156 lbs.
I’m not sure that the weight on your very first max deadlift is all that important. More important may be the number you want to eventually hit.
At 130 I think I could do 220 with difficulty. Granted, though, it was double overhand (I hadn’t yet learned of the magic of the mixed grip), making that about 1.7+x bw deadlift. Now, after two years of half-assed training and about 9 months of real training, I’m repping (~6) with 405 at 170. I’m testing my max tomorrow, so we’ll se what it’s really at, haha.
I think your untrained max depends more on bodytype/structure, how much “baggage” you’re carrying, and your willpower (newbies won’t have mastered/learned of “straining against the weight” as maraudermeat calls it)
I guess if I were starting over as a beginner I would approach the deadlift not trying to think about charts and graphs and how strong I am / should be with or without excess body fat. It would seem that sub maximal weight singles pulled with a rest period in between reps would be as good a place to start as any. The new guy next to you might be using more weight, but let him. If you continue to find yourself thinking about charts and graphs while you’re deadlifting try kneeling down in front of the bar and strike the bar with your forehead until the thoughts go away.
Whoever said manual labor gets an Amen from me. I built four stone retaining walls on the sides of my house over the course of about two weeks. One of my walls had some substantial rocks in it. A friend of mine stopped over and helped me lift a few. He did this for a living. He was hoisting some stones that were close to the knee in height up to his waist by himself. He was about 6’8" and close to 350# of bw. He said he’d never deadlifted before, in reality he did extreme deficit stone deadlifts nearly everday of his life and built some tremendous lifting skills. I’ve wondered since then what he might be able to deadlift, 500, 600, 700 pounds. I couldn’t lift the rocks that he could stack on top of each other.
On the flip side my brother was close to the same size at one time but a non-active desk jockey. I would guess that 200# would split both of his nuts wide open.
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
156 lbs.
http://www.exrx.net/Testing/WeightLifting/DeadliftStandards.html[/quote]
According to that table I’m advanced - I’m still very much a beginner. Reliable or not it brings a smile to my face.
You can consider yourself as a beginner as long as you make constant gains, not about the weight you lift, if you are adding 5/10 lbs to your deadlift everytime you do it you are beginner yet
i think.
Depends on age, bodyweight, height, etc.
I started lifting as a 5’5", 143lb 32 year old ex marathon runner of 15+ years. I could bench 135 for 5 reps, squat 135 for 15 and deadlift 135 for 10. A little over a year later I’m benching 245, Squating 300 and Deadlifting 335 and weigh 170lb. All this while doing predominantly high volume routines. I think I’m going to start more of a strength based routine just to get the numbers up.
Alan