Stop worrying about Eddie Hall, someone who is elite in his field, and at the top tier of what he does. It has nothing to do with you. There is literally no comparison.
But once again, his "perfect form" is perfect WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF WHAT HE WAS DOING.
He could have done full lockout as well, albeit not as many reps, yet still full ROM and no shaky shakes.
In one of Dave Palumbo Bros vs. Pros events, they bench pressed 225 for reps. Michael Liberatore didn't lock out something like 43 reps, and therefore zero reps were counted. He was wearing headphones at the time, and didn't hear the judge's command to stop. But I agree that we should be completing full reps, if the event in question is a max reps one.
Regarding Eddie:
I would generally take issue with Eddie's form for not locking out, but in his case it's probably a record REGARDLESS, so I'm ok with it.
In other words - handling that much weight for that many reps is pretty impressive, regardless of his form.
Now, on a much smaller scale, relating this to me:
It blows my mind that I post a video of me pressing 100-lb dumbbells for seven reps - which is a good lift by ANY standard - and to have that lift trashed on here.
If the comments were "Strong lift, but you need to go down a few inches more on each rep, so you'd probably get a few less reps if you did that", I'd be like "Ok, cool."
But to shit on a press which is not doubt among the best pressing strength currently on Getbig - that I don't get.
And then to give Eddie a pass despite not locking out, and the subsequent savings of energy that correspond with that...it just makes me wonder if people here are just trashing my reps just to trash them.
Trashing my 120-lb dumbbells bench press is one thing - that was legitimately bad form [keeping in mind gyms JUST opened here again on March 24th, and I haven't been able to get in the groove of properly lifting heavy] - but trashing my dumbbell presses, which were considerably better form, in particular my previous video [below] which really wasn't THAT bad [especially for the weight] is another matter entirely.
My form was slightly off, to be sure, but that's a good weight with ok form.
Even my video bench pressing the 120-lb dumbbells was pretty good, in that it demonstrated good strength.
I mean, I've seen videos of people doing 200-lb dumbbells with bad form, and my response is still - that's strong as hell.
What's more insane about all this is that the Canadian 80kg Circus Dumbbell record is 156-lb, and I am on track to breaking the record.
So to have my presses trashed - my only response is "Seriously??"
My pressing is at a very competitive level for my weight class. Not the best - but just...competitive. And yet I get shit on here. So my response to that is that it makes me question how credible ANY of the criticisms are here.
Walter Sobchak is just some nasty piece of shit, like SquadFatter before him. He criticizes just for the sake of criticizing. Sometimes I don't even want to hear CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM, but at the current time - I do.
But if people are going to make comments like that I need to go a full foot lower, or that I wouldn't be able to get any reps with the 100-lb dumbbells if I improved my form [bullshit], or that I'm saving energy by skimping out on range of motion while giving Eddie Hall the pass for skimping out on his range of motion as well, then I just have to wonder - is this constructive criticism, or people on here trashing me just for the sake of trashing me?
If it's the latter, I would just as well prefer not to take such comments seriously.
