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Re: How Strong are you
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02/27/24 02:53 PM
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My post was narrowly focused on upper body strength.
Overall fitness, that's what it's all about in life for the ability to do the things most of us here want to do well. I go through different phases/goals. As for overall fitness, for me I was at 175 lbs, 49 yoa, very low body fat, running/cardio work, lots of core work and upper body work.
Strongest I was: at 55 yoa, 6', 180 lbs, benched 260, 2 reps that day I maxed. The next week I held a 15 minute plank. From then on, dialed it back and got back into running as well for a goal of more over all fitness over just strength.
Now, running bores me, so play a lot of pickleball, light upper body work and 12 oz. curls. I'm 61, snow ski right there with my grand son and do anything else I want.
I guess I just didnt understand and really still dont the questioning line. I dont think the upper body gauge of strength is solely pushing away. Its pulling to and away in multi directions with holding added in there. for what ever reasoning here you go, majority of our PRB’s will be in our 20’s Current Mid 40’s 6’ 220-240 depending on season. Sept Im normally 220lbs and increase during season until Feb, then start training for the mountains again and decrease Bench PBR was Junior in college 425 rep max was Senior in College durning pre-combine training of 24 or 22 I cant remember. Today- havent barbell benched in 15 plus years. Only chest I do(outside of pushups) is incline rep 110lb barbell’s for 3x10 and normally make 2x8 for last for a total of 5x -6x’s. Its the only exercise I train via reps and not time. Its also the only weight machine type movement I do. I do lots of Timed kettle bells, dumbells, and sand bag/ball work. I only train from Feb-Aug, My focus is training for mountains. There's no real deep "questioning line" reasoning to try and understand, just a conversation not unlike what I have with people that I work out with in person. I never said Bench Press was a measure of fitness, only that it was ONE objective measure of upper body strength. This was a subtle yet effective way for Only to flush out the weak among us. I love talking about fitness personally. It’s a great change of pace from caliber arguments and telling lies about fuel mileage.
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Re: How Strong are you
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02/27/24 03:29 PM
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This was a subtle yet effective way for Only to flush out the weak among us.
I love talking about fitness personally. It’s a great change of pace from caliber arguments and telling lies about fuel mileage.
you mean big boys vs little boys I look at it more just as general health discussion. Movement is life. Watching power and body builders try to tie their shoes is entertaining
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Re: How Strong are you
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02/27/24 04:10 PM
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This was a subtle yet effective way for Only to flush out the weak among us.
I love talking about fitness personally. It’s a great change of pace from caliber arguments and telling lies about fuel mileage.
you mean big boys vs little boys I look at it more just as general health discussion. Movement is life. Watching power and body builders try to tie their shoes is entertaining Why would I do that? (you mean big boys vs little boys ![smile smile](/forum/images/graemlins/default/smile.gif) ) I'm neither. I'm thinking of another. Current age, current time in the 100 meters. Here's a better idea, someone throw one out there.
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Re: How Strong are you
[Re: onlysmith&wesson]
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02/27/24 04:24 PM
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This was a subtle yet effective way for Only to flush out the weak among us.
I love talking about fitness personally. It’s a great change of pace from caliber arguments and telling lies about fuel mileage.
you mean big boys vs little boys I look at it more just as general health discussion. Movement is life. Watching power and body builders try to tie their shoes is entertaining Why would I do that? (you mean big boys vs little boys ![smile smile](/forum/images/graemlins/default/smile.gif) ) I'm neither. I'm thinking of another. Current age, current time in the 100 meters. Here's a better idea, someone throw one out there. Just messing with Brandon. Always someone bigger, Im at the mid size against my core group of friends. Id be at lower end if I wasnt friends with Txshter
Bottom line, never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals.-Sen Joni Ernst
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Re: How Strong are you
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02/27/24 04:26 PM
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This was a subtle yet effective way for Only to flush out the weak among us.
