Well, the bar didn't cooperate. I find that while the weight I lift is less, the intensity is still high and with decent results but I stay sore longer. SPECIAL. It may linger and help him kick ass for years to come. A meet with the quality of lifters, albeit the lack of numbers it has previously enjoyed, SHOULD have been prepared to entertain world record attempts. But when you can squat 1000 anytime you fell like it, who cares about a poor deadlift. If you are a world class lifter, you are a world class lifter in any fed. Mac was frantic. northernhiro Additional comment actions. Now, while I was there Mike Lambert of Powerlifting USA took the first picture of my hand and ran it in the January 1981 Issue the same issue that ran the results of the 80 worlds. Joe "The Lad" Ladnier Mississippi Monster, Free Shipping with a $69 qualifying order. For example, research published in the journal Sports Medicine found that steroids can increase an athletes strength by 5 to 20 percent. We are not EliteFitness.com. This year, at 52, Mike just won 4 gold medals in the Pan American Games. All right reserved. All Rights Reserved. I also know you were never cocky or arrogant, but totally confident and fun when I was around you. [/quote] Yeah he was right. I said, "Are you all right Mac?" There's a big difference between exposure and mastery! Hes laid down a base of muscle that doesnt just dry up when the drugs do. My friend Arnold Coleman broke Mike's and Gene Bell's total record at the 2005 Arnold Classic. it matters what the rules actuially are!!! What happened? Who is that? That might not seem like much, but because these guys lift so much, it translates to between 30 and 344 pounds. When you squat 800 pounds, every joint in your body needs to be optimally aligned. Where are my safety guys screaming about that? A winner of five world championships and several world record. So I wiped the blood off with my coat and pushed the pin back down my finger. He got his little finger caught in a sliding door. how long did u have the bar before you opened it? I am aware of the wrong bar that was shipped because I warmed up with it in the warm up room. I weighed 150 pounds back then.Lou: When you moved to Dayton what was your occupation? the fault is with USAPL and its referees (IPF ones) and its meet director, who should have KNOWN better than to hold a MEN's NATIONALS and that women's record breaker event WITHOUT THE PROPER BARS. So as we got off the plane Paul was waiting for us to step off the plane. The rule said small jump of 2.5 kg would nullify a third and that is how I lost the bid for my 10th world championship.Lou: Tell us about your most memorable world championship.Larry: That would be my first in 1971 against John Kanter. The movement standards of powerlifting competitions are going to be a significant challenge. Holy shit ! How are you doing Roger?! [/quote] Interesting!If you actually do train at maximum intensity (many think they do) there are some changes that you will have to make as you get older (no set age). Ivanko bars are awfulthey are outrageously whippy and the non-standard knarling makes setting up for the deadlift quite confusing. Best Lifts: Fantastic story. Terry Todd isn't merely the United States' first national powerlifting champion (in 1964 and '65), he was also the first man to total 1,600, 1,700, 1,800, and 1,900 pounds. His form was a model of perfection, but his physical strength was amazing in the squat and bench.He[MCJ1] was doing theBridges Flair before Mike was doing it. I don't care if this was your first nationals and you came in last, you still shouldn't have to lift with the wrong equipment. Hahahahah!!! Mike, congrats on your lifting. I am aware of the wrong bar that was shipped because I warmed up with it in the warm up room. Weighing in at only 204 lbs, Mike not only went home with gold medals, but he also broke world records in the Deadlift at 650 lbs. Now all the anonymous guys can come on here and bash the IPF for requiring approved equipment for records. Mike Bridges - 755 lb Deadlift @ 181 lbs (342.5 @ 82.5 kgs) Lexington Plummer 1.59K subscribers 3.8K views 6 years ago Mike Bridges deadlifts 755 lbs on his third attempt to consolidate a. GIVE ME A BREAK. Bench: 280kg/617.29lb if indeed he's been robbed before, then he's pretty tough for sticking in there and coming back. Brand spankin new bar, just no center knurling. 