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A 02-10-21 12:53 PM - Post#907652    

"Sandbags" bring back some memories! I did my one and only Power lifting meet in 1969 while serving in Vietnam. We had no gym. So some buddies and I made our own "gym". Our bar was a long piece of pipe - our weights were various sizes of sandbags. Our "bench was" a pile of sandbags with a board on top - we did our deadlifts standing on a 55 gallon drum. The sandbags of course hang down quite a bit - so we did everything from a dead start (sandbags on the ground) - shimmied under the bar to start with as much help as we could give to get started. I went 400# squat - 300# bench and 495# DL at around 175# BW. It can be done LOL
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