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Title: Hawaiian Power
Post by: pellius on September 21, 2021, 03:11:37 AM
I've watched this guy for well over ten years now, just quietly, but resolutely, toiling away by himself clocking in those reps and sets, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. Progressing little by little: and extra rep here, an extra five pounds there. Some good days, some not so good -- but always showing up. Now Isaac is one of the top powerlifters in Hawaii. Here he is, though fatigue after cranking several ball-busting sets, pushing 585 pounds.
 
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: wes on September 21, 2021, 03:58:55 AM
Good lift...............it`s very cool to watch a persons slow progresion over the years until he is successful.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: pellius on September 21, 2021, 04:04:53 AM
Good lift...............it`s very cool to watch a persons slow progresion over the years until he is successful.

He was just a kid. They grow up so fast.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: pellius on September 21, 2021, 04:07:22 AM
Good lift...............it`s very cool to watch a persons slow progresion over the years until he is successful.

BTW, they took out a ton of good equipment to make room for the fake turf where ass clowns do their cross-fit shit. Pissed me off to no end. Notice the punching bag in the background. You should see these Tap-Out teen wannabes flailing away mean-mugging everybody.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: robcguns on September 21, 2021, 04:20:05 AM
Very strong man
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: IroNat on September 21, 2021, 04:25:03 AM
Great to hear of his progression over time but points deducted for wearing rubber band.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: wes on September 21, 2021, 04:34:25 AM
BTW, they took out a ton of good equipment to make room for the fake turf where ass clowns do their cross-fit shit. Pissed me off to no end. Notice the punching bag in the background. You should see these Tap-Out teen wannabes flailing away mean-mugging everybody.
That truly sux.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Tennisballz on September 21, 2021, 08:07:04 AM
The world likes people who quietly go about their business and get results.  The world hates poeple who constantly show you their pictures and say “look at me Look at me I’m awesome”
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Grape Ape on September 21, 2021, 08:18:37 AM
BTW, they took out a ton of good equipment to make room for the fake turf where ass clowns do their cross-fit shit. Pissed me off to no end. Notice the punching bag in the background. You should see these Tap-Out teen wannabes flailing away mean-mugging everybody.

There looks to be adequate room to have the turf and still have plenty of good equipment.

What was removed?

Props to that dude though, strong AF.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: robcguns on September 21, 2021, 08:25:33 AM
Great to hear of his progression over time but points deducted for wearing rubber band.

Yeah I just don’t understand that crap, crazy strong but just take that think off.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Taffin on September 21, 2021, 08:29:02 AM
He was just a kid. They grow up so fast.

Impressive young man.  Are those 'cupping' marks on him..?  I've seen a few people do it and kinda assumed it was new-agey BS - but if your man is doing it, maybe there's something in it..?


The world likes people who quietly go about their business and get results.  The world hates poeple who constantly show you their pictures and say “look at me Look at me I’m awesome”

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Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Grape Ape on September 21, 2021, 08:33:31 AM
Yeah I just don’t understand that crap, crazy strong but just take that think off.

It's just a tool that enables overload.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: wes on September 21, 2021, 08:47:42 AM
The world likes people who quietly go about their business and get results.  The world hates poeple who constantly show you their pictures and say “look at me Look at me I’m awesome”
:D
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: AbrahamG on September 21, 2021, 09:06:57 AM
That dude spotting him has terrible gyno.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Humble Narcissist on September 21, 2021, 09:15:55 AM
The world likes people who quietly go about their business and get results.  The world hates poeple who constantly show you their pictures and say “look at me Look at me I’m awesome”
Leave bhank out of this.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: GymnJuice on September 21, 2021, 10:12:00 AM
Maori?
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Kwon on September 21, 2021, 10:15:13 AM
Pellius > All


The King of Kangz! (https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qyibcegy3c1z9s3xk.mp4)
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: ThisisOverload on September 21, 2021, 11:11:08 AM
Very strong guy.

But i have to be critical.

Get a real spotter. Damn.

Always makes me nervous seeing people putting up weights that can kill them with a chick who probably can't deadlift 200 pounds.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Van_Bilderass on September 21, 2021, 11:21:22 AM
Very strong guy.

But i have to be critical.

Get a real spotter. Damn.

Always makes me nervous seeing people putting up weights that can kill them with a chick who probably can't deadlift 200 pounds.

Absolutely. Should be done in a powerrack or one of those comp benches with rails on the sides. Even a strong spotter isn't fast enough to save you from getting it on your face.

I see he used a slingshot. What could it add, 120lbs? I assume the color indicates some resistance measure.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: ThisisOverload on September 21, 2021, 11:40:08 AM
Absolutely. Should be done in a powerrack or one of those comp benches with rails on the sides. Even a strong spotter isn't fast enough to save you from getting it on your face.

