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@prayerboi No, he was welcoming (and we chatted pretty frequently afterwards). He just didn’t have much in the way of filters and so when the question popped into his head he asked it. I get where he was coming from - If I saw a 260lb guy (I was quite a bit fatter then) benching with 25lb...

@scamper Yes. More deadlifts than squats (just because I hate squats). I did 475 for my overwarm single on deadlifts on Sunday and squatted 405 a couple of weeks ago. I only try and hit a true 1RM on them once or twice a year (both those numbers are in the 90-95% range), but I do go heavy on a...

@recycledapathy When I die I want it to be doing something I love, not wasting away in a bed. Jón Páll Sigmarsson of “There is no reason to be alive if you can't do deadlift!” fame dying while deadlifting is the way to do it.

@absentia Agreed! Lifting heavy is one of the best things you can do to stay young and healthy. And are those lifts heavy - hell yes! Especially compared to what your average 67 year old can do.

@tongdtbds3 Agreed. And I’m trying to fix that.

@dawn16 I’ve seen it many times in comments here (and elsewhere in Reddit) and heard it in real life. “You should focus on light weight, high reps” or “You’re going to destroy your joints” or “What about the injury risk”. But I’ve been lifting heavy for years now and feel better now than...

https://streamable.com/1q61j2 Good thing 48 isn’t old and 255 isn’t heavy! I started lifting at 42, fat, weak, and with terrible cardio. My first day in the gym one of the regulars asked if I was coming back from an injury because he’d never seen someone so big lifting so little (I think I was...