[quote]Standard Donkey wrote:
wait…so you weigh 180 pounds…
your max benchpress is 40 pounds under your bodyweight…
and your max deadlift is your bodyweight?
after a year and a half of lifting?[/quote]
sniggers
Everyone starts somewhere.
[quote]Standard Donkey wrote:
wait…so you weigh 180 pounds…
your max benchpress is 40 pounds under your bodyweight…
and your max deadlift is your bodyweight?
after a year and a half of lifting?[/quote]
yeah im not quite sure u understood the question i really dont think there is anyway that ur max BP is 140
There’s no way a healthy adult man around 20 could have started with a max deadlift of 50 lbs unless he was doing like sixty reps. That’s the bar plus a 2.5 pound plate on each side!
[quote]Bonn1997 wrote:
There’s no way a healthy adult man around 20 could have started with a max deadlift of 50 lbs unless he was doing like sixty reps. That’s the bar plus a 2.5 pound plate on each side![/quote]
Yeah, there’s no way. Meaty, are you sure you dont mean kilos?
-dizzle
bro…this is a bodybuilding forum, not a gay sex party. Why would you post all those gay photos and not some serious ones? I’m not trying to be a dick, but I think you’ve mistook this site for something else.
[quote]A-Dizz wrote:
Bonn1997 wrote:
There’s no way a healthy adult man around 20 could have started with a max deadlift of 50 lbs unless he was doing like sixty reps. That’s the bar plus a 2.5 pound plate on each side!
Yeah, there’s no way. Meaty, are you sure you dont mean kilos?
-dizzle[/quote]
thats what i was initially thinking, however if it were in kg that would put him around a 3 wheel benchpress and almost 400 in the deadlift which would be very impressive for his size…
i dont think he would be able to handle that much weight judging by his pictures…
but i do highly doubt that those are his max lifts…
[quote]Bonn1997 wrote:
There’s no way a healthy adult man around 20 could have started with a max deadlift of 50 lbs unless he was doing like sixty reps. That’s the bar plus a 2.5 pound plate on each side![/quote]
Beginners don’t really know what a max is. I’m guessing that those are the weights he started using. What percentage of his max is not important, he was using those, now he is using more. Progress.
OP, I forgot to ask what your goals are, to be a certain size, move a certain amount of weight, or what?
I do 181 deadlift for 3 sets of 10 reps, sometimes I have an off day and only manage 2 sets…
I’m only 5’'8 in height I realise I photo taller and prob look stronger than I am, btu I was so weak to begin with that anything is an improvement 
[quote]gswork wrote:
Meaty_Ass wrote:
My current Bench max is 140 Pounds…
Squat is a bit of a unknown at the moment as I’ve just bought a squat rack and waiting for it to be put up. I physically can squat more than I can lift over my head to get on my shoulders. So once the rack is up I’ll know for sure what I can handle.
I tend to deadlift 180 Pounds, but thats come up huge from the 50 pounds I started with!!
is that 140 and 180 for some reps?
You looked in the avatar pic like you would be stronger, not being critical, as the progress from a 50lb deadlift to a 180 is a journey that was worth making!
Anyway, sounds like you get some fun out of weightlifting, and you’ve certainly changed a lot from your, erm… ‘modelling’ days![/quote]
[quote]Standard Donkey wrote:
wait…so you weigh 180 pounds…
your max benchpress is 40 pounds under your bodyweight…
and your max deadlift is your bodyweight?
after a year and a half of lifting?[/quote]
Yup thats correct, However as stated before I was exceptionally weak to begin with
[quote]Bonn1997 wrote:
There’s no way a healthy adult man around 20 could have started with a max deadlift of 50 lbs unless he was doing like sixty reps. That’s the bar plus a 2.5 pound plate on each side![/quote]
I don’t count the bar in my weights, altho I’m sure it doesn’t weight that much.
Again as stated If u look at my early pics I have no chest at all, just this flat pancake… I rememebr looking down and it being totally flat, not I look down and I have pecs, it’s great. I guess I’m the sort of guy that needs less weight to get results u’d expect a heavier weight to achieve, everybody is different
[quote]A-Dizz wrote:
Bonn1997 wrote:
There’s no way a healthy adult man around 20 could have started with a max deadlift of 50 lbs unless he was doing like sixty reps. That’s the bar plus a 2.5 pound plate on each side!
Yeah, there’s no way. Meaty, are you sure you dont mean kilos?
-dizzle[/quote]
My weights are in Kilograms, but I write them in on my training log in pounds. I used a online weight converter to do the transitions between kg and lbs…
[quote]Brant_Drake wrote:
Bonn1997 wrote:
There’s no way a healthy adult man around 20 could have started with a max deadlift of 50 lbs unless he was doing like sixty reps. That’s the bar plus a 2.5 pound plate on each side!
Beginners don’t really know what a max is. I’m guessing that those are the weights he started using. What percentage of his max is not important, he was using those, now he is using more. Progress.
OP, I forgot to ask what your goals are, to be a certain size, move a certain amount of weight, or what?[/quote]
My initial initial goal was just to get bigger, I hated being skinny and I just wanted some mass. The gains came along much faster than I expected. I kept my diet pretty much the same except i added more protein rich foods and 2 protein shakes per day. I just hit the home gym hard 5 nights a week and hey presto, I gained.
I guess my new goal is just to carry on as I am, I mean I’m still gaining and haven’t reached a plateau. I’ll prob do a slight cut for the summer, but continue to bulk during x mas and new year into spring.
Overall i’d be very impressed if I could achieve a strongman kinda look, I think it would look impressive on my origional slender frame…
well a traditional olympic style bar weighs 45 pounds. so if you add that to your lifts, (if you are using an olympic bar, i dont know what they use on the other side of the pond) you would be benching around 185 and deadlifting 225, which for your weight and experience level is above average :).
haha yeah im saying that the bar does make a big dif… 140 to 185 is around a 33% increase in weight so does the difference between a max and 3 sets of ten
basically ur max DL went from 180 to 300lbs
Dude, you really just look like you gained a shitload of fat. Even if I was to “rate your progress” it’d be low. You could have done so much better; you still can, too. You also appear, as there seems to be some descrepancy on your max lifts, to be relatively weak: relative to your body weight and length of training.
And I’m in absoloute shock from the profile pictures. I couldn’t stop looking; it was like a horrible car accident. WTF were you thinking?
That umbrella picture was pretty funny, though. Heh.
Decent transformation dont look that great though yet…also are you gay?
With the new pic of Olesya Novik in the figure in the figure comp section there should be no one catching the gay around here. I had to look at it for a long time before getting over some of those profile pics of your’s. Just creepy, man.
you have a very big dong, in a totally heterosexual way.
Your user name is creepy too.
[quote]HotCarl28 wrote:
haha yeah im saying that the bar does make a big dif… 140 to 185 is around a 33% increase in weight so does the difference between a max and 3 sets of ten
basically ur max DL went from 180 to 300lbs[/quote]
Seems reasonable to me. I just went from a 275 2-rep max to a 325 2-rep max in the last 4 weeks.
-dizzle