My gym finally installed a squat rack, got olympic bars and plenty of weights. I’m very happy, and it allowed me to get a baseline on certain lifts. Keep in mind, I’ve only been in the gym for 6 months now after a 5 year hiatus.
Here goes:
Benchpress: 6x100kgs/220lbs
Seated db press: 6x34kgs/74lbs
Squat: 6x100kgs/220lbs
Deadlift: 1x140kgs/308lbs
Military press: yet to establish
Stats: age 41, weight 105kgs/231lbs, height 194cm/6’4"
I’m not a naturally strong guy. I’ve got relatively short arms and a long torso. Legs medium lenght. Not a build built for strenght, but I do my best.
I didn’t know you were that old Ephrem. Or tall. You forgot the big head though lol. I know what you mean about not being naturally strong. I’m not naturally big or strong either. The first time I ever stepped foot in a gym when I was 26, (27?) I weighed 157 pounds at 6,2. Soft and scrawny. You’re off to a good start. You’ll find bein north of 40, as am I (48), progress doesn’t come like it used to.
Ya gotta eat pretty good too and ya can’t just bulk up anymore either because you WILL get fat and it won’t come back off like it used to. Health actually IS a wise consideration. Glad to see you’re back at it though man.
I dont post here too often but I read PWI a lot, so I’ll throw my lifts up. I dont train for much except to help at work, I shoe horses/farm so I am active pretty much all day.
Bench-300
Squat-385 (have not maxed recently)
DL-405
Snatch-200
I shod a 2600 lb horse yesterday so I think my 1rm squat is a lot higher than it used to be, but I use my legs all day working so I’m nervous about a max. Oh and I am 6’1" around 200 lbs and 22 years old.
[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
I didn’t know you were that old Ephrem. Or tall. You forgot the big head though lol. I know what you mean about not being naturally strong. I’m not naturally big or strong either. The first time I ever stepped foot in a gym when I was 26, (27?) I weighed 157 pounds at 6,2. Soft and scrawny. You’re off to a good start. You’ll find bein north of 40, as am I (48), progress doesn’t come like it used to.
Ya gotta eat pretty good too and ya can’t just bulk up anymore either because you WILL get fat and it won’t come back off like it used to. Health actually IS a wise consideration. Glad to see you’re back at it though man.[/quote]
I’m sure I’ve mentioned my age a couple of times to you, but anyway; yes, I also have a very big head (:
I’m not playing the weight game anymore, so I’m not bulking and won’t be. If I can drop another 5kgs/10lbs and stay around 10% bodyfat that would be a great achievement for me.
It was a surprise to find how easy it was to get back in to shape. Keto helped tremendously, and I’ve even returned to keto after an 8 week break because I missed it so. I eat clean, no carbs or sugar except for fruits and it’s wonderful.
“Muscle memory” is sort of a Sesame Street way of phrasing it, but I totally believe that once somebody builds a significant base that even after years it makes a return to lifting faaar more productive than if one had never trained at all.
Keto does help tremendously. On the other hand, do not underestimate what you can do either. 41 is still not over the hill and if you wanted to you I’m sure you could pick up another 20 solid pounds at very least and maybe twice that much. Or even more at 6,4. The key for me I believe is less frequent brutally hard work under the iron and LOTS of rest. I don’t recover like I used to. I train Mon, Wed. and Sat. with the other 4 off, BUT, the kids in my gym will tell you that NOBODY works harder than I do. They call me sir.
Chusin is 6,4 too. In JAPAN. LOL!! You must look like a giraffe to those people. Do they call you on their cell phone when they’re standing right next to you?
Tall people in that neck of the woods draw attention, that’s for sure. That’s why I’m glad I don’t stick out too much over here.
You know T, carrying 30 to 40 lbs extra musclemass around with me sounds exhausting. I’d love to be 220 or so at a low bodyfat% and, for me anyways, that’s a healthier goal than gaining pounds.
I follow a 3-day split, mon/wed/fri, and I respond well to that frequency too.
I weigh about 245 and I bound up the stairs 2 at a time. I also walk a few miles almost every morning. Of course do what you want as long as you don’t start a thread in the bodybuilding forum titled “I don’t wanna be huge”. However, the more lean meat you gain the more of you there is to burn calories. Don’t forget that. I will remind you for the 200th time of all the other things we also have in common as brothers in father Adam a different time Ephrem. ;D
It’s not my intention to compare dicks here but before I got sick I weighed-in at 264lbs. The one picture in my profile was taken a couple of months earlier, and to be honest, I feel physically and mentally better than it did then.
