I guess it’s new to you…
[quote]polo77j wrote:
I guess it’s new to you…[/quote]
Polo look at OP date. How is school going?
I know … that’s why I said “I guess it’s new to you…” to the kid who resurrected it … him being an 11er and all…
School’s good … had a midterm in Financial Accounting today that I made my bitch…
I have a short paper to write for my Intermediate Macro class about unemployment due Thursday that’s easy as shit and I have a presentation in my Business Communication class that’s all but done.
How’s shit with you? How’s that thing with your wife going about the cop?
People on the internet lie, but it doesn’t matter. You have a bigger fundamental problem than that.
You are comparing yourself to the norm. Forget it. Compare yourself to the best. You have to know that humans are capable of far more than you are doing so that no weight will ever scare you.
If you train with this mindset all of a sudden all of these inflated internet numbers won’t seem that impressive anyways. At this point I can’t even imagine what it is like to not be able to deadlift 400. I was there once, but I look forward, not backwards.
didn’t notice date either
[quote]polo77j wrote:
I know … that’s why I said “I guess it’s new to you…” to the kid who resurrected it … him being an 11er and all…
School’s good … had a midterm in Financial Accounting today that I made my bitch…
I have a short paper to write for my Intermediate Macro class about unemployment due Thursday that’s easy as shit and I have a presentation in my Business Communication class that’s all but done.
How’s shit with you? How’s that thing with your wife going about the cop?[/quote]
No issues as of yet, our friend is still working through the legal process. As of yet the wife is not involved. That will change of course. Congrats on the test, keep it up man. It goes quicker than you think.
I thought of this thread today. I go to Gold’s Gym and I guess I am lucky to have serious lifters there. There’s some pretty big guys that go there. One of the trainers is a competitive power lifter. He was working out with two other dudes. One of the guys was about 5 foot 5 and maybe 160 lbs. I saw him, with ugly form and a lot of grunting, pull 475 off the floor today.
I was impressed. Especially since my max is 450 and I’m taller and heavier than him.
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[quote]JVillan wrote:
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E-liar. That’s not 405.
Those look like styrofoam plates. You can tell because you are working too hard to sell the lift. Nice Try buddy!!!
lol
~sarcm
[quote]JVillan wrote:
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Here I thought I was cool I did one rep.
405 was so junior high
Not to be a dick, I don’t think 405 is that hard of a lift within a solid year of deadlifting.
Most people in the gym don’t deadlift though.
[quote]austin_bicep wrote:
Not to be a dick, I don’t think 405 is that hard of a lift within a solid year of deadlifting.
Most people in the gym don’t deadlift though.[/quote]
I believe our views on DL numbers are a bit skewed due to all those pricks we know who deadlift 550+
400 really isn’t a big deal unless you’re in the 132 lb class.
In the gym yesterday: 9 of 11 people deadlifting went to 405 or higher, not including females.
EDIT: That’s just random people in the gym deadlifting, not all powerlifters.
[quote]JVillan wrote:
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Congrats, and I like the intensity, but watch the way your arms are relaxed and then you snap them straight as you start the lift (dunno how to explain it better than that), especially the third rep. Don’t do that.
I also agree with many of the posters saying 405 isn’t that big a deal. You don’t see it too often, but you also don’t see too many people benching much over 2 plates/side, and that’s not that big a deal either. And, everyone benches, few regular gym-goers deadlift.
I think it all depends on where you’re lifting
After graduating college I was stuck at shithole LA fitness, where I could go weeks and see less than ten other people doing squats/dl/chins/etc (what the fuck else do people even do at the gym??)…Stan Efferding just opened a gym right near my place though and it’s real-almost EVERYONE there came by invitation and knows what they’re doing. Funny thing is, the people from my old gym who lifted for real are all at the new gym too.
Anyway, at LA I thought I was a big dick because I could pull 400 with shit form…now I’m doing 470 with leg push, shoulders back, etc. and it’s a warmup for the monsters there. So it’s all a matter of perspective.
I’ve never seen anyone (in an average gym)
- clean&jerk above 225
- do a one arm chin-up
- test a legitimate vertical of above 34 inches
- or lift an 250 lbs. atlas stone
Does that make a 160-170 lbs person claiming to do any of that a rare specimen or a liar? of course not a 225 clean and jerk is common for most power athletes, a one arm chin-up is common amongst most climbers and arm wrestlers (even the heavier ones of 200 lbs), a 34 inch vertical is good but nothing to brag about among vertical jumpers/power athletes and a 250 lbs atlas stone can be picked by most high schoolars at zack evanesh’s place. It’s all about perspective.
A 400 lbs deadlift I’d say is pretty damn common amongst 160-170 lbs. individuals who strength train seriously. There is a reason why those who go to commercial gyms are referred as your average gym goer by the people on here.
Depends where you train- at your average fitness gym you might get 10 out of every 100 of those who use the weight room as serious trainers… out of that 10% your unlikely to find more then a quarter of serious deadlifters, but at a weight above 150 its very achievable in not too long I’d say. I train at a gym thats 40% athletes, 40%bros and 20% more towards BB/PL… I’ve probably only seen 4-6 guys put up 400lbs whilst I’ve personally been in, however the amount of people benching 225+ indicates that they could work up to it VERY quickly if they started to deadlift. I deadlift 376x6 yet my bench is 176x7… don’t have to be all that strong to do it
[quote]Gmoore17 wrote:
[quote]JVillan wrote:
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Congrats, and I like the intensity, but watch the way your arms are relaxed and then you snap them straight as you start the lift (dunno how to explain it better than that), especially the third rep. Don’t do that.
I also agree with many of the posters saying 405 isn’t that big a deal. You don’t see it too often, but you also don’t see too many people benching much over 2 plates/side, and that’s not that big a deal either. And, everyone benches, few regular gym-goers deadlift.[/quote]
Thanks for the advice. I’ll keep that in mind next time. I train at my school gym (anyone here from UTSC?), where only 20 percent of the populace seems to know what they’re doing (and that includes athletes). The rest are bros, guys looking to get “toned”, and elderly community members. Aside from the football players, a 400+ pull is pretty rare, and a 315+ squat is almost nonexistent. On a brighter note, there are a handful of girls that do pull ups, squats, and deadlifts on a regular basis.