I see he used a slingshot. What could it add, 120lbs? I assume the color indicates some resistance measure.

Very true.

Those bands help build lockout strength.

Not sure how much that one is.

I never went over 400 without a cage or three spotters.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: deadz on September 21, 2021, 12:25:17 PM
I’ve been in gyms for 25yrs. When I see someone pile on the weight I look away. Just asking for an injury. Maybe powerlifters have to push high weight but it’s pure stupidity for bodybuilders.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: pellius on September 21, 2021, 05:57:30 PM
There looks to be adequate room to have the turf and still have plenty of good equipment.

What was removed?

Props to that dude though, strong AF.

Too many to mention. They had two of those seated chest fly/rear delt machines. So we went from three to one and now you need a goddamn reservation to use that piece of equipment. It's a large gym but the only gym with in a 15 mile radius so it's always packed. I use to go at 1 am to avoid the crowds but 24 hour gym is no longer 24 hours. Besides, I really don't want both guys and girls walking on their hands, and doing other Crross-Fit acrobatics. There's a real Cross-Fit gym just down the block from where we are.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Marty Champions on September 21, 2021, 06:41:08 PM
Pellius your face looks like youve been embalmed but crazy alcoholic vascularity
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Marty Champions on September 21, 2021, 06:43:41 PM
Is pelius down to one kidney?
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: pellius on September 21, 2021, 07:44:38 PM
Pellius your face looks like youve been embalmed but crazy alcoholic vascularity

LOL! Have you looked at your face lately? What was once elite model level is now fat and distorted full of black heads and acne. You're disgusting to look at. I've never touched alcohol in about 40 years and even then I've never consumed so much as a can of beer in one sitting. I certainly have never been drunk or high. Toked one but other than that never touched any recreational drug. You have been drunk, stoned, and high too many times to count. Despite your grass/kale eating preaching, I am way healthier than you are.

Look at yourself. Look at yourself right now. Now imagine yourself in another 25 years when you are my age. You are the perfect example of how someone with elite White man genetics can ruined themselves with dirty living and dirty eating.

You are what you eat and what you do.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: IRON CROSS on September 21, 2021, 08:13:30 PM
He was just a kid. They grow up so fast.


Pellius, take him to 'Heiva i Tahiti' in July 2022 , annual Polynesian festival, only for residents of Oceania !.

1 of events is a stone lifting competition, the competitors must lift a stone weighting between 80 to 140kg, hold it on heirs shoulder for 3 seconds !.

Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Kwon on September 22, 2021, 02:28:47 AM
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Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Hulkotron on September 22, 2021, 03:23:28 AM
Pellius is one of the top wordsmiths on Getbig.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: IroNat on September 22, 2021, 04:01:41 AM
LOL! Have you looked at your face lately? What was once elite model level is now fat and distorted full of black heads and acne. You're disgusting to look at. I've never touched alcohol in about 40 years and even then I've never consumed so much as a can of beer in one sitting. I certainly have never been drunk or high. Toked one but other than that never touched any recreational drug. You have been drunk, stoned, and high too many times to count. Despite your grass/kale eating preaching, I am way healthier than you are.

Look at yourself. Look at yourself right now. Now imagine yourself in another 25 years when you are my age. You are the perfect example of how someone with elite White man genetics can ruined themselves with dirty living and dirty eating.

You are what you eat and what you do.

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Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: IroNat on September 22, 2021, 04:02:42 AM
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You've been missed, Kwon!
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Bevo on September 22, 2021, 05:39:12 PM
LOL! Have you looked at your face lately? What was once elite model level is now fat and distorted full of black heads and acne. You're disgusting to look at. I've never touched alcohol in about 40 years and even then I've never consumed so much as a can of beer in one sitting. I certainly have never been drunk or high. Toked one but other than that never touched any recreational drug. You have been drunk, stoned, and high too many times to count. Despite your grass/kale eating preaching, I am way healthier than you are.

Look at yourself. Look at yourself right now. Now imagine yourself in another 25 years when you are my age. You are the perfect example of how someone with elite White man genetics can ruined themselves with dirty living and dirty eating.


You are what you eat and what you do.

Will he be alive in 25 years?
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: TheFranchise on September 23, 2021, 03:33:19 PM
LOL! Have you looked at your face lately? What was once elite model level is now fat and distorted full of black heads and acne. You're disgusting to look at. I've never touched alcohol in about 40 years and even then I've never consumed so much as a can of beer in one sitting. I certainly have never been drunk or high. Toked one but other than that never touched any recreational drug. You have been drunk, stoned, and high too many times to count. Despite your grass/kale eating preaching, I am way healthier than you are.

Look at yourself. Look at yourself right now. Now imagine yourself in another 25 years when you are my age. You are the perfect example of how someone with elite White man genetics can ruined themselves with dirty living and dirty eating.

