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 No.85216

Bill Kazmaier dropped out of college to pursue lifting weights. I hate school and am considering doing the same thing. How can I make this work? If I live like a hermit I'll be able to cut down on a lot of expenses, but I still will have to deal with the costs of extra food and steroids if I want to be successful.

 No.85223

I wouldn't consider quit school to be a pro athlete a wise decision, but if you like lifting you could get into its business, like coaching, selling equipment or even selling anabolic drugs (which is wiser than trying to live as a pro athlete).

These days you need more than taking gear to live as a athlete.


 No.85250

> I hate school

Nobody drops out and goes on to become successful because they hate school, kid. They do it to pursue what they've already invested themselves in for years.

Ask yourself whether you truly want to lift weights and coach people for the rest of your life.


 No.85948

File: 1455232250222.webm (5.45 MB, 900x506, 450:253, muppetexecution.webm)

>>85216

>people will look down on you

>nobody will believe in you

>if you have suboptimal genetics you can get a sikkunt, but not join the topathletes

>you can struggle for years and years, not knowing if you will ever have success

>the roids will destroy you mentally, inducing emotional instabilities and harm your body

>a accident in the gym can ruin your career immediatly

>you will often find yourself thinking "what if I didn't drop school back then?"

>you will be an outcast of society for the time in which you didn't make it work

>to be successfull it takes more than just being /fit/, most of them are businessman like Rich Piana, Jay Cutler etc.

this is a very, very rocky road. If lifting doesn't fully cover your hearts content, you will lead a strugglesome life and invest way more energy in success if you go the conventional road with school

if you are young I truly would recommend you not to drop out


 No.85954

>>85948

what the fuck is this video from?


 No.85974

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Very few people are gifted enough to become successful Power lifters. It's going to be hard to pay for rent/food/steroids, as nobody is going to pay to see a 300lb PL do a g4p cam show.

stay in school


 No.85985

>>85216

>there are people who stopped working out their brains to pursue a career in picking things up and putting them down


 No.85986

>>85954

Tune for Two. Film festival video, that's literally half of the thing.


 No.85990

He also had like a 10 inch wrist circumfrence you idiot


 No.85995

First question is how tall are you? The biggest guys in strongman are 6'6-6'9 so if you are under 6'4 I wouldnt even consider it a possibility as they will have so much more mass than you, you wont be able to match them.

A career in fitness is definitely a possibility but being a strongman professionally is a whole other thing.


 No.86007

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>He is known to be a devoted Christian, crediting much of his success and exceptional strength to "the power of Jesus Christ."[7][14]

You have to make gains with jesus OP


 No.86054

>>85995

But /fit/ always told me that lanklets are biomechanically disadvantaged


 No.86059

>>86054

At 5'6 it hurts to say but thats just not true. You could maybe make a case for benching and idk their stats off the top of my head but id bet they can all bench 500+ pounds raw, if not a fair bit more. Deadlift world record was set at a strongman event (eddie hall 463kg) and hafthor bjornsen lifted 450 kg at 6'9. Squatting 370kg was an event and the quite a few did 5+ reps.

More mass = more strength, its that simple. There might be some small advantages to being small but they are easily outweighed by increased size.

Afaik no lifting world record is held by anyone under 6 foot.


 No.86062

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>>86059

>>86059

>Afaik no lifting world record is held by anyone under 6 foot.

you wot m8


 No.86066

>>86062

Literally who?


 No.86067

your a dumb, faggot.

stay in school, get a trade, then lift as much as you want


 No.86074

File: 1455359295660.jpg (68.54 KB, 1280x720, 16:9, all of my rage.jpg)

>>86066

That's Ed Coan. He totalled over 2500 lbs despite not being in the highest weightclass. How the fuck can you not know him?


 No.86089

>>86062

>>86074

>2500lb

>world record

1. Thats not a world record

2. Bill won strongman

3. OP obviously wants to do strongman

4. Strongman is more than having a high total

5. This faggot isnt a strongman and doesnt have a world record

Are you manlets who cant accept it?


