It’s a good cause and I salute his efforts but I think he is going to permanently fuck his back up. 100kg pressing down on your spine is no big deal for a few sets of squats, but walking around with that weight compressing your spine for long periods of time is asking for trouble.
Is it a wise thing to do? Won’t he have a bad back in years to come and probably use more medical resources?
Pfff I carry 100kg wherever I go
Joking aside,great cause and good luck to him
You’ve certainly got to be inclined to do this.
Also, I wonder how they’re getting the weight back down.
No idea how this is possible but he looks like a tough bastard so hopefully it goes well for him.
I thought he’d be doing it in a pack/rig, but no, full bar bell. Wow.
And this right here is the reason alien lifeform want no part of our sh1t, wait until he moves slightly out of line as his feet and or his pelvis tilts to compensate or trips and his back herniates like a pretzel he’ll realise this ego trip is for nothing.
Btw I understand it’s for a good cause, just better ways without the possibility of destroying your own wellbeing in the process. No amount of training can prepare for mistakes or injury. Speaking as someone who could squat 250kg plus for competitions and is now laid up house bound for 3 weeks so far with a disc herniation and having the worst pain I’ve ever known. Find another way to raise cash.
I get a person from Nepal or whatever to carry my bench press so I can do my three hour work out every day. Uses up a lot of excess oxygen canisters though, so it all balances out. At least I can look myself in the mirror knowing I’ve used my carbon credits for good reason.
At first I thought it would be in a backpack distributed evenly. Now I see it’s a bar. That’s mental
good luck to him, but there’s no chance he makes it.
Man spends 10k on dangerous vanity exercise to raise money for charity instead of just donating 10k to charity.
As someone who has done Ben Nevis a few times*, this seems insane. There are too many sections at the beginning and, moreso, the end where you are clambering/scrambling on uneven terrain and doing that with a huge weight on a length is a horrendous spine/neck injury waiting to happen.
*with a backpack carrying under 5kg of snacks and emergency waterproofs!
Looks like he is carrying 105kg there
Those bars are typically 25kg and not 20kg like most traditional bars
A couple of years ago a poker player made a bet for a lot of money that during a poker tournament series he would only move around by doing lunges (going down on one knee for each step).
Jump cut to half way into the second day and him being thrown out of the tournament for pissing in a bottle at the table because his legs were so sore he couldn’t face lunging across the room to get to the toilets.
Challenges like this are WAY HARDER than they sound. If he’s doing it with a backpack full of weight, ok, but if he’s carrying around an actual barbell, no way.
Good luck to him but there’s no fucking chance I’d do that
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It’s a good cause and I salute his efforts but I think he is going to permanently fuck his back up. 100kg pressing down on your spine is no big deal for a few sets of squats, but walking around with that weight compressing your spine for long periods of time is asking for trouble.
Is it a wise thing to do? Won’t he have a bad back in years to come and probably use more medical resources?
Pfff I carry 100kg wherever I go
Joking aside,great cause and good luck to him
You’ve certainly got to be inclined to do this.
Also, I wonder how they’re getting the weight back down.
No idea how this is possible but he looks like a tough bastard so hopefully it goes well for him.
He has a just giving page
http://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/david-dooher
Fuck that for a lark.
I thought he’d be doing it in a pack/rig, but no, full bar bell. Wow.
And this right here is the reason alien lifeform want no part of our sh1t, wait until he moves slightly out of line as his feet and or his pelvis tilts to compensate or trips and his back herniates like a pretzel he’ll realise this ego trip is for nothing.
Btw I understand it’s for a good cause, just better ways without the possibility of destroying your own wellbeing in the process. No amount of training can prepare for mistakes or injury. Speaking as someone who could squat 250kg plus for competitions and is now laid up house bound for 3 weeks so far with a disc herniation and having the worst pain I’ve ever known. Find another way to raise cash.
I get a person from Nepal or whatever to carry my bench press so I can do my three hour work out every day. Uses up a lot of excess oxygen canisters though, so it all balances out. At least I can look myself in the mirror knowing I’ve used my carbon credits for good reason.
What’s the current world record?
Neither the article or the justgiving page mentions it and the only thing I csn find on Google is [this article](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now/super-fit-scot-trekked-up-15691783) about someone hiking it wearing a 40kg weighted vest.
At first I thought it would be in a backpack distributed evenly. Now I see it’s a bar. That’s mental
good luck to him, but there’s no chance he makes it.
Man spends 10k on dangerous vanity exercise to raise money for charity instead of just donating 10k to charity.
As someone who has done Ben Nevis a few times*, this seems insane. There are too many sections at the beginning and, moreso, the end where you are clambering/scrambling on uneven terrain and doing that with a huge weight on a length is a horrendous spine/neck injury waiting to happen.
*with a backpack carrying under 5kg of snacks and emergency waterproofs!
Looks like he is carrying 105kg there
Those bars are typically 25kg and not 20kg like most traditional bars
A couple of years ago a poker player made a bet for a lot of money that during a poker tournament series he would only move around by doing lunges (going down on one knee for each step).
Jump cut to half way into the second day and him being thrown out of the tournament for pissing in a bottle at the table because his legs were so sore he couldn’t face lunging across the room to get to the toilets.
Challenges like this are WAY HARDER than they sound. If he’s doing it with a backpack full of weight, ok, but if he’s carrying around an actual barbell, no way.
Good luck to him but there’s no fucking chance I’d do that