You are what you eat and what you do.


 :D

“Savage Pellius” is always the best form of Pellius. RIP Marty.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: oldtimer1 on September 23, 2021, 06:04:23 PM
My arms would just break if I ever tried to bench 585lbs. They would shatter.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: falco on September 24, 2021, 05:42:54 AM
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Nice thread save.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Kwon on September 24, 2021, 08:16:03 AM
PELLIUS IS KING OF KANGZ!
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: pellius on September 25, 2021, 01:30:48 AM
Impressive young man.  Are those 'cupping' marks on him..?  I've seen a few people do it and kinda assumed it was new-agey BS - but if your man is doing it, maybe there's something in it..?


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Yes, those are cupping marks. People that have them swear by them but I'm not convinced and think it's a fad. Not surprisingly, he's been having some recent trouble with his shoulders and elbows. Hence, the cupping therapy and the band. The band gives support much like knee wraps do. Of course, as his doctor advises, he should take some time off but he has a powerlifting meet in a couple of weeks and doesn't want to stop training. After this meet, he's going to try his hand at bbing and see how he shapes up. He wants to do the Shawn Ray Classic they are having here in November and I don't have the heart to tell him that he doesn't have enough time. He's never dieted before and my guess is that he would have to drop at least 30 lbs, but probably more if he wants to get shredded. He's around 250-260 at 5'!0". Anyway, it will be a good experience for him and he'll get a very good idea about what it takes to really diet and drop fat. It will be a good wake-up call as his whole life has been just eating whatever he wants, whenever he wants, and as much as he wants.

People have no idea just how hard the dieting part of contest prep is.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: pellius on September 25, 2021, 01:36:51 AM
That dude spotting him has terrible gyno.

That's his wife. She's been spotting him for years. Isaac is not one of those tools that picks a weight that he has no chance of pushing on his own. Also, though she does help him with forced reps he knows when to stop so that the spotter doesn't have to practically lift all the weight. Being able to spot so that at most you need about 15 lbs of lift is enough. So when he misses a lift he doesn't just collapse down. She watching very closely and will sense when he isn't going to make it. She steps in right when the movement stops and not when it starts going back down so that she has to pick up the weight. She knows him and what he can do and can sense when he isn't going to quite lock it out. Again, often it's just an extra few pounds that they need to eke out that last rep out that they can't quite generate.

You don't have to be a beast to be a good spotter. As long as you know the lifter and the lifter isn't a dumb ass and picks a realistic weight he can handle.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Van_Bilderass on September 25, 2021, 04:23:44 AM
That's his wife. She's been spotting him for years. Isaac is not one of those tools that picks a weight that he has no chance of pushing on his own. Also, though she does help him with forced reps he knows when to stop so that the spotter doesn't have to practically lift all the weight. Being able to spot so that at most you need about 15 lbs of lift is enough. So when he misses a lift he doesn't just collapse down. She watching very closely and will sense when he isn't going to make it. She steps in right when the movement stops and not when it starts going back down so that she has to pick up the weight. She knows him and what he can do and can sense when he isn't going to quite lock it out. Again, often it's just an extra few pounds that they need to eke out that last rep out that they can't quite generate.

You don't have to be a beast to be a good spotter. As long as you know the lifter and the lifter isn't a dumb ass and picks a realistic weight he can handle.

It's still a hugely bad idea to bench like that with just one female spotter. Catastrophic injury can happen any second. The slingshot can catapult the weight towards his face, he can blow a pec etc. Not benching in a powerrack is absolutely idiotic. If not in a rack you should have 3 spotters who are very experienced and even then they are usually not fast enough if something goes wrong.

Ask him what he did at the meet when it happens. I'm curious as to how much the slingshot added. I would guess at least 100lbs compared to a paused comp bench.

You want this type of bench to save your neck. It's a rule in the IPF for safety reasons.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: pellius on September 25, 2021, 02:28:27 PM
It's still a hugely bad idea to bench like that with just one female spotter. Catastrophic injury can happen any second. The slingshot can catapult the weight towards his face, he can blow a pec etc. Not benching in a powerrack is absolutely idiotic. If not in a rack you should have 3 spotters who are very experienced and even then they are usually not fast enough if something goes wrong.

Ask him what he did at the meet when it happens. I'm curious as to how much the slingshot added. I would guess at least 100lbs compared to a paused comp bench.

You want this type of bench to save your neck. It's a rule in the IPF for safety reasons.

Yes, it would be great if we had such safety equipment. It would be great if you could find willing spotters to stop in the middle of their workout just spot you. It would be great if you had friends that were willing to adjust their personal life schedule that will coincide with your gym time.

As Rumsfield said, "You don't go to war with the army you want but you go to war with the army you have."