3. They had time to get another bar!!! He was right.After 10 yearsfrom 1970 to 1980I won my first nationals with my first top-ten bench. Payment methods: Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, and PayPal. the lousy knurling on ivanko bars is now a serious problem and despite their paying of the fee, ipf should seriously consider kicking those bars out UNLESS they can be corrected to have more sufficient knurling. Mike's. (365.5 kg). Putt Houston. now with more Bom Chicka Wahwahhhhhh. After getting out of the Army I started to compete in and around Ohio. In powerlifting we have had lifters such as Pacifico who many times totaled more than the heavyweights in the early years of powerlifting. I must have said 5 pounds which was a 2.5kg jump[MCJ2]. wouldnt u think for a comp that big, that everything would be above board, regardless of what you think the rules should be? I checked my watch and had three hours to sleep and make the flight. No excuses! This happened to Mike Bridges. why someone running a meet like this waits to the last second anyway is a damned good question. A winner of five world championships and several world record. Best Lifts: they had TIME TO FIX THIS. Mike was the superlative powerlifter. Nothing worked. Harold put on a great meet. That number is even more amazing when you consider that at the 1968 German powerlifting championships, 176-pound Arnold Schwarzenegger squatted 460 pounds. Ivanko pays them a lisence fee to approve their stuff and Texas Power Bar doesn't! [quote=Roger Ryan]I agree Buddy. We did not know this in advance. Bridges missed three squats of 562 pounds. One official got yelled at for asking about the bar while my boyfriend was checking his rack height later on thursday. Mike Bridges 2023 ABC News Internet Ventures. Everything at this meet was ran by the guys in the uniforms! They've been a nuisance for years, the smaller knurling center causes people to line up too close in the DL and it hardly grips your back at all, some of the even brand NEW bars have NO KNURLING. The top of the pin stuck out about a quarter inch with a tiny loop that bent around. only thing worse than being old is being an old fart. And at 51 I expect to take it even higher next week at the APF Georgia. So, even if drugs arent in an athletes system, he might be lifting heavier because he used PEDs a few years ago. Give me a TEXAS POWER OR OKIE. We took off and I told him what happened. Every so often an athlete shows an exceptional talent in his sport that baffles the mind. In the meet Paul tore a quad and broke an ankle. And your team Power Elite with your lifters including Topsogov Studer. He was a tremendous bencher. Strength is like a glass, said lifting coach Brett Jones, who is considered one of the best trainers in the country. 1986 1st World Powerlifting Championship Because 1983 was the first time the IPF drug-tested, most participants didnt risk using performance-enhancing drugs leading up to the meet, according to powerlifting historian Bob Gaynor. I checked my watch and I had only 10 minutes to make my flight. Meshuggah. Assistance work may have consisted of a few sets of curls and little more yet in the opinion of many, me included, Mike can be crowned as one of the top few lifters of all time. That has got to be more dangerous that squatting without wraps. When planning ahead for the meet today, I had to ask myself if I was capable of creating conditions in which records could be set and make it known to the lifters who entered the meet today whether the conditions in which they would find would or was not condusive to setting any records. When we landed my finger was twice the size. [quote=mark roskell]its not the fault of the ipf, but the stuff up of the meet directors!!! I trained Mac for a year. What reports? He has broken over 100 combined Nationals and World Records in his storied career. I was a gymnast in New York where I grew up. That's total that maybe one other lifter has approached. Another set of interesting data is world records. He was and is the strongest man under 200 pounds I ever saw. My boyfriend was in the area on Thursday afternoon when several referees told the Technical Sec that something was wrong with the bar and they were told it was OK, it was an old Ivenko Bar. It's about $'s! Since the bar and collars must weight 25kg(55.115lbs) and the TPB and collars would weigh 56.023(25.4kg). For all weight classes, world records in bench press, squat and dead lift are, on average, 7.9, 6.0 and 6.4 percent heavier, respectively, when the competition doesnt test for PEDs. Best Lifts: they cut it fine by sending it to you thast close to a meet. Ivanko bars are awfulthey are outrageously whippy and the