I love talking about fitness personally. It’s a great change of pace from caliber arguments and telling lies about fuel mileage.
you mean big boys vs little boys I look at it more just as general health discussion. Movement is life. Watching power and body builders try to tie their shoes is entertaining Why would I do that? (you mean big boys vs little boys ![smile smile](/forum/images/graemlins/default/smile.gif) ) I'm neither. I'm thinking of another. Current age, current time in the 100 meters. Here's a better idea, someone throw one out there. Just messing with Brandon. Always someone bigger, Im at the mid size against my core group of friends. Id be at lower end if I wasnt friends with Txshter ![roflmao roflmao](/forum/images/graemlins/default/roflmao.gif)
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Re: How Strong are you
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02/27/24 04:35 PM
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Brandon stays healthy getting into and out of his truck
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Re: How Strong are you
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02/27/24 04:50 PM
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Brandon stays healthy getting into and out of his truck ![flehan flehan](/forum/images/graemlins/default/flehan.gif)
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Re: How Strong are you
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02/27/24 06:26 PM
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Brandon stays healthy getting into and out of his truck Man that ain’t no lie
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Re: How Strong are you
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02/27/24 06:27 PM
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This was a subtle yet effective way for Only to flush out the weak among us.
I love talking about fitness personally. It’s a great change of pace from caliber arguments and telling lies about fuel mileage.
you mean big boys vs little boys I look at it more just as general health discussion. Movement is life. Watching power and body builders try to tie their shoes is entertaining Why would I do that? (you mean big boys vs little boys ![smile smile](/forum/images/graemlins/default/smile.gif) ) I'm neither. I'm thinking of another. Current age, current time in the 100 meters. Here's a better idea, someone throw one out there. Just messing with Brandon. Always someone bigger, Im at the mid size against my core group of friends. Id be at lower end if I wasnt friends with Txshter I took it as more of a weight jab…
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: How Strong are you
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02/27/24 06:53 PM
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200 push-ups / day 200 sit-ups / day
mountain bike every sat & sun morning
that's enough for me
I am still looking for the perfect apron, one with reinforced knee areas would be perfect.
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Re: How Strong are you
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02/27/24 08:16 PM
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This was a subtle yet effective way for Only to flush out the weak among us.
I love talking about fitness personally. It’s a great change of pace from caliber arguments and telling lies about fuel mileage.
you mean big boys vs little boys I look at it more just as general health discussion. Movement is life. Watching power and body builders try to tie their shoes is entertaining Look at Ronnie Coleman today…dude can hardly walk. That’s not health. I really admire guys like Mark Sisson and Tony Horton ( the beach body/P90X guy ). Those are healthy, fit guys. Being juiced to the max and being able to rep 350 lbs is just hurting yourself long term.
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: How Strong are you
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02/27/24 09:04 PM
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I took it as more of a weight jab…
![roflmao roflmao](/forum/images/graemlins/default/roflmao.gif) well played ![cheers cheers](/forum/images/graemlins/default/cheers.gif)
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Re: How Strong are you
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02/27/24 09:16 PM
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I get together once a month for lunch with a bunch that I graduated from high school in 1960. Yep, I’m 81 yoa. It’s about 2/3 female because they generally out live us. About 3/4 of the guys are in fairly good shape no matter what our age. The females; not so much. Dang near all of the surviving guys do some kind of working out; lifting, cardio, walking, etc. What we can do is somewhat limited due to common sense. Some, like me, do all 3 on a daily basis but occasionally miss a day due to weather, doctor appointments, something comes up or just don’t want to do it that day. Of interest, none of us is grossly overweight. We also don’t try to make a mile walk a cardio event. Just glad that we can keep getting to the finish line.
