Mike Bridges (1982) WORLD RECORD (181 lbs / 82.5 kg) POWERLIFTING TOTAL 954.5 KG . Men (65+) 2022 open 28th Worldwide. Strength is like a glass, said lifting coach Brett Jones, who is considered one of the best trainers in the country. So, I think I can back my ideology up pretty well. Was I right! Looks somewhat like Sheikos powerlifting program. Deadlift: 369.6kg/814lb. Bench: 260kg/573.2lb some even fresh from factory seem unduly "slick"! Privacy Policy. On the morning before the meet we opened 2 brand new shipping tubes from an IPF approved manufacturer and they contained bars that did not have center knurling. I am aware of the wrong bar that was shipped because I warmed up with it in the warm up room. Brand spankin new bar, just no center knurling. 600lb bench and a deadlift of 815 for a world record total of 2400 pounds. You've probably never heard of him, but he's one of the strongest men who's ever lived, and he was a powerlifting god in the early 1980s. Perfect I went around and took off my coat made a pillow out of it then took off my watch, laid it down, and fell sound to sleep. How To Get The Most Out of Your Westside Bands, I met him in my first power meet in the summer of 1966. George has put his time in and i know we all appreciate Georges effort in supporting the game through his participation. Ivanko bars are awfulthey are outrageously whippy and the non-standard knarling makes setting up for the deadlift quite confusing. We did not know this in advance. How about a total of 2105 lb at 181lb body weight. Best Lifts: 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 matters what the rules actuially are!!! Thats huge, because more muscle gives these athletes more power to perform with. check out the. My training put me at 835-580-800-2215. I was a gymnast in New York where I grew up. Thread Tools. Benchpress: 272.1kg/599.88lb 1. With respect to direct lat work, you will neither find it in the detailed 1982 article by Ron Fernando, disclosing, I was there, front row at the USF SunDome in Tampa covering the contest for The Tampa Tribune when Jeff, Dave was 7 years my elder and my teen years weightlifting idol. mark. First of all, congratulations on a stellar performance that puts you IMO in the class with Inaba of Japan and other lifters who throw the gauntlet in the face of Father Time. I met him in my first power meet in the summer of 1966just prior to being drafted into the United States Army 50 years ago. In powerlifting we have had lifters such as Pacifico who many times totaled more than the heavyweights in the early years of powerlifting. 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. Best Lifts: Show me where the IPF as said anything? Jons training lifts around 2300lb! Just the fact that the TPB is 45lbs makes it not meet all requirements for use. An athlete lives at the whim of a sports rules, and when those rules change, so can their career. Reply . I can attest to that because I lifted in the Master's Nat's in Charlottesville, VA and along with a IPF Cat I ref, pointed out a number of infrations which where simply explained away. Let's hope they get confirmed soon. This. Modern powerlifters are some of the strongest people in history. I checked my watch and I had only 10 minutes to make my flight. WAS THE PAPER IT WAS WRITTEN ON WAS THE RIGHT SIZE! Hes laid down a base of muscle that doesnt just dry up when the drugs do. Mike Bridges It seems that Jordans powerlifting was gone, but good fortune would be his as he began to train horses and became Australias top horse trainer.Lou: You know all the greats and beat them all: Marv, Phillips, Roger Estep the list is too long. I was married three times.Lou: How many world records did you break in your illustrious career?Larry: 54Lou: I know you had rivals along the way. I checked the rules on the USAPL site and they just referenced the IPF rules. Thanks.Louie Simmons. And they probably DID! also what do you guys think about this every monday he would max out on bench/squat and max out on deads every wednesday. I weighed 150 pounds back then.Lou: When you moved to Dayton what was your occupation? 1984 Honolulu, Hawaii The place was cheering wildly for me to take again. 2023 Westside Barbell. And I won the worlds. Rogers post about changing the frequency of training seems to fit. Sign up for our newsletter and get new articles sent straight to your inbox weekly. The top of the pin stuck out about a quarter inch with a tiny loop that bent around. they cut it fine by sending it to you thast close to a meet. That being said, steroids, insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1), clenbuterol and other banned substances dont make an athlete more skilled at his sport they amplify skills he already has. Michael Easter is an associate editor at Mens Health magazine. Jim I checked my watch and had three hours to sleep and make the flight. We landed in St. Louis five hours later. Larry: Yes. No official word has come down from the IPF or USAPL. He did break the record. In football, the drugs can help a fullback break through what would have been a tackle; in baseball, they can help a pitcher take a 95 mph fastball to 98 mph (and also help him recover between starts). A week later Mac and I flew to California. They had time to get another bar!!! But it will inevitabably follow the same process. [quote=Anonymous]And squating without center knurling??? I slid under it and the bar hit me just over my left eye, tearing off half my eyebrow. The manufacture send Bench bars with the middle knurling missing and no one in the area had the right bars! Steve Powell has uploaded video of the first two squat attempts of powerlifting legend and pre-meet favorite, Mike Bridges (198), at the USAPL CON-CRET Raw Challenge at the Arnold Classic. This happened to Mike Bridges. [quote=Jeff Fiss]Harold put on a great meet. There I said it for you. Just lift it! And it's still very hard for me to write after all these years. John Gamble! 