JFIFC    $ &%# #"(-90(*6+"#2D26;=@@@&0FKE>J9?@=C  =)#)==================================================_" }!1AQa"q2#BR$3br %&'()*456789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz w!1AQaq"2B #3Rbr $4%&'()*56789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz ?y=)#LfLZ\Z\o-l_Uy5i98*gVn=*$gz۶fP0=`}*/4q38MEjD7~4):pwn)9S)4& ?!xw>Қk'w'dQN]A]#˫=ګaVp3ГcRmKk{y *)EbBV/mxݫ ,G95WJ$m^L灷<ʰ/èY?"T&@s\0wW:e'{t'$r)qG֤elQ)wb95S7z.g܇{L{o\}et+YU'{\yg56@+bCɵ 4Q.\,H<8##=ϯ]u%C*׏ҍ~4PІ#K W7C\Ck7"xc =A[i%x|[}iwBmkmbNAc]G<+̫h@Knf%rOZ]B[MrΏ|1K& [>zύ%h|F@׋AcŎil c8j12jEӓoVJuܒXJ<9 W~ iM|^[?ڣ1xV0]@w$Ja~fIܪhl i']5=7@5ݩeAP.Ǡֆ_-!C!)1]m#(Mpq4~e=9|حZ5\ܡ&"zeF~qM5KsvHpc^wnvgKg2sIFH@Ȯo1JZ%cϹ0 RLlguY1u:x.l$ -cq:b=OxVŵ+0ȋh<?&%SujM s,h%FqO?OkQ"^;|6xݞ}kz6LTz3?t+&וv2הh]@a;s'ڽU{S/mmlHu~".lj[|86:,ѫ뚵MG_i-m$$N;m еY AvZZNJSMiq dVLc⹣MEfN$hz aYsG4<1wg̥wGW+:[Ep_p5i[&23i|a5!wʨ|We :GWg=mh7F;?- xqoLW/tU\gs|omiC;K5d~o㰂VFԒ02 tO-xO'-Dg+ ~5~<5iKQeMx5x֣l1BpU{q^>*H>=c͚;eI$<*Ӱ5#G!Ws{9s˔NL+=@##5`W{Z06k9D՘]u7t=BK%C}-QuPT.c= +#xkLLEa  Fs}Nh抣;C6wx'9#5g?#֗$c$w`(P*mNG pKvnk-)8TH8cOjњI;iQ/Ӝkr j ktfs;HQrlih€aݚ)ӂlɷǗ\=qV"^L55@ӡmzIu,eGW5EKn)nl#ҵtZYDJd++l&^`%KKǐNՑ}}'vgx3'i6a+'`ۼk')]Ɠ4Uv{GdQEIAEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPEPw}C^(|"8׻J+XlaSsgot started in Oklahoma. It seemed a little more professional to me. I liked their drug testing, because it helped make the sport a little bit cleaner, and I liked having to squat deep and being able to use only one suit. <br><br>BFS: Your best deadlift was 738. With all the Olympic lifting that you ve been doing, do you believe you could exceed that right now?<br>Hamman: I do, because when I did powerlifting I deadlifted only once a week or once every two weeks. Now I m doing pulls and Romanian deadlifts three to four times a week, so I think my back is a lot stronger.<br><br>BFS: Could you discuss your powerlifting squat style? I ve heard it described as a dive-bomb style.<br>Hamman: It was nothing I worked on, it was a natural thing to me. What I did was just drop as fast as I could boom! and then come up. Nobody else was doing it at the time. One thing that I think helped is my thick knee joints, which held up under it and helped me get a bit of a bounce out of the bottom.<br><br>BFS: I heard you pulled a quad doing front squats a few years ago. What happened?<br>Hamman: Right before the 1999 Pan Am Games I tried a 660-pound front squat, and ripped it on the way down.<br> <br>BFS: I also heard that you tried Active Release Treatment Techniques by Dr. Mike Leahy to help you recover quickly and you were able to win the gold medal in that competition.<br>Hamman: Yes, Dr. Leahy s active release treatments helped my injury heal a lot faster.<br><br>BFS: Do you still get treated with active release?<br>Hamman: Yes, I get Active Release Treatments at least twice a week from Dr. Leahy or Dr. Gary Wood it s the one thing special I do that really helps kuat, a 505 deep parallel squat and a 405 bench press, Tom is really strong enough to handle business at the Division I level. A 10 percent increase in strength in the next three to four years would be plenty. What Tom should concentrate on is his spf this?<br>Hamman: A little bit, but you have to put up with that with the media. They love big guys, and they love that big guys eat a lot. Another thing they like to do is compare me to things, like  His chest is as big around as a tree trunk, instead of just sticking to the facts.<br> <br>BFS: That being said, you re 5 9 and 370 pounds. How is your