How strong are you guys?

[rhinozt47]

Sticking to barbell and dumbbell compound lifts, what are your best strength numbers?

 

[M@NU]

i was quite okay at deadlifting and squats (280kg x 4 and 215kg x 5 at 104kg BW) but always sucked at bench pressing
but this was during corona times when i did almost nothing else.
I have not touched a free weight squat or regular DL since atleast a year.

 

[Fleezy]

i am weak

 

[stackdizzy]

Sometimes I wonder if I grew up around sheep during puberty if I would have fucked one, or if I would have fucked them all. I am also weak!!

 

[massephase]

my best squat was 200kg x2 but I stopped doing them a year ago ... too much fatigue for not enough in return.
miss them though, my favorite lift

the only other barbell lift I still do is rdls and there I currently do 165kg for 10 so not very strong I guess

 

[luki7788]

I was decently strong when I was younger, I think my peak strength was around age 30 - now I don't even use 1/3 of the weights I used to lol

 

[Fleezy]

I was decently strong when I was younger, I think my peak strength was around age 30 - now I don't even use 1/3 of the weights I used to lol

insane

 

[kadafi2]

It's a complete mess. It doesn't matter what records you'd put down now, compared to Luki, you're as weak as a baby, lol.

Now the question is, were such enormous weights necessary to reach body weight around 300 pounds? I'd bet that's largely the case. @luki7788

 

[traininsane11]

Fortunately I gave up chasing top end numbers before I sustained an inevitable injury but I trained specifically for powerlifting for about 6 months and I best lifts at the time were

Squat 330kg
Bench 220kg
Deadlift 350kg

Put me #17 in the UK ranking from memory

Dumbells I inclined pressed 75kg’s for about 6 and never tried them again

 

[luki7788]

It's a complete mess. It doesn't matter what records you'd put down now, compared to Luki, you're as weak as a baby, lol.

Now the question is, were such enormous weights necessary to reach body weight around 300 pounds? I'd bet that's largely the case. @luki7788

You know yourself that this question is basically impossible to answer, because how would I know?

Nick Walker was asked the same thing: if he could go back in time to the beginning, would he train the way he trains now, or the way he trained back then. His answer was: I don’t know. I could try training the way I train now, but would I get the same results? Would I grow the same way? I don’t know.

My answer is exactly the same

 

[specter]

Havent maxed in anything for like 20 years or so.. so my "best lifts" are more volume lifts ala Luki not 1 rep max.

Bench 6x160kg was my 3rd set
DB Incline Bench 10x60kg was my 4th set (only lift i have a video of wich my friend shot without my knowledge)
Deadlift 240kg for 8 reps cant remember the set
Front squat 140kg for 8 reps (couldnt rotate arms for back squat)

 

[bbxtreme]

Not nearly as strong as I used to be. I used to train extremely heavy until I got COVID.

But I will say I wouldn’t change any of it because I think you need to learn to train hard and be as strong as possible, then learn to control that through maximum mechanical tension.

I will also add that since I was a teenager in this sport, some of the biggest guys I crossed paths with have never trained the heaviest. Quite the opposite. At one point most of them said they did. But they also said their physiques didn’t really take off until they backed off the weight and controlled the movement.

I think both aspects are important.

 

[Mufasa123]

You know yourself that this question is basically impossible to answer, because how would I know?

Nick Walker was asked the same thing: if he could go back in time to the beginning, would he train the way he trains now, or the way he trained back then. His answer was: I don’t know. I could try training the way I train now, but would I get the same results? Would I grow the same way? I don’t know.

My answer is exactly the same

I've pondered this endlessly. Sure would be satisfying to know!

This issue is one of the two big ones.

1) was the base of muscle and heavy training necessary or useful to get you to where you are now and what can work now?
2) was the period of higher aas doses similarly necessary or useful to get you to where you are now and what can work now?

Can't be answered without a time machine and/or genetic clones but interesting to ponder.

 

[Mike Arnold]

Bench Press: 500 lbs x 2 reps.