I can't count the number of times people bench and squat heavy without a spotter. Just last month I told a guy how brave he was squatting without a spotter and does he worry about not being able to make it up. He just told me he's been doing it for years and knows when he's at his limit.

There is risk in everything. We're living in a culture where people believe that safety is the number one priority and trumps all other values. That we can't put a price on human life. So now we have people driving alone in their cars wearing a face mask. We can't operate businesses as normal anymore. I get dirty looks from people because I don't wear a mask outdoors and have been refused entry into a business because I wear a face shield instead of a mask.

Isaac has been lifting for well over ten years starting at about 13 years old. He knows what he can do. Sure, a lot can go wrong. It can for all of us. But he measures the risks.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Van_Bilderass on September 25, 2021, 03:27:47 PM
Yes, it would be great if we had such safety equipment. It would be great if you could find willing spotters to stop in the middle of their workout just spot you. It would be great if you had friends that were willing to adjust their personal life schedule that will coincide with your gym time.

As Rumsfield said, "You don't go to war with the army you want but you go to war with the army you have."

I can't count the number of times people bench and squat heavy without a spotter. Just last month I told a guy how brave he was squatting without a spotter and does he worry about not being able to make it up. He just told me he's been doing it for years and knows when he's at his limit.

There is risk in everything. We're living in a culture where people believe that safety is the number one priority and trumps all other values. That we can't put a price on human life. So now we have people driving alone in their cars wearing a face mask. We can't operate businesses as normal anymore. I get dirty looks from people because I don't wear a mask outdoors and have been refused entry into a business because I wear a face shield instead of a mask.

Isaac has been lifting for well over ten years starting at about 13 years old. He knows what he can do. Sure, a lot can go wrong. It can for all of us. But he measures the risks.

Though a lot of times people don't use the safety equipment that is already there. For example, people squat in the powerrack and don't set the pins. So lazy. It's such an unnecessary risk. There are no extra points awarded for being stupid. He has 585 on so he risks literal death and for what? If he's only 23 he's probably never gotten seriously injured and thinks it won't happen to him. I bet there's a powerrack in your gym?

I've hurt myself seriously many times so I'm extra cautious and aware of the risks. I used to bench 500 at 21, 2 pec tears later benching heavy was over with. I wish I was more cautious. I'm not scared of heavy weight but there's also being plain stupid.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: The Scott on September 25, 2021, 03:44:20 PM
The man is strong on the bench.  Much stronger than I ever was.  I think I never had anyone spot me on the squat as I used either a cage with pins set low enough that I could sit down and get the weight off me (never did) or was a tiered setup with two levels of depth for people of differing height.

I think that any real bench press should be where you MUST remove the weight yourself without any help, lower it to your chest, pause and then without arching your back or raising your butt up high enough that you could drive a VW Camper under you and then press it back up and rack it.  And no bench shirts or rubber bands.  If you cannot do it by yourself, then you cannot do it by yourself.  There is NO shame in not being strong enough but there  is plenty of shame in cheating with such devices.
 
That is how I did the squat. No help at all.  I sucked at the bench but did them the same way.  This man is probably good for a strict bench done as I stated at 450 lbs. to 500 lbs.  He is strong enough.  He just needs to work on doing it the "old" way.  Strict from beginning to end without any help.

Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Van_Bilderass on September 25, 2021, 03:53:31 PM

 
That is how I did the squat. No help at all.  I sucked at the bench but did them the same way.  This man is probably good for a strict bench done as I stated at 450 lbs. to 500 lbs.  He is strong enough.  He just needs to work on doing it the "old" way.  Strict from beginning to end without any help.

You could argue that the "slingshot" can be a useful device to overload certain portions of the movement. It only helps at the bottom part. So it's not necessarily cheating if there's a thought behind its use. But for sure many use it just because it allows you to "bench" more weight - it's fun.

I just saw a funny clip of some untrained fat fuck use a slingshot on smith incline bench and do a half inch press with it. Can't link it because it was on a private IG profile.

On squats weightlifters have trained themselves to be able to bail without a spotter. But that takes practise and for regular lifters often the weight goes over the neck if you miss.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: The Scott on September 25, 2021, 04:04:06 PM
You could argue that the "slingshot" can be a useful device to overload certain portions of the movement. It only helps at the bottom part. So it's not necessarily cheating if there's a thought behind its use. But for sure many use it just because it allows you to "bench" more weight - it's fun.

I just saw a funny clip of some untrained fat fuck use a slingshot on smith incline bench and do a half inch press with it. Can't link it because it was on a private IG profile.

On squats weightlifters have trained themselves to be able to bail without a spotter. But that takes practise and for regular lifters often the weight goes over the neck if you miss.

