Are you on steroids?

I always wondered, are you any relation at all to Andreas Rudmarker, or are you just friends, or neighbors. Like, how do the two of you know each other.

To tell the truth I really never thought I was quite the strongest guy on this forum-- I'd seen some of his strongman stuff on YouTube before. Plus we have folks like Dan H with close to a 300-pound bench press, and maybe somebody here probably has done over 300. (The only weight bench I've ever used was my uncle's, and it only came with 80 pounds...)

I probably don't work out nearly enough anyway. I do think I'm kinda out of shape.
I used to be able to do 25-30 push-ups (at a body weight of 215 lbs.) a couple of years ago.

Well nick, he's actually my second cousin we started at the same time around christmas 2003 and we found the pp like 2 months later and started to compete, the rest is history btw. I'm at his place right now and getting prepared for dreamhack this weekend!

Strongman is a very tough sport, more of an exhibition sport though, it's always nice to use your body to lift awkward and heavy stuffs, it's the real way to meassure who's the strongest guy i'm not the type who looks ripped as hell and want to show in on stage with the body full of oil, i rather train for functional strength!
Bench press is a good way to meassure the upper body strength but it's not saying much for the overall strength.. I would say deadlift is the best way to see how strong you really are.
I've done almost 400pounds in bench (i think it's around there converted from kg) and over 600 pounds in the deadlift

Haha andrew, don't be shy man!

@alaktorn

Just search for it on youtube i started in late 2009 at a bw of 60kg, gained almost 40kg first year, ate a lot and trained like crazy, i'm around 102kg today with much less fat than 3 years ago though, took a lot of supplements like gainer, vitamins etc. The first 2 years but nowadays i just eat ordinary food, whatever i want and whenever i want, don't have a strict routine, that's the good thing about strongman hardest thing is to not lose weight

Key thing is to not be afraid to eat much when you're training hard, especially when you want to get big and strong.  

Impressive, Richard. A bit frightening, too

About what height/weight are you Richard? You look like you're over 100 kg (more than what I weigh) with all that muscle, have you ever watched American football? You really look like you could play that sport well (but you also have to be a fast runner... our professional football players are practically supermen with their combination of size, speed, strength, and agility... you wouldn't imagine how fast or agile a 150 kg man can be until you've seen an NFL lineman)

Forgot to mention before, but I know Sami's got some guns as well, even if they're not as big as Rich's. I think he said he once benched 245 five times in a row?

If I eat less than 4000 calories a day, I lose weight.

But I'm barely 150 lbs  

Here's a quick, blurry camera selfie for you guys  

Damn Karlsson, holy shit lol. I'd heard about your massive deadlift from Andreas in an old MK stream, and now I see how you can do it lol.

I think I mentioned in the weight lifting thread, I have a friend named Kendall who is 1 year older than me and weighs around 145-160lbs (65.7-72.6kg), and can bench press over 300lbs. In fact, the first time he hit 300, he was in his Junior year of highschool; he was 17. I've never really questioned the legitimacy of his progress, but I know this: December 2012, his "max" was 185lbs. By the end of March 2013, he had a video of himself bench pressing 315lbs. Either that 185 was absolutely nowhere close to his max, or he was taking something lol. I know one instance where his max had been 250lbs, and within 3-4 days he had a video of himself hitting 275lbs, saying that he took a pre-workout drink before starting and it made a huge difference. There's also a video where he deadlifted something slightly over 500lbs; the dude is a fucking tank. I've often wondered if he does steroids (his face does break out a lot, though this could just be genetic. But he also can have quite the temper), but at the same time, he's been lifting almost daily for 5 years now, so maybe his hard work is finally paying off even at such a young age.

Had a happy Midsommardagen yesterday. It took me and a friend several hours to lug this majstång back home with us (by way of reference I'm a shade under 6'4), but it takes pride of place in our garden now. Apparently we will be ensured fertility for as long as we please. Ritual sacrifices (of virgins, goats, SMK cartridges etc) will be performed in due course as it is now our living altar.

Thanks. I like to call them my Ian Poulters.

Dammit man, you're thinner and thinner. You look very well together! Super cool picture.