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Those are great numbers. If you don't mind me asking, what did you weigh when doing those? I agree with you, that people can get far stronger than they realize
by matwood 6y ago
Those are great numbers. If you don't mind me asking, what did you weigh when doing those?
I agree with you, that people can get far stronger than they realize. I'm not genetically gifted, started quite skinny, and still got a 325 bp, 405 squat and 525 DL at 195 back when I was younger. All I ever took was creatine and whey. I'm fairly tall, which seemed to help the lever action with my DL, but always caused my squat to lag.
- jaegerpicker 6y agoThanks! I'm not really close to that anymore, wish I was but not enough to put in the work. I lived in the weight room back then. I was 19 and bounced between 265-285 depending on the time of year. I wrestled in college for a year before having to drop out and I was right at 265 during that. I'm 6'1" also so not a little guy and that helps a lot. More than anything though I lived in the weight room. I actually mostly hated squats, I had a little bit of a poor technique and I believe to this day that all the weight under load on my lower back with poor technique help contribute to a pretty severe back injury later in life. Moral of the story: we should all be more careful when chasing numbers.
- matwood 6y agoI hated squats also, but loved DLs. I would DL all day every day if I could. No single exercise did more for me strength, body comp or confidence wise. The heavy lifting is a gift and a curse. I tore my ACL wakeboarding while I was near my strongest and the surgeon said my base strength definitely helped in my recovery. Eventually I had to stop chasing PRs after hurting my back playing basketball (plus I got old hah). I hope your back healed up ok, b/c back pain is the most debilitating pain I've ever experienced.