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[b]Quote from chadul79 on April 14, 2013, 08:11[/b]
Very impressive Timo! Keep it up, you are a natural

Thanks to you guys!

Hook grip is really going forward 🙂 MFDL felt also very solid at yesterday, just my lower back was a bit weak after influenza, suprising thing is one arm DL vs. conventional DL, one armed felt even easier which comes for lifting, not gripping.

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[b]Quote from dinoman on March 18, 2013, 10:48[/b]
Timo –

OUCH! The good news is it will grow back with time. However, if it is a deep tissue loss it may not be stronger and/or tougher. Calluses form after tissue trauma to the outer epidermal layer only. Al

I think it’s not that deep, just bloody, actually very similar skin loss as Mr. Tomlin got in Gold Cup.
I had same issue with my right middle finger at last year, but it didn’t take even a month to grow back.

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Great article!!

Best bars i’ve ever lifted was those Eleiko Olympic bars in Glasgow, very very high revolving with perfect knurling, LFDL felt easy 🙂 Perhaps not easiest bar for two arm Ciavattone grip DL??

What about you Al? Did you get that 28mm Leoko IWF bar? Just remember you mentioned about it on the way to Dinnies.

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Great story Dan!

Having chinning addiction as well 🙂 Sometimes using wooden fingerboards for pullups and hangs.

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Haha,

seems like i’m not last one who is out of social media 🙂

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[b]Quote from Timo Lauttamus on February 4, 2013, 14:06[/b]
[quote][b]Quote from 61pwcc on February 3, 2013, 16:13[/b]
Timo, how’s this for old school middle finger chins??[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=qbfSIGZyPOE[/url]

That’s big finger pull for light lifter, i’ve done +124lbs @217lbs with two middle fingers, but i did it with underhand which is a bit easier, it was 2009 just when i started grip training.
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Start of vid is my +124lbs middle fingers chin up

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Always interested about bar discussion,

so there is standard diameter pipe galvanized or not 48,3mm = ~1.9″ which is certainly easier to lift than 2″ IM AA, just because fingers are reaching way more around and if bar is 0,1″ smaller than holes of discs rotation is not perfect (discs a bit hanging) , of course bars are not revolving but still when using overhand grip is rotation which is forcing bar out of our hands, so far i’ve seen only 50mm = ~1,97″ finnish axle steel which is harder to lift than 2″ IM AA, just because it’s not holding chalk even a bit, like IM AA does.

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[b]Quote from 61pwcc on February 3, 2013, 16:13[/b]
Timo, how’s this for old school middle finger chins??[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=qbfSIGZyPOE[/url]

That’s big finger pull for light lifter, i’ve done +124lbs @217lbs with two middle fingers, but i did it with underhand which is a bit easier, it was 2009 just when i started grip training.

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Just converted 235kg = 518.07lbs

I’ve been lifting once IM contest in Finland, and only DO without hook was allowed and had to be original IM axle as well which is quite sticky with chalk.

So they talk about DO IM axle DL WR, which is that Burke’s 516lbs?

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[b]Quote from 61pwcc on February 1, 2013, 16:12[/b]
I noticed my OVERALL grip strength leapt forward when I added MFD. If you are going to focus on one finger, then the middle one seems to have the most carry over to full hand grip strength. Do you agree??
What do you think of George Olsen(Denmark) doing a One Hand Middle Finger Deadlift with 703lbs.? He was featured in Ironman magazine back in the 90’s. Seems phenomenal to me.

Yes,

when middle finger gets stronger also your whole hand is getting stronger, i see correlation, but with two different individuals can’t compare, some of us sets big numbers with middle finger lifts and some of us with whole hand lifts.

What i think about those phenomenal +600lbs one finger lift numbers? I think they had very suitable type of ring and they used also thigh when lifting, but to do one finger lift sumo style without leg support is totally different lift, even 300lbs is massive, just think like that because Goerner lifted 734lbs sand stone with whole hand, and that’s massive in my view 🙂

I was using that 35mm pull up bar, because they didn’t have any other, but 2mm ring sounds painful, anyway good to do lot of variations for fingers.

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[b]Quote from 61pwcc on February 1, 2013, 06:36[/b]
Timo, after watching your middle finger pullup, I noticed that your middle fingers are a kilometer long!! You could probably MFD with a 32mm bar easily!! I imagine you’ll pull a hell of alot more than 400lbs on the MFD when all is said and done.

Yes,

i have long middle fingers, i’ve met only three persons in my life with longer fingers than me, my father is one and one Estonian giant and also one man in my home village.

I’ve been doing weighted two middle finger chin up sets in one east african gym using 35mm bar and 60lbs belt, so 32mm DL bar wouldn’t be issue for myself, but of course much harder than 28mm olympic bar.

Definitely i look up to +411lbs MFDL, very challenging but possible.

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[b]Quote from 61pwcc on January 31, 2013, 19:38[/b]
408lbs set in the 70’s in New York by a German gentleman??

I’ve been reading about John McLoughlin’s 411lbs MFDL @198lbs, story was telling about year 1954 in NY. His name sounds more American than German.

David Horne has IAWA record 403lbs also in 198lbs weight class.

These are huge lifts for anyone and specially for weight class lifters.

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[b]Quote from dinoman on January 31, 2013, 10:14[/b]
I’ve always felt Goerners 308# MF deadlift reported by Mueller was a sub-maximal effort for him, compared to the other finger lifting marks he set. However, I still say its the mark to bet to truly call yourself “a great finger lifter”.

Timo – I hope you set your focus on the MF DL and put up a huge lift at a big meet with it, like the Gold Cup. I know you are capable of excess of 400 lbs after seeing how easily you lifted that 127.5 kg Index Finger DL in Scotland.

Great discussion guys!!! Al

Yes Sir,

MFDL is my next goal and i want to do work for it, having little issue to set bar now, because my right ring finger is injured and thicker than usual, but i feel it’s gonna be okay in next few weeks, then ready for harder training.

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[b]Quote from 61pwcc on January 30, 2013, 23:38[/b]
Just rechecked the Goerner DO Middle Finger Deadlift. He did 220lbs. in DO style whereas his mixed grip style 308.25lbs. I feel a little better about that.

Even 220lbs DO is big, and heard also they changed thickness of olympic bar from 30mm to 28mm somewhere thirties when Goerner was in his prime. Anyway, even if he lifted his 308lbs lift with old 30mm bar, still i believe it must have been sub max. lift, i would say 30mm bar is 50-70lbs harder than new 28mm bar.

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[b]Quote from KCSTRONGMAN on January 21, 2013, 11:30[/b]
Wow-pretty impressive
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Thanks buddy,

i like those different grip variation OACs, nice challenges for aging man.

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