Your greatest feat of strength?
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Greatest fear of strength? That's easy, my first session of Starting Strength, using just the bar, and successfully completing a squat, bench, deadlift workout ninety-nine days after open heart surgery,8
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515x3 behind the back dead, 575 trap bar3
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Racking the Hammer Strength Shoulder press 300 lbs..150 each arm for clean 4 reps.1
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nothing relevant, but whenever I read the title of this, I hear the line from Men in Tights,
Robin: It won't be easy getting out of here.
What we need is a great feat of strength.
Asneeze: Feat of strength?
Au contraire!
Now that you're here with me, what we have is great strength of feet!
sorry, I amuse myself
as you were.....
Haha. I actually thought of that when I made this thread.1 -
8 pull ups and dips with 90lbs weight. ( I weighted 185lbs)1
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At Festivus dinner last year, I pinned my dad on the first try.
(Sorry, that's what always pops into my head whenever I see this thread.
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Obviously not the heaviest thing I've ever lifted but I have a landscape trailer I don't use much anymore. It's about a foot high inside and there was a 30 kg/66lb bag of dry cement on the garage floor that I wanted to put into the trailer. Instead of getting out and scooping it up with two hands like I normally would, bending at the knees, keeping my back straight etc., I reached down from inside the trailer and lifted it up with one hand and into the trailer. That was like an aha! moment when I knew all that hard work at the gym was paying off in real life.3
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Not sure if it's a feat of strength but I did 210 burpees in 40 minutes. Failed the gym's burpee test though.0
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My riding lawn mower got stuck on a root. My neighbor wasn't home, my BIL and my nephew were at work, and my oldest son is 12 and only weighs 100 pounds. I lifted it off the root. It wasn't pretty and there was a lot of cussing, but I did it. Those deadlifts are paying off!4
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Not to bad for a 250 pd guy7 -
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richardpkennedy1 wrote: »
Thanks Richard!0 -
Not as impressive as yours. Just that I stepped into a gym for the first time today4
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SheWalksInMoonlight wrote: »Not as impressive as yours. Just that I stepped into a gym for the first time today
Look at it this way: from a percentage perspective, your strength potential just went off the charts, assuming that you picked up something heavy.
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SheWalksInMoonlight wrote: »Not as impressive as yours. Just that I stepped into a gym for the first time today
How's your progress?!0 -
Greatest? Not sure. While I've had many gym and platform PRs (raw 425/335/535), I feel the best is yet to come.
Picking up a 200 lbs stone over my chest was pretty cool though, even I did get injured doing it.5 -
725 trap bar from 8in, 600.
545x3 behind the back dead
465 conventional dead
110s DB bench x122 -
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Biting my tongue around my in-laws.7
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Definitely not as impressive as y'all and I've only been lifting for 3 months or so. But I was really excited when I leg pressed 190lbs. I weigh 180 so to me it was impressive4
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quiksylver296 wrote: »
Nice work!!0 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »
Powerhouse!0 -
As a person who didn't do any sports until about a year ago I have to say that my greatest feat of strength was when I finally hit my goal and was able to do my first pull up few months back. Now I'm doing a lot more and I can hold an Iron X for almost a second lol...
But for me, the biggest victory was to drop enough weight, yet be strong enough to do that 1 pull up. It took me about 6 months to reach that goal and it's something I was over the moon about.
YES!!! I remember the first pull-up I did like it was yesterday. I also was never athletic at all, and did my first real pull-up well past age 30. It was absolutely thrilling!1 -
Jan 7th - Heavy singles day
Squat 3x1@395, 1@405, 1@410(PR at time)
Bench 1@195, 1@200, 1@205, 1@215, 1@220, 1@225(PR at time)
Deadlift 3@405, 1@455, 1@475, 1@485, 1@495(PR at time)
Slingshot bench 3x5@225
Rack pulls 3x5@405
I have hit higher numbers on all the lifts since then but hitting all 3 on the same day was nice. I look at it as one of my best days in gym so far. I even worked in some extra volume on the bench (worst lift) and deadlift (best lift). Squats belt and knee sleeves, bench wrist wraps, and deadlift belt only.1 -
Not nearly as impressive as the guys who are actually good at lifting, but squatting 315 at my current weight of 180 is one I'm more proud of than squatting 400+ at 230.2
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quiksylver296 wrote: »
Strong as *kitten*. You seemed to drift a bit on lift off toward toes and pulled that *kitten* right back in line. Can't wait to see the next one!0 -
My greatest feats of strength have to do with long distance cycling ... but there is a certain amount of leg strength involved in that.
I've done four 1200 km randonnees in four different countries. So that's cycling 1200 km in 90 hours or less, including all breaks. Since I'm not particularly fast, there's not much sleep involved.4 -
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzfmrY-Vje0
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