Gesink beefs up for 2010

Kléber
Kléber Posts: 6,842
edited January 2010 in Pro race
rabo-gesink.jpg
Check out the powerlift!

Photo from www.pezcyclingnews.com/

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  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,953
    This is why I don't get folks that are so anti any kind of gym work for us amateurs. The pros have a reason for being that skinny but for the rest of us there's no real excuse as it can't be healthy. Not saying you should be a porker but the pros really do take it to an extreme that isn't justified for us.
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    phreak wrote:
    This is why I don't get folks that are so anti any kind of gym work for us amateurs. The pros have a reason for being that skinny but for the rest of us there's no real excuse as it can't be healthy. Not saying you should be a porker but the pros really do take it to an extreme that isn't justified for us.

    You just say that 'cause you're jealous. ;)
  • sward29
    sward29 Posts: 205
    I just love the fact that he has a spotter with him - in case he's suddenly overcome by the enormous wight I presme.
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    I notice that he has started collecting the Rabo standard-issue liver spots on his chest
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    sward29 wrote:
    I just love the fact that he has a spotter with him - in case he's suddenly overcome by the enormous wight I presme.
    Yes, he could put his back out.
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    LangerDan wrote:
    I notice that he has started collecting the Rabo standard-issue liver spots on his chest

    Isn't that a nipple?
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  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    prawny wrote:
    LangerDan wrote:
    I notice that he has started collecting the Rabo standard-issue liver spots on his chest

    Isn't that a nipple?

    Futher down on his rib-cage, Sherlock! :D
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • ridgerider
    ridgerider Posts: 2,852
    Oi, you are talking about the man I love! Pure PTP beefcake!

    (but I think Lance did gym pictures better)
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    I couldn't lift something like that above my head

    Ok, so I can't even lift my arm that high but meh.

    :wink:

    He should consider a moisturiser with a self tanning agent in it.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    iainf72 wrote:
    I couldn't lift something like that above my head

    Ok, so I can't even lift my arm that high but meh.

    :wink:

    He should consider a moisturiser with a self tanning agent in it.

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  • Moontrane
    Moontrane Posts: 233
    Dat’s not powerlifting, that’s an Olympic lift!
    It's a snatch, baby!.
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  • jp1985
    jp1985 Posts: 434
    Hes actually doing a functional movement screen (and doing very poorly)
  • Tusher
    Tusher Posts: 2,762
    yeuch

    someone fetch that boy an emergency steak and kidney pie with extra butter on his tatties, followed by a triple sticky toffee pudding.
  • shinyhelmut
    shinyhelmut Posts: 1,364
    Tusher wrote:
    steak and kidney pie with extra butter on his tatties, followed by a triple sticky toffee pudding.

    Mmmmmmmm :wink:
  • Chip \'oyler
    Chip \'oyler Posts: 2,323
    He sure is a beefcake. Looking at him you wouldn't think he is a superfit professional athlete.

    He looks more like a crystal meths addict
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  • Homer J
    Homer J Posts: 920
    I reckon he's just snatched his body weight.
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Hold on, what's this a pro cyclist doing some training! I thought only LA did that :D
  • ridgerider
    ridgerider Posts: 2,852
    Sadly at the moment, this is the way winners have to look.

    I have got this image in my head of a "Superstars" type competition with top cyclists trying weight lifting...just think of the body porn on view...

    Contador
    Schleck
    Sastre
    Gasink
    Wiggins
    etc...

    Perhaps there ought to be a minimum BODY weight for cyclists, not just their bikes.
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  • Garz
    Garz Posts: 1,155
    The guy spotting him is amazed that he can lift it!
  • paulcuthbert
    paulcuthbert Posts: 1,016
    Where Rabobank always sponsored by Nike???
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  • ridgerider
    ridgerider Posts: 2,852
    Cycling kit is by Agu, but other "leisure" gear seem to carry the swoosh.
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