non-standard knarling makes setting up for the deadlift quite confusing. So in a desperate effort, I rolled to my left and the fucking pin pulled all the way out. It is one thing to beat someone by all those he beat, so we want to remember him too. When we discovered the mistake we did the best we could and used the bar that was available. When powerlifting, you train with three exercises in mind: Bench press, squats, and deadlifts. How is this the USAPL shooting themselves in the foot? However they are coming out with a 29mm bar that should be just as stiff as an Elieko or Leoko. [/quote] Cookie Notice The International Powerlifting Federation Hall of Fame began in 1978 to recognize powerlifters who had competed in the IPF and officials who had shaped the IPF. Dan, like Ed and Fred Hatfield, has proven that the little man is in! Trying to figure this out with the same type hip replacement as Rickey Crain. In that meet there were four men who would become IPF World Champs: Milt McKenzie, George Crawford, Vince Anello and, last but not least, Larry Pacifico, the subject of this article. At a national level meet you should have equipment more than 2 days prior to a meet. The squats went well. Jeff King: An update on a Bodybuilding Legend, Consent Management Platform by Real Cookie Banner. Do guys in anything-goes competitions regularly hoist heavier weights than guys in drug-tested meets?3 Why allow PED use at all? and our Mike's best official lift was 608 made in 1977. Bench: 260kg/573.2lb Whats more, nearly every powerlifter who competed at the U.S. competition and went on to the IPF event saw a significant drop.2. Squat: 410kg/903lb I have a Texas Power Bar and it weighs 20kg. barbell | 21K views, 632 likes, 8 loves, 38 comments, 118 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Old School Strength: Powerlifting legend Mike Bridges deadlifts ~617 lb in the 198 lb weight class. C'mon. 1983Mens Senior Nationals Deadlift: 320kg/705.48lb, Lee Moran (Birth date: may 17, 1955 Died july 15, 1999). He bench pressed well over 400, squatter more than 700 and deadlifted close to that. Its also important to note that competitions use different weight-class systems. [quote=Jeff Fiss]Harold put on a great meet. Fred is the total squatter, his squats range from 918lb thorugh 100b. Then a week after that, Frank Zane and I had a seminar in New Jersey. If I remember, this is not the first time a National Meet in St Louis had the wrong bar. They keep raising the standard. Today special hand surgeons are in every hospital, but in 1980 the best hand surgeon was at Jewish Hospital in Louisville. Oh they won't have to erase the meet results, no. Giant to appreciate his size. I got a shot under my left armpit and I didn't feel anything for three days in that arm (it's called an arm block). they say he found out thursday. People need to have a reality check, as if Harold thought ..hey, let me sabotage this meet and give them a non-approved bar. Are world records going to be able to be broken there? Both of us totaled 1,815. But while he was doing amazing feats of strength, Larry also was always making a judge, Jerom Weiss, mad. I'm fine Jesse! :)[/quote] Yes, a 198 weighed 198 not 225 at meet time with todays 24-hour weigh-ins.I recall weighing less after a meet back in those days. The bar we used was 45lbs plus the collars. thanks Jeff Mumaw. My training as a 65er back in the day was pretty intense and with pretty good results. well yeah they were legal when they kept the sponsorship fee up. All rights reserved. And in Daytona, Ohio, eight weeks later he made a 590-pound bench press at 228 bodyweight. Hewon nine consecutive IPF World Powerlifting Championships from 1971-1979 (198-pound to 242-pound weight classes) and set 54 world records during his powerlifting career. It can be said that in a way he is a carbon copy of Ed coan. Just as we assume that every athlete in other drug-tested leagues isnt clean, we shouldnt here, either. Something like this should never have been overlookedEVER ! TPB makers stood to gain by keeping the sponsorship fee up, after all, it's a BUSINESS. Putt Houston. now with more Bom Chicka Wahwahhhhhh, http://usapowerliftingforum.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=12709. My training poundage started climbing again and I felt more and more like busting it in the gym again. Place Fed Date Location Competition Division Age Equip Class Weight Squat Bench Deadlift Total Dots; DQ: USAPL: 2010-03-05: USA-OH: Con-Cret Raw Challenge: MR-M: 53: Raw: 90 Mike Bridges Multiple World Champion Weight Lifter Peoria, IL Mike is a World IPF Champion, IPF World Record Holder, 2008 Masters World Champion with 4 Gold Medals, and 2007 World Bench Press Gold Medalist. JOHN INZER An elite lifter, Inzer invented the bench shirtsupportive equipment that allowed for bigger lifts. They called Mel the king of the bench press. 