I have done "bottom position" bench presses with a near 3" bar for a one rep max with 300 lbs.  It was really hard and I have not been so inclined to try them again for well over a decade now.  It was how I trained after reading "Dinosaur Training" by Brooks Kubik.  It took a few years to get to that weight on that movement.  O U C H.   ;D

I think it is better to train as hard as you can within reason and not rely on tools like rubber suits.  The problem with those devices is sooner or later, you become the tool.  I know I would, LOL!

Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: DanM on September 25, 2021, 07:34:35 PM
Yeah I just don’t understand that crap, crazy strong but just take that think off.

Looks like a sling shot - just a bench press variation to overload the top part of the movement. Perhaps he finds it gives him good carryover to his raw bench
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: pellius on September 26, 2021, 02:29:38 AM
Though a lot of times people don't use the safety equipment that is already there. For example, people squat in the powerrack and don't set the pins. So lazy. It's such an unnecessary risk. There are no extra points awarded for being stupid. He has 585 on so he risks literal death and for what? If he's only 23 he's probably never gotten seriously injured and thinks it won't happen to him. I bet there's a powerrack in your gym?

I've hurt myself seriously many times so I'm extra cautious and aware of the risks. I used to bench 500 at 21, 2 pec tears later benching heavy was over with. I wish I was more cautious. I'm not scared of heavy weight but there's also being plain stupid.

Actually, there is a power rack in that gym. They have three. I personally have never been able to use it. There is literally a line no shorter than six people waiting to use it but it's usually more. In fact, earlier this year I join a another gym which is about 18 miles away from me (this one is about 5 miles away) which I go to once a week just so I can use a power rack for dead-lifts (not traditional deads but the one where both you palms are facing you).

Isaac works two jobs and has a couple of kids that he has to support. He doesn't have time to stand in line and twiddle his thumbs waiting for some ass clown with a cell phone to move along.

I'm not sure how many people have killed themselves benching heavy but I'd venture to guess that far more people have killed themselves just driving to the gym.

Here's a pic of a typical day. This is on a Thursday at around 1:30 PM. Right in the middle of the day and I still couldn't get everyone waiting into the picture. When it gets to about 4:30 PM until closing it's a complete mad house.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: IroNat on September 26, 2021, 06:38:24 AM
That's nuts.^
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: bhank on September 26, 2021, 06:48:36 AM
Though a lot of times people don't use the safety equipment that is already there. For example, people squat in the powerrack and don't set the pins. So lazy. It's such an unnecessary risk. There are no extra points awarded for being stupid. He has 585 on so he risks literal death and for what? If he's only 23 he's probably never gotten seriously injured and thinks it won't happen to him. I bet there's a powerrack in your gym?

I've hurt myself seriously many times so I'm extra cautious and aware of the risks. I used to bench 500 at 21, 2 pec tears later benching heavy was over with. I wish I was more cautious. I'm not scared of heavy weight but there's also being plain stupid.

Hey Van didn't realize you had 2 pec tears. I say I tore my pec in March but it was actually the same one I tore 3 years ago and 15 years ago so 3rd tear same side. Still all muscular not tendon so no repairs but want to make sure I don't have a 4th hence I do higher reps now and take it easy. Is there any changes to your training you made?
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: bhank on September 26, 2021, 06:51:08 AM
Actually, there is a power rack in that gym. They have three. I personally have never been able to use it. There is literally a line no shorter than six people waiting to use it but it's usually more. In fact, earlier this year I join a another gym which is about 18 miles away from me (this one is about 5 miles away) which I go to once a week just so I can use a power rack for dead-lifts (not traditional deads but the one where both you palms are facing you).

Isaac works two jobs and has a couple of kids that he has to support. He doesn't have time to stand in line and twiddle his thumbs waiting for some ass clown with a cell phone to move along.

I'm not sure how many people have killed themselves benching heavy but I'd venture to guess that far more people have killed themselves just driving to the gym.

Here's a pic of a typical day. This is on a Thursday at around 1:30 PM. Right in the middle of the day and I still couldn't get everyone waiting into the picture. When it gets to about 4:30 PM until closing it's a complete mad house.

That looks horrific so glad I have a home gym yeah I don't have as much equipment but it is all mine no line

No wonder you are so skinny probably starving waiting in line all day. Shit I walk to my kitchen and eat between sets.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Van_Bilderass on September 26, 2021, 12:19:59 PM
Hey Van didn't realize you had 2 pec tears. I say I tore my pec in March but it was actually the same one I tore 3 years ago and 15 years ago so 3rd tear same side. Still all muscular not tendon so no repairs but want to make sure I don't have a 4th hence I do higher reps now and take it easy. Is there any changes to your training you made?