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Re: How Strong are you
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02/28/24 02:52 PM
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I get together once a month for lunch with a bunch that I graduated from high school in 1960. Yep, I’m 81 yoa. It’s about 2/3 female because they generally out live us. About 3/4 of the guys are in fairly good shape no matter what our age. The females; not so much. Dang near all of the surviving guys do some kind of working out; lifting, cardio, walking, etc. What we can do is somewhat limited due to common sense. Some, like me, do all 3 on a daily basis but occasionally miss a day due to weather, doctor appointments, something comes up or just don’t want to do it that day. Of interest, none of us is grossly overweight. We also don’t try to make a mile walk a cardio event. Just glad that we can keep getting to the finish line. I wonder if thats because of menopause. When i was a kid, most of the elder women in my family were on the heavy side. Not every one, but alot of them. My grandma and all her sisters were pretty thin though.
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: How Strong are you
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02/29/24 10:47 PM
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200 push-ups / day 200 sit-ups / day
mountain bike every sat & sun morning
that's enough for me ^^^ Sounds like a Herschel Walker workout program. I use to do 50 push-up every morning but stopped doing it several years ago. You inspired me to see how many I can do, so I just got through doing 20 legit push-ups, better than I expected In about 10 minutes I will do my upper body on the patio with the dumbbells'.
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Re: How Strong are you
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03/01/24 01:45 AM
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200 push-ups / day 200 sit-ups / day
mountain bike every sat & sun morning
that's enough for me ^^^ Sounds like a Herschel Walker workout program. I use to do 50 push-up every morning but stopped doing it several years ago. You inspired me to see how many I can do, so I just got through doing 20 legit push-ups, better than I expected In about 10 minutes I will do my upper body on the patio with the dumbbells'. That's a lot! I used to wake up early and do 25 push ups and 25 sit ups every morning before working a 10 or 12 hr day. Then get off work and hit the weights on week days for 1 to 1 1/2 hrs then do cardio either power walking or on a machine on week days. I was in great shape and felt great. Somehow down the line I forgot what that feels like.
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Re: How Strong are you
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03/01/24 01:46 AM
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TX85, I go to a city park that has a mile oval track . I rarely see a female or a younger man.
Without a sense of urgency, nothing ever happens.
Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley, Rancher Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
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Re: How Strong are you
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03/01/24 02:51 AM
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relative to your size?
Height and Weight? Can you currently bench press your weight? How many rep's? Your age? Most you ever benched and age you achieved your lifetime best? [quote=onlysmith&wesson]relative to your size? 6’2” 320 pounds. 43 years old. I don’t know what I currently bench press, wild guess maybe 275? I can still do 25 solid pushups for sure, maybe a few more on a good day. Most I ever benched? I did a few reps with 365 in my absolute peak, I was probably 22 years old. I did one single powerlifting meet in my life, the first legit 3 lift powerlifting meet at Fort Bragg, NC and tied for 1st place in my age and weight division as a heavy weight. I was 30-something and I don’t even remember my lifts but they were not impressive and I had not been in the gym for a long time. Maybe a 1200 or 1300 pound total I can’t remember but I could not believe i placed. I think all the truly strong older dudes stayed home. I might have been something like 300/400/500 pounds on the lifts might have been closer to 1100 pound total, tied for first place in my class. But i take people’s claims with a grain of salt after that. People lie. These days i work too damn much to even think about lifting. For more than 4 years i walk 40 plus miles a week, literally pick up about 45 tons of boxes per week one box at a time, and drive about 2,000-3,000 miles. So screw the gym. I might suck at bench press but i can rip the top off a can of rockstar without popping the tab and shoot a 94 pound bow with fingers. I couldn’t do stuff like that when i was an avid lifter. Plus in my peak jiu jitsu form I was crushing dudes that lifted much more than me. And got crushed by much smaller dudes until i started using technique before strength. So there is that. I don’t do jiu jitsu anymore either. Or get in fights. There are so many things I would rather do than roll around on the ground with somebody, in real life or on a mat. I would as soon take a man’s life as get in a physical fight i kid you not. So i just avoid it!