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'm fine Jesse! 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. I recall weighing less after a meet back in those days. Everyone has asked me, "Why do a meet only a month before trying to win your 10th world title?" And he held a special "women's gateway open" with lifters all breaking WR's TOO..WHERE WAS THIS MAN's BRAIN??? You know what I mean. Bridges trained all three of the power lifts in the same workout, three days a week. When we discovered the mistake we did the best we could and used the bar that was available. I went 760, 810, 832. This is the biggest USAPL meet of the year. I loved Mac Richards, but I never loved him as much as when he handed me that beer. [/quote] Actually, I've worked at keeping everything the same since it worked before and seems to be working OK now as well. [quote=Harold Gaines]I was the Meet Director for this event and I would like to put to rest this issue (if possible). The meet director did the best he could given the circumstances and the pass given with the equipment presented for inspection. I lowered it, but too slow. MIKE BRIDGES As a 50-year-old, set records in the squat and bench press. One official got yelled at for asking about the bar while my boyfriend was checking his rack height later on thursday. To many, the author included, a case can be made for Bridges being among the best three lifters in the history of the sport. Larry: Yes. After getting out of the Army I started to compete in and around Ohio. It took 29 years for someone to break this raw bench record mark, set by a man that looked like a clerk at Home Depot. This means they have to use IPF-approved equipment on the platform. And some new research shows that they help you better activate the muscle, increasing strength.. DUMB, the man had spanking new Ivanko weights and ER rack on the platform, to think that the bar was his underminding the rules is plain stupid. How are you doing Roger?! Dr Mike lives in st Louis and I know he has some. TPB makers stood to gain by keeping the sponsorship fee up, after all, it's a BUSINESS. Mike's lifts are pending on the IPF website. And there were no bench shirts until 1984, so his bench was raw as they say nowadays. Records should not have to be sacrificed because of this. Well, finally the final chapter to this event: As I mentioned, Mac Richards came back down to pick me up in Louisville. Mike Bridges - Bridges was one of the greatest powerlifters of all time, competing in the 165 and 181 pound classes. Within the circuits of power lifting, Mike is known as The Legend. I came up with a wrestling singlet with legs, but somehow George Langas took the idea and sold them under the name Spanjam, which I distributed.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. A prodigy of the great Larry Pacifico. Just lift it! Bridges was one of many record holders or top level men that included Marvin . thanks Jeff Mumaw. [quote=Travis Werner]I really hope the IPF overlooks this and lets the record stand. What really happened that day that allowed Mark Dimiduk to win the 1980 SR nationals and that would select the 1980 world team members.Larry: On a second attempt deadlift I wanted a 5 kg jump. No excuses! anyway, im in agreement with most everyone here, that is, there is no way any record should be taken away because of this. Ed was born in 1963 to a large loving family in the Chicago,Illinois suburb of Evergreen Park. well yeah they were legal when they kept the sponsorship fee up. On another note, the IPF will truly commit a crime if they take Mike's records due to this smallest of technicalities. Mike Bridges (Birth date: february 1, 1957). Once inside and rolling, they put the piece of finger that came off in some of the ice and stuck it in my sweatshirt pocket. Bench: 280kg/617.29lb Now that is damning testimony if I have ever heard it. 1981Mens Senior Nationals Larry: We had a great team back then and I will always look back to the early days without so much politics. There was also another little boy who came in from Tennessee. Ron Collins who would mostly lift at 181 and you were mostly a 198 and there was a lot of talk of a match between you.Larry: Yes, it would be at 198, but never happened.Lou: You won nine worlds starting in 1971, it ended at Wisconsin in 1980. only thing worse than being old is being an old fart. Video of Mike Bridges' Raw Challenge Squats. 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. And Don Reinhoudt the SHW world champ. 711 still weighs 711 on a Texas Power Bar or an Ivanko! Tests are cost prohibitive. Jeff King: An update on a Bodybuilding Legend, Consent Management Platform by Real Cookie Banner. Some have tested and non-tested divisions; others randomly test a minimum of 10 percent of their lifters; and the rest the majority, in fact dont test at all. His name was Mike Bridges. 1985 Mens Senior Nationals The store will not work correctly in the case when cookies are disabled. I would hear it from him every meet when he told me if I did not get a better bench I would never win at nationals. Well most know he won nine straight before makinga tactical error when he jumped five pounds on his second attempt on the deadlift, which nullified a third attempt, letting Mark Dimiduk win the1980s nationals and worlds.Larry told me if I would open lighter I would do better, and he was right again.I remember Larry making a 530-pound bench press and a 1,900 total in 1972 in Cincinnati, Ohio, at a body weight of 198.
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