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Man, I’m envious of anyone who gets good sleep.I do it every day when I dead lift my fat ass out of bead from a perfectly good sleep
This…if your still shoeing horses you obviously don’t want to blow out your back but need to be in good shape as I’m sure you know that‘s why your doing dead lifts.If you're a farrier, your back is your livelihood. Agree deadlifts are good for you, because you get the full range of the motion that you're otherwise stuck in all day. However, I would recommend, especially at 47, perfect sets of 20 reps, where the last 5 are mind over matter. Whatever weight that is, so be it. 1 heavy day per month of say, 8 rep sets, is probably fine to work in, but anything under 6 reps is no longer a good idea. You're no longer a spring chicken, and it's just Russian roulette at this point.
That's impressive. I made a run at the 1000 LB mark (bench, squat, DL) about 8 years ago. Maxed out at 365 on the deadlift. Torn rotator cuff was the result on my bench.I hit 400# today for 1 rep and thats it. I am going to drop back to 175 for regular exercise. It kicked my ass. 500 just isnt realistic for me at my age and weight.
Smart move.I hit 400# today for 1 rep and thats it. I am going to drop back to 175 for regular exercise. It kicked my ass. 500 just isnt realistic for me at my age and weight.
Can confirm.Better hope your form is perfect... I know so many people who have blown their lower back out trying to get a PR and sacrifice a hint of form and are forever done for
Very admirable. That is a high number for your size. I researched strength standards based off of weight and age a while ago. I wrecked a bike my last year in the army broke a lot and got weak. To be considered strong not like powerlifter or anything crazy I found To optimize the health of your body, you should be able to squat and deadlift ~1.5x your bodyweight, bench press ~1.25x your bodyweight, and overhead press ~0.75x your bodyweight.I have recently become obsessed with deadlifts. My goal is 500#, I am currently at 375 max and doing 300 (warm up), 345 and then 360 for my sets. My question: How often should I push for an increase? None of my joints are complaining about the exercise (well, anymore than normal). Im doing them twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays.
Im 47 (almost 48) and weigh in at 176#.
This is actually the most I have ever worked this particular exercise. Im trying to focus on form and not met my ego get in the way.
Very admirable. That is a high number for your size. I researched strength standards based off of weight and age a while ago. I wrecked a bike my last year in the army broke a lot and got weak. To be considered strong not like powerlifter or anything crazy I found To optimize the health of your body, you should be able to squat and deadlift ~1.5x your bodyweight, bench press ~1.25x your bodyweight, and overhead press ~0.75x your bodyweight.
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What Is Strong? Real World Strength Standards For Raw, Natural Lifters
What is strong? I've analyzed the national records for several major drug-free powerlifting federations, and compiled my own set of raw strength standards.www.muscleandstrength.com
Now if you're 47, and on gear. Whether illegal or legal I can foresee you hitting that at your weight. As long as you're eating enough to sustain the grown, even though maxing out taxes the nervous system more then just muscles you'll still need to have that in check.
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Male Strength Standards for Weightlifting (lb) - Strength Level
Printable strength standard tables for men in pounds. Includes exercises like bench press, squat and deadlift.strengthlevel.com
That second link is great. It allows you to see different levels of strength and input age or weight as you see fit.
I think you are doing a great job. Keep up the work. One of my buddies is making babies with a girl on the olympic powerlift team. Perks of living in colorado springs. The only advice I was given by her for the mens side of thing is to never use a belt, or wrist wraps (the kind that hold the bar) if you are doing anything under 300lbs, something about building supporting muscles. At 300+ it's recommended to use the aids to mainly help your skeletal structure.
Well I mean you're old and close to decrepit, so you might need it jk jk. On a serious note. I've met a few older guys at my gym that got put on TRT from thier docs. Holy shit minus the face those dudes bodies look like they are in thier 20's. I feel like it's becoming the norm for most ex military dudes after 35.The only "gear" I use is protein and pre/post supplements. Im not stupid enough to use anything else, I aint The Rock
I actually dropped back to doing 200 for reps twice a week. I do them after my cardio sessions
It’s pretty phenomenal. I highly recommend it. Being over 50 is much easier now.Well I mean you're old and close to decrepit, so you might need it jk jk. On a serious note. I've met a few older guys at my gym that got put on TRT from thier docs. Holy shit minus the face those dudes bodies look like they are in thier 20's. I feel like it's becoming the norm for most ex military dudes after 35.
