How long is that?
I can certainly relate to how you feel. I often feel the same way. We compare ourselves to others and see how we are virtually doing the same thing but yet, they surpass us. How we approach our journey plays a vital role obviously. I don’t work as hard as @T3hPwnisher so I can’t complain about not having the same results.
Still, determination, consistency, dedication and all those big words that those fitness Influencers like to throw around, are by far not all there is to it.
The truth is we all start from different points, bring different assets to the table, hit different bumps in the road and overall move at different speeds, no matter how we approach things.
I am in my 5th strongman season this year and have been going to the gym for almost 10 years (the first few weren’t serious strength training but still) and it was only a few months ago that I hit a 500 lbs deadlift.
Terry Hollands (British pro strongman) deadlifted 260 kg/ 573 lbs the first time he maxed out (I think he said that in a q&a recently,if I am not mistaken). He reached a 450 kg deadlift within his career so far. I guarantee you that NOTHING in this world will get me a 450 kg pull in my career. No drugs, no weight gain, no lifestyle choice. I didn’t start from the same point and don’t have the same circumstances, no matter how hard I dedicate myself to it and how passionate and all that I am: I won’t deadlift 450 kg.
Now that is not to say that we should not set our goals super high and be ambitious! If I dedicated everything I had, did everything right and committed hard as fuck to the goal of deadlifting 450 kg, I would still absolutely reach a fucking great deadlift.