Comment of the Week was from the James Henderson post.
MKingW Says:
September 7th, 2010 at 3:20 pm eHe’s got arms like legs, and legs like people.
Score:
1 – Jacob
1 – StonewallWells
1 – tonypop
1 – High Voltage
1 – MKingW
For all you noobs, this is the 70's Big Face, modeled by Chris.
The extended 70’s Big Face Picture Challenge is reaching it’s climax. Fans, readers, lifters…YOU will decide the winner. The Killustrator has the prize, a bundle of posters, ready to be sent in the mail. Let the voting begin.
Voting starts at the bottom of the page.
You can click on a picture to see the full image, if applicable.
#1 - Adam
#2 - Aidan (from Scotland)
#3 - Big_Mike
#4 - Christian (wore this to his wedding)
#5 - Ed. Intense.
#6 - Gabe w/ eye ball blood vessel
#7 - Harrison (big grocery list guy)
#8 - Jake, the dark horse
#9 - James
#10 - Jeremy
#11 - Jesse, cool dude, builds a bunch of stuff, coached him in Tallahassee
#12 - Jimmy
#13 - John
#14 - Matt...eyebrows=mustache
#15 - Rob, another cool dude, post-grad at GA Tech
#16 - Robin, from the Netherlands
#17 - USMC.Scot
#18 - No name. We'll call him Beardman McGee
#19 - Wilmar, he titled this picture "70's Drunk"
#20 - WannaBBurly
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Editor’s Note: In case you can’t tell, this is another post by Brent. Oh, and it’s PR Friday so post your PR’s to the comments or update everyone on your training.
Chris Riley is a man of captivating words. Chris has always been very creative with language. We’ve mentioned it a few times before on the site – instead of saying “I need to wash my hands,” Chris will say, “I need to wash my gripz.” Instead of asking if he can taste or try something that you’re eating, he’ll ask, “Can I flavor that?” or “Do you want to flavor this?”
He also has an interesting way of insulting people. According to Chris, a “Todd” is someone who fucks everything up but doesn’t realize he is a total fuck up.
Brent: The Arkansas Razorbacks are a bunch of fucking losers. They couldn’t make a touchdown if the goalie was a paraplegic.
Chris: Goalies are in soccer, Todd.
Brent: Ooh KAY.
There are some other colorful terms that Chris is fond of using, but I don’t think they’d be appropriate to share here, but if you’d like to know more, call me, we’ll talk about it (<– this is also one of Chris’s sayings, often said in the middle of a conversation).
Oh, and the infamous WHAT ELSE ISN’T A SPORT that some of you may have seen in some of the comment threads actually originated from a night during which Chris had been drinking. Mustache Mike (not to be confused with Big Mike, who you’ve all been acquainted with) ascertained that figure skating wasn’t a sport, and Chris grew increasingly agitated as he interrogated Mike about what else wasn’t a sport.
Mike and Chris are currently training partners at WFAC. They follow a Texas Method-style program, with a volume day on Tuesdays, a light day on Thursday, and an intensity day on Saturday. Mike has observed that almost invariably, Chris comes into his Saturday workouts with the odds stacked against him. He got drunk Friday night, or he has to train in a hurry because of work, or he doesn’t eat an optimum amount of pre-workout calories because life gets in the way.
Chris, however, is a competitor.
Chris and AC are similar in that when they commit to something, they put all of themselves into it. It’s why AC gets so intense that he’s brought to tears before a 3rd attempt squat. Chris is the same way. Fight a +17lbs PR 650lbs deadlift for like 10 seconds and make it to above the knee? Ooh KAY. When Chris commits to a lift, he’ll throw everything he has into the effort, and if he fails, he’s gonna go down swinging for the fucking fences.
One particular Saturday, Chris went into the workout under shitty conditions, as usual. He takes his last squat warm up and decides to load 545lbs on the bar. He’s not sure how many times he’ll squat it, or if he’ll even be able to squat it at all today, but before he gets under the bar he turns to Mike and says one of his new trademark lines –
“I’m feeling reckless.”
And then he squats it for a PR set of 5.
Mike and I have agreed that Chris is a fantastic training partner. It’s hard to find someone who trains as hard as he does and has the raw desire to BEAT ‘EM. He’s overcome setbacks and has only gotten bigger and stronger. His performance is consistently excellent. Whenever I train with Chris, my motivation fucking sky rockets.
I’ll have what he’s having.
Hey guys, Shrugthug here.
Let me go off the record in saying this –
I don’t actually think my traps are that big. Well, they aren’t big ENOUGH. I admit they are disproportionate to the rest of my body, sure, and they are probably one of the only remotely visible pieces of evidence of the fact that I lift weights. The bottom line is I weigh 175lbs and this just isn’t a significant amount of mass in general.
But as you all know, I am aggressively working to rectify this.
Justin and I have had several discussions about the need for me to develop more muscular bodyweight, particularly in my upper body, but basically, it’s generally been agreed that I need to fill out 85kg with some quality weight, and eventually 94kg if I’m planning on doing anything cool.
There have been disagreements between us about how I should go about adding that mass though (paraphrased):
Brent: so i want to get more yoked, man
Justin: Oh yeah? What are you planning on doing?
Brent: probably some shrugs, Bill Starr style. i want bigger traps
Justin: (sigh) Your traps are big enough. You have the traps of a 215lbs guy on a 175lbs body. Maybe you should hit some other areas.
Brent: what do you mean?
Justin: I don’t know, maybe the rest of your upper body OTHER than your traps?
We’ve had some other disputes regarding this.
Brent: look, all i’m saying is, i don’t see why there’s a problem with me wanting to be yoked like a bull
Justin: There isn’t, but a big yoke requires the body of a bull, not a calf.
Well, here is my response to THAT:
Shrugging for 17 reps isn’t really standard ops for me. It was kind of a special day since I was training at the WFAC with Mike, and I wanted to get a PR set of 10 in. I typically have been doing these shrugs for a top set of 5 once a week, but I wanted to have some fun. I wasn’t counting reps; I think I was more concerned with telling myself I WANNA BEAT ‘EM. BEAT EM. BEAT EM. BEAT EM! with each rep. I figured at some point that I’d done about 10, and so I did two more “just to be sure.”
I asked Mike if I got 10. He said, “Seventeen. Close though.”
As my friend Chris says, I was feeling reckless.
We are up in Hayward, California in the bay area. You should be busy eating meat and training hard. If you’re getting bored, here’s a video of Ruth and Sean’s (who hosted us at their house and gym for the first workshop) dog training. Her name is Nalu, and she takes her training seriously.