I have many comments, but just for the sake of someone dunking all over the OP using his precious rules so he’ll shut the fuck up about too many talkers, I just completed this in 19 minutes by doing 16 sets of 4 dead-stop reps at 315 pounds, fulfilling the stated rules of conventional stance, no high rep sets, and no touch and go reps.
OP, you may now resume being pointless, perhaps briefly pausing to consider that nearly every person who has posted in this thread has achieved a greater level of strength than you with significantly lower level of pretentious douchebaggery.
It depends how you look at it I suppose. I haven’t deadlifted in nearly a year (got bit by a BJJ bug), but I did deadlift nearly every week for about four years. For most of that time I posted the results of every workout I had in my log on this website while trolling very little.
I confess, from the time you created this post to present I have not done any deadlifting. My intention wasn’t to troll you per se, but rather get you thinking about the silliness of your parameters. I’m not holding out on a moment of reflection at the absurdity of a four-plate puller lecturing a thread full of really strong motherfuckers, but such a moment could be very helpful to your growth as a lifter.
Thanks for the Hoosier love, big man. 615 to be exact.
Like I said above, I’m contemplating coming out of retirement for this, and I’ve been telling myself I should make time to lift some weights instead of just training to break bones and choke fools all the time. We’ll see. It would be a miserably fun way to dive back into barbells.
I’ll give @adrencg serious props for pulling four plates at a low BW at age 50, but he definitely loses props for exhibiting severe Dunning-Kreuger symptoms that I’d expect out of a guy in his early 20’s who just started lifting.
Teachable moment, some such noise. The sooner you realize you don’t know that much the sooner you can get on with the business of remedying that condition, not to mention dispensing with the silly tone you take on a website where you’re guaranteed to be called out for it. Lecture less, realize there are guys your age pulling 600 at your BW, learn more.
You guys are acting like I think I’m the strongest guy in the room. I started the challenge
I made some rules for it. Complaining started. Ok I’m the douche.
Well, we can start with the fact that the thread was titled “how fast can you deadlift 20,000 pounds” and yet right from the get-go your stated weight and rep scheme was less than that number, so it’s really hard to take any additional rules seriously after that.
I’ve done 10x5 with 315lb with 90 second rests, so 8x8 with 315lb with like 45 sec-1 min rests between sets should be cakewalk for you.
I don’t get why adrencg thinks deadstop would be more difficult for a challenge like this. The static strength required to maintain form + the high amount of work done in a very short period of time would make this terrible. I would be very surprised if you or T3hPwnisher failed to do 8x8 deadstop reps in under 10 minutes while fresh.
The “you may now resume being pointless” is a joke from a TV show, but the OP has shown a highly amusing degree of rode-in-on-his-high-horse-ness in arbitrating what is, in fact, a “real” deadlift.
I do not intend to shit on the OP for his strength levels, which are fine in the “regular guy strong” category at his age and weight. I will openly and gleefully rake him over the coals for this stuff:
“No high rep” in a challenge designed to accumulate a large amount of volume for time. Okay.
Calling out guys who are stronger (most/all of whom have video evidence in their logs of their lifting) with “too much talking and not enough lifting” for emphasis. Maybe a few of those guys are too busy training to meet actual competitive goals to worry about an Internet forum jockey?
(what the fuck does this even mean?)
Touch-n-go and high reps re off limits, but the weight can just be “close enough.”
(this didn’t get nearly enough credit, by the way, kudos to bobeschism for noting this)
An excellent point, by the way. Our fearless hero calling out people for “too much talking and not enough lifting” fails to note that many of the gents posting in this thread are actually putting themselves out there competing in strongman, which certainly offers an opportunity to compare oneself to your peers in a standardized environment.
Come for the bullshit, stay for the form tips.
This is spot-on, by the way.
A slightly rounded back is not the worst thing in the world. Several of the world’s strongest deadlifters have some degree of back rounding on their max attempts. Many who refuse to allow their back to round under any circumstance are 1) not lifting as much weight as they could be and 2) setting themselves up for a higher injury risk the day they attempt a really heavy lift where, God forbid, their back does round a little bit.
Wow you spent a lot of time writing about someone you obviously don’t care for too much. It looks like a common trait among strong people is being overly sensitive about others with strong opinions about certain things.
My comment about there being more talkers than lifters pertained to this challenge, not about anyone’s gym prowess in general.
There’s a few guys in here who shut the fuck up and did the challenge and posted their results and a larger percentage who spent their time coming after me. Who is the asshole?
I enjoyed reading the posts about how they felt after trying the challenge, but anyone who wants to spend their time writing psychological evaluation essays should find better ways to spend their time.
I’m not going to waste any time digging though the forum, but I’ll bet things have gotten ugly in more than a few threads with some of you.
You won’t find any of that shit from me around here.
That’s the last word from me, so you guys have fun.
Three-quarters of that post is literally just quoting your own words.
Um, wut?
So far at least half a dozen people have taken you up on this challenge, bizarro rules aside.
See above
You invited this, and if you can’t see how you invited this, okay.
You wrote “It looks like a common trait among strong people is being overly sensitive about others with strong opinions about certain things” three sentences above this one.
You know, it’s funny, when you show up in a lifter’s forum and act like a jackass to people that talk about lifting, this can happen.
Like, eight times in this thread, you tried to needle someone or get under their skin, lol.
I look forward to your January 2019 post detailing the new deadlift program you’ve come up with that’s been really giving big results lately, and challenging anyone to undertake said program to see what happens for them.
You seem like an alright dude and it’s an interesting challenge, but what makes the challenge threads here worthwhile, IMHO, is the camaraderie they create among forum members. In other words, they’re fun. Fun as a personal challenge. Fun to see how others stack up and fun to discuss in general.
You’re adding all of these weird rules that are literally sucking the fun out of the challenge itself and the forum. You’re also trying to educate guys that deadlift much more than you or I, which I’m sure you can understand might irk a person or two.
If a 200lbs deadlifter tried to school you up on the deadlift you’d be a little irritated about it, right?
Check this one out for example:
It was fun and inviting to try even if you couldn’t do the original challenge.
