Chuck vogelpohl is a powerlifting legend. I could tell he was an intense kid to say the least as he could not standstill. A poster at the afboard shares a story from the weekly elitefts email about one of powerliftings most popular competitors chuck vogelpohl. Plus things can change if your just a pound or two heavy in canvas. 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. The iron man chuck vogelpohl interview by jim wendler for elitefts.
Chuck v came to our westside garage around 1983. They equal 100 pounds in the bottom and 200 pounds at the top. Nov 2002 this was the second year that elitefts had hosted the ipa nationals. Its prety much common practice in multi ply lifting to have your. While itâs always nice to give back to the lifting community itâs also a huge task full of months of hard work preparing for the event. Place fed date location competition division age equip class weight squat bench deadlift total dots.
You do the math. Dave and i wanted to do an interview with chuck vogelpohl for awhile and for several reasons. For example chuck vogelpohl would do speed squats with 405 455 in a 3 week wave with one set of strong jump stretch bands. View active tab what links here. Jimmy ritchie joe and mike jester along with. Chuck vogelpohl leaves westside.
Soon after i made the mistake of opening a commercial gym but it was a good mistake as many of our current private gym members are still at westside. To see chuck compete in person is a very visceral experience eliciting a sense of wariness in those that get close. At that time his squat was 1000 pounds. Since his new video is out and we knew thered be a lot of questions about his different training style we thought that this would give you an inside look at why he does what he does. He was just a kid and kenny ried sent him over to watch us train. A 500 pound squatter would do half the bar weight and half the band tension.
Besides its a bitch to know whats going on at all with that much weight on your back and that tight of gear.