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What was your first or starting working weight workout for the big three lifts?

yopeeps025
yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Bench was 3x10x95 at age 17.
Squat was 3x10x135 at age 18-19 I think.
Deadlifts was I have no clue what my starting weight was or when I started to deadlift.

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  • kindrabbit
    kindrabbit Posts: 837 Member
    I started at the age of 40 with an empty bar so it would of been 10kg or 22lbs. I've have got a lot stronger in the last 2 years but for me it's not about how much I can lift, it's about how much I can lift whilst holding form and time under pressure.
  • foursirius
    foursirius Posts: 321 Member
    Im not entirely sure but if i had to estimate id say 135 bench, 185 squat, and 225 dead.
  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
    135DL
    20lb DBs (each) bench
    20lb DBs (each) squat

    3 years ago.

    BEEFCAKE
  • CarlydogsMom
    CarlydogsMom Posts: 645 Member
    The 45-lb bar for squats, which I could barely handle. I think we threw a couple 5-lb plates on said bar and raised it up a bit for my first deadlift. Whee. Bench, I think I had to use 15-lb dumbbells because I couldn't bench the bar. Started at age 52.
  • Willbenchforcupcakes
    Willbenchforcupcakes Posts: 4,955 Member
    Three and a half years ago. Bench started with the bar. Squats and deads took six months to develop enough pelvic stability to handle the bar.
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