Originally Posted by
Nockian
That’s prompted lots of questions about potential, age and length of time lifting.
What about lifters that started around 60 years old, clearly they reach their potential far sooner ? How do you judge that ? I’ve hurt myself twice with limit deadlifts. Not enough to put me out for any length of time, but enough to make me cautious of pushing beyond where I am.
Is a 172.5K deadlift for a 61 year old that ended NLP at 120K likely to be close to the limit of what you might expect for the average, untrained, weak, sedentary lifter after 4 years of lifting ? I knew when I was at 120K that eventually I would manage 140K, but, now I’m North of 170K I have serious doubts of going beyond 180K.
You have said “not you” , but how do you know when it is you ? I remember you saying in a recent podcast that you thought you had 450 in you and possibly 500 and after years of training competitively those a clearly realistic numbers, but what if you had started training at 58 having never lifted in your life, where would you think you might be. Do all those years of being strong count towards a bigger number compared to those who have never lifted ?
I would love to get a 500 deadlift -could there be that potential, or is that pie in the sky having begun so late ?