Incline Smith Press: 385 lbs x 5 reps.

Standing Overhead Push-Press: 385 lbs x 1 rep. (Note: I suspect I could've worked my way up to around 450 lbs, but I never really did this lift. I did 385 lbs for a single after being challenged by a group of strongmen at my local gym. Prior to this, I hadn't performed the lift (or any free-standing overhead lift) since I was about 16 years old in high school. My midsection felt ready to give out on me after hitting 385 lbs, so I didn't go any heavier. But, if I had practiced this lift, I am fairly confident my numbers would've increased considerably beyond 385 lbs. Aside from my wrist curls, I believe my shoulders were my most genetically gifted bodypart from a strength standpoint.

Seated Military Press: 400 lbs x 1 rep (from chest), 315 lbs x 10.

Deadlift: 600 x 6-7 (pause between reps).

Cheat Curls: 225 x 6.

One-Arm Wrist Curls (d-handle w/fat grip, with the weight attached to a loading pin, so that I am pulling 100% against gravity the entire rage of motion): 180 lbs x 24 reps (not a typo). I plan to reach 250 lbs for 25 reps within the next 2-3 years.

Partial One-Arm Wrist Curls (rapid-fire style, with a very short range of motion): 200 lbs x 110 reps (not a typo).

V-Bar Chins (weighted): 365 lbs x 8 reps (full range; dead hang at the bottom, pulled to the top).

Tricep Pressdowns (zero momentum; super strict): 165 lbs X 8-9 reps.



None of my lifts would be considered impressive by elite standards, except for perhaps my wrist curls. By far, my forearms have the best strength genetics of any muscle group in my body. I never really did wrist curls until few years ago, in order to improve as an armwrestler. I started with 60-70 lbs, and within 18 months, I was doing 200 bs for the same number of reps. I wish my other lifts wen up as quick as this one.

 

[chooch]

i am weak

I can relate to this. I’ve never cared much about all out strength though, not even once in my life have I tried to find my max lifts.

 

[Worldsfastestfatty]

I deadlifted 285kg @ 95kg BW - I thought that was a respectable number.

I used to front squat 200kg+ when I was Olympic lifting which I didn't think much of but others thought it was quite decent.

Clean and squat jerked 160kg which is competitive at national level - although my snatch above 100kg was sloppy. Couldn't hold a good technique and hit:miss ratio was not favourable. Made 120kg snatch one time though and grinned ear to ear for a week.

 

[control]

Not as strong as Method Man.

 

[SABAGOY]

Whenever the strength conversation comes up I always wonder “should I proud of my of younger self or ashamed of my current self.” Haha.

For me personally I have not found a correlation between strength and size…I was by far my strongest when I was much much smaller and lifts are now nowhere near where they were…I will add this…it’s when I was working with Phil H and his training really lended itself to getting strong on your lifts with the minimal exercise selection and ROM/rep tempo.

 

[Aikman56]

I'm weak as dishwater. There was a time when I was very strong in a couple of lifts. I was NEVER a good presser... I hit a 405 bench at a 265 lb bodyweight in my early 30s. Once. I never hit it again. I was a good deadlifted with a 715 pull @ 260 and could box squat legitimately below parallel with 625 for 5 around the same time. This was all between 2007-2012 (31-36 years old).

Today...I'm nothing to look at when I lift. I train hard, but joint pain prevents any of the fun from those days. I really miss deadlifting, but every time I pull over 405, both of my adductor Magnus become so inflamed that I can barely climb stairs for weeks.

 

[specter]

Whenever the strength conversation comes up I always wonder “should I proud of my of younger self or ashamed of my current self.” Haha.

For me personally I have not found a correlation between strength and size…I was by far my strongest when I was much much smaller and lifts are now nowhere near where they were…I will add this…it’s when I was working with Phil H and his training really lended itself to getting strong on your lifts with the minimal exercise selection and ROM/rep tempo.

i alwayes say it is what it is, i never trained for strength specifik so fuck it..