Mark Bell's Power Project - Power Bite: John Haack Talks Ed Coan Comparison

Starting point is 00:00:00 I think it's kind of like a conversation of like LeBron versus Michael Jordan. Power Project family, this is a Power Byte. And a Power Byte is a highlight from a full-length episode that we do not want you to miss. Links to the full episode are in the podcast show notes, along with special perks for all of our beautiful listeners. Enjoy. Some of these savage lifters of the past, they were like insurance salesmen. Or they had, you know, some other type of job. And lifters today, they have, there's a lot of lifters that have jobs and families.

Starting point is 00:00:27 But for the majority of what I was experiencing when I was competing is most of the individuals didn't have a typical nine to five job. And most of them, if not almost all of them, it was very rare that they were married. It was very rare that they had children. Not almost all of them. It was very rare that they were married. It was very rare that they had children. Not that you can't do those things, but it just throws another wrinkle into it.

Starting point is 00:00:57 But nowadays with like social media, I think somebody can build up and then they can kind of take like, hey, I already did all this stuff. Like our boy, Big Ray, like he could just kind of move on and like do other shit. And everyone's going to follow whatever the hell he does because because he's so popular he's lifted some crazy weights uh hopefully that guy doesn't need to have a real job yeah yeah i mean uh actually uh posted something about uh like i saw a condom on the ground at uh one of the factories i worked at and uh a bunch of people were so like taken back by the fact that i actually have a 9-to-5 job. Like, I could. They're like, you work in a factory? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:01:31 So, they're like industrial laundry plants, and I do the chemistry for them. Ah. Yeah. I'm a chemist by trade. And not quite like Derek. Your story is getting awfully peculiar. Yes. But, yeah, a lot of people are like, oh like you actually work for a living like yeah i mean i could live off of just sponsorships and

Starting point is 00:01:51 um like winnings from meets but i think i would get bored with that to be honest it makes sense though yeah that looks like a hydra logo on your hat remember what captain america would happen to him and hydra super serum i see what's going on here he's a chemist hydra how'd you get into chemistry did you like um you have like a superhero story did you like fall into like some fucking plasma or something no it's actually uh a super nerdy story i got into chemistry because i was in an ap chem class in high school and our science Olympiad team needed someone from the chemistry. Science Olympiad team. What? Sick!

Starting point is 00:02:28 And I was like, alright, I'll do it. It'll look good on my resume. And then I ended up taking, like, there's like a state competition and I took fourth in it. And I was like, oh, I'm good at chemistry. Like, I'll stick with this. Wow. Yeah. Has that kind of stuff just always clicked well for you?

Starting point is 00:02:43 And is it hereditary in some way you think um i don't know if i'd say like it has like clicked very well um like compared to my siblings i have a sister and a brother we kind of joke that uh i'm the blue collar my brother's like the white collar like he he did really well with like reading literature um geography kind of stuff like that whereas i did a lot more of like uh science and math and then my sister was kind of like a balance between the two before we continue down that route i want to know because some people are probably looking up the numbers when we're talking about ed cone right the goat and yourself right you've probably thought about what would be the numbers

Starting point is 00:03:25 needed to potentially put you over what would what what is do you have that goal is there a goal there is there some numbers that you need to be able to potentially ah hey guys you like cereal i like cereal let's not eat the bad stuff though that's why we've partnered with magic spoon magic spoon has number one, amazing macros, zero grams of sugar, four grams of carbs, 14 grams of protein, and 140 calories per serving. You're not getting all the icky sugar that you get from normal cereal. Magic Spoon is the way to go.

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Starting point is 00:04:24 We're like, there's nothing like LeBron can do that. off because i think it's kind of like a conversation of like lebron versus michael jordan where like there's nothing like lebron can do that you wouldn't still have a very large group of people saying like oh michael jordan is better so i think like no matter what i'll never be able to like surpass ed cohen but i think there's like numbers i can hit to like put me in the conversation um i think like uh maybe we talked about like a 800 squat 600 bench 900 deadlift and 90 would be um a really big one how close are you to that uh what is that that's 13 more pounds on your deadlift yeah so i'm uh i'm close on bench and deadlift but squats got a ways to go.