 No.86093

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

>>86089

Nigger, Ed Coan broke 71 world records and he still holds four of them, after over twenty years:

http://www.powerliftingwatch.com/records/raw/world

Want another name? Louis Cyr. 5'10, strongest man in the world at the time. He was so strong that Bill Kazmaier used him as a benchmark for what lifts he had to surpass.

>Yeah, but no CURRENT strongmen is smaller than 6'4, germancuck!

Oh, really? Let's look at the guys who actually won WSM:

Vasyl Virastyuk: 6'3

Big Z: 6'3, won four times

Jamie Reeves: 6'3

Magnus Ver Magnusson: 6'3, won four times

Jon Pall Sigmarsson: 6'3, won four times

Bill Kazmaier: 6'25, let's round that up to 6'3; he won three times, made WSM big and would've won more times if he hadn't been banned for utterly dominating the contest

Svend Karlsen: 6'2,

Bruce Wilhelm: 6'2, two times

Jouko Ahola: 6'1, two times

Mariusz Pudzianowski: 6'1, won FIVE times

Gary Taylor: 6'0

I think that's 29 annual champion titles, held by guys who never should've even considered competing as strongmen. The WSM-contest has been held since 1977, but was not held in 1987. So there were 37 contests, if my math hasn't failed me. 29 of which were won by guys that you and the amerifat would've discouraged from competing.

>B-but muh Hafthór!

Hafthór hasn't won a single WSM-contest. Most of his fame stems from his role in Game of Thrones. Hate to say it, but he's a memelifter. Still an extremely accomplished one, and he might well become the mightiest one to ever walk the earth, but nevertheless a memelifter.

>Muh deadlift world record!

The raw record is held by Benedikt Magnusson, at 461 kg. That's just 2kg less than Eddie Hall lifted, and Eddie Hall used straps. It's a lot more than what Hafthór lifted, and Hafthór was hitching his lift like a maniac, whereas Benny casually lifted the barbell up and just struggled a little with the lockout. Benny is 6'0.


 No.86119

>>86093

>5'10

>He was so strong that Bill Kazmaier used him as a benchmark for what lifts he had to surpass

And then Bill surpassed those lifts because he wasn't a FUCKING MANLET.


 No.86135

>>86093

>sports dont change ever

>someone who completes atlas stones in 17 seconds is a memelifter

Germany you faggots are supposed to be smart. Thor only missed 2015 strongest man because he fucked up lifting the first stone when it mattered most. Shaw 6'8 and thor 6'9 are the holders of the next 5 titles. Maybe eddie hall will sneak a win but probably not.

That link has ed coans name 4 times total…

If you still checking here OP, my entire point originally is that you shouldnt bother unless you have the height.


 No.86140

>>86135

Not that guy, but powerlifting watch doesn't post historical records. Only Ed Coan's currently unbroken raw records are listed there.


 No.86240

>>86119

Now you're switching the goalposts.

>>86135

That's two guys who are big and very dominant in the sport. That does not make a trend.


 No.86247

>>86140

>weight classes

Why not post the midget who can squat 500+lbs? This thread is about being the best, no weight classes, no snobbery about raw etc.

Did ed coan ever hold an actual world record without weight classes?

>>86240

Two big guys that will dominate what OP wants to do…

No way to say who will be around in 5-10 years when he would be ready to compete but big z was competing for the best part of 20 years. Those 2 will still be around then.


 No.86306

>>86240

I'm not that nerd you were talking to, the goalposts he sets are not something I abide by. All accomplishments by non-6'0"+ people are utterly meaningless.


 No.86314

>>86247

>Did ed coan ever hold an actual world record without weight classes?

Highest total, if I recall correctly.

>Two big guys that will dominate what OP wants to do…

Doesn't mean he can't surpass them. Big Z has surpassed Shaw too, after all.

>>86306

The smallest WSM-winner was 6'0. Are you seriously telling me that a 6'0 guy can win, but magically, if you're just three centimetres smaller, you have absolutely no chance?




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