I suppose you could start mixing it up and telling me that I suck on a few occasions, haha. Always appreciate the accolades dude. I was deadlifting next to a pretty jacked dude that was beautifully sumo deadlifting somewhere around 245lbs…was a little confused myself.
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Yesterday I was pulling 95lbs and everybody was checking me out. Same as today when I was bench pressing 70 lbs for ten reps. They couldn’t stop staring.
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In my commercial gym, I deadlift 100kg for reps and some of the trainers tell me that it’s already heavy. I squat 100kg below parallel for reps and some of the gym goers think I lift heavy. They just don’t have a freakin clue.
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@The_Myth in fairness, you are a beautiful man.
@whang I am so glad to have been spared interactions with personal trainers. But it’s also interesting how, IN the gym, people see 2 plates on the bar and go “that’s too much!” and then outside of the gym everyone knows a guy who TOTALLY benched 800lbs in high school…
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Firstly well done, this shows me how much I have to lift my amrap game.
I see this too and its just odd. There was a guy last night wearing a belt and psyching himself up for rows with a barbell with 5kg on each side (thats total 66 lbs). I should state I’m not against beginners using weights that are appropriate everyone has to start somewhere but this guy was not a beginner.
Add to that all the people who tell you they used to bench three plates but dont go heavy anymore these days.
Likewise.
I’m just coming back from a long layoff, and I look a lot stronger than I am, but, I insist on curling an empty bar in the squat rack (but I don’t grunt). I’m also old as dirt, but look younger than I am.
However, I ordered off the 55+ menu at iHOP today and did not get carded, so maybe I’m kidding myself.
I think if you have been around the block then its easy to tell someone who is coming back from injury or back from a long layoff. I started back three years ago and used an empty bar on all lifts for a week. The individuals I am speaking of are definitely not rehabbing an injury or new to lifting. But I take your point.
I was making fun of myself more than anything. My brother in law is seriously jacked, like 6’1", 240, giant guns and traps. He barely lifts any weight. Gyms everyday and coffees with his buddies, but mostly machines. He’s jacked, but it’s soft if you know what I mean.
I have never been able to lift heavy, didn’t get serious until my fifties, but definitely look stronger than I am.
There was a thread on here a while ago about just this topic, guys with sixteen inch guns curling 20 pounds.
I guess it all depends on what your goal is.
To bring it back to this thread, I think the intrepid @T3hPwnisher’s goal is to make us all think about the value of being strong or jacked. What’s really important after all, lol.
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@simo74 Much appreciated dude. And yeah, we all start somewhere, nothing wrong with that. Just interesting to see.
@The_Myth Maybe they didn’t card you because they figured no one would fake being 55 just for a discount, haha.
Managed to get stable internet, so here are videos from past 2 days. 1 Bigfoot-esque press shot and a far more decent deadlift video
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Watching your 405lbx23 video gives more insight into just how much effort you’re putting in to those sets.
Looks like you barely walked back to end the recording.
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I’ve lifted in a commercial gym almost exclusively for the last year. The level expected is absurdly low, I routinely expect to be one of the strongest, if not the strongest there on any given night, even with my piss poor strength levels.
It’s a very weird thing for me to wrap my head around to be honest because online, everyone benches 3+ plates and squats/pulls 4 comfortably. And yet in the commercial gyms I do most of my lifting in, I have never seen a 4 plate anything.
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Someone asked on another thread how they know they’re putting enough effort in. I think this is the answer. Do this, repeat regularly for 18 years, profit.
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Hey Pwn your condition sucks, you pick up a barbell and then you can barely catch your breath
real effort Pwn, nice.
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There was no discount, it was just “If you’re stupid enough to pay ten dollars to skip the pancakes, order here.”
But, I felt like I got over on the man.
Marketing.
None of the trainers even know starting strength, stronglifts, or 5/3/1. I always talk gibberish to them when we talk about programming. Lol
Damn pwn, strong as fuck! Sweet looking gym btw
@dagill2 yeah man, they really don’t have a clue. There’s only maybe one or two that can squat 3 plates in my gym
Plenty of people get big and strong without using these programs.
In fact, I’d suggest these would all make fairly poor choices for nearly all of the clients most personal trainers will come across.
Really not worth arguing about because it is a valid point. However, with respect to 531, it’s so flexible that you can tweak it for just about everybody.
That’s true though. Really just depends on what the clients are looking for
@magick Yeah, I usually cut the videos right at the end of the set to make them shorter/easier to upload, but occasionally I feel it’s worth documenting the effects of it. Between this and blown out blood vessels, I know how to question someone’s effort, haha.
@dagill2 Might be good to just link this video in the future, haha. Everytime some kid SWEARS they’re working hard in the gym but can’t grow, you know it’s bunk.
@mortdk Hah, there we go! The lame part about training in the public gym is that it’s uncouth to just lay down on the floor and say the f-word a bunch, like I do at home.
@The_Myth Sounds like my “half priced/half sized” deal I ran in my company’s snack bar for a while…
And I think we can all agree that Starting Strength is just…is just awful, haha.
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