Starting point is 00:05:08 Might take a bit. Yeah. Okay. You know, Ed Cohn's done some ridiculous stuff in the gym. Have you, I'm sure you've seen some of the training footage. Have you ever just thought of like, I don't know, maybe just during this training cycle, let me just go for some of these lifts or you don't want to get too outside of what you normally focus on um i mean i've kind of played around with uh like some stiff bar dead

Starting point is 00:05:29 lifts to kind of emulate that but uh i don't i don't look at it as like individual lifts as like or gym lifts and think i want to hit those maybe maybe when i get up to like 220 and i'm more like in his weight class yeah yeah he was yeah that's another thing to think about is he was uh heavier and shorter a little bit that little motherfucker i don't think i could ever match like his squat numbers yeah he was he was uh he was one of a kind but you you know you see like really weird unique stuff from that guy like his arms are really long and so people were like oh ed never really benched that much but some of the competitions that he did where he broke all-time world records in total he the only thing he wore was a squat suit knee wraps he didn't wear a bench shirt he didn't wear anything on the deadlift and he still went out

Starting point is 00:06:13 and like murdered everybody and i think that people forget i believe his best bench press like at least in training was like a 585 bench press there's video footage of him benching 555 for a double uh with a close grip but i think that you have lifted more than that i'm not sure about your competition bench uh where that's been uh my best gym bench is 584 and then i try i tried to touch and go 600 and it was not close it was a no-go it was no-go but i have a bet going with um if you know pull my beard on instagram yeah hi he uh we have a bad he's fun first of all yeah he's a really fun guy if you want to laugh go to his instagram his page please uh but or if you're questioning

Starting point is 00:06:58 your sexuality maybe still yes so you but uh we have a we have a bad going though mine is always in question. First one to hit 600, the loser has to get their nipple pierced. Oh, wow. Yeah. You better hurry, bro. He's getting close. I'm a little nervous.

Starting point is 00:07:15 Damn. So you mentioned something in the gym that I, and maybe I haven't asked this question enough, but I think I have. And, you know, I owned a magazine company called Power Magazine for years where I interviewed the top power lifters every single month for years on end, rubbed elbows with many all time world record holders. And they're all a little bit different. But I have not heard one of them say what you said to me in the gym today. And I think it's really interesting. I said, how often do you miss a lift? And I sat back and I was like, he's going to say what I think he's going to say. I never miss a lift because I lift with perfect form.

Starting point is 00:07:56 It's all about technique, bro. And the technique police are not in your training program. You don't mind missing a lift here or there. Yeah, i'll usually miss like during a prep i hit like a single on squat bench deadlift every week and i typically end up missing one on each of the lift during maybe not squat so much more so bench and deadlift but i usually miss one during a prep it's just usually i go in with a number in my mind and for the most part i can kind of guess right about like how it's going to feel that day

Starting point is 00:08:32 but sometimes i get too into that number and i know i'm off mentally that day but yeah so don't want to be a bitch i think it says some interesting things about your personality you know number one you're not afraid to go for it which is really cool do you know in advance that you're going to go that heavy or no uh usually so i kind of i write out like a training plan for 12 weeks um like when i do i i start with like what i want to hit for that that meat i just picture it and super simple it just says like deadlift and it says heavy and then next week it says heavier and then heavier the next week well it's funny because like all i write out actually is like the singles and then i kind of like wing it on the rap days um i kind of have like a general idea like oh i want to do like a three by eight for

Starting point is 00:09:18 like four weeks you're frustrating so many people there's so many people right now that started out with a pen and they just threw it across the room like fuck man i don't guys winging shit yeah

Mark Bell's Power Project - Power Bite: John Haack Talks Ed Coan Comparison

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