Thank you for posting that photo.
I was four weeks into cleaning up my diet in preparation for a local contest that was being held four weeks after that. When I found out that outside [non-sanctioned] media was not allowed, and that the total cost would be $1,000, I decided that it would be a better use of my money and time to use that $1,000 to sponsor a local strongman contest, or individual competitor - for contests that would allow me to get my own footage, and share it on my Facebook and YouTube pages. This particular contest was actually a contest that would qualify competitors for provincials. Given that I would have been the only one entering in my weight category, I would have actually been able to compete in provincials, which I find funny. I would have or could have been in decent shape...but I just found the entire event to not be worth my time. Also, Saturday and Sunday are two of my days with the kids, and I did not want to bore them by dragging them to a physique contest...essentially a male physique pageant. Also, supposedly tickets sold out fast, and would have been very hard to acquire. So I decided against it. I did get in pretty good shape in the four weeks before making that decision though.
WalterWhite...Oh God...do you recommend that I watch Breaking Bad? I kind of got into it, then maybe stopped maybe one episode into season three.
My first bench press workout of 2018 started on Saturday...so training needs to get moving NOW if I intend to re-qualify for the CAASA 170-lb Nationals. At 36 years and 19 days old, I do think I'm just starting to feel the difficulty in keeping excess body fat off...I don't think making 170-lb will be difficult, but it may not be as easy AF as it was just as recently as 2015...in this video I was 168-lb minutes before the first event [bus pull], but 163.6-lb in the clothes I have on in the video when I got home after the deadlift event [sans the shoes]:
^ That tire flip took a lot out of me, although remarkably not as much as it did the year before when I got one more flip despite being a whole 25-lb heavier [188-lb]. One more week training on that Viking Press apparatus at the gym that houses it, and I would have gotten it, but alas, I did not get that training in.
I like when Kateri - the MC - makes it a point to mention that I am the lightest guy. I think that's important. In fact, another competitor is 5'10 and 270-lb, and she called him "one of the lighter guys", LOL. There are literally guys ranging in body weight from 280-lb to 375-lb in these local contests, so yeah, I think it's fair to point out that I am under 165.
I do find it funny how on Getbig, everyone bench presses 315 for reps and deadlifts 495-lb for reps, meanwhile, the max Jay Cutler has ever deadlifted 495 for in a video was probably something like six reps. I'm not saying that he couldn't lift more than that, but it's just so strange that everyone on Getbig goes to these gyms where every lifter is as strong as can be, meanwhile, even going back to the gym after a nine month hiatus and bench pressing 225-lb as my max, I was still the second strongest person in the entire gym...only one other male lifted more than me that day - he hit 225 for a very hard five reps.
Here is me bench pressing 225-lb for 25 reps, weighing just around the 185-lb mark:
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^ That tire flip took a lot out of me, although remarkably not as much as it did the year before when I got one more flip despite being a whole 25-lb heavier [188-lb]. One more week training on that Viking Press apparatus at the gym that houses it, and I would have gotten it, but alas, I did not get that training in.
I like when Kateri - the MC - makes it a point to mention that I am the lightest guy. I think that's important. In fact, another competitor is 5'10 and 270-lb, and she called him "one of the lighter guys", LOL. There are literally guys ranging in body weight from 280-lb to 375-lb in these local contests, so yeah, I think it's fair to point out that I am under 165.
I do find it funny how on Getbig, everyone bench presses 315 for reps and deadlifts 495-lb for reps, meanwhile, the max Jay Cutler has ever deadlifted 495 for in a video was probably something like six reps. I'm not saying that he couldn't lift more than that, but it's just so strange that everyone on Getbig goes to these gyms where every lifter is as strong as can be, meanwhile, even going back to the gym after a nine month hiatus and bench pressing 225-lb as my max, I was still the second strongest person in the entire gym...only one other male lifted more than me that day - he hit 225 for a very hard five reps.
Here is me bench pressing 225-lb for 25 reps, weighing just around the 185-lb mark:
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^ That tire flip took a lot out of me, although remarkably not as much as it did the year before when I got one more flip despite being a whole 25-lb heavier [188-lb]. One more week training on that Viking Press apparatus at the gym that houses it, and I would have gotten it, but alas, I did not get that training in.
I like when Kateri - the MC - makes it a point to mention that I am the lightest guy. I think that's important. In fact, another competitor is 5'10 and 270-lb, and she called him "one of the lighter guys", LOL. There are literally guys ranging in body weight from 280-lb to 375-lb in these local contests, so yeah, I think it's fair to point out that I am under 165.
I do find it funny how on Getbig, everyone bench presses 315 for reps and deadlifts 495-lb for reps, meanwhile, the max Jay Cutler has ever deadlifted 495 for in a video was probably something like six reps. I'm not saying that he couldn't lift more than that, but it's just so strange that everyone on Getbig goes to these gyms where every lifter is as strong as can be, meanwhile, even going back to the gym after a nine month hiatus and bench pressing 225-lb as my max, I was still the second strongest person in the entire gym...only one other male lifted more than me that day - he hit 225 for a very hard five reps.
Here is me bench pressing 225-lb for 25 reps, weighing just around the 185-lb mark:
I have also been extremely consistent with my strength over the years, and only in the past year has my walking around weight gone above 180. I posted this video in 2011, but it is actually from the summer of 2010, around seven months before the date I posted it:
The blue certificate on my wall is from the contest below...as you can see, only six gentlemen attended the contest, but the other five were the strongest in the city...my point is, I keep hearing how strong the average Getbigger is...meanwhile, I have been competing in strength contests for 12 years now, and the supposed average lifter on Getbig is strong enough to place in the top 10 in my city's Strongest Man contest in the open weight category...yeah - no. I don't believe that at all.
But hey, what can I say? This is Getbig, where everyone bench presses 315 for reps as a final set leading up to their first working set. I suppose I just need to change my outlook to "Strive to be average!" Maybe one day I'll make it there.