most amazing raw lifts in the gym ...youve seen?

[solidj55]

I guess the most impressive lifts I have seen in my gym are from Donald Robbins. I assume most of you know who he is. He was weighing about 190 at the time and benched 500 without a Bench Press Shirt. Ive also seen him Bench 315 for three sets of 20 when he doesnt have a meet coming up. I was pretty impressed with that. Oh yea and the record that he set last year in the Arnold Classic was 540 in the 181 class with a double ply poly. That also impressed me lol. Im really impressed with the guy.

 

[Imnotdutch]

Ok let me justify what I said
I meant funny as in weird......not laughing funny. You'll have to excuse the way I use words sometimes I'm english The man in question is my ex-training partner and the person responsible for getting me going in powerlifting and I have nothing but the respect for him......

As to how this guy looked.....
His back was incredibly thick as you might expect if you knew he used alot of back when deadlifting. He had huge hip muscles and hamstrings that I can only describe as looking like steel cables....oh and he could scratch his ankles whilst standing bolt upright .

Actually, that is not all that funny. Most really good deadlifters are not very good benchers, and vice versa. Good benchers are almost as a rule terrible deadlifters. I can bench more about a hundred pounds more than I deadlift. I think powerlifterjay is in the same boat, although on a larger scale.

Although, I must say, that a 400 lb difference between the two lifts is pretty damn dramatic. I bet that 211 guy had some really long arms.

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