the gym. Martins claim to fame? He has all the GPC teen WR in the 82.5kg class He has all the junior GPC WR in the 82.5kg class He has the Open Men GPC WR for deadlift I have lost count of his National Records He is sponsored by Ironedge, features on the cover of their catalogue, and inside His best lifts, raw, are 255kg squat, 160kg bench and 290kg deadlift. He is 20 years old

You know what else helps squats and deads? I started a new thread on Marty and put up his NEW video after I started getting calls from news networks. This is going to get bigger. Funny how nobody wants to know about his 290kg deadlift but theyre all over a missed front squat lol

For those that missed it, last weekend Martin fainted under a 180kg front squat Then nine.msn get hold of the story http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/remove-bar-from-windpipe-then-squat-guy-faints-in-gym-fail/story-fneuzle5-1226725940365 Then Fox FM get hold of it http://www.fox.com.au/shows/fifi-and-jules/blogs/2013/9/what-happens-next/ They ring me, and I tell them Marty is fine, in fact he front squatted 180kg on Saturday............and I filmed it. They plead with me to post it, so I just did Wow, all this over a missed front squat

Your gym sounds pretty good Birds

Cheap Chinese bars bend with 200kg. I was given 5-6 of them for free, all gone. Our squat bars are good for 600kg, 35mm diameter, made in Finland, $1000 Our Eleiko bars are the best in the world, have 3 of them, $2000 each Our deadlift bars can handle anything anyone can deadlift, the biggest dead of all was done on a Texas bar, we have 4 at $1000 each Best local bar is ABC, hands down, cost $600, we have a dozen of them. In the 6 years we have been open we have not bent a bar I bought, only the $180 Chinese bars I was given, hence why they are now at 2 local football clubs Very few commercial gyms will even buy ABC bars, just Chinese ones Your mate should go to Musclepit or PTC Leesh, they encourage 1RM's

I have a girl who is schizophrenic and suffers paranoia, shes doing okay. As far as depression goes, pretty hard to be depressed in here, lots of fun, mucking around, jokes, stealing guys cars and having them reported to the cops, freezing their belts etc, normal stuff. So to answer your question, I tell my clients that if they walk through the door theyre right to train. We do have some retarded lifters like Ross, but most like him lol No ones a lost cause, no one

Anyway its yours if you want it mate, no rush, theyre not for sale

No shes brand new to lifting, she has a 23yo son Dan, he's 6'6" and 155kg lol, Jack While I've got you Dan, I have 2 x 50lb plates, 4 x 25lb plates and 2 x 10lb plates, plus some small stuff, all 1" hole, if you want to pick up, for the never to be repeated price of free.99. These are very thin plates, easy to get heaps of weight on the bar, around 100kg (220lb)