If 315 is an “amazing accomplishment”, then I don’t know what the hell my 505 would be considered. Ha!
[quote]Plim wrote:
Anything bigger than your current lifts is impressive. [/quote]
Bingo .
progress inspires me ; PR’s inspire me . what anyone else can or cant lift means nothing to me
[quote]marlboroman wrote:
Plim wrote:
Anything bigger than your current lifts is impressive.
Bingo .
progress inspires me ; PR’s inspire me . what anyone else can or cant lift means nothing to me[/quote]
Dead on, marlboroman!
I just got up to 315 on goodmornings today. I don’t know if thats inspirational, but I was kinda pumped about it.
[quote]MarkMedinnus wrote:
Dead on, marlboroman!
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Just like lung cancer.
[quote]Plim wrote:
But a 315 pound deadlift is NOT an amazing accomplishment, unless you have one leg. [/quote]
I’d actually like to see that. I’ve done 100lb dumbells with single-leg deadlifts for 8 reps, but I know I couldn’t get a bar with 315 on it off the ground with one leg. I’m sure there are some beasts on here that could though.
Has anybody tried single-leg deads with a bar?
Man I pulled 380lbs by the end of my first ever deadlifting session at bw of 180lbs… I was pleased but by no means excited by it lmao. 315lbs is a joke.
let this thread died, my DL grew 50 lbs since this thread has died.
I was inspired by a new PR of 350 a few weeks back .
but only briefly…now thinkin’ about 375 .
[quote]g’em wrote:
monteitis wrote:
I have a chick friend that I used to lift with. She had never deadlifted before and within 6 months she pulled 245 for a double. I doubt her genetics are any better or worse than yours. Genetics are such a copout.
She pulled 245 because she pushed herself and she wanted to. She pulled it because a few days after missing 225, we saw a guy doing deadlift reps with 115. She was so geeked that she could outlift a “man.” She soon realized that she was nearing a lot of average gym goer’s weight in other movements too.
I went from an 88lb deadlift to a 348lb deadlift in just over two years. Genetics? meh, more like consistent training and a drive to lift heavier all the time.
I don’t know many girls who lift seriously, but those that do certainly seem to train as suggested - we push ourselves and we do it because we want to.
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Now this is inspirational! I have been deadlifting for only a couple of months and I’m doing pretty well I think (I recently lifted 72.5 k (160lbs) x 2 but I expect to exceed that very soon). Some strength standards for women I had read had led me to believe that it might take me a long time to get close to lifting 300 lbs. Now I’m tempted to set a goal of deadlifting 140 k (about 309 lbs) by next summer. 