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Politics, Religion, Science, Culture and Humanities => Science, Culture, & Humanities => Topic started by: ccp on September 25, 2010, 09:58:08 AM
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I had a patient tell me the benchpress record is well over 1,000 pounds now. I asked how is this possible. He said and I looked it up.
Not only steroids, but wraps, body suits that support muscle. Probably the highest natural unaided bench press is around 650:
http://www.powerliftingwatch.com/files/Rankings-08-29-10.pdf
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CCP: Would you please post this on the Martial Arts forum? Thank you.
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https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-powerlifting-tells-us-about-the-effects-of-peds/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CFrom%20then%20on%20and%20into,pump%20himself%20full%20of%20chemicals.
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Soviets started to use in athletes using Nazi research
then in 1954 an American doctor got wind of it and brought this back to US.
https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2016/08/13/how-york-played-role-steroid-controversy/88697744/
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these non steroid chemicals that work primarily on muscle and in theory will have no or less side effects on other tissues
are being investigated:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_androgen_receptor_modulator
However, they are not approved in US and appear to have dangerous side effects being reported as well:
https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/fda-warns-use-selective-androgen-receptor-modulators-sarms-among-teens-young-adults
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technique speed beating brawn:
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=schoolboy+vs+larry+wheels+arm+wrestling+2022&&view=riverview&mmscn=mtsc&mid=1CC37EFBE0E4B352CE031CC37EFBE0E4B352CE03&&aps=10&FORM=VMSOVR
when brawn is just too much brawn:
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?&q=school+boy+vs+russian+gian&qpvt=school+boy+vs+russian+gian&mid=37F621CE5DCF84269A3F37F621CE5DCF84269A3F&&FORM=VRDGAR
When beauty beats the beast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jzrKbaPCpQ
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difference of opinion on strength
wow look at skeletal structure difference
weird Neanderthals had short upper arms and short lower legs :-o
https://www.quora.com/How-much-stronger-were-neanderthals-than-modern-homo-sapiens
they probably would have made for bone breaking arm wrestling champions.