Re: Theoretical Powerlifting Question


"JMW" <jmwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
DZ <31029@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
John Hanson <jhanson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
DZ wrote:
John Hanson <jhanson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
But there is a difference between the Eastern Bloc lifters and the one
in my hypothetical. Those Eastern Bloc lifters had/have poor
nutrition and really good drugs. One of my teammates likes to tell
the story of being in the Chech Republic for Worlds at the after meet
dinner party. He said the lifters from Russia as well as another
country or two would go into the buffet line and put food in their
pockets for the ride home because they had nothing to eat. I've heard
these stories from other people too. Clary was telling me that back
in the 80s, a Russian lifter got his protein from the half gallon of
milk he was issued each day. That was basically it...that and lots of
drugs.

Don't know about drugs, but these food stories are fairytales. Food
wasn't "issued", but bought from grocery stores. The only exception
was at the time of USSR collapse, when the amount of certain products
you could buy was restricted. There was much smaller variety of food
than in the US, e.g. tangerines would generally only appear around New
Year, but no shortage of basic food including meat, fish and
vegetables. Pollock frozen fillet ("spinka mintaya") was so cheap and
commonly deemed to be foul tasting, that it was considered cat
food. That powerlifter from the 80s should have upped his butch and
just eat the freaking pollock :-)

The Chech Republic thing happened in 2000.

I spent about 2 months in Russia that year. By that time, you could
buy there just about anything you can imagine.

So I've heard. In some ways, that's a lot scarier than shortages.

"Da. Let me have pint of boarsht and 20 kiloton nuclear warhead."

David


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