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Re: How Strong are you
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03/01/24 03:57 AM
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200 push-ups / day 200 sit-ups / day
mountain bike every sat & sun morning
that's enough for me ^^^ Sounds like a Herschel Walker workout program. I use to do 50 push-up every morning but stopped doing it several years ago. You inspired me to see how many I can do, so I just got through doing 20 legit push-ups, better than I expected In about 10 minutes I will do my upper body on the patio with the dumbbells'. Herschel Walker is a freak of nature. Much like Bo Jackson. Dude does body weight only exercises on a diet that would starve a hamster. And looks incredible I worked construction with a guy who was ( what I thought) rail thin. Always work baggy shorts, smoked like a chimney and I’m almost certain did a bit of meth. Was even missing teeth. Got hot one day and he took his shirt off, dude looked like he was chiseled out of a block of marble. I’ve known guys who worked out every day of their adult life who were not built like this. Every so often you will meet a genetic freak.
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: How Strong are you
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03/01/24 04:05 AM
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200 push-ups / day 200 sit-ups / day
mountain bike every sat & sun morning
that's enough for me ^^^ Sounds like a Herschel Walker workout program. I use to do 50 push-up every morning but stopped doing it several years ago. You inspired me to see how many I can do, so I just got through doing 20 legit push-ups, better than I expected In about 10 minutes I will do my upper body on the patio with the dumbbells'. Herschel Walker is a freak of nature. Much like Bo Jackson. Dude does body weight only exercises on a diet that would starve a hamster. And looks incredible I worked construction with a guy who was ( what I thought) rail thin. Always work baggy shorts, smoked like a chimney and I’m almost certain did a bit of meth. Was even missing teeth. Got hot one day and he took his shirt off, dude looked like he was chiseled out of a block of marble. I’ve known guys who worked out every day of their adult life who were not built like this. Every so often you will meet a genetic freak. I met several guys in the military sporting something worse than a dad bod that could hold a sub 6 minute mile for longer than 3 miles, and crank out 20 pull-ups. I remember one guy in particular, ran ultra marathons. Dude had a bit of a spare tire, always knocked out 20 pullups. Ran like ten miles before PT in the morning and ten more after work, and smoked a pack a day and lived on McDonalds. Like a white David Goggins minus the cussing and plus a few extra pounds. Harder than woodpecker lips.
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Re: How Strong are you
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200 push-ups / day 200 sit-ups / day
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that's enough for me How does your routine go? How do you break it up, rest, etc. Truly curious because I do roughly the same in sets of 30
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Re: How Strong are you
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03/01/24 12:38 PM
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200 push-ups / day 200 sit-ups / day
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that's enough for me How does your routine go? How do you break it up, rest, etc. Truly curious because I do roughly the same in sets of 30 Very random, I do sets of 25 throughout the course of the day. Typically 100 before lunch (11;30A) and 100 before dinner (6:00P).
I am still looking for the perfect apron, one with reinforced knee areas would be perfect.
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Re: How Strong are you
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03/01/24 12:58 PM
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200 push-ups / day 200 sit-ups / day
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that's enough for me That was part of my cousins pre breakfast work out while in prison. 200 push ups, 200 sit ups, 200 pull ups, 30 minutes of walls sits. He did this 5 times a day. When he got his 1 hour in the yard they had a stationary bike and some days he got use of the “track” which I think he said was a 10 foot wide 50 yard long cage where he would do sprint for an hour. After 12 years he came out looking like a chiseled greek god. He went on the work at a CrossFit gym upon his release.
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Re: How Strong are you
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I’m strong enough to load appliances into a truck bed by myself, part of that is being smart enough to know how. Workouts have started to break down my body, and the 21 broken bones is starting to become a constant reminder of my youth.
Right now I’m dealing with a wrist that’s down to about 25% movement, pushups are done as I can get the hand to bend enough, as are most weights without a serious brace. Hell, sometimes lifting a coffee cup is painful. So I’ve resorted to eating healthier, daily vitamins, and playing with the kid everyday
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Re: How Strong are you
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“As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprize, and independance to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks.“
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