I still remember being a freshman lifting weights for the football team and not being able to bench 100lbs. Then I discovered a real weight lifting regimen and GNC…Oh those where the days,
I was a gym rat for quite sometime in my younger years..
It all started as a pip squeak out of high school in 1989 working out at Richey Racquet in Florida weight then 135lb. around 5'7" and started around 75lbs on bench or so but I was there everyday.
I met a powerlifter named Mike Ferrantelli he was also a Pasco County Sheriff he still lifts and has set some world records..I can still see him walking around in that powerlifting shirt.. the one that makes you look like Ralphie's brother in the Christmas Story
I owe everything to him for teaching me form and technique on bench press ..
At the height of my lifting my PB Bench was 435lb and I weighed 220lb height 6'2" in 1996
Never cared for dead lifts, wait I fucking hated them![]()
You know you're getting old when you bend down to tie your shoe and think about what else you can do while your down there.One of the biggest hazards associated with deadlifts, though, is needing to pick anything up off the floor when you’re sore as shit. I used to get so pissed when I would drop a socket or bolt on the floor at work. I quickly learned to just keep my long grabbers on top of my toolbox to get things off the floor
Well, I felt like this when I was in my 20’s. But I was single and didn’t have anything to do but go to work and the gym so I trained really hardYou know you're getting old when you bend down to tie your shoe and think about what else you can do while you’re down there.
I don’t know how anyone could do both squats and deads on the same day, or even within 3 days of each other. That would cripple me
I have recently become obsessed with deadlifts. My goal is 500#, I am currently at 375 max and doing 300 (warm up), 345 and then 360 for my sets. My question: How often should I push for an increase? None of my joints are complaining about the exercise (well, anymore than normal). Im doing them twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays.
Im 47 (almost 48) and weigh in at 176#.
This is actually the most I have ever worked this particular exercise. Im trying to focus on form and not met my ego get in the way.
If that's a sumo pull you are wrong for calling it a deadlift. I'm just saying.I have recently become obsessed with deadlifts. My goal is 500#, I am currently at 375 max and doing 300 (warm up), 345 and then 360 for my sets. My question: How often should I push for an increase? None of my joints are complaining about the exercise (well, anymore than normal). Im doing them twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays.
Im 47 (almost 48) and weigh in at 176#.
This is actually the most I have ever worked this particular exercise. Im trying to focus on form and not met my ego get in the way.
I had to quit for a while. I got kicked in the stomach by a horse, it tore a hole in my diaphragm which had to be repaired
I’ve seen 120 head done in a day and a half. I’ve also seen one of the best geldings on the ranch freak out on the way down and damn near rip all the hide off his pastern. Spent a lot of money to keep that one alive.
Hope you’re healing up man. Ain’t no MLOA pay for a horseshoer.
I have no use for them either. It wasn’t my choice to roll that contraption in. They said it was because they were batshit crazy. I say they were batshit crazy bc of the table.Ive shod horses for most of my life, I have never cared for shoeing stocks or turn tables. Too risky in my opinion.
I had to quit for a while. I got kicked in the stomach by a horse, it tore a hole in my diaphragm which had to be repaired
Lol, Ronnie Coleman is disabled because he’s a fucking monster. He also fully acknowledges why he is in the condition that he is in and says he has no regerts about how he was, and will always be(my biased opinion) the greatest bodybuilder in history. I get what you’re saying but using Ronnie as your example is a bit disingenuousHave fun...me, I'm 70, had a herniated disk operation 15 years ago, started dead lifts to try to strengthen core and got a bit carried away perhaps, and I'm having three lumbar vertebrae fused in early Mar as that disk is completely collapsed (as in not really there anymore) and the one below it is starting to collapse.
But you guys go for it....yessiree.
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Agreed. Dude was an absolute phenomLol, Ronnie Coleman is disabled because he’s a fucking monster. He also fully acknowledges why he is in the condition that he is in and says he has no regerts about how he was, and will always be(my biased opinion) the greatest bodybuilder in history. I get what you’re saying but using Ronnie as your example is a bit disingenuous
He didn’t look like he was from this planet at his peak(‘03 in my opinion)Agreed. Dude was an absolute phenom