I still have decent size and as my bodyfat% drops the appearance of size merely increases. Just you wait and see and I’ll show you.
Age 44, 235lbs:
3 years after testicular cancer that spread to lungs and still nowhere near what I used to be able to do but pretty happy I am lifting and actually getting bigger and stronger again.
Current stats:
Squat 385lbs x 6, ass to grass
Front Squat 285 x 3
Bench Press 295 x 6
Dips Bodyweight + 90 x 6
Military Press 235 x 1
Pendlay Row 315 x 6
Deadlift 405 x 22, 515 x 3, 585 x 1
Power Clean 235 x 2
Snatch 185 x 1
Pull ups x 14
Kroc Row 110 x 22
Barbell Curl 135 x 8
^Thats awesome push! I’ve been shoeing for a while now, but recently started a proper apprentice as a farrier. I live very near the Karachi Mesa so I get to break and shoe wild horses occasionally, its a blast. I’m near Durango Colorado which is a terrible place for shoeing since there are so many cowboys, but man there are a lot of draft horses and cowboys can’t seem to keep em shod. The 2600lber was a Black Percheron stallion, his hind legs were so long I had to shoe like front feet, between my legs. Nicest horse ever- didn’t even need to halter him. I cut 24" of metal for each shoe, he’s won biggest animal at the Denver stock show a few times, haha. You still shoe at all?
[quote]ephrem wrote:
It’s not my intention to compare dicks here but before I got sick I weighed-in at 264lbs. The one picture in my profile was taken a couple of months earlier, and to be honest, I feel physically and mentally better than it did then.
I still have decent size and as my bodyfat% drops the appearance of size merely increases. Just you wait and see and I’ll show you.
[waves fist!][/quote] That’s cool Eph. I wasn’t deriding you for your choices. I was only saying that I’m just as mobile and in overall better physical condition now than I was in my 20’s and 90 lbs lighter. You made it sound sorta like if you gained some muscle you’d be all outta breath playing with your Bill Maher pull string doll or sumthin.
Seriously though. No challenges intended nor explanations necessary. Your health is number one and of course I’m behind ya. I am a little bummed at myself for not remembering you telling me your age though. I’m usually pretty good about stuff like that.
EDIT: I do remember though that you said you had yellow jaundice right?.
Gotchya push. I’m certified through the AFA, working on my journeyman now. It seems the west is a lot tougher to make a living shoeing then back east. I spent 3 weeks in Ocala during HITS (Horses in the Sun) 6000+ horses for the shoe, it was heaven for a farrier. Got tough footed horses man, I only keep my mule barefoot, but she is a mule…
[quote]pushharder wrote:
It was a lot of work shoeing those big boys, the Belgians, Percherons and Clydesdales, but they were so gentle and easy going. I loved being around them.
Way back in the day I used to drive a team of Belgians with a sleigh. Had a bobsled too.
We used them to feed cattle in the Big Hole valley of southwestern MT in the wintertime - one big blonde Belgian with blue eyes and a dappled grey Percheron - not a matched team but it was a very neat experience.[/quote]
Thats sweet! I got my first job as a teamster this winter giving carriage rides, should be fun. A bobsled sounds awesome. I’ve got an old old old Belgian from Sombrero Ranch (biggest dude ranch in the world) and she loves pulling people around. Pretty amazing horses.
[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
Chusin is 6,4 too. In JAPAN. LOL!! You must look like a giraffe to those people. Do they call you on their cell phone when they’re standing right next to you?[/quote]
Ha!
Yeah, I stand out for sure. I get told how I am “huge” and then asked how tall I am about 3 or 4 times a week…
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Wow. I’m not nearly as tall as you and even I felt like I was on stilts in Japan. Whereabouts do you live, if you don’t mind me asking?
[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
Wow, everybody’s stronger than I am. Very good Aragorn. I wish you’d email me though.[/quote]
I don’t see that happening. I won’t give my personal email to somebody who behaved the way you did towards brother Chris and his family/friends on facebook that occasioned his first few posts in the Romans 2 thread. Has nothing to do with exigetical disagreements. Actions have consequences sir. Your actions have consequences, not just in eternity but in the here and now. there is no way you will get private information from me.
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I agree 100%. He recently mentioned information I only told him in private on this board in that thread when there was zero reason for there to even be a problem with anything I wrote.
I have learned that some of these guys with the nuttiest outlooks on politics and life…may actually be nuts.