This was over 20 years ago lol. I'm your age. First one was muscular and looked about the same as yours. The second one was horrific and really disfiguring. It ended my competitive aspirations almost before I started. I absolutely loved benching heavy so after the tears it was no fun anymore, I got up to a bit over 350 and then it felt like I might tear a tricep due to the crooked execution. Then I just lifted heavy on other movements like deadlifts. Hardly train pecs at all because the muscle belly isn't there on one side and only half a belly on the other  :'(

Now that I'm thinking on it, I should get back to some type of benching. Perhaps reverse grip. I used to do 20 reps with 225 on those even despite the injuries and know I could increase further easily. Good front delt and tricep movement. Could be fun.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: pellius on September 27, 2021, 03:03:02 AM
That looks horrific so glad I have a home gym yeah I don't have as much equipment but it is all mine no line

No wonder you are so skinny probably starving waiting in line all day. Shit I walk to my kitchen and eat between sets.

You really have no idea how much of a moron you are. Just like whey you so confidently said, "That's not Lee!" When I pointed out he was the only White guy in the line up. You think every bodybuilder named Lee is Lee Priest not considering the far more successful bodybuilder Lee Labrada.

So read my post again, you ghoulish, balding, decomposing, grandpa. I said that joined another gym that I go to when I do Romanian Dead Lifts, one the few movements I consider essential. I would never stand in line like a zombie waiting for equipment.

You shit blood. You're dying inside. I'm not like the others who insist you should see a doctor as this is a very bad sign. I want to encourage you to do exactly what you are doing. Just one less moron in the world.

Hahaha! You really have zero self-awareness.


Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: bhank on September 27, 2021, 06:35:46 AM
You really have no idea how much of a moron you are. Just like whey you so confidently said, "That's not Lee!" When I pointed out he was the only White guy in the line up. You think every bodybuilder named Lee is Lee Priest not considering the far more successful bodybuilder Lee Labrada.

So read my post again, you ghoulish, balding, decomposing, grandpa. I said that joined another gym that I go to when I do Romanian Dead Lifts, one the few movements I consider essential. I would never stand in line like a zombie waiting for equipment.

You shit blood. You're dying inside. I'm not like the others who insist you should see a doctor as this is a very bad sign. I want to encourage you to do exactly what you are doing. Just one less moron in the world.

Hahaha! You really have zero self-awareness.

Says the 160lb aids patient who thinks he is a bodybuilder
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: The Scott on September 27, 2021, 08:24:03 PM
Says the 160lb aids patient who thinks he is a bodybuilder

FOAD you pusillanimous piglette.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Kwon on September 28, 2021, 02:46:31 AM
LOL! Have you looked at your face lately? What was once elite model level is now fat and distorted full of black heads and acne. You're disgusting to look at. I've never touched alcohol in about 40 years and even then I've never consumed so much as a can of beer in one sitting. I certainly have never been drunk or high. Toked one but other than that never touched any recreational drug. You have been drunk, stoned, and high too many times to count. Despite your grass/kale eating preaching, I am way healthier than you are.

Look at yourself. Look at yourself right now. Now imagine yourself in another 25 years when you are my age. You are the perfect example of how someone with elite White man genetics can ruined themselves with dirty living and dirty eating.

You are what you eat and what you do.

Truth


Compare Prime Model Johnny Falcon to the current Tubbular version
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: pellius on September 28, 2021, 03:10:47 AM
Says the 160lb aids patient who thinks he is a bodybuilder

Never said I was a bber nor had any ambitions to be one. Meanwhile your whole life revolves around bbing. Just sitting at home, eating all day, shitting blood, injecting yourself with insulin, peptides, and hormones and this is what you have to show for it.

Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: jwb on September 28, 2021, 03:18:08 AM
Actually, there is a power rack in that gym. They have three. I personally have never been able to use it. There is literally a line no shorter than six people waiting to use it but it's usually more. In fact, earlier this year I join a another gym which is about 18 miles away from me (this one is about 5 miles away) which I go to once a week just so I can use a power rack for dead-lifts (not traditional deads but the one where both you palms are facing you).

Isaac works two jobs and has a couple of kids that he has to support. He doesn't have time to stand in line and twiddle his thumbs waiting for some ass clown with a cell phone to move along.

I'm not sure how many people have killed themselves benching heavy but I'd venture to guess that far more people have killed themselves just driving to the gym.

Here's a pic of a typical day. This is on a Thursday at around 1:30 PM. Right in the middle of the day and I still couldn't get everyone waiting into the picture. When it gets to about 4:30 PM until closing it's a complete mad house.
join the anytime fitness in Kailua you can go 24 hours and they have two power racks.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: pellius on September 28, 2021, 03:27:46 AM
join the anytime fitness in Kailua you can go 24 hours and they have two power racks.

Where the heck have you been. You're still the only person on GetBig that I have met in person. Props for confirming my height to this very skeptical board.

