Friends that lift.

4righteousnesssake
4righteousnesssake Posts: 276 Member
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Looking for friends who lift. Especially those who find joy in lifting heavy stuff!

Also, friends with more than just a fat loss goal but a fitness goal. I want to be able to run 10 miles easily, do 12 pull-ups, overhead/military/shoulder press my bodyweight (230lbs.) Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera!
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  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    How do you feel about Pop Tarts ?
  • synchkat
    synchkat Posts: 37,368 Member
    edited March 2017
    My 7lb dumbbells are heavy. I lift them often
  • turbostang7
    turbostang7 Posts: 1,352 Member
    Not me... but hey maybe @JstTheWayIam can help ya
  • Xvapor
    Xvapor Posts: 1,643 Member
    Maybe we can do 50lb squats together... I always need a spotter
  • 4righteousnesssake
    4righteousnesssake Posts: 276 Member
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    How do you feel about Pop Tarts ?

    "I don't DO cookies." In Vin Diesel's voice.
  • JstTheWayIam
    JstTheWayIam Posts: 6,357 Member
    turbostang7 wrote: »
    Not me... but hey maybe @JstTheWayIam can help ya

    That's my girl right there... <3

    I'm 6' - 183lbs (10%ish BF
    Run 4 miles nearly every day
    Bench 4x 6reps/ea 220lbs (not sure my max)
    23 pull ups (not chins) to failure
    62 push ups to failure

    I use to weigh about 160lb (actually weighed over 333lbs)... At 160 I was running over 7 miles a day, but couldn't do more than 11 pull ups and my bench was substantially weaker...

    Running more again now trying to cut down to around 8%...
    Happy to add any and all!
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    4righteousnesssake wrote: »
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    How do you feel about Pop Tarts ?

    "I don't DO cookies." In Vin Diesel's voice.

    "I owe everything to little chocolate donuts."

    John Belushi
  • 4righteousnesssake
    4righteousnesssake Posts: 276 Member
    AllOutof_Bubblegum wrote: »
    I lift!!!

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    Ah yeah!
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    I lift, I damn sure do.

    At the gym 6 or 7 days a week.
  • 4righteousnesssake
    4righteousnesssake Posts: 276 Member
    Gimsteinn1 wrote: »
    I LIFT!! My goal now is to:

    Break the 100 kg deadlift
    Do my first unassisted muscle up
    Squat 80 kg
    Learn unbroken DU
    Do 10 hanging pull ups in a row
    Learn to snatch properly
    Get the the shoulder stability so I can start adding weight to my OH squats.
    Cool! Thanks so much for commenting!
  • 4righteousnesssake
    4righteousnesssake Posts: 276 Member
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    I lift, I damn sure do.

    At the gym 6 or 7 days a week.

    Ha! That sounds good to me.
  • SomebodyWakeUpHIcks
    SomebodyWakeUpHIcks Posts: 3,836 Member
    Are you looking for people who lift or friends who lift? If friends, we don't know who your friends are so not sure how we can help you find them. Have your tried facebook?
  • 4righteousnesssake
    4righteousnesssake Posts: 276 Member
    SomebodyWakeUpHIcks wrote: »
    Are you looking for people who lift or friends who lift? If friends, we don't know who your friends are so not sure how we can help you find them. Have your tried facebook?

    Looking for people who lift who will become friends that lift, after a friend request is sent.
  • SomebodyWakeUpHIcks
    SomebodyWakeUpHIcks Posts: 3,836 Member
    4righteousnesssake wrote: »
    SomebodyWakeUpHIcks wrote: »
    Are you looking for people who lift or friends who lift? If friends, we don't know who your friends are so not sure how we can help you find them. Have your tried facebook?

    Looking for people who lift who will become friends that lift, after a friend request is sent.

    Ahhh! Ok, that makes more sense.






    I don't lift.

  • 4righteousnesssake
    4righteousnesssake Posts: 276 Member
    Cutaway_Collar wrote: »
    I am currently stuck at 405lbs for deadlifts. I may have reached my limit. But one positive is I am one of the very few in my gym who can do this. However I have seen a few push 50 to 100 over 405. Brute strength.