5. John Gamble! Then, around the mid-70s, people realized that taking huge doses increased their lifts, said Bob Gaynor, a powerlifting historian and competitive lifter from the era. If I was one of the competitors who set a world record I would definately be looking into a deferent fed. Steroids also tend to decrease body fat. [/quote] But just how much horsepower and torque do athletes gain? The author and famed Mike Bridges are shown in a light moment at the 1982 World Powerlifting Championships in Munich. that'd just be the cherry on the top of this disaster! I ran to a restaurant and grabbed some napkins and ran to the gate just in time to board. Dr Mike lives in st Louis and I know he has some. To: Chip Hultquist..would like to know more about your hip replacement; facing the same thing..30+ yrs of powerlifting. 1984Mens USPF Senior Nationals: He was right. Within three hours I was on the operating table. Who cares what brand of bar it was loaded on?! In response to a question about how his training has changed as he has gotten older, powerlifting legend Mike Bridges. A 13 year old Ed saw Bill Kazmaier powerlift on television and he was instantly hooked. Rank. Mike is going to get robbed because it's an IPF rule, tpb isn't approved equipment and so he's getting american records. Tony Carpino agreed to fly in and ref and help out. The ProKinetics Natural Body Balance Insoles naturally help me align my feet and knees just right without me consciously having to alter my posture. If they were lifetime PR's for you as well, then even greater congratulations are indeed in order! Benchpress: 265kg/584lb and the Squat at an astonishing amount of 804 lbs. We can still make new gains and new PR's well into our master careers but we have to listen to what our bodies are telling us more. Gerlof Holkema 4.4K subscribers Subscribe 4.1K views 2 years ago Mike Bridges (1982) WORLD RECORD (181 lbs /. If they can't get the bars right, I just wonder how the Arnold is going to turn out. check out the. anyway, im in agreement with most everyone here, that is, there is no way any record should be taken away because of this. Squat: 227.5kg/501lb It's a shame his feats aren't hailed about today. lift on, stay young, and live to enjoy it! There was no 220 class yet. For example, at a drug-tested meet in 2002, Mike Booker squatted 551 pounds but weighed just 132 pounds. They took me to Grandview Hospital where a doctor friend of the family met us. Deadlift: 372.5kg/821lb. That has got to be more dangerous that squatting without wraps. The bar we used was 45lbs plus the collars. HOWEVER, if you're the meet director and you're running an IPF qualifier with potential world records, YOU are responsible for making sure the bar is good. This. There was also another little boy who came in from Tennessee. There was a period when the IPF decided to do drug testing. This will be different for different people as we are all genetically different as to how we age. It's unfortunate that an error like this had to happen, but the bar we were using was just fine!! I slid under it and the bar hit me just over my left eye, tearing off half my eyebrow. they're listed as pending cause someone turned in teh record forms and until ipf looks into this, they're pending. 1980 IPF Men's World Powerlifting Championships. ive read about mike bridges and his records. Thanks.Louie Simmons. Everyone there knows you did your best to make the meet as perfect as it could be, in EVERY aspect. His total outdid his closest competiton by some 150lb. I'm doing good, Buddy, how have you been? $29.95 each. Had Wade Hooper eclipsed his squat record, for example, which was also QUITE possible, then what would this meet director say! In 1956 in Minneapolis my buddies and I, Reps and sets ranged from 510 to 10-15 sets of lower reps, to the aforementioned 50-rep sets on some exercises,. It's NOT a 45lb bar. The guys in the lighter . I opened with 540 very easy, then the 242 world record of 578. fed ex, several people with bars in ATTENDANCE who could have had fed ex deliver them, there's NO EXCUSE in this day and age. I used to be able to recover from training each area twice a week. Bench: 227.5kg/501.55lb It is said the that the road of good