More from the SMU weight room

[malonish]

How do you clean 341 and not 340 or 345? Seems like an odd weight, unless someone had already cleaned 340 even and you just wanted the record.

Slip a glazed donut on either side of the bar. Post workout reward.

[RGV Pony]

315=barbell and 3 plates on each side
+a ten on each side =335
+a 2 1/2 on each side =340
+the clamp on collar on each side =341

[ponyboy]

Yeah, I guess you wouldn't want that to slide off. Never even thought about the clamps weighing anything.

[SMU404]

The rubber weights used for power lifting are in kilograms, hence the weird weights.

[ponyboy]

So 155 kilos then. That makes more sense

[SMU89]

Wonder how these numbers compare to Tech or TCU?

Sand Aggies
LT Le'Raven Clark (6'5 303) So.
LG Beau Carpenter (6'6 284) Jr.
C Jared Kaster (6'3 271) So.
RG James Polk (6'6 332) Jr.
RT Rashad Fortenberry (6'5 275) Sr.

Your SMU Mustangs
This is the first time in a long time we could make that claim.

No doubt

[jpe747]

PP, any chance you can ask them about their squats and power clings? Yeah bench press is a sexy number we all care about, but those two lifts are much more important from a football perspective.

Bench press is actually an important number for Offensive Lineman. Help generate strength in their punch. Other positions not so much.

Obviously all are important, but as.a former O and D lineman, I can tell you I drove with my legs, and while arm strength helps, you still get the push with your lower body first.

That's a ridiculous clean though. Wow

Blackoutpony is absolutely right... Particularly power clings.

[blackoutpony]

Blackoutpony is absolutely right... Particularly power clings.

Squat for the power, clean for the explosion and quick twitch muscles

[jpe747]

Absolutely Blackoutpony!

[Lebanese4Life]

THEY WILL *NOT* BEAT US

lol stop it

[SMU89]

315=barbell and 3 plates on each side
+a ten on each side =335
+a 2 1/2 on each side =340
+the clamp on collar on each side =341

So the guys doing 340 weren't safe?

[GRGB]

Wonder how these numbers compare to Tech or TCU?

Sand Aggies
LT Le'Raven Clark (6'5 303) So.
LG Beau Carpenter (6'6 284) Jr.
C Jared Kaster (6'3 271) So.
RG James Polk (6'6 332) Jr.
RT Rashad Fortenberry (6'5 275) Sr.

Your SMU Mustangs
This is the first time in a long time we could make that claim.

No doubt

Not so fast my friend. Under Rossley, we had the #2 OL in the country (size), to Nebraska...

Fat dumb and stupid is no way to go through life.

[ponyboy]

THEY WILL *NOT* BEAT US

lol stop it

Nope.

[SMU2007]

Wonder how these numbers compare to Tech or TCU?

Thought I remembered seeing something a few years back about tcu having some record number of guys benching over 400lbs? Am I making that up?

[SMU2007]

More than a couple years, but this is what i was thinking of. From an article in ESPN mag in 2000:

"After thumbing through all the pre-season annuals, you're probably sick of stats. But here's one more that's worth digesting: When Dennis Franchione came to TCU, only five Horned Frogs could bench press 400 lbs. Now, two and a half years later, TCU has an astounding 50 players putting up at least 400! Most teams don't even have half that. Every offensive starter at TCU would be over 400 if QB Casey Printers didn't have a sore back when he got tested this summer. (Printers got 390 pretty easily last spring.)"

Link: http://a.espncdn.com/magazine/082400CFBnotes.html