Kelepi

[Freagle]

I once benched 115kg... thought that was pretty good at the time! Fades in comparison to modern footy players though, that’s for sure. NRL players usually use a three-rep max as their gauge on strength lifts, in my understanding @Top End Eagle. I’d guess the 260kg squat was a one- rep max though...

 

[Top End Eagle]

Okay. I have done a three rep 150 bench press as a twenty year old but didn't think that was impressive. My arms are bigger now as an almost forty year old with four kids. There's something to the static flex holding a baby. My guns are phenomenal and in total contrast to the beer belly/(as I tell my wife) baby balancer.

 

[Blake A]

He is the same height as Paul Gallen and Gallon had success playing prop at SOO level . Front row is about power play and for mine Kelepi has proven to be a powerhouse . I watched him in the trial game against the Sharks and Kelepi molested them in front of their home crowd. He absolutely screwed the Sharks pack . He was very dominant .

‘Molested’ lol

 

[Kiwi Eagle]

I remember watching his first few games for the Eels when he burst onto the scene and he looked sensational, real mystery why he ended up in the wilderness for a few years but quietly confident he will carve up this season

 

[manlyfan76]

I once benched 115kg... thought that was pretty good at the time! Fades in comparison to modern footy players though, that’s for sure. NRL players usually use a three-rep max as their gauge on strength lifts, in my understanding @Top End Eagle. I’d guess the 260kg squat was a one- rep max though...

Benching more than your own weight is a good...... Benchmark.

 

[Freagle]

Benching more than your own weight is a good...... Benchmark.

Ooh, well played!

 

[Freagle]

Okay. I have done a three rep 150 bench press as a twenty year old but didn't think that was impressive. My arms are bigger now as an almost forty year old with four kids. There's something to the static flex holding a baby. My guns are phenomenal and in total contrast to the beer belly/(as I tell my wife) baby balancer.

Yeah, it’s kind of sad though isn’t it - I’m fitter and stronger than I was back then, apart from benching - but the fat and encroaching body hair just doesn’t paint the same picture does it!

 

[Kevinward777]

I can confidently say, that apart from my liver, I am in much better physical shape in my forties than I ever was in my twenties.

 

[40 years an eagle]

I can confidently say, that apart from my liver, I am in much better physical shape in my forties than I ever was in my twenties.

That's impressive.
At 56yo, 188cm and 102kg I can confidently say i'm in better shape than I was last week.

 

[Shoe1]

That's impressive.
At 56yo, 188cm and 102kg I can confidently say i'm in better shape than I was last week.

Who did you support until you were 16?

 

[40 years an eagle]

Who did you support until you were 16?

Always only supported Manly. Played park footy for the Collaroy Plateau Magpies(RU) from 6yo(under 7's for 2 years) and The Kingfishers from 9-16yo, became an Eagle at 16 and will consider myself one until i'm gone.

 

[The McCarrs Creek Eagle]

Tangles it is.

Yep Tangles it is.....

 

[Smokin Joe]

Is there anyone on this site who would like to put their hand up and admit that they thought that Kelepi would be nothing more than a depth signing for ISP in 2017(when he first signed) and then put down his efforts in his first effort in round 22 last year and then claim that he was a dumb footballer and be nothing more than a hillbilly with no intelligence and a lack of ability to offload....Fxxk them big T and play like there is no tomorrow......

 

[Clay]

He has been in an out of my SC team more times then I can count. Physically I didn't realise how big and strong he is. Glad he is in the team over Sipley and hope he nails down a bench spot through solid performance

 

[Fluffy]

If you ever get points for lifting really heavy things then we will be premiers.

All sarcasm aside I actually think Tangles will go really good for us this year off the bench. I can see him being a Taumololo style of player - real bowling ball metre eater

That is more for post footy when they can be Governor of Calaifornia.

 

[Fluffy]

Tangles off the bench, didn't realise we'd signed old Maxy Walker

Like the hamburger

 

[Kevinward777]

That's impressive.
At 56yo, 188cm and 102kg I can confidently say i'm in better shape than I was last week.

That’s a very good base you’re working with there. You have the potential to become a beast.

 

[40 years an eagle]

That’s a very good base you’re working with there. You have the potential to become a beast.

Haha, was 87kg at 16 and it only got me to Flegg..think it's a bit late for the extra to help me now mate.

 

[Mitch]

Absolute wrecking ball this bloke. Really impressed with his impact off the bench.

 

[Chip and Chase]

Tangles was great. Imagine him with another 10kg on him. Great game tonight