Favorite bodybuilder or powerlifter

[Symarip85]

Does height affect dead lift records? Cause Ed Coan and Thor are not pulling the same distance. And yea I know they’re not competing against each other I’m just curious. Cause I short guy has way less distance to travel in a dead lift comp than a tall guy.

 

[Poppy]

I didn’t answer your question in this post… scroll down.

Yessir it’s all about leverages, appendage lengths.

Take deadlift for example. The diameter of a 45lb plate is pretty much universal so if you’re 6 1/2 feet tall, you’re going to be at a disadvantage to a person that is one foot shorter. Of course there’s appendage length and leverage to take into consideration… lamar gant had extraordinarily long arms and could pull big weight.

Big benchers usually have very thick upper bodies and shorter arms… spotos upper forearm flexed is 20 inches.

Of course there’s no absolutes.

 

[Poppy]

To answer your question. NO. Records in powerlifting are recorded by weight class, equipped/raw, tested/ nontested, age… height has nothing to do with it.

 

[Poppy]

@JB_rD81 and @TBU can chime in if there’s anything I missed.

 

[Poppy]

I was told once by a smart guy that in a meet, it might be a bad day if you’re the tallest one in your weight class.

 

[JB_rD81]

Half-Thor also uses wrist straps, Coan pulled over 9 hundy without. That’s the difference in strong men and powerlifters.

Leverage is an advantage, yes, but leverage only goes so far. Just because you’re 5’5” doesn’t mean you’re going to pull heavier, bench heavier or squat heavier than the next guy. To be able to pull those numbers takes pure raw strength, no matter the distance the weight moves

 

[Poppy]

Coan had phenomenal strength!!!

 

[Thunder]

I think that Eddie Hall and Thor are perfect examples of this

 

[TBU]

Depends on the type of lift. Powerlifters that are short, stocky and barrel chested do well in Powerlifting. Most are still freakishly strong. With that said, there are one offs that are just freaks. I have a Marine that powerlifted. He was just a tad shorter than me 6’0” (I’m 6’4”) we called 1/4 ton. Cuz that freak could rep 500. Pretty easily. Now momentum lifts are a different story. Any Strong man or Olympic lifts tend to be taller. So yeah. For the most part, the less distance to travel in struck lifts, better to be a shorter guy. Momentum lifts. Taller. And just to prove a point. Any lifts we did, when you seen a 5’8” or under guy, those were the ones we watched during qualifying lifts the most. Except 1/4 ton. Everyone came out to watch that freak show.

 

[JB_rD81]

Richard Hawthorn comes to mind in the one off freak category

 

[anabolic_geek]

Roelly is a beast! I feel like he’s been getting snubbed by judges lately.

 

[Ripgut]

Im sorry i have to throw Nataliya Kuznetsova in there too… I mean dam the woman is phenomenal…per bodybuilder…

 

[anabolic_geek]

Can you imagine the sheer will it takes to get that large as a woman? Blows my mind…

 

[anabolic_geek]

To be honest that’s the most impressive part about bodybuilding and physique sport. Sure the physiques are super impressive, but the discipline and training it takes to get there says more about the person than their physique ever could.

 

[Ripgut]

Right… Chick weighing in at 202 but looking wayyyy bigger than these dudes pushing 250 plus… Conditioning is superb… Like i said… Dam

 

[Ripgut]

And most def in the discipline… Jay Cutler said it best when he said weight lifting is the easy part…

 

[Kad1]

Franco Columbo

 

[Kanaks]

Dorian Yates!

 

[Ripgut]

Power lifter… Elliot Hulse…

 

[Outlawthing]

Schwarzenegger is my favorite body builder that’s him as a teenager. Beat mode
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I like frank zane too
Power lifters my favorite is tee “skinny man “ Meyers
I used his workout routines when I was 19-25 yrs broke several state records in deadlift and squat
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Now as far as main stream Ed Coan and bill kazmaier they were beast back in the day and kazmaier won I think four strongmen in a row before the quit inviting him to the tournament. I mean he is too strong to play cause it ain’t fair, really?
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