3232. But, hurting his back walking out a squat, he only made his opener at 650 pounds. Dave was the youngest person ever to total 2400, 2500, 2600, 2700, 2800, and 2900. A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in your family. So let's say you squat 400 pounds. into the action this year. Westside was always evolving, through countless hours of intense work. Be sure to also use a variety of movements. I dialed back because I had already learned by this time that when you get called out on shit like that, you stop squatting with compensatory acceleration; you just start standing up with 405. Here are some of our success stories: Jay Fry came to Westside to train under George Halbert, a multi-class world record holder. like Ryan just want to have fun! Because I nearly died in 91, I could not put things in proper order. Payment methods: Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, and PayPal. Kenny P. was not doing well, and I said, Kenny, I am going to come out of retirement after tearing my patellar tendon in half, plus almost dying in 91. This was now 1995. Chuckie is getting close to the 2500 barrier when he did 2245 total. It also builds cardiovascular and muscular endurance at the same time. Or check out my website @ Among the Thanks KP. I was 43 in 91 and said I was done powerlifting after this miss hap. And Waterman always did great, but not on a slippery 8 in. It may also be found as a variant:. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. (The classic Westside template has two Dynamic days and two Max Effort days, one of each for both the upper and lower body.) And then there's inverse curls, ab work, upper pec work, etc. But, I had him by his long hair and beard and attempted to make him look like Linda Blair in The Exorcist. see the first man to surpass 800 on the bench, which has not been done as of for him, but because of his hips, his firs two attempts at 782 were red lighted. he was the lightest man ever to squat 1,000 lbs. world record at SHW in the 80s. With no more hip flexion to give, further movement has to come from somewhere. All sports, including powerlifting, require speed. Never having done a single Goodmorning, Phils deadlift shot up to 620 pounds very fast once he started this work. Tribute to Chuck Schuldiner RIP w love. For the squat, the proven method of two strength cycles lasting two weeks was done and two circa max cycles were done in a yearly plan. On speed-strength day you train with high volume and moderate intensity. I told John Inzer. For us, that's moving the bar at 0.7 to 0.9 meters per second (mps), with bands attached to limit bar deceleration. Ryan used to respect Scot in the past. His best pull in a meet is 804 pounds and you don't pull over 800 pounds without picking up a few tricks of the trade. The video contrasts "ramping the bar" with good form: Telling people to squat at the bottom has helped us teach thousands of people to dead-lower correctly. And if your hips and knees aren't moving BUT the bar is still travelling down, that's your spine doing the work, homie! money and all kinds of stuff, including a Dune Buggy. He takes a wide grip, and blows up a raw 550 lb. rollin' and rollin' and doesn't look like he's stopping though too. He is a very humble and gracious person. There are 162 immigration records available for the last name Vogelpohl. I did not think we would get out of that town alive. Gary Drago, a power-house 220-pounder, would do the same and had a 550 raw bench. Sign up for Patreon and get the exact programming Matt recommends for each modality. Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic, Descriptions may contain details on the name's etymology, origin, ethnicity and history. Kenny had a great lockout. I mean, Im probably the strongest at that point in time than Ive ever been. And for some reason, Dave figured he could use that when going back and forth with Chuck and it would work. Nowadays, Wes has made a 900-pound squat, a 615-pound bench press, and a 620 deadlift. Tom, Kenny, Rob, and Mickey Tate are long gone, but George is still training a group of benchers at Westside. I know they tried to kill me, but I am still in good enough shape to be their pallbearer, you assholes. Thanks for making me push myself everyday. Rob was also very strong in all the powerlifts. Nowadays Vlad concentrates on his raw squat making a mind-blowing 1113-pound squat for the raw world record. Kenny P. was just the opposite. Everyone has experienced a training plateau in one lift or another. just a lil video i threw together to honor chuck vogelpohl. Steve Wilson, who was training with Matt and had an 815-pound deadlift, agreed that they both would give it a try using 225 to 275 pounds for two or three sets of deadlifts of 20 reps four times a week. His 1,180 lbs. I have Matt carry a barrel wrestlers have to get their hips to the opponent, and the only way to carry a 55 gallon barrel is to jam the hips up into it. This was about 46% of all the recorded Vogelpohl's in USA. George and KP were ruling the bench at Westside. He caught on fast. on the bar. He was not only a lightweight 220 lb. KP and I told him not to do it, just to F with him. In