Denny Habecker
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Great choice. GOOD JOB DAVE!
Congratulations Eric!
Ruth,
Sorry I couldn’t make it, but I knew you would be in good hands with Al and Chad there.Looks like great meet! Sorry I wasn’t able to make it. Art and I were planning to come, but I chickened out because of the weather.
I would like to learn the training method that Dan says will increase my strength by 300 percent. I will definitely use it. I know from personal experience my poundages have gone down slowly but steadily on a lot of lifts since I was in my late forties. I know some of that was due to losing quickness and flexability as I got older. On the lifts that do not require quickness I hadn’t lost nearly as much [ until my hip started giving me problems]. I agree if you take someone over 60 that has never lifted before you may be able to increase his strength 300 percent, but not someone who has been training his whole life. Also I would like to know if this scientific method is going to prevent arthritic joints.
I am planning to come to this meet.
OOPS! I think I replied about the wrong meet. Art and I are planning to come to the Grip Championships.
Art Montini and I will be there unless the weather is too bad for us to make the drive.
I saw Gary Deal lift many years ago at a Senior Nationals and was very impressed with his lifting. If I remember correctly, he would put his right hand on the bar and then use his left hand to wrap the fingers of the right hand around the bar before gripping the bar with his left hand. I thought he lifting incredible considering the handicap he was dealing with.
I don’t know the answer to getting more people involved. I have put up posters all over town [ all local high schools, YMCA, local gyms and many businesses]advertising a meet between teams from England, Scotland and the USA and got maybe 10 people coming to watch. I have tried to get many guys at gyms where I trained to try the All-round lifts or to come to a meet with no or little success. One problem is the distance that must be traveled to compete if I don’t hold the meet myself. A lot of people don’t have the time or money to travel great distances to meets. Also a lot of people are reluctant to try anything new.
Ruth,
I don’t go on facebook at all right now because every time I log on to facebook my computer locks up on me. [ I know,Al, I need a new computer.] It doesn’t suprise me about Ramos. I always wondered how he could stay that strong and look the musculer at his age.Great Choice. Good job Chad!
Regarding Dan’s comment that he doesn’t believe a person could be as strong as a person who trains regularly. I worked at Wernersville State Hospital back in the early 60’s. There was a patient there who weighed about 285 lbs. and never touched a barbell in his life. He was very lazy and had a big gut. We had a hard time getting him off his butt to do anything. But when he was in a good mood he was very playful. One day he lifted my buddy [a 200 pounder], who also worked there, over his head. Another time he lifted the back end of my buddy’s 1956 Chevy up so that the wheels were off the ground. Another time after I, with the help of another patient, took my motor scooter down some steps to get it out of the rain, he carried it back up for me easily by himself.
I agree with the 3 officials being a problem. I only have 1 offical here in my immediate area to judge my lifts. I will do them anyhow and submit them and Steve can accept them or not.
I would have liked to be there, but I would have been the only member of my club to lift,so I lifted in the Pa. State Weightlifting Championships at York Barbell instead.
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