Quote: (09-10-2014 03:38 AM)StrikeBack Wrote:
Don't know what that is. As I looked it up, it appears to be a listing of American record holders without regards to federations.
The guy I'm talking about is an Australian elite-ranked powerlifter in the IPF.
For American examples, I remember reading about this guy: http://www.jtsstrength.com/articles/2014...lex-viada/
If you're familiar with Marty Gallagher, he advocates plenty of running too.
I didn't check your nationality, Australian then, my mistake. I have the world rankings.
I'm not saying that running marathons and being good at powerlifting is impossible, it's just not all that necessary.
It's great you bring up Alex Viada. Cool guy, he also has an interview with Jamie Lewis at Chaos and Pain about how the two goals of endurance training and powerlifting aren't mutually exclusive but are pretty hard to put together (NSFW ->
http://chaosandpain.blogspot.com/2013/06...-of.html).
According to Viada's numbers listed in the C&P article, he put 85 pounds on his back squat in a little over a year.
I have a list for world raw powerlifting rankings anyhow ->
http://www.powerliftingwatch.com/records/raw/world
So Viada has an 1870# total (was this a powerlifting meet or just informal gym PRs?) which would put him two pounds ahead of the current record for a drug tested meet.
So either those numbers reported were not from an actual powerlifting competition and are self reported PRs (if he's natural), or they were from a powerlifting meet and he's about 230 pounds behind the record total (if he's on PEDs).
Still though I'm interested to see where his career goes and if he ends up a world record holder, since the 220# class has some pretty insane competition.
Edit: Man some of the comments on that article are pretty hilarious. You know this dude Viada might be the Lance Armstrong of hybrid athletes, pretty awesome on paper but years later it turns out he's juiced to the gills. I don't care personally but it would explain him putting eighty five pounds on an already impressive back squat in a year and why he's not already ranked on (open) powerlifting rankings. If anything steroids were practically invented for hybrid athletes, two birds with one stone.