Tom Platz squats 500lbs for 23 reps courtesy of Muscletime

[Millard]

Amazing video from Muscletime.com of Tom Platz squatting 500lbs for 23 reps!

 

[BigtomW]

Crazy.

 

[tballz]

amazing

Is that Bill Kazmaier behind him?

 

[mrmorris]

All I can say holy s***!!! One strong dude!

That's freaking awesome Tom Platz!

 

[xxjaredxx]

Please...I could do that with my pecker

haha okay really....that is just amazing!
way to go man!

 

[Millard]

Ironman Magazine has an interesting article about the pro bodybuilding scene in the 1980s. One of the highlights is the exerpt about the intensity of Tom Platz's training. This helps explain how Platz could squat 500lbs for 23 reps!:

Tom Platz was another story. That guy was in another galaxy with intensity.

IM: What was so special about Platz’s training?

BBX: During the summer of 1981, while I was training with Samir, Tom Platz and his training partner often trained at the same time. Because Tom did so much stretching before every workout, by the time he got into lifting weights, he was already pretty warmed up. Tom had a level of beyond-failure intensity that made everyone else, including the Mentzers, look like they were doing calisthenics! The guy was driven beyond anything I’ve ever seen.

IM: I’ve heard Tom’s squat workouts were insane.

BBX: As they say in New York, Fagedaboudit! Many people think that Platz trained hard on the squat, and yes he did, but the squat would be very dangerous, if not impossible, to train as hard as he did on other exercises that offered a little more control and safety.

For example, to see Tom Platz do hack squats was like watching something out of a Hollywood special-effects exposé. He would go all the way down and then roll his knees and hips forward until his knees touched the platform in from of him, then roll back and up. He’d do several reps of that until he couldn’t come up even with a complete amped-to-the-max, all-out effort. Tom was just getting friggen started!

I’m dead serious. Next, when he was in the full-squat down position, he would press the cage up with his arms and then stand up into the cage. From the top position it was slow negative down and then repeat the press, etc., for several reps. His life depended on those reps; when he failed there, he got help up, and then it was several partial reps, never locking out until he just couldn’t move the bar a fraction of an inch. After that he’d push and push and push in an isometric hold until he just collapsed. A set for Tom lasted several minutes—total, sheer, utter torture. He did five or six sets in that manner before moving on.

Then it was leg extensions, leg curls, standing calf raises and seated calf raises, all with the same intensity. The guy just mangled his muscles. He did that on every bodypart—not just legs. I don’t know how anyone could recover from that.

Muscle-Building Myths Exposed! Part 1 | Iron Man Magazine | www.ironmanmagazine.com

 

[jasthace]

Ironman Magazine has an interesting article about the pro bodybuilding scene in the 1980s. One of the highlights is the exerpt about the intensity of Tom Platz's training. This helps explain how Platz could squat 500lbs for 23 reps!:

The freakest thing about it, is that he smiles all the way through it.

 

[cvictorg]

How much of a spot is he getting fom the guy on the left that you see very briefly?

 

[toothache]

amazing

Is that Bill Kazmaier behind him?

Looks like it is him.