Dave Tate on Meeting Donnie Thompson | elitefts.com

[@Mark-ux7yh]

Id love to see donnie on a table talk one day. The info he has on body tempering and rehab techniques is really interesting

[@thenorthman9475]

Donnie is great people

[@rickdonnette4573]

The Northman RLTW

[@wp8767]

2013-2018. We're everywhere!

[@ftargr]

We are

[@chrisknowles5358]

LOVE hearing old stories like this!!

[@churde]

Donnies awesome

[@herb2078]

Donnie came over to the UK as a invitational lifter for the British champs, Donnie, Andy Bolton and Glen Ross all going head to head was one of the best meets Iv seen. Bolton took 1st place, all three guys were class acts

[@congareegoat-boy9120]

Love it! I've known Donnie (and Marc) from back before Thompson Barbell (used to be a Powerhouse Gym), when he was still focused on bodybuilding instead of lifting--including when he showed some serious abs. Even then, he dwarfed the folk around him. The man was indeed built to move serious poundage.

[@tommyh5]

Then you must be from columbia, SC.

[@toddburns7340]

DT weighed 240-250 at one time? I thought he was always a SHW.

[@Paolo-uq3fc]

Look in his instagram. There's pics of him with abs as a grown man. And he played football, wasn't always quite so heavy.

[@lerippletoe6893]

I looked up his 3,000 total numbers and had a question. Do multiply lifters in shw classes especially tend to have lower deadlifts than raw lifters of equal caliber because their squat attempts, compared to raw, wear them out much more? It would make more sense going all out in the squat in multiply of course because it can add more to the total, or that the overload is very taxing.

[@johnnycakez2750]

i might be making this up but i'm pretty sure he didn't use a suit on that deadlift

[@lerippletoe6893]

@@johnnycakez2750 Whether he did or not doesn't matter to me, suits in deadlifts don't help nearly as much as for the squat. The point is that even with that considered, it appears as if they are more gassed from the squat and bench than raw lifters are. I don't have anything to back the theory though, just that results and common sense would seem to corroborate it.

[@johnnycakez2750]

@@lerippletoe6893 Yeah, I think you just answered your own question twice there. Also, most shws I know squat considerably more than they deadlift (they are all midgets with massive legs).

[@davidmb3376]

It’s a combination of being more tired from squatting and benching, the deadlift gear not being as helpful as squat suits and bench shirts, and being so huge that you can’t really get into optimal deadlifting position

[@archilonshadowheart7]

1300 lb equipped squat on film i believe. disgustingly strong. what did he get to 350-375? if his joints and knees and hips were so heavy and thick that explains why he was built to be one of the greatest squatters. he could probably of done overload partials like Paul Anderson used to do, but with like 1400-1500lbs. it fucking hurts my traps way too much to do that shit

[@se1663]

Super D!

[@dantes123100]

This story is a lie. I have heard from a reliable source Donnie came out his moms wazoo at 305 and has been growing ever since.

[@devonandrewmills]

Ha! Hurt feelings. That’s sounds pretty funny.

[@kennethsteelhammer]

I know you´re a good guy but I think I´ve seen you go after your handler/coach after a (good?) lift. Never seen anything like it before! What was that about?

[@ChasingTheeDragon]

Now I kinda wanna see a cut up Super D

[@Lynxien]

instagram.com/p/BogyjMyg8dx/ enjoy

[@johndonovan5521]

@@Lynxien nice find

[@LC-in5or]

Holy shit this guy should be 500 pounds! Lmao.

[@mightynathaniel5355]

ignorant