Daytona, KP called for 722 but was miss-loaded to 821. A young Ryan Kennelly was at the meet to compete against Fusdog and later told me he thought he could psych out our lifters. I read hundreds of books and it changed my life. of him, and ran me into a corner where about 10 eight ft. lights were standing. What you want to do is hinge back and once the bar has cleared the knees, you squat down. I ruptured my patella tendon during a low box squat. After pulling the winning deadlift, I ran on stage to congratulate him and he yells, Westside rules, just as I get to him he also yells out, and you all suck to about 700 people in the audience. Greg Panora came to Westside with a 2250 total. All raw. The average life expectancy for Vogelpohl in 1960 was 55, and 77 in 2004. The Vogelpohl family name was found in the USA between 1880 and 1920. It's child's play. bleed during the lift. This bodyweight move not only builds your forearms, it's a great way get ready for serious gymnastic-based training. I was moving up to the 242-class for the first time. Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries, View the tallest/shortest surnames in the world. But it was how he did it, George recalls it must have taken 10 seconds to lock out and win top coefficient bench over Clark. KP jumped in like a good training partner. Then it came804. to beat me. It was really funny at the time back to York. Frank was also intent on breaking the deadlift record made As long a gym isn't doing what we're doing, I know they have no chance to beat us. If not, you fail. The gym had up to 155 lb. Some can find a way to overcome a training plateau, while others cannot and stop training forever. Everyone should know that the amount of force you produce in a lift is determined by multiplying the rate of acceleration by the amount of weight lifted. Chuck Vogelpohl, one of powerlifting's favorite personalities and longtime team cornerstone, has left Westside Barbell Club. It is in my head. I was relieved for a while. As George opened up with 633 and went on to bench 678 to cap off a three world-record rampage, Dave said to the author, I got some competition now. Yes, Dave, you certainly do. A lot of this information came from George, as he helped me write this. Dave or his helpers did not realize we made the change and he was left to make a personal record. Plus Waterman showed up as well. The bands were mostly used for stretching and conditioning. There is a video on YouTube entitled Chuck Vogelpohl 633 bench at the 2006 Arnold Classic which shows what an incredible strength athlete Chuck is. And do it all while having some fun. Grab the Powerlifting Training Manual to get step by step training.https://www.wenningstrength.com/products/powerlifting-training-a-developmental-approach-digital-editionSubscribe to Wenning Strength: https://www.youtube.com/wenningstrength?sub_confirmation=1 Matt Wenning Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realmattwenning Matt Wenning Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/realmattwenning/ Website: https://www.wenningstrength.comManuals: https://www.wenningstrength.com/collections/manualsEquipment: https://www.wenningstrength.com/collections/equipmentSupplements: https://www.wenningstrength.com/pages/supplements It's the thing that almost all lifters are f*cking up and the reason their pull is stuck. Elsewhere, Jesse Kellum after suffering defeat back in 2001, came back with It's all based on you. Wes McCormack came to Westside with an 800-pound squat, a 515-pound bench, and a 560-pound deadlift to total 1880 at 165 body weight. After mastering the shirt, he would wear a shirt every three weeks and concentrate on his raw strength. Jumping is explosive power. Matt Wenning talks Chuck Vogelpohl!Want to know the specifics? It was very profound when George said he learned a lot from JM and Kenny, but that they never learned anything from him. He accomplished at world record with 782. It's the system. bodyweight. Louie Simmons Try these accessory exercises to strengthen them. Jim Wendler of 5-3-1 Fame, although it does not add up, trained at Westside. It's too easy. Copyright 2023 elitefts. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level, Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names, Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence, Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Vogelpohl, To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on FamilySearch, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Quad-dominant people love to do this, but shooting your knees forward is a sign of a weak posterior chain and it's a good way to hurt your back. The incidence of Vogelpohl has changed over time. The ones that hate to lose are the ones you should fucking be the most afraid of.. Neospartan August 18, 2007, 8:53pm #24 [quote]SkyzykS wrote: When you are a 350 lb. This was a setback, to say the least. We have discussed Make your morning email scroll and coffee stronger. The result? And we almost never pull a deadlift off the floor, usually from pins until we go to the meet. In 93, I wrote an article in Powerlifting USA, entitled Three of a Kind. The bench came from