Personal record!

[JustinRyan215]

Here is a shot I set up (had my brother click the shutter) and edited while hitting a personal record deadlift at the gym...
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8538/8990052277_dfcd641dae_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/justinryansr/8990052277/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/justinryansr/8990052277/) by Justin Ryan sr (http://www.flickr.com/people/justinryansr/), on Flickr


It was taken with my iPhone...I haven't really picked up my canon much since I got a smartphone....

Justin

[theantiquetiger]

That's all you can do? I curl that much!!! :p

Great job!!!

Now put down those weights and pick up that Canon!!!

[JustinRyan215]

Lol! I do wanna get my hands back on that canon.....

[Runmonty]

Really effective angle and processing.

(note to self- only complimentary comments and nothing that may offend Justin from here on)

[JustinRyan215]

Hahaha...relax! I am a gentle giant....

[Iguanasan]

Cool composition and awesome to beat a personal best but you didn't tell us what the personal best was? Inquiring minds want to know... 245?

[Marko]

I like the comp and expression - congrats!

[ewaizel]

Great expression!! I also like the texture.

[JustinRyan215]

At the time, my personal best was 215, but since this photo, I have increased it to 5 sets of 5 reps at 240, with a final set of 250 to failure...

[Realist]

Also like the angle, how you've incorporated the ceiling. If I tried that I know my back wouldn't hold up!

[Iguanasan]

Also like the angle, how you've incorporated the ceiling. If I tried that I know my back wouldn't hold up!

I'm thinking you are not trying this any time soon but if you do, don't use your back!

[JustinRyan215]

Iguanasan, the deadlift is most certainly a full body exercise. It starts with a hefty push from the legs, but using your entire back half, you move into the position I was in in the photo from a semi squat position.

Oh, and as an aside, I totally obliterated a personal goal to deadlift my body weight before my wife delivers our little girl...(due in July)... My final set on Wednesday's workout, I pulled 265 off the floor for four clean reps! 6 pounds heavier than my last weigh in!

[Hillbillygirl]

Love it! The expression/moment captured, along with the gritty pp really works for this.

A BIG congrats on the personal bests that you have recently achieved here also Justin.

[asnow]

As HBG said love the gritty look. It works well here. And congrats on the accomplishment

[Mad Aussie]

Hahaha...relax! I am a gentle giant....
Don't tell people that ... let em sweat ;)