PREDICTING ULTIMATE LIFTS AND SIZE

Does anyone have any ideas on how to predict what one's maximal lifts would be based on things like initial lift, height, weight, frame(wrist size)? Also same question for ultimate muscular weight and size, chest size for

My self-indulgent belief is that a large part of that 50 lbs was simply the last stage of adolescent development. It's probably BS, but it's a nice personal myth.

I've been content to train at around the same weight for the last year. Given typical newbie/returning lifter gains and slowly shedding small amounts of fat, it's been ok. I'm not sure at what point it'll be the smart idea to do a bulking cycle to help boost strength gains, but hopefully I'll recognize it before I waste too much time struggling at a plateau.

Probably not likely in view of my personal psychology.

That would require more tolerance for overeating than I ever expect to have. And I look terrible in those sumo outfits.

Geez, I think I ran across him while browsing
www.americanpowerliftevolution.net, which someone posted here awhile back.

The pictures are downright crazy
http://www.americanpowerliftevolution.net/ BruceRandallPage.html

I was really wondering about the stretch marks/loose skin business, becauase he lost nearly half his body weight at one point.

We should all be so lucky.

MY memory was good. I found this blurb on Bruce Randall.

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...Take a look at the changes of NABBA Mr. Universe Bruce Randall (1959). Bruce bulked to 403 lbs. and then trained down to 219 lbs. To reach 400 pounds, Bruce once drank 4.5 gallons of whole milk in one day and his weekly intake was about 170 fried eggs, yolks and all.

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I found it in the instruction manual to my own Billard Barbell set which showed pictures of a 400 lb Bruce Randall doing good-mornings with 605 lbs! I could not believe it. I had no idea what a 'good-morning' was but it sure looked hard and fantastically uncomfortable. Then the booklet showed pictures of the same Bruce Randall, 220 lbs lighter, with a Mr. Universe trophy in his hand.

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By the way, Bruce Randall won Mr Universe in 1959. In 1958 Reg Park won and Bruce Randall was second to Reg.

2100 pound half-squat? I feel like my joints are going to collapse when I put 500 pounds on my shoulders, let alone 2000 pounds.

No way. Go to a butcher shop and look at how much space 10 lb of steak takes up, imagine putting 5X that much on your frame.

Might be true.

With a well designed routine you might delay that strength plateau considerably, and thus deny yourself an opportunity to bulk.

Take it in small steps, periodize your eating, try to occasionally eat to failure... It's all (potentially) you.

Went to the Philadelphia museum of art recently with my sister and my nine year old niece. My niece was shocked by some of the paintings.

'Well, they didn't have clothing big enough for chubby people in those

and an impressive physique once he dropped the fat. And all it took was six years of hard work and bulking up to 400 pounds before competing at 220. As you typed, he must have had darn good genetics as well. Here's that link again:

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Are you trying to tell me something?

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Except that at 400lbs I would look more like the michelin man with a super-inflated middle tube. Maybe then I could take up float-fishing and become a bass-nabbing pro.

I suspect it is a back lift, not a half squat. Even Paul Anderson didn't go that heavy.

That is why I'm so suprised someone my exact height could weigh 50lbs less than me an not have much less bodyfat. This guy at work weighs like 142lbs at 6' tall. That is after spending quite a bit of time putting 20lbs on. He has done MA since 5 years old. He started trying to put weight on in High School. I'm also 6' tall and my lean mass alone is near 20lbs more than his total bodyweight. I've really only put about 10lbs total in the last 3-4 years. Half of that has been with HST over the last 4 months (I was not eating to gain the other times and my workouts were very infrequent). He even has a larger bone structure than me. Although I do have very measurable size gains off of just the last 5lbs.