[quote]IamMarqaos wrote:
[quote]CLINK wrote:
To those criticizing Jackman:
Okay, so he’s not a big deadlifter like YOU are.
Now let’s see YOU act half as good as he does.
Oh, you’re not an actor, you say?
Bingo. [/quote]
Internet high five/fist pump/chest bump.[/quote]
Backatcha, Marqaos!
Well the guy is mid 40’s. He’s been past prime for ten years and he still has a leaner physique and a better deadlift than most 30 year olds.
[quote]RodeoCraig wrote:
Well the guy is mid 40’s. He’s been past prime for ten years and he still has a leaner physique and a better deadlift than most 30 year olds.[/quote]
Mid 40’s is still the tail end of a man’s physical prime.
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]RodeoCraig wrote:
Well the guy is mid 40’s. He’s been past prime for ten years and he still has a leaner physique and a better deadlift than most 30 year olds.[/quote]
Mid 40’s is still the tail end of a man’s physical prime.[/quote]
I thought a man reaches their physical prime at their mid-30s and can maintain it all the way into their 50s if they just take good care of themselves.
(This assuming that you spent much of your childhood/young adult years actually doing physical things and allowing yourself to reach your potential by the time you’re in your 30s)
It amazes me just how much of an influence our childhood has on us, both physically and mentally.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]RodeoCraig wrote:
Well the guy is mid 40’s. He’s been past prime for ten years and he still has a leaner physique and a better deadlift than most 30 year olds.[/quote]
Mid 40’s is still the tail end of a man’s physical prime.[/quote]
Not if he refuses to accept that.
I hit my very best numbers at ~51.[/quote]
It can certainly extend depending on when you started training and other factors. People who start a bit later in life often have no problem hitting their best numbers well into their 50’s. The mid 40’s is just kind of an average for strength athletes. Most high level strongmen and powerlifters will hit their best numbers between about 35 and 45.
But yeah it’s just an average and things always vary. I wouldn’t be surprised if you kept getting stronger for many years more.
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]RodeoCraig wrote:
Well the guy is mid 40’s. He’s been past prime for ten years and he still has a leaner physique and a better deadlift than most 30 year olds.[/quote]
Mid 40’s is still the tail end of a man’s physical prime.[/quote]
Not if he refuses to accept that.
I hit my very best numbers at ~51.[/quote]
It can certainly extend depending on when you started training and other factors. People who start a bit later in life often have no problem hitting their best numbers well into their 50’s. The mid 40’s is just kind of an average for strength athletes. Most high level strongmen and powerlifters will hit their best numbers between about 35 and 45.
But yeah it’s just an average and things always vary. I wouldn’t be surprised if you kept getting stronger for many years more.[/quote]
I also think you have to measure time under the bar and number of injuries.
Our bodies break down period, train smarter not harder at some point.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]RodeoCraig wrote:
Well the guy is mid 40’s. He’s been past prime for ten years and he still has a leaner physique and a better deadlift than most 30 year olds.[/quote]
Mid 40’s is still the tail end of a man’s physical prime.[/quote]
Not if he refuses to accept that.
I hit my very best numbers at ~51.[/quote]
It can certainly extend depending on when you started training and other factors. People who start a bit later in life often have no problem hitting their best numbers well into their 50’s. The mid 40’s is just kind of an average for strength athletes. Most high level strongmen and powerlifters will hit their best numbers between about 35 and 45.
But yeah it’s just an average and things always vary. I wouldn’t be surprised if you kept getting stronger for many years more.[/quote]
I also think you have to measure time under the bar and number of injuries.
Our bodies break down period, train smarter not harder at some point. [/quote]
No doubt about it.
In fairness I didn’t start lifting until 35 so Csulli’s point is a good one too.
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I wondered if you were a late start in life to the iron game. Your generation was not really into the weights. But I bet you will live longer, stronger and healthier that you did pick it up at 35.
