SL-Utrustning

[HookersUnited]

Hur har utvecklingen av utrustningen som används inom SL sett ut de 20 senaste åren?

[the_PL_man]

Senaste 20 åren kan väl kort sammanfattas med:

Tidigt 80-tal så var det Marathon böjdräkt som gällde + lindor & bälte, och så var det ända fram till slutet av 90-talet.

Inzers första bänktröjor började dyka upp i början av 90-talet.

Sedan har antalet märken & varianter växt.
De stora idag är:
- Titan
- Inzer
- Crain
- Metal

/the_PL_man

[Nitrometan]

The history of equipment in powerlifting
- as remembered by JPS

Belts and wrist wraps/gauntlets were the first performance enhancing articles used and go back well into antiquity. Reinforced gauntlets came in handy for one-handed overhead lifting and prevented considerable wrist strain, seeing as how some guys were putting up nearly 400 lbs. overhead... Belts have always served the same purpose as today: stabilizing the torso. There were other aesthetic applications as well for both wrist wraps and belts back in the "strongman" era, where decorative appearance mattered as much on stage as ones lifting ability...

Early practitioners of the "continental" style of cleaning a barbell used to hoist the bar up onto their belt buckle and rest it there a second before then hoisting it onto their shoulders... this is the first actual use of gear that I can make out for strictly performance enhancing purposes. This style of cleaning a barbell goes back over 100 years and added 20 or more pounds to ones ability to "clean" the weight to ones shoulders... It was favored by most of the SHW strongmen before the 1930s.

During the 40s and 50s a "bandaging/wrapping" trend started amongst weightlifters and this greatly upset many of the old-timers who espoused a more minimalist approach towards lifting. Many of these "anti-gear" critics also disliked the use of belts for overhead lifting, so the "raw versus equipped" debate is actually a very old one...

For weightlifters during the 1950s, bandaging of the wrists and knees was loosely done with ace wraps and said procedure bore little resemblance to the serious knee binding that goes on today. The belts they used were also very thin and quite flimsy. Nevertheless, this got people to thinking, particularly the "odd lift" specialists...

During the late 1960s in California, a powerlifting pioneer/guru named Bill West experienced an epiphany of sorts and started the "more is better" trend in gear usage.

Bill West quickly realized that by wearing not just one little flimsy pair of ace wraps on his knees but several, or better yet by substituting strips of bed sheets, he could squat more.

Back in West's day it was fashionable to wear tight denim jeans. Guys would also cut them off at the knees and make shorts out of them to train in. West and his cronies quickly realized that whenever they wore tight jean cut-offs, they could squat more. Hence, why not squat in multiple pairs of jeans to REALLY jack up the poundages?

During the 60s it was only required that lifters wear singlets to squat in: there was nothing in the rule books that prevented people from adding a few extra "articles" of clothing under their singlets. And that's just what Bill West, George Frenn, and all the other members of the original Westside Gym did back in those days. They wore multiple jean cut-offs and wrapped yards of material around their knees and set tons of squat records...


This naturally pissed off lots of other people at the time and the rules were eventually changed. During the early 70s, an anti-gear "prohibition era" briefly descended upon the sport, but this too pissed off lots of people and was quickly ended. Eventually, a happy medium was achieved with more precise definitions of what constituted "proper" gear vis a vis lifting suits, elbow, and knee wraps...

When I first encountered the sport during the late 70s, super tight suits and wraps were very much in vogue. The elastic "power" wraps that people were using back then had been first designed a few years earlier by a guy (can't remember his name) who took elasticized underwear waist bands and sewed them together to yield a much tighter knee wrap than the still ubiquitous ace bandages. He marketed these a while and then sold some of these wraps to another company which refined it even further. The earliest suits were simple polyester affairs but were worn tight as hell until they blew, which was quite often. Supersuit I was one of the first brands as was the Miracle Suit.

Marathon, Elite, Titan, etc. all had their brands out there during the early 80s and the competition was just as nasty and fierce then as it is now...

[Nitrometan]

Fast det var den tidiga historien. De senaste 20 åren har det blivit värre. Bara de senaste 5 åren har det hänt otroligt mycket.

[HookersUnited]

Senaste 20 åren kan väl kort sammanfattas med:

Tidigt 80-tal så var det Marathon böjdräkt som gällde + lindor & bälte, och så var det ända fram till slutet av 90-talet.

