[quote]Bigpull wrote:
I think Eric Cressey has pulled 600 at 165. That is pretty freaking amazing. I pulled 600 weighing 214 with gear at a meet in 2006. Not sure if I will pull it again, but I want to pull more. I think 600 is heavy and unless a person is SHW it is impressive.[/quote]
As a competitive powerlifter, Eric holds several state, national, and world records. A mainstay in the Powerlifting USA Top 100 lifts in his weight class, Cressey is rapidly approaching Elite status with competition bests of 540 squat, 402 bench, 650 deadlift, and 1532 total in the 165-pound weight class. He is recognized as a coach who can jump, sprint, and lift alongside his best athletes to push them to higher levels - and keep them healthy in the process. Courtesy of ericcressey.com, 650lb deadlift @165, Fucking Incredible!!!
600 at 242 raw is very good. According to PLwatch in 2008 that would just barely get you in the top 50 deads of raw lifters at 242. 740 was the best raw pull that year at that weight I believe, and 650 would put you in 11th place. Of course this is assuming it is a competition legal lift, but deads are relatively hard to cheat on. But any time you can be ranked among competitive lifters that is a good thing. Keep up the good work.
[quote]jonatan-shg wrote:
How good it is depends on several things. If you want to compare with other lifters on the board I’ll put up my own numbers…
16 Years old @ 197lb BW.
I can pull around 520-530, haven’t maxed in a while…[/quote]
That is a very good lift. A 530 pull at 198 and your age would set the 100% Raw world record in the deadlift (it is 525 right now). It would also set the single lift record. The USAPL doesn’t have a raw record for that age group yet as their raw records are newly created, and the AAU records were down when I checked. Hopefully you are competing. Good luck with it.
Hanley dont hate on us 165 pull freaks!!
BTW, 2.5BW deadlift i dont think is that great. IMO pretty much anyone could hit a 405 dead within a year or two of solid training, maybe brush upper 450+ in the nextt year or so…etc. 500 pull on i feel any weightclass is pretty respectable. deadlifts arent something you can just walk into the gym and decide to do at last minute. lol
Man I hate deadlifts. I think I just have horrible body for it. But I am good at squatting and benching.
I also lacked training the deadlift and only squatted and benched.
All I’m doing right now is training my deadlift…I can pull pretty good sumo…I actually pulled 500 at 190lbs 17 years old. But then I stopped pulling sumo, and stuck with squatting and such.
I also pulled 500 once in deadlift…little bit of hitch at 190lbs too, 18 years old.
But just stopped it all cause my conventional technique was BRUTAL!!! waiting for an injury
So all i do now is train my deadlift conventional and do not go in higher weight if it isn’t perfect form.
I hope my squat doesn’t go down, but I think it will benefit my squat from the extra back work, ham work etc.
Anyways I’d like to pull 600 someday even if I have shit build for it.
Some guys are just perfect body-type to pull heavy.
EC is a prime example.
I used Sumo Deadlift. For one I need some fucking chaulk, every gym since college that I have been too has been crap. My current gym told me I was making too much noise when deadlifting and power cleaning (when the weight hit the ground)…and they threatened to kick me out on my third strike.
It’s pretty demoralizing lol, so I have never had the oppurtunity to train below weight I can use for 10 reps, because it gets too hard to control resting the weight.
I actually train doing SLDL and max with SumoDL; never really got into conventional.
But I am going to shoot for 650lb, even if I have to get kicked out every week lol.
[quote]Tim Henriques wrote:
jonatan-shg wrote:
How good it is depends on several things. If you want to compare with other lifters on the board I’ll put up my own numbers…
16 Years old @ 197lb BW.
I can pull around 520-530, haven’t maxed in a while…
That is a very good lift. A 530 pull at 198 and your age would set the 100% Raw world record in the deadlift (it is 525 right now). It would also set the single lift record. The USAPL doesn’t have a raw record for that age group yet as their raw records are newly created, and the AAU records were down when I checked. Hopefully you are competing. Good luck with it.[/quote]
I haven’t been at any meets yet. I’m from Denmark, so don’t know if I’m in that federation, I’m in IPF. I’ll have my first meet this summer.
[quote]Con@n wrote:
I hit 600lbs @ 245 4 weeks ago. Did it raw, not even a belt, though belts really only seem useful when squatting heavy. Wonder how that stacks against others. [/quote]
600 is big boy weight for anyone at any weight, IMO. 700 is very big boy weight. lots of guys do 400, a lot do 500 but very few gym rats do 600 at any weight.
[quote]Con@n wrote:
I hit 600lbs @ 245 4 weeks ago. Did it raw, not even a belt, though belts really only seem useful when squatting heavy. Wonder how that stacks against others. [/quote]
Very impressive. It took me nearly 8 years just to have the strength to attempt 500. And it took about another 8 to pull 600.
I think it is a VERY respectable weight to pull regardless of your weight class.
And, as someone mentioned earlier, the heavier you are the tougher it is to pull higher multiples of your bodyweight (and the reason why there are various formula to compare lifts from different weight classes). A 2.5x BW deadlift for a 242 lber is more impressive than a 2.5x BW deadlift for a 165 lber.
The most I ever pulled (in the gym) was 500 on the nose a week before a PL competition at a BW of 172. After traveling across the country for the meet and cutting weight, I was only able to manage 480 at the competition (I overshot and weighed in at 164 the evening before the meet).
I screwed up badly taking a red-eye on Thursday night for a Saturday meet (I cannot sleep on airplanes at all), then still having to drop about 6 lbs to make weight a few hours before the weigh ins were over (once I got to the location), then screwed up even worse by completely losing my appetite during the PL competition and not consuming hardly anything during the meet, then compounded it all by warming up too close to when I was supposed to make my first attempt…
I thought I was gonna get 520 or 530 before I left for the meet, but I got 460 as an opener that was surprisingly hard, struggled with 480 (but got it), and couldn’t even budge 500.
On the positive side, the following day I got to watch Gene R. break the 1,000 lb. bench barrier with his 1,003 lb. bench.
[quote]Con@n wrote:
I used Sumo Deadlift. For one I need some fucking chaulk, every gym since college that I have been too has been crap. My current gym told me I was making too much noise when deadlifting and power cleaning (when the weight hit the ground)…and they threatened to kick me out on my third strike.
It’s pretty demoralizing lol, so I have never had the oppurtunity to train below weight I can use for 10 reps, because it gets too hard to control resting the weight.
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If you are in DC come out on to Tyson’s Fitness First and you can use as much chalk and go as heavy as you want to with no problem (assuming you aren’t just throwing chalk around in the air).