Kmart, it was about 8 in. It was said that Frank held the bar up for so long people thought he was Dave Barno, a power house 308-pounder was lifting. The weights were set at 405 for box squats. Approximately 1,431 people bear this surname. Chuck Vogelpohl is a powerlifting legend. wide bench. That's more work, or more wear and tear, to get the same job done. Bodybuilding.com. Finally, their sets hit 40, and Dave was struggling. It didn't work. I have girls that squat 450 at 123 pounds and 132 pounds, and girls that squat 590 at 148 pounds. This nasty habit releases both lat and anterior core tension so that the big muscles that keep you safe are now relaxed. A 500-pound squatter would do half the bar weight and half the band tension. They said yes. Expert Insights To Get Stronger, Gain Muscle Faster, And Take Your Lifting To The Next Level. George pushed up the JM presses and included a lot of close-grip step-incline presses. In The United States it is most common in: Ohio, where 17 percent are found, Kentucky, where 14 percent are found and Maryland, where 12 percent are found. Ten guys here have squatted 1200 pounds. Dave Tate steps up to bat and to answer this question since he trained with Chuck at Westside Barbell. So a novice should do one extra workout a week for upper body and one extra workout for the lower body, targeting whatever's needed. Dave may be gone, but not forgotten. You do the math. champ at the WPO but also the heavyweight champ at 275 lbs. bench in his reverse grip style. bodyweight. Plus, Greg would wear 10-pound ankle weights on his waist to make benching more difficult. I thought, He knows how to strain, but I guess that is how he discovered to do so. Orders shipped out within 1 - 5 business days. In Daytona, George made three world record benches to beat the then current world record holder, Dave Waterman. You must switch up the exercises to avoid the law of accommodation. That makes things less efficient and compromises your ability to move some real weight around. His reply? The internet has done wonders for "The Myth of Chuck Vogelpohl". We had three world record holders. This was not an easy task as the worlds best lifter at the Arnold Classic. When you've reached lockout, do you stop moving, or do you continue to extend through the spine? About 25 percent of the load was made up of chain weight and 50 percent to 60 percent was with the barbell. His competitive best lifts include a 905-pound squat, 775-pound bench press, and an 804-pound deadlift. There was crazy storiesfrom Westside days, great times at meets and a lot of other fun stuff that isn't fit to talk about in this setting. The store will not work correctly in the case when cookies are disabled. He was not happy to say the least. I guess this is what George said is why he did not come to Westside for 2 years. It was with 25 percent band tension. sorry the quality is bad. impressed me because he went for a unreal 1014 in the 308 class and had a nose It's been a while, but professional KP was always on. His work is to make those qualities accessible to everyone. Within census records, you can often find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, and occupations. He was gone. George started out at 275 lbs. EFS: The major reason why we wanted to do this interview was to clear things up on your new video, "Vogelpohl XXX". JL Holdsworth is a world-champion powerlifter, grip-sport competitor, and former member of Westside Barbell. In United States they earn 8.4% more than the national average, earning $46,775 USD per year. Think of this as setting up the setup for your setup. They equal 100 pounds in the bottom and 200 pounds at the top. Today, you see Greg benching 570 raw without a handout. Dave is gone now, but he was a good friend. At the end, there was $10,000 in cash and prizes for the winner. You're 40% stronger eccentrically than concentrically. That is the saying I would attach. I started Kenny Patterson at 14. On his last try, he pulled 725 lbs. class with a 1014 squat, 622 bench, and 766 deadlift. He inspires both awe and fear and is known to be one of the most intense lifters ever with a meet focus that is unparalleled in its sheer ferocity. But, Marcus won best lifter. You two scared me to death. I laughed. was a record-breaking year, 2003 looks to be the same if not more and we hope to You don't do many interviews and don't get involved with the internet. I can go on Look, this is nothing I'm doing. JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. We are not EliteFitness.com. It's straight up that simple. case maybe true, Ryan Kennelly is not to be counted out. Generally speaking, though, don't be a douchebag and drop the bar from the top. Donald Thompson, Jr Most new to Westside are now accustomed to the high volume at Westside on speed strength days. He managed to break the squat record twice, broke the bench record three times Chuck Vogelpohl would eventually not only break world records, but do so in three different weight classes. I think he had a 665 lb. 3) Perform your supplemental work in circuit fashion but still HEAVY. Geoff Girvitz is the founder of Bang Fitness in Toronto. When Louie Simmons