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Here is 484×5 conventional off 1 mat.

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Here is Marks Meet Vid. 672 squat. 452 bench, with a miss at 469. Only hit 523 on DL bc he passed on his second and missed his third.

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This is Dale who beat Mark, also a lifter from Quest:

Skrillex- “First of the year” I don’t really like the dubstep part but the intro is awesome. The video is weeeird

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Pretty Lights- “I know the truth” Same with this song.. I’m more all about the beginning. This was ACs walkout song as you hear in his vid.

“Stop wasting time worrying about barbell rows and get your deadlift up to 500. By then you’ll have your own opinion and you won’t have to worry about mine.”

“Never ask a question that you may not be prepared to have answered. “

“Testosterone levels peak in our mid-twenties, hold relatively steady for another decade, and then begin to fall like women’s clothes at the kinds of parties we don’t get invited to any more.”

Here’s the rest if any of that peaked your interest::

http://tnation.t-nation.com/free_online_forum/music_movies_girls_life/mark_rippetoe_quotes

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 I’m currently in Savannah visiting John and Dorris.  I rode down yesterday and we went straight from athens to savannah in under 4 hours, didn’t stop once. Got here, and was at the globo gym with John within like 45 minutes. I was supposed to squat 485×5 in wraps. Anyways, the plates they had were absolutely and unneccesarily huge, and they didn’t have 35′s, so you literally couldn’t fit four 45′s, one 25, one 10, and one 5 on the bar to make 485, so I ended up just squatting 495 bc you could fit five 45s on there. The squats were actually atrocious, and this camera angle makes them look even worse. I’ll post the bad along with the good though once I get them uploaded. Funny thing about working out in a globo gym is that, although these were high, ugly, slow generally beta in everyway, there… it is a feat of excellence. Some old dude walked up to me after the squat grinning ear to ear and shook my hand. Seriously. This is in stark contrast to the beating I would have received at quest for these squats.

I have officially signed up for the arnold. Right now there’s only one person signed up in my weight class, a Brazilian. I have heard Luis Tapia from Puerto Rico is doing it also and that guy has a monster squat. I believe he did 755 at their nationals. The Full Roster will be out November 30th or whenever it fills up, whichever comes first. I’m mad stoked for this meet, just becuase the atmosphere surrounding the arnold is unbeatable from what I’ve heard.

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Also this guy absolutely cracks me up. He has about 100 videos with form just as terrible as this:

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I’m gunna write a little bit about picking attempts at meets. I’ll put out the disclaimer that I’m no great coach or even close, just giving my general process of thinking through it. Maybe it’ll help you in some way, or maybe you can tell me how big I messed up. I really was only responsible for Mark, Cody, and Jps numbers. And Mark ended up picking most of his.

Jp is a 181 freshman. He did not have his best meet ever, and he’s a lot stronger than he performed here. We opened on squat at 540 (his best triple in the gym was 565, if that gives you any idea of how conservative we go on openers). He killed his opener but got 2 reds and 1 white for depth. If this had been JPs first meet, I would have just stayed there, because you never want a beginner to bomb out, it will likely kill them mentally from then on out. Since this wasn’t Jp’s first rodeo, we went to 562. If he had got his first attempt I would have likely gone 573, just to give you a reference. Again, on his second attempt of 562, he got 3 reds for depth. At this point, I did not go up for his third. Even though he killed 562 easy, I had to make sure he got in the meet. Concerning the mental aspect of coaching… If Jp had made his second attempt but it looked like a struggle, and we had gone up, I would have done a little more psyching him up in that scenario. But since this was easy weight for him, I tried not to get him too pumped up but instead just remind him of what he needed to do. I had him move his stance in a bit, he likes to squat wider and is stronger out there, but as a result its harder for him to hit depth. He went out there and made the lift and was in the meet, after causing me a near heart attack. Despite this less than perfect meet, I’m still confident he’ll squat at least 633 at collegiates in 6 months, because I know he had 600 in him saturday.

Cody is a light 198 (185 pounds at weigh in) and he opened somewhere around 556. Went out there and crushed it. Went to 584 on his second. It did not look as easy I had wanted it to. None the less, the ga teen state record for squat was 617, and this was his last meet as a teen, so it would have been just wrong to put 611 on there (which is what I would have gone based on how 584 looked). Also, I know Cody pretty well, and he has an uncanny ability to just man up and do things when he has to. To make this squat more impressive, I was wrapping both him and Mark. By third attempts they were back to back in the order. So I had to wrap Cody a tad early, so that I would have time to wrap mark too. So Cody was in extremely tight wraps for about 3 minutes before he went out there. I figured there was a 50/50 shot he would go out there and collapse from his legs going numb. But it was a risk I was willing to take since Cody’s a ginger and it wouldn’t be a large loss. Luckily, Cody went out there and hit it, taking Matt Goldin’s record from 2000, weighing 13 pounds under the weight limit.

Mark is a 220, I was mainly just suggesting for his numbers and he had the final say. He smashed 601 on his opener but was high (At this point I’m thinking maybe we shouldn’t have made our team shirts say “go deep or go home.”). Again, since mark has done well over a dozen meets in the last few years, we jumped straight to 638 or 644 (I don’t remember) like we had planned. He got depth and just absolutely smoked that, so again we made a decently big jump to 672. He got down there, got all kinds of loose, and didn’t come back up with it.

It was a decent meet overall, and I’m confident Cody and Jp are going to go post huge totals at collegiates in April. I’ll write some more about the bench and dead lifts tomorrow.