    Yes, those are some nice pull numbers indeed! My last PR was a 400lb. deadlift. Haven't tried since.
  • jbirdgreen
    jbirdgreen Posts: 569 Member
    I'm not super strong or fit yet -- somewhere in the slightly doughy middle -- so my goals are simple.

    I like to lift, but with a trainer or partner. If I go alone I get bored/distracted.

    I do have lots of fitness goals. Never been able to run that far or that fast, and I would like to be able to run 5k.
  • 4righteousnesssake
    4righteousnesssake Posts: 276 Member
    jbirdgreen wrote: »
    I'm not super strong or fit yet -- somewhere in the slightly doughy middle -- so my goals are simple.

    I like to lift, but with a trainer or partner. If I go alone I get bored/distracted.

    I do have lots of fitness goals. Never been able to run that far or that fast, and I would like to be able to run 5k.

    "Slightly doughy middle" haha! Something we have in common, then!
  • 4righteousnesssake
    4righteousnesssake Posts: 276 Member
    Any lifting fanatics?
  • 4righteousnesssake
    4righteousnesssake Posts: 276 Member
    _seed_ wrote: »
    41 y/o 5'8 226#
    Last week my bench was 315x12, x8, x7
    I was wanting to get back into Deadlifting after my second ACL repair was healed, but I might have taken another step back after possibly tearing the quad on my good leg last Saturday while doing Squats. It's always something.

    I know something if what that's like- no good!
  • formerpl
    formerpl Posts: 59 Member
    Lifter here. Goals are strict ohpress body weight and bench 300 right meow. I pulled my groin doing a stupid leg press I've never used before a few weeks ago, so I should be back to squatting and pulling next week at regular intensities.

    @JstTheWayIam 23 pull-ups! Mother of pearl!! That's incredible. No kipping... right?

  • formerpl
    formerpl Posts: 59 Member
    Cutaway_Collar wrote: »
    I am currently stuck at 405lbs for deadlifts. I may have reached my limit. But one positive is I am one of the very few in my gym who can do this. However I have seen a few push 50 to 100 over 405. Brute strength.

    I think training intensity has to rise once you get to around that number for most people. Gotta handle stuff in the 315-365 range to bump that up. You definitely haven't hit your limit.

    I had a friend that pulled 405 his first time ever trying deads. Ugh.
  • 4righteousnesssake
    4righteousnesssake Posts: 276 Member
    formerpl wrote: »
    Lifter here. Goals are strict ohpress body weight and bench 300 right meow. I pulled my groin doing a stupid leg press I've never used before a few weeks ago, so I should be back to squatting and pulling next week at regular intensities.

    @JstTheWayIam 23 pull-ups! Mother of pearl!! That's incredible. No kipping... right?

    Hey, thanks for commenting. I've pulled groin muscles before. Both, and twice. It stinks. Anyhow, that sounds about right!
  • JstTheWayIam
    JstTheWayIam Posts: 6,357 Member
    On the pull ups... 24 was my last max
    Had to look up kipping lol... No I don't do that...
    I suffered a hernia last week so if I tried now, I'd probably rip my guts out... Lol
  • Lukas_DAV
    Lukas_DAV Posts: 16 Member
    Same here! I want to loose weight but also increase my strength and flip, pull and push the weights ;)
  • michaelafoor916
    michaelafoor916 Posts: 710 Member
    lifting is life
  • svetskisampion
    svetskisampion Posts: 148 Member
    I too like lifting heavy objects B)
  • 4righteousnesssake
    4righteousnesssake Posts: 276 Member
    Bump
  • 4righteousnesssake
    4righteousnesssake Posts: 276 Member
    SabotageinStilettos wrote: »
    Why though?

    Hah. Which part?
  • PowerliftingMom
    PowerliftingMom Posts: 430 Member
    59 year old who lifts heavy - 235 lb. squats/115 lb bench/300 lb. deadlifts

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