The toughest guy in the world...

[JDarty6173]

Oh I've got a good one... Me and my girl were hanging out with some mutual friends one nite, and this guy she went to school with and everything was there....He's cool and stuff and I've known him a while now, but he doesn't lift... Well my gf had told him I planned on competing in Powerlifting.. Well he proceeds to tell me of his "FRIEND" who he had witnessed squatting 1400 pounds... That's right folks, one thousand four hundred pounds. And of course he had counted the plates so he knew how much it was.... Well I prompty started spouting off the current world record squats in various weight classes... And said "so your friend who occasionally lifts when home from the military has squatted over 300 pounds more than the all time Super Heavy world record?" LOL...Bullshit.... And I promptly told him to invite his friend to enter a meet with me so he can destroy every powerlifting record in his weight class... hmmm, oddly enough his friend doesnt lift much anymore so probably wouldn't be interested.....

 

[BodybuildingUniverse]

no one ever wants to give credit where credit is due. (the kind of trolls with "cousins" like this...) pure jealousy...

 

[benchmonster]

Yes, we have all heard it.

I got a really good one here. I was getting a tattoo (500 club on my shoulder if anyone is interested) and the tattoo artist was curious about why I was getting this particular tattoo. I explained that I had just recently benched 500 in a meet for the first time, and I wanted to commemorate the event. (Hey it is my skin)

He replied that he was impressed with that number, and although he had never been a real big bencher, he did while in high school, squat 1100 lbs. Now you have to realize what a precarious position this put me in. I usually will quickly call Bullshit when someone says that they lifted more in high school than the all time heavyweight world record on any given lift, but this dude had my money in the register, and a needle in my arm with a halfway done tattoo still needing work.

So I had to, with a poker face, say that he should have done that in a meet cause that would blow away the all time teen and high school records in the squat, especially considering that he weighed around 165 at the time.

Every day of my life, I live in a constant state of amazement.

B.

 

[Thaibox]

Why is it that people feel the need to create stories to knock you down a notch when they learn of your accomplishments? Like Heavywear said, can't they just show respect or keep their mouths shut? I just say "wow, you can do X? Thats damn good. I can only do Y right now, but I'm working on it."

 

[collegiateLifter]

I also am thinking about shaving my head like Vin Diesal who is the strongest guy on the planet and could beat up anyone except my cousin."

hahahahahaha...

sometimes the stories make me mad, but i try to think about them in a good light. there was a guy accross the hall in my dorm who could "squat 500 as a freshmen in highschool" but he tore his quadrecpts or a tendon for it -- i dont really doubt the latter. He was on the foot ball team, but he was ..... a punter. Anyway it came up at dinner a few weeks later that he wanted to go lift with me... this makes me think that the stories are a kind of fantasy based imitations, and they say 'imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.'

 

[strengthfiend]

These stories never stop

I don't know if this happens to you guys, but people are always using me as a "visual aid" to demostrate the size of the guy they: beat up, tackled, smashed, punched in the face, or outlifted. How is this suppose to make me feel? Like a stud because they mentioned my size(lol) or scared cause that guy they beat up, tackled etc... was even bigger than me. Like all these guys know people who have done pro strongman, powerlifting and track and field at a high level and is 6'2 and 315 pounds.

Strengthfiend

 

[WarriorPL]

Being probably the only person in my school that does weightlifting i get that shit a lot. "Oh i have a cousin bigger than you" or "My brother is the the biggest guy i've ever seen" blah blah blah.... morons!

 

[DOM]

Stopped at Wendy's with my friend who's a bodybuilder one time to annihilate some of those dollar chicken tenders. My friend is pretty muscular.

So after we order and are waiting for our food, the guy at the register, who is about 200 lbs of fat, says, "You have pretty big traps, do you do a lot of deadlifting?"
"yeah I work them in every other week or so." my friend said.
"when I was in high school I deadlifted 720 for ten reps" he said.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I was laughing out loud. "720 for ten? So you could probably get about a thousand for one rep right??" I asked.
"Yeah but I never maxed out, and now I haven't been lifting in college."

Didn't know they served bullshit at Wendy's.

 

[Robert Jan]

do people seriously say those things?

i never gotten any of that.

when somebody asks in my school how much i can lift i tell them i deadlifted 375 lbs, and theyre like wooo thats a lot of weight man thats like almost 3 times me how do you do that

and nobody bullshits anybody...

maybe when your bigger theres more jealousy involved

 

[benchmonster]

maybe when your bigger theres more jealousy involved [/B][/QUOTE]

There is no doubt. The only thing that is worse than being big to inspire jealousy is to have lifted what most consider to be impossible numbers for your size. I have on several occasions benched over 500 weighing 220. When someone asks me what I bench, I ask gym or meet? When they say which one, I tell them whatever my current best lift is.

You should see the incredulous looks. I have had them tell me right to my face that they don't believe me. They all think you have to look like Ronnie Coleman to do something like that, and of course, I don't look like that.

People that don't do anything to improve themselves cannot deal with the fact that you are. Whether that is blowing up huge muscles and having low bodyfat through bodybuilding, or lifting insane poundages through powerlifting or strongman, they just cannot handle it. It is a big blow to their manhood to realize they are standing next to someone who quite frankly is so physically superior. So they have to rationalize it in some way so they can live with themselves.

"He just is that big/strong/whatever cause of steroids. I could do that too if I was on the juice" is a common one. Powerlifters are constantly hearing about how anyone could do what they are doing if they had a squat suit, or a bench shirt, or whatever. Just jealousy and the fact that we, and I mean me and thee, make them feel bad about themselves.

These people are weak. Pay them no mind. Realize that their only purpose is to make you look better by contrast.

And if you are one of these whiners who thinks every one who is bigger, or stronger or whatever is a cheater, then either get off your ass and get into the gym and do what it takes to be great, or get the Hell out of the way, and leave the real men and women alone, lest they put a knot on your scrawny head.

B.