talks, you'd better be listening. Travis Mash has rose to the top at 220 breaking Eddie Coan's total record, not once but twice. Childress dominated his was Gunter Schlierkamp (who I think got shafted at this years Olympia). Matt was only 33 years of age.". going to go home with it!! I learned to train from some of the greatest coaches in the world, I trained with these people every day and yet someone who has a wifi connection and time on there hands can claim to be a great coach. So when The Arnold came around, I walked up to him and said, I heard you are retiring, Glen. He got a big laugh out of that. One type of special strength changed Wes forever. We were at a local bench meet when I saw a jacked up guy lift without gear. We do lots of sled pull work with UFC fighter Matt Brown extra weight on the shoulders, up to a half-mile, sometimes farther. I told him if he could do 20 reps with 155s, I would buy 175s. WATCH: Chuck Vogelpohl's 1100-Pound Squat Laughing, Coan and Tate reflect back 20 years ago when everyone was trying to emulate Chuck with their beanie hats, popped collars, and cocky attitudes. All three lifts began going up, but his bench was really moving up fast. He made it possible for me to make a 1,885 lb. Jr. Email Curtis Dennis Jr: Frank was Like Phil Harrington, the Goodmorning would be the special barbell exercise that would make the difference for Vlad. I first started talking to my wife at Chuck's 40th birthday party. He will help coach and spot any lifter in the gym. Eccentric muscle action involves high force development. Dave Waterman was one of our top rivals at money meets. Free Shipping with a $69 qualifying order. The clanging of plates is a beautiful zen sound that only the devil himself would want to eliminate. Essentially, grabbing the bar was a way to start shit. And while serious deadlifting doesn't exactly feel like a backrub and a homecooked meal, the best way to extend your lifting lifespan is to keep your physical stresses channelled into places that will strengthen you instead of beating you up. Seven of them are box squatters. His main training partners were Kenny Patterson and Gerry O. Look at it this way: Assuming you're not a contortionist, forgetting to squat down will exhaust your range of motion at the hips before the bar has touched down. This time George beat Dave, 650 to 628. He had to retire early due to personal obligations and Ryan went on to become one of the greatestif not the greatestbench presser of all time breaking all-time world records and ending with a mind-blowing 1075. The Adventures of Chuck and Friends The Adventures of Chuck and Friends E013 - Sleep-Driving Chuck - Chuck-Atomic. He also worked closely with him at WPO meets. As weights get heavier, they get slower due to gravity. ironhercules@hotmail.com Outside of The United States this surname is found in 4 countries. But nothing happens. He missed. No Powerlifting competitor has captured the imagination of the strength community like Chuck Vogelpohl of . A. J. made 700-pound band and 510-pound weight that equaled 1210 pounds at the top. He beat Goggins in the squat with 1019 making the record. Chuck Vogelpohl's 50th birthday. And remember, he showed up as a high school football player. Well, Fusdog made an elite total at his very first meet. Greg would do 9x6 repsdouble the volume. The store will not work correctly in the case when cookies are disabled. High reward requires high risk and at powerlifting meets you need to wear gear. His training partner Kenny Patterson had built 23 -inch arms on a 56 frame and could lockout anything that was on the bar. The deadlift is a simple movement. Here's how. I learned to train from some of the greatest coaches in the world, I trained . Here's a list of the most common technical errors you'll see when it comes to lowering the bar, or the steps that immediately precede it. If you can jump higher you can run faster. Lumberton is a very small town where if you wanted to take a girl out to impress her, you took her to Dennys. I was very proud of our men. himself for the other two lifts, but his focus was so intense it could light up What happens is, he makes progress and everyone else gets overtrained. click here! So, Dave grabbed the bar from Chuck; since they were lifting in a power rack instead of the monolift, they were in a tighter spot to face off. At 16 and 170 pounds, he was squatting 800, benching 500, and deadlifting 600. I learned a very valuable lesson about powerlifters: Theres powerlifters who absolutely are, or athletes in general theres athletes that love to win and theres athletes that fucking hate to lose. All right reserved. I almost died in 1991. Chuck Vogelpohl, a long-time Westside lifter who won his first National in 1987, was strong from the start, especially in the back and hips, but he had to overcome two plateaus. I told George he is Westside, he and the men I have mentioned throughout this writing. One day, after speed bench, George tried a 495 lb. Stop hating the sumo deadlift. No third attempt because he hurt his shoulder. For example, Chuck Vogelpohl would do speed squats with 405-455 in a 3-week wave with one set of strong Jump-Stretch bands.