intentions a paved with, So when we landed I told Mac that I needed to find a place to sleep. some even fresh from factory seem unduly "slick"! No one expects any more of you. At Na- tionals Bridges the bt . (course they also did drug tests on mike but odds are those won't be a problem). Love it. I went to get up but the pin was hooked into the carpet and I couldn't move. It is not the training intensity per workout that changes as a lifter ages; it is our training frequency (recovery period allowed) that must be adapted. Within the circuits of power lifting, Mike is known as The Legend. best of luck to everyone concerned with this! I invited several well-known lifters of that time: the great Mike Bridges, Terry Dillard, Dave Waddington, Steve Wilson, and Mark Chaillet. Thread Tools. :), [quote=Anonymous][quote=Jeff Fiss]Harold put on a great meet. If he would choose to use the best gear of today, it would be crazy. That's when Bridges competed in the ADFPA (American Drug Free Powerlifting Association). I loved Mac Richards, but I never loved him as much as when he handed me that beer. Larry: We had a great team back then and I will always look back to the early days without so much politics. Why is it so hard? Anyway, I digress. then on the other days he would go between 50-80% of his max for extra volume. No excuses! Well most know he won nine straight before making. USAPL, was it "modified rules" which were in effect this time? C'mon. I really hope the IPF overlooks this and lets the record stand. I tried to roll over but couldn't. I'm sure if anything does happen like records being reversed, the people who are invloved will only use this as motivation to exceed their previous lifts. What is big, strong, and is shaped like a bodybuilder? No excuses! Wow! In response to a question about how his training has changed as he has gotten older, powerlifting legend Mike Bridges answers that at 50 he still trains the same. Go ahead, it's okay. BUT, as a lifter at the meet who is not capable of setting world records, I was very happy when I learned that we would be using a Texas Power Bar. View Profile View Forum Posts . Men (65+) 2022 open 28th Worldwide. The Hall of Fame began with just male lifters and officials, but started including female lifters since 1987. . This was thursday--start making calls. Let's hope they get confirmed soon. I've never really changed anything. [quote=An IPF member]I have a Texas Power Bar and it weighs 20kg. Why?? One should not blame the IPF as they did not have any influence or a stake in this meet. In my opinion, it's a horrible situation all the way around. that is bullshit. . Collectively, the disparities in competition averages and world records between tested and non-tested powerlifters are about what most studies say they should be. The bar used was the correct weight & configuration. I think it'd be more like shooting the jockey because he was wearing the wrong silks lol! Former IPF world record holder in the bench press from the USA Mike MacDonald, 69, died Tuesday, January 9th 2018 in Eveleth, Minnesota after a long illness. You might say not bad well let me tell you this, maybe 12 super-heavies have done 630 plus, but Sam, at 275, has out-benched at least half of the twelve. 6. they can replace usapl, remember? Tragedy struck again on our way back to Dayton. Lou: You had a lot of lifters come stay with you such as Mike Bridges who you said was the strongest man under 200 pounds. And tell me something about your personal life.Larry: I was vice president of Holiday and New Life Spas, there were 20 of us all total. Theyre close enough in the lighter classes, but the heavier guys are differentiated in such a way, for example, that an IPF lifter could be up to 23 pounds heavier than a Raw Unity competitor in an equal weight class. And it's still very hard for me to write after all these years. the knurling is LOUSY, and some are even slippery for the deadlift. So, after the 1983 IPF event, he and others formed the American Drug-Free Powerlifting Federation. Thats huge, because more muscle gives these athletes more power to perform with. ivanko bars suck. How about a man who can squat 892.9lb; bench press around 580lb and deadlift in the 800s. Jim. Mike Bridges' DVD series. Results 1 to 5 of 5 Thread: Mike Bridges Training ? Mike Bridges The Peoria Powerhouse as told to POWERLIFTING USA by Herb Glossbrenner Great Form from the beginning. When people talk about competitive weightlifting, theyre usually talking about Olympic lifts, which are the snatch and the clean and jerk.