Anyway, I forgot about that place. I checked it out a few years ago. It sure is a hell of a lot closer than Chris Faildo's gym that I go to. That's located in the Dole Cannery building near Costco on Alakawa.

Thanks for the tip. I'll check it out sometime.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: jwb on September 28, 2021, 11:42:00 AM
Where the heck have you been. You're still the only person on GetBig that I have met in person. Props for confirming my height to this very skeptical board.

Anyway, I forgot about that place. I checked it out a few years ago. It sure is a hell of a lot closer than Chris Faildo's gym that I go to. That's located in the Dole Cannery building near Costco on Alakawa.

Thanks for the tip. I'll check it out sometime.
Just been busy with raising my kid I’m more of a YouTube and podcast guy now I guess.

And yes, Pellius is easily over 6 feet tall as I am 6’3” and we were face to face when we were talking folks.

The anytime fitness at Kailua ain’t bad, I wish it was near me, we live in town now at Nauru Tower. Best place I have lived so far in Honolulu, very laidback.

I want to check out Chris' gym one day I heard it is good.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: pellius on September 28, 2021, 08:27:35 PM
Just been busy with raising my kid I’m more of a YouTube and podcast guy now I guess.

And yes, Pellius is easily over 6 feet tall as I am 6’3” and we were face to face when we were talking folks.

The anytime fitness at Kailua ain’t bad, I wish it was near me, we live in town now at Nauru Tower. Best place I have lived so far in Honolulu, very laidback.

I want to check out Chris' gym one day I heard it is good.

Actually, it's not that good by today's standards. They don't have enough plates and you spend a lot of time lugging plates from station to station. Also the plates are a mixture of metric and standard. So you are constantly trying to figure out how many pounds in relation to kilos. But for me it's kind of a good thing because it cuts out the wannabe supermans that stack plates like the leg press with a ton of weight and other equipment where they just do quarter reps. Also, the whole soccer mom and foo-foo lifters are eliminated because there's very little cardio and only a couple of pin selector machines as most are plate loaded which is way more work. Also, not much in the locker department and the best part for me is no showers. There's a bathroom in the building that is very close by but no showers. No more having to deal with saggy old men walking around butt naked and drying their balls with the hand dryer.

I love that the cardio equipment is tucked underneath a stairway where it belongs.

BTW, the equipment is all by a Chinese company that Shawn Ray reps called Realleader. It's a much cheaper version of Hammer. It's OK. At least it's all brand new so it has that new feeling. I just don't like using anything by China but it's hard to avoid.

https://realleaderfitness.en.made-in-china.com/
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: GymnJuice on September 29, 2021, 04:20:20 AM
No more having to deal with saggy old men walking around butt naked and drying their balls with the hand dryer.

Why do geriatrics do this?  I've never seen anyone under 70 do that.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: IroNat on September 29, 2021, 04:34:30 AM
Why do geriatrics do this?  I've never seen anyone under 70 do that.

Just plain weird is what that is.

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Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: The Scott on September 29, 2021, 09:16:13 AM
...No more having to deal with saggy old men walking around butt naked and drying their balls with the hand dryer.

Why do geriatrics do this?  I've never seen anyone under 70 do that.

Just plain weird is what that is.

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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
I...CAN'T...BREATHE...AAAAaaAAAa aaAAAaaaaaAagh!!!!  Talk about a "Nightmare on Primestreet"!

Maybe so they can claim to get a blowjob every day of their life?  I dunno..I do know that is something I will NEVER do!  LOLOLOLOLOL! 
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Humble Narcissist on September 29, 2021, 09:17:25 AM
Why do geriatrics do this?  I've never seen anyone under 70 do that.
They are just happy to still have a body to show off.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: bhank on September 29, 2021, 10:00:19 AM
Never said I was a bber nor had any ambitions to be one. Meanwhile your whole life revolves around bbing. Just sitting at home, eating all day, shitting blood, injecting yourself with insulin, peptides, and hormones and this is what you have to show for it.

My while life? Dude you are on this board as much as anyone.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: pellius on September 30, 2021, 03:37:46 AM
My while life? Dude you are on this board as much as anyone.

No "dude", I'm not. You average 6 posts a day, I'm at 4. And that doesn't count all the time you spend reading all the "fuck you" posts about you. I primarily post when I get home and have showered and am ready to turn in which is after midnight before calling it a night. I find that I sleep better after bitch slapping you a bit.

I train five times over a period of two weeks. I eat two meals a day and three meals on training days. Training is a part of my life but by no means my entire life like it is for you. I have plenty of time to do other productive things and still, I look way better and younger than you do despite being in my 60s.

Carry on, my little bitch boy. Carry on.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: pellius on September 30, 2021, 03:43:23 AM
Why do geriatrics do this?  I've never seen anyone under 70 do that.

