Hail To The King, Baby- There’s A New King At 181

Jamie Chaos

November 6, 2011

… and his name at Jamie Lewis. I haven’t posted this week as I’d been cutting and traveling for the APA Power Frenzy at Iron Sport. After a retardedly horrible cut to 181, I lifted raw (no belt, no wraps) and posted what will be the highest total of any 181 pounder who’s currently lifting, and 2nd on the Powerliftingwatch.com all time list.

Miserable, exhausted, starving, and dehydrated at 186, three hours before weigh-in.

My attempts were:
Squat- 545, 585, 605, 615 (4th)
Bench- 335, 355, 375(missed)
Deadlift- 565, 605, 640, 655 (4th)
Total: 1600 on third attempts, and 1625 including the 4ths.

– Previously, WC Waldron was the #1 squatter with 606.
– Previously, Alex Tertisky was the #1 ranked Total with 1598.

The whole thing was streamed live online, so vids of my attempts will be forthcoming (set to “Suck My Dick” by DJ Valentino for the amusingly shittalking-prone internet powerlifting community). Until I can get those, here’s a random pic of me Steve Pulcinella posted on Facebook.

As for my prep, when I’m not exhausted I’ll follow up with a basic synopsis of my training and diet, which boils down to “squat and overhead press 6 days a week. Repeat.” I will mention that I’ve not deadlifted once since last year. Instead, I squatted, shrugged, and overhead pressed. Hence the ridiculous legs and traps.

Can we all now agree Smolov and Sheiko aren’t the end all be all? That’d just be awesome.

Until that day, motherfuckers. Go lift something heavy and stop staring at your computer.

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Jamie Chaos

I am a former all-time, all federation world record holder in raw powerlifting at 181lbs, a record I broke just to say fuck you to the internet’s “lifting” community and the powerlifting community at large. Over the last ten years I’ve written over 500 articles on strength training, nutrition, and supplementation, and continue to do so simply to fight the tide of weakness and sadness that currently pervades the scene I’ve called home for the better part of three decades. I’ve got personal trainin certs, BodyPump and BodyCombat certs, a BA in History and East Asian Studies from the University of Arizona, and MBAs from the Vienna University and University of South Carolina on my side, in addition to some sick lifts and a hell of a lot of rage. What the fuck have you got?

44 responses to “Hail To The King, Baby- There’s A New King At 181”

animalrageyeahlookatme

November 6, 2011

That's fucking awesome man. I've never heard of a fourth attempt. I assume it's used when you're breaking a record?
Anonymous

November 6, 2011

I heard! Yea buddy, hot shit!
Anonymous

November 6, 2011

bad motherfucker, impressive, congrats
Alexandro

November 6, 2011

I found a link:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/apa-power-frenzy-2011

Go to 01:43:43

Looks like a miniature Godzilla stomping around
Dray

November 6, 2011

OH SHIT.
Jippo

November 6, 2011

Congrats man. Awesome total. You should post the results over at bb.com so they can endlessly debate your methods for the umpteenth time haha.
Imperator

November 6, 2011

Fuck yeah man! Inspirational.
Raw Finn

November 6, 2011

Congratulations! Did you have to do the bp conventional style? Have you considered focusing on improving that to climb to the #1 place of all time in 181s?
Manveet

November 6, 2011

Congrats!
Adam

November 6, 2011

fucking awesome.
1:44:46 = rawr!
russ138

November 6, 2011

Awesome and Inspirational beyond belief.
Eric

November 6, 2011

"No one on Earth is going to sponsor a guy who competes simply to fuck with the other lifters in a sport with which he doesn't even identify himself". They would and you do. Awesome total BTW.
Justin K.

November 6, 2011

Bad ass Jamie. Good Job!
The Verb

November 6, 2011

fuck yeah man. Just fuck yeah. This is what you needed. You deserve it. fuck yeah. Happy for you.
Anonymous

November 6, 2011

so surreal watching you lift without a bunch of shitty black metal in the background
Nathan

November 6, 2011

Congrats, of course, I'm very jealous of that deadlift. I agree with Raw Finn though, as much as you hate it, it seems like focusing a little more on the bench press would be the easiest way to improve that total. Strong as you are, It probably wouldn't take that much for you to be benching well over 400.
Benjamin