I started lifting at 12-13 years old for JR high football. I have over the years taken a few months off and once for about a year due to back disk herniation’s. But at 41 now I have pretty much always lifted. Went from the lifting heavy to the BBing to now doing more just staying strong, but mobile. My joints are beat up.
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
now doing more just staying strong, but mobile. My joints are beat up.
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But don’t worry, according to your log you’re still easily the strongest guy on Old Man Island, or wherever it is you said you lived.
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
now doing more just staying strong, but mobile. My joints are beat up.
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But don’t worry, according to your log you’re still easily the strongest guy on Old Man Island, or wherever it is you said you lived.
:)[/quote]
lol Yes but that is not saying much any more. It margaretaville and golf carts. Average age is probably 65 with a .08 blood alcohol.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
I wondered if you were a late start in life to the iron game. Your generation was not really into the weights…
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It probably had more to do with the fact that I was on the go constantly in my late teens and twenties and could never have maintained a weightlifting routine.
I changed jobs quite a bit and several of them involved extensive travel. By the time I was 26 I bet I’d been more places than the next 100 people that read these words combined.
It wasn’t until I was about 35 that I settled down enough to where getting under a bar three times a week was even a remote possibility.[/quote]
Makes sense
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]RodeoCraig wrote:
Well the guy is mid 40’s. He’s been past prime for ten years and he still has a leaner physique and a better deadlift than most 30 year olds.[/quote]
Mid 40’s is still the tail end of a man’s physical prime.[/quote]
Not if he refuses to accept that.
I hit my very best numbers at ~51.[/quote]
It can certainly extend depending on when you started training and other factors. People who start a bit later in life often have no problem hitting their best numbers well into their 50’s. The mid 40’s is just kind of an average for strength athletes. Most high level strongmen and powerlifters will hit their best numbers between about 35 and 45.
But yeah it’s just an average and things always vary. I wouldn’t be surprised if you kept getting stronger for many years more.[/quote]
I also think you have to measure time under the bar and number of injuries.
Our bodies break down period, train smarter not harder at some point. [/quote]
No doubt about it.
In fairness I didn’t start lifting until 35 so Csulli’s point is a good one too.
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Push, this is the most motivational thing I’ve ever read on this site. Ever.
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]MaazerSmiit wrote:
There used to be someone on this site (wish I could remember who), who, when asked how much he benched, would say “around 700lbs” and get knowing nods, and “not bad” in response.
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Wasn’t on this site. That was Mike Jenkins (RIP).[/quote]
Mike Jenkins did post on this site. But I’m not sure he said that on this site. He posted in the Strongman forum as MJENKS.
[quote]Silyak wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]MaazerSmiit wrote:
There used to be someone on this site (wish I could remember who), who, when asked how much he benched, would say “around 700lbs” and get knowing nods, and “not bad” in response.
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Wasn’t on this site. That was Mike Jenkins (RIP).[/quote]
Mike Jenkins did post on this site. But I’m not sure he said that on this site. He posted in the Strongman forum as MJENKS.[/quote]
Oh shit I completely forgot about that! I remember now, I was like freaking out when I saw that post in strongman. Sorry I have an awful memory lol.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]RodeoCraig wrote:
Well the guy is mid 40’s. He’s been past prime for ten years and he still has a leaner physique and a better deadlift than most 30 year olds.[/quote]
Mid 40’s is still the tail end of a man’s physical prime.[/quote]
Not if he refuses to accept that.
I hit my very best numbers at ~51.[/quote]
You are a strong fellow no question.
What age did you start lifting heavy?
*edit I see you already answered
Analyzing an actor’s 400lb deadlift is like thinking too much about finding 50 bucks on the street.
The best thing you can you say about it is 50 bucks is 50 bucks…you don’t need someone else saying it’s not a fortune and no one should quit their job because of it. We all know what you can buy with 50 bucks and there’s no need to fret about it.