My theory is that at that age you don't give a royal husky fuck. I shit you not, there was one guy walking around the gym floor wearing those short shorts running shorts that Clinton you to wear. This guy had toothpick legs on par with Bhanks, and his freaking sack was hanging out. Totally unaware and clueless at the people around him shaking their heads with disgust. I was on my way out so I didn't bother but I definitely would have said something if I was still training. I'd be like, "Brah, your sack is hanging out."

Men should not wear shorts any higher than, say, two inches above the knees.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: bhank on September 30, 2021, 06:26:58 AM
No "dude", I'm not. You average 6 posts a day, I'm at 4. And that doesn't count all the time you spend reading all the "fuck you" posts about you. I primarily post when I get home and have showered and am ready to turn in which is after midnight before calling it a night. I find that I sleep better after bitch slapping you a bit.

I train five times over a period of two weeks. I eat two meals a day and three meals on training days. Training is a part of my life but by no means my entire life like it is for you. I have plenty of time to do other productive things and still, I look way better and younger than you do despite being in my 60s.

Carry on, my little bitch boy. Carry on.

You only eat 2 meals a day who would have guessed from your 160lb aids patient build you don't look better or younger than anyone you freaking weirdo
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Humble Narcissist on September 30, 2021, 08:23:33 AM
My theory is that at that age you don't give a royal husky fuck. I shit you not, there was one guy walking around the gym floor wearing those short shorts running shorts that Clinton you to wear. This guy had toothpick legs on par with Bhanks, and his freaking sack was hanging out. Totally unaware and clueless at the people around him shaking their heads with disgust. I was on my way out so I didn't bother but I definitely would have said something if I was still training. I'd be like, "Brah, your sack is hanging out."

Men should not wear shorts any higher than, say, two inches above the knees.
:D  Yep, my nutsack hangs 3X lower than it did 10 years ago.  I can almost use it as a bean bag to sit on.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Van_Bilderass on September 30, 2021, 08:54:29 AM
:D  Yep, my nutsack hangs 3X lower than it did 10 years ago.  I can almost use it as a bean bag to sit on.

The advantage of steroids is you don't get the old man sack  :D

Sometimes it's like the testes retract into the body almost  :D
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Humble Narcissist on September 30, 2021, 09:07:30 AM
The advantage of steroids is you don't get the old man sack  :D

Sometimes it's like the testes retract into the body almost  :D
That's why Rich Piana always said that his dick hung lower than his balls.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Hypertrophy on September 30, 2021, 12:55:49 PM
Says the 160lb aids patient who thinks he is a bodybuilder


One of my favorite lifters of all time, Pyrros Dimas, was 183 pounds at 5'8", and pound for pound one of the strongest guys in Olympic lifting. You can't tell by a person's height or weight how powerful they are.


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Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Taffin on October 09, 2021, 04:49:25 PM
The advantage of steroids is you don't get the old man sack  :D

Sometimes it's like the testes retract into the body almost  :D
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: oldtimer1 on October 09, 2021, 05:45:47 PM

One of my favorite lifters of all time, Pyrros Dimas, was 183 pounds at 5'8", and pound for pound one of the strongest guys in Olympic lifting. You can't tell by a person's height or weight how powerful they are.


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That's actually a lot of weight if you're lean at that height.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Kwon on October 09, 2021, 05:55:11 PM
You only eat 2 meals a day who would have guessed from your 160lb aids patient build you don't look better or younger than anyone you freaking weirdo

Meanwhile your whole life revolves around bbing. Just sitting at home, eating all day, shitting blood, injecting yourself with insulin, peptides, and hormones and this is what you have to show for it.
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Kwon on October 10, 2021, 07:25:30 AM
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Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Kwon on October 10, 2021, 08:21:31 AM
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Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: The Scott on October 10, 2021, 10:13:46 AM
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Izzat "Rita" from "Doom Patrol"?  ;D
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Kwon on October 10, 2021, 11:09:51 AM
Izzat "Rita" from "Doom Patrol"?  ;D

LOL!
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: OneMoreRep on October 13, 2021, 01:00:42 PM
KING OF KANGZ!

Don't know why this phrase made me laugh so damn much.

"1"
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Van_Bilderass on October 13, 2021, 01:03:35 PM
Kangz speech has matured a lot in the recent past. Listen to this sophisticated vernacular.





Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Kwon on October 13, 2021, 01:20:48 PM
Don't know why this phrase made me laugh so damn much.

"1"

Thanks OMR! :D

It's subtle but to the point :D

Coloreds usually like to use Kangz
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: Van_Bilderass on October 13, 2021, 01:40:08 PM
Were they Kangz, or...
Title: Re: Hawaiian Power
Post by: AbrahamG on October 13, 2021, 06:58:16 PM
Were they Kangz, or...

Jesus, Mary and Joseph!  LMFAO.