November 6, 2011

That's awesome Jamie! Those are some killer numbers! You're a beast!!!
Jim Arkus

November 7, 2011

Tremendous. Congratulations!
Anonymous

November 7, 2011

HOT. FIRE.
Unknown

November 7, 2011

mazel tov!
Carlos Daniel

November 7, 2011

Impressive. Most impressive.
Niel K. Patel

November 7, 2011

Congrats Jamie. Did you bench reverse grip this meet?
Churro

November 7, 2011

Real lifts at a real bodyweight…congrats, diesel strong.
Paul Carter

November 7, 2011

No belt – no wraps. That's raw. Fuck all the bullshit debating about it.
Jack Silkstone

November 7, 2011

goddamn inspirational
Jamie Lewis

November 7, 2011

In re the bench, I've been working it a bit and thought I had a shot at 405, actually. To that end, I tried an Oly shoulder stretch I read about on Pendlay's website and fucked my shoulder to bits. It's inflamed as hell, and I had to drop my opener by ten lbs just to ensure I'd get it- I close gripped it. 355 went up fairly easily and I thought I'd get 375, but my shoulder was fucking killing me, in spite of ketamine cream and a cortisone shot. I hit a 3 second paused double with 345 two weeks ago, however, so the bench is moving upwards. I considered reverse gripping but was worried about dropping it in my mouth with the state of my shoulder.

Jip- who do you think the "Suck my dick" video's for? Hahaha.
brainwash92

November 7, 2011

Tell us more about ketamine cream – where do you get that shit and does it make you high? It makes me think of the "flying salves" witches used to use.

Oh and congratulations^^
Jamie Lewis

November 7, 2011

TPS makes it and it's available by prescription only. It's not going to get you high. I suppose you could eat it, but I didn't- lidocaine in the throat seems like a decent way to suffocate yourself. It's a mix of a bunch of shit.
Imperator

November 7, 2011

Damn, you would have a shot at a 1700 lb total with a better bench.

What was the stretch? Shoulder dislocations? You have to be really careful with those unless you already have some pretty supple shoulders.
Dray

November 7, 2011

A just over 1700 lb total with no wraps/belt would be an all time record at 181, and not incredibly far off from record with wraps/belt.
Jamie Lewis

November 7, 2011

I've no idea what it's called- it was an overhead lockout with the bar and you let the bar drift back while you push your head forward. Was supposed to help with overhead squats and the like. All it did was fuck my bench to bits.
Thanos

November 7, 2011

Sounds like you "touched" your anterior ligaments of the shoulder. Possibly Labrum as well.

Don't know why you would do it in the first place. People already have a tendency (especially overhead weightlifters) to develop more of a posterior ligament stiffening.

Most common cause of shoulder dysfunction towards overhead lifting comes from faulty scapulothoratic kinematics.

So why you would pop your shoulder to the front is beyond me.

Good luck with the rehab though. I'm actually writing my thesis on it.
Rant

November 7, 2011

Jamie, how did you get around the drugs test? Suck cock? Or..erm..suck cock?
Jamie Lewis

November 7, 2011

Thanos- As it happens, I have a bone spur in there, and am just dealing with a shitload of inflammation. I've been taking some kind of time released Ibuprofin, icing it, and using the TPS cream, so it's getting better slowly but surely. I'm going to take a crack at Bob McKee's records in the next couple of months I think, so hopefully it'll stop being a bitch.

Rant- Good to have you back! You were missed. Shame to see the months of inactivity didn't inspire you to more creative trolling, however.
K

November 8, 2011

you know that we are all happy for you, but you also know that we are all waiting for the post about the training and diet, that'd be patently awesome
Boris

November 8, 2011

Try giving your supraspinatus some tough love with the thera cane. That helped me get over my bench shoulder.
Alexander Baez

November 8, 2011

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18328633 at 15:20, 28:00, 43:00 and 46:00
Thanos

November 8, 2011

Auwtch. Bone spur can be a pain in the ass, and regrow if you're not carefull or lead to frozen shoulder (although I doubt the later in your case).

I can send you some articles on physiotherapy & rehab if you'd like. No bro-science, the real deal. On sleeperstretch and the likes.
Jagerhunter77

November 8, 2011

I'm 6'1'' 225 and your bigger and stronger than me… fuck you Jamie! hahah Congrats man
Djukac

November 9, 2011

FUCKING AWESOME!!! Jamie you are an inspiration. No belt 1625 at 181=crazy, strong motherfucker.
Jamie Lewis

November 9, 2011

Thanos- Hook it up. Much appreciated.
Thanos

November 10, 2011

Got a working emailaddress I can send them to?

I'm too stupid to figure out how this blog thing works. I'll send them to you on wednesday.
Anonymous

November 15, 2011

Great work Jamie! Enjoy the hell out of your blog man.

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