She looks like Sonny Liston
Donāt you have a GF?
Same. If I was a good looking female my parents would be so, so disappointed in me.
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A counter argument would be that those with better than average genetics for strength tend to gravitate toward REAL sports and that these fringe/freak sports tend to get those that are too broken to play.
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Certainly. The top elite generally can find something more lucrative.
If we take the distribution of good genetics for sports (strength is sought after) the real sports take the top 0.1% (probably less than that). I am arguing that people with genetics between 50% and 99.9% are over represented in powerlifting, strongman, weightlifting and even bodybuilding. People from 0%-50% are underrepresented.
The guy who plays D2 football and canāt go pro so he ends up in strength sports likely has much better than average genetics for strength.
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My vote is no. There are a lot of women training in group around me at the gym. They deadlift. The stronger ones are deading in the 200lb range. These are average women who train 3x a week but certainly not qualified as dedicated themselves to the deadlift. Now if you take someone who really trains for it I would still say its in the <25% and thats of the select small group who are truly dedicated and train for it.
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Absolutely.
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Over 2500 women on open powerlifting have a 400lbs+ deadlift, thatās in a meet of some sort where it is the last lift.
I think that is better performed than the male comparison on here. So if we think the male lift (600?) Is possible then then female one should be.
Oh look, the same discussion with the exact same points, haha. Same thing applies - if weāre talking about people solely in terms of their physical capability and completely excluding their personalities and mindsets, which are the limiting factor for anyone not physically disabled, you betcha.
If weāre talking about realistically trying to get 51% of people in 2021 to dedicate years to the pursuit of strength in a particular lift,
But otherwise, yeah - itās possible.
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Yeah but thereās good reason to believe that most are on some chemical assistance which boosts their strength. I already know that with the correct āsupplementsā lots of women can get a 400 lbs deadlift. I also think that even fewer girls can crack a 200 lbs bench press than a 400 lbs deadlift naturally.
Although, I do think you have some physical specimen like the girl in the video that may be able to do it naturally. But at 5ā11 180-185 pounds and lean (most women would be fat as hell at that weight) sheās a living, breathing Amazon.
If I have an OF, will you send me money??
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What do you mean a HS kid shouldnāt be pulling 600? First, there are some big HS kids. Huge. Second, lets not pretend PEDs arenāt in HS sports and an athletic 14-18 year old young man would indeed be stronger than the average woman by far.
@clip11
I mean Iām a regular on here, have a log as well, and pulled a 380lbs dead during one of my own personal peaks. Had I continued into another peak, those last 20 pounds wouldāve been in the bag.
Iām 5 feet even, and Iāll just say itās got a decent chunk to do with genetics. My legs are huge, and Iāve got wide broad shoulders, and thick wrists. While Iām not mechanically suited for pulling, I can kind of skate around it using just brute force. But as of late Ive backed off pulling heavy from an injury. Iām built to squat though. Iām short, but I donāt have a small frame much at all. Even looking at pictures ive posted recently in the T-transformation thread, Iām pretty thick all around. Sitting at 175-180 currently. My last deadlift max percentage that Iām using now for my training is 330, on a shit on day, with a hella shaky lockout.
I donāt think itās attainable for most ladies at my height. Gets a bit more varied as the height goes up. Along with leverages, capacity for building lean mass, hormones, lifting age, etc. I do say most though. Thereās plenty of women who are just built to pull heavy though.
And Iāve done all this natural. I cant even afford my own textbooks sometimes, let alone have enough money for a decent cycle.
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Youre 175-180 at 5 feet tall??? I weigh about the same but at about a foot taller jfl
And your point is?
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I think we just found one of the reasons @planetcybertron can outlift you.
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Oh no, not this thread again making me feel like shit once more with my 450 deadlift while having a deadlift build and training for 6-8 years
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@aldebaran
Get bigger 
Thereās nothing wrong with only lifting 450, you are very lean, add 20#s of body weight and let those striations smooth out a bit and I bet the deadlift jumps.
Whatās wrong with taking 10-12 years to get to a 600lb pull? Everyone is different and has different goals, my comment was geared more towards those are want to pull 600 and make it a focus to pull 600.
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Training for what though? Was your goal only to get the biggest deadlift possible, to hell with aesthetics, other goals and health?
Could you feasibly have added 100lb of mass (not muscle, any mass of any kind) over those 6-8 years if your eaten and/or trained differently?
If you were 100lbs heavier I guarantee your deadlift would be more than 450lb.
Eddie Hall wouldnāt have pulled 500kg if he were 100lb lighter.
Asking whether something is possible, and asking whether its possible within reasonable constraints that most people live by (e.g. not deliberately giving themselves obesity, or quitting their day jobs to train full time) are not the same question and in neither this thread nor the 600lb male deadlift thread has it been made clear which question is actually being asked, and which question people interpret from the OP is the cause of 90%+ of the disagreement on the subject.
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May have been addressed in the quagmire of response comments, but I think the important question isā¦ why did OP feel justified publicly accusing a woman online of using PEDs?
Seems like a better post topic would be, āIs keeping your mouth shut online about your uneducated opinion that no one asked for, on something a woman did, attainable for most men?ā
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