Inzers första bänktröjor började dyka upp i början av 90-talet.

Sedan har antalet märken & varianter växt.
De stora idag är:
- Titan
- Inzer
- Crain
- Metal

/the_PL_man
Tack.
Hade redan fått svar på det jag egentligen undrade över och det var vilken utrustning Kazmaier använde när han fixade 1100 totalt. Och enligt den information jag hittat så körde han varken med bänktröja eller böjdräkt :hbang:

[Nitrometan]

I böjen hade han en av Marathons tidiga dräkter. Marathons första "goldline" lindor. Tunnare bälte än idag. T-shirt i bänken. Trikå i marken.
Mike Bridges böjde förresten 454 kg med en kroppsvikt på 84-85 kg (med motsvarande utrustning) på en uppvisning vid en av de tidiga WSM-tävlingarna.

1981 var ett bra år för Bill Kazmaier.
From Bill Kazmaier’s athletic resume

Powerlifting Competition-Best Squat-Superheavyweight-925 in 1981
420 kg

World Record-Bench Press-Superheavyweight-639 in 1981
290 kg

World Record-Bench Press-Superheavyweight-661 in 1981
300 kg

World Record-Powerlifting Total-Superheavyweight-2424 in 1981
1100,5 kg

World Record-Deadlift-Superheavyweight-887 in 1981
402,5 kg

[stahlberg]

Nitrometan : Menar du att Bridges skulle ha böjt över 400 kg? Hans rekord på IPF-tävling var ju långt under 400.

Inzers bänktröja "dök upp" första gången år 1986 (åtminstone köpte jag en, som jag ännu har kvar, det året). Den förbjöds igen 1987 och kom tillbaka på 90-talet.

Personligen tycker jag bänktröjorna går till överdrift. Man kan naturligtvis inte få bort dem, men man borde sträva till att "bromsa upp det" till vad man har. Bänkpressen ändrar helt karaktär, både vad beträffar hur man ska utföra bänkpress rent tekniskt och hur man ska träna, till följd av att man kan använda dessa avancerade tröjor.

[HookersUnited]

I böjen hade han en av Marathons tidiga dräkter. Marathons första "goldline" lindor. Tunnare bälte än idag. T-shirt i bänken. Trikå i marken.
Mike Bridges böjde förresten 454 kg med en kroppsvikt på 84-85 kg (med motsvarande utrustning) på en uppvisning vid en av de tidiga WSM-tävlingarna.

1981 var ett bra år för Bill Kazmaier.
From Bill Kazmaier’s athletic resume

Powerlifting Competition-Best Squat-Superheavyweight-925 in 1981
420 kg

World Record-Bench Press-Superheavyweight-639 in 1981
290 kg

World Record-Bench Press-Superheavyweight-661 in 1981
300 kg

World Record-Powerlifting Total-Superheavyweight-2424 in 1981
1100,5 kg

World Record-Deadlift-Superheavyweight-887 in 1981
402,5 kg
Okej. Då stämde ju inte riktigt det jag läst. Känns dock som att hans 1100 kg är av en annan kaliber än dagens "materiallyftares" :D

[Nitrometan]

Stahlberg: Ja, det menar jag. Tyvärr är källan inte helt pålitlig. Jag ska leta efter det igen. Jag kan återkomma i ett PM.

Hooker: Visst var det lite annan klass på SL då. Bl.a. testades inte VM innan 1981 (de första oseriösa testerna (ej AAS) gjordes väl 1978), och det testades inte usa förrän i slutet av 80-talet.

[Pudzianovski]

Det skulle var jäkligt kul om alla alltid körde RAW eller med exakt samma utrustning som man kan jämföra dåtidens giganter mot dagens.

[jwzrd]

Man borde få välja mellan bänktröja och 1-2 starka gossar som kan hjälpa att lyfta stången lite, allt för att minska skaderisken ;)

[Mart|n]

Man borde få välja mellan bänktröja och 1-2 starka gossar som kan hjälpa att lyfta stången lite, allt för att minska skaderisken ;)

Mnjae... Kanske två stycken späda flickungar på ca 10-12 år. Annars kanske man bänkar 600 kg :D