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fatgripz
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 7:02 pm
by BrainSquirt
Any members have any experience with fatgripz ??
https://www.fatgripz.com/index-v.html
Note: have no affiliation... serious question... ie not sneaky advert...
thx
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:29 pm
by Hank!
Saw discussion on BB but have never used them myself. I do see a lot of strong men training (online) with bars about the diameter of a Coors can
Re: fatgripz
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:35 pm
by RobRegish
Fat bar work is a staple amongst strongmen. These guys don't fool around.
Certainly worth looking into...
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:45 pm
by askmass
Read up on how Paul Anderson got to where he did with (extremely) thick bar work, because he had no other option... The Olympic Champion gave it a huge amount of credit for his success.
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:08 pm
by RobRegish
askmass wrote:Read up on how Paul Anderson got to where he did with (extremely) thick bar work, because he had no other option... The Olympic Champion gave it a huge amount of credit for his success.
Amen.
He was strongest man to walk the planet for my money. Dug ditches to perform partials, amongst other things. Things like the former Soviet teams looking on in disbelief. They didn't didn't consider him human.
Nobody even comes close. Even the juice monkeys...
LESSON FOR US ALL: He gave back. Ran a boys school for troubled youth - and got called home many, many years ago.
That's how it works folks:
Learn, share and grow...
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:56 pm
by JML2011
RobRegish wrote:Learn, share and grow...
grow huuuuuuge...
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 7:18 am
by Hank!
askmass wrote:Read up on how Paul Anderson got to where he did with (extremely) thick bar work, because he had no other option... The Olympic Champion gave it a huge amount of credit for his success.
+
"Then, up to the bar stepped a great ball of a man, Paul Anderson." And paraphrasing Palmer "The Russians snickered as Anderson gripped the bar which was set at 402.5 pounds, an unheard of lift. But their snickers quickly changed to awe and all out cheers as up went the bar and Anderson lifted the heaviest weight overhead of any human in history."
Wow he went to Furman!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Edward_Anderson
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 9:25 am
by askmass
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 12:49 am
by DaCookie
What a monster, what year would this be?
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 1:54 am
by askmass
DaCookie wrote:What a monster, what year would this be?
He won at the '56 Olympic's in Melbourne, so this had to be a good 6-7 years before that, I'm guessing.
Monster strength and the face of a baby, still.
One of a kind.
