Freakish lifts/standout lifts

[Luigi]

* 1991, Training with and watching 20yr old Rodney Tupouniua RAW squat (no suit/no knee wraps and only had a belt) : 60x20, 80x20, 100x20, 120x20, 140x20, 160x20, 180x20, 200x20, 220x20, 240x10...stop and puke and do another 240x10 to finish his 20reps. All reps ATG, powerlifting depth :shock:

Rodney is an absolute fuckin freak of nature!!After 22 years of working in gyms he is definately the most geniticaly gifted person I have ever seen (his uncle Alfred Ofa was amazing to) I used to train with him in the late 80s at world gym/onehunga fitness centre. Ive posted on here before how after joining the gym at 15 he was one of the strogest guys in the gym after only a few months of training.Ive witnessed him perform so many freakish lifts I wouldnt know where to start, i remember him doing sets of 12 reps of barbell curls with 100kg with perfect form, absolutley no body sway, and just doing them for set after set after set. And performing 20 rep squats with 180kg for set after set with no effort at all, with the last rep being as easy as the first.Ive seen him deadlift 300 with just a belt weighing 97kg. And as tonka says he was a natural lifter.

He was deeply religous and always used to say to me "that it was easy to lift these weights as Jesus was helping him".And he always had a story for me about some "really cool thing Jesus had done".

Other freakish lifts ive seen that come to mind are Vic Richards performing dumbbell flys with 70kg dbls with perfect from, Frank boulgaris doing sets of full range pull ups with 100kg (chin over the bar) round his wasit.

[Dr Squat]

I was under the impression until recently he was Planning on doing the Melbourne grand prix. Must have asked for it back?

I think he pulled the pin on that show.