Does being physically fit give you a sense of superiority?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t feel superior but it definitely feels good that at 43 I can out lift most women half my age while being fairly small in size.

Mind if I ask what you lift and who long it took? I want to get stronger and feel like a dope with my 10lb dumb bells. Can you slowly go up?

You can and should go up slowly, but I would suspect on many lifts you can do significantly more than 10lbs already. Strength does not happen overnight though some people are simply genetically much stronger than others. I am not particularly genetically gifted but mostly through consistency I can now deadlift 300lbs, squat 225lbs and bench 150lbs. I can also do 10 pull-ups. There are power lifters much stronger than me of course but it is very rare to see women of similar size lifting close to these numbers in your generic commercial gym and I am pretty happy with what I accomplished. Also, most of the rapid strength gains came at the very beginning of my lifting journey. Now that I am closer to my genetic limits it is a much slower going.

I would also add that I only started lifting when I was almost 30 and I was never seriously into any sports.

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Wow! That’s so impressive-that’s like Olympic level. The women I saw doing the press up and overhead were doing 280lbs I think?

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Anonymous wrote:Wow! That’s so impressive-that’s like Olympic level. The women I saw doing the press up and overhead were doing 280lbs I think?

DP here. Olympic weightlifting is very different than powerlifting. It's much more difficult to do a clean and jerk than a deadlift. The clean and jerk is usually pegged to what someone can do in a front squat, which is more difficult than a back squat, which is usually more difficult than a deadlift. However, most people lack the technique to clean and jerk properly, and are not even close to reaching their front squat numbers.

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Better than others? Definitely not. A better version of myself with my confidence and self pride? For sure!

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Anonymous wrote:If I'm being honest, yes it does.

I'm a 44yo male that can lift heavy weights.

I'm embarrassed to admit this but it does make me feel superior when friends or neighbors call me over to help lift/move things bc they can't do it on their own.

Or when I got into a bench press competition with boys from the HS football team. They beat all the other dads. I was the only Dad to beat them. (# of reps at 225)

It's so stupid. And its petty. But yes, it does make me feel superior

So you can't beat teen boys.

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Anonymous wrote:"Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels"

Except it was proven to be untrue because what it feels like is destroyed adrenal glands and nervous system.

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Anonymous wrote:So how many reps of 225 does it take to beat hs football team?

I cannot see many HS kids doing more than 10.

PP here that said i beat the HS boys.

I got to 21 reps at 225. Next best was 18 from a junior.

That is a lot. Offensive linemen -- round 3 or later int he draft get only a couple of more.

The guy is fat

I'm 5'11 and 240. So I'm definitely big. But, I did just run a 5k ins 29 minutes last month! Which, tbf, is not a great time, but I was happy with it.

During my 30s, I get very into strength training and power-lifting, and I'm still reaping those benefits now in my mid-40s. I can still bench 315 for reps. My last one rep max on the bench was 365 but I think I had more in the tank. And bench has always been my best lift.

I'm strong. And the original question was does your fitness make you feel superior. And I admitted that being stronger than almost every other Dad that I know does make me feel superior. I'm not necessarily proud to admit that, but it does.

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Anonymous wrote:If I'm being honest, yes it does.

I'm a 44yo male that can lift heavy weights.

I'm embarrassed to admit this but it does make me feel superior when friends or neighbors call me over to help lift/move things bc they can't do it on their own.

Or when I got into a bench press competition with boys from the HS football team. They beat all the other dads. I was the only Dad to beat them. (# of reps at 225)

It's so stupid. And its petty. But yes, it does make me feel superior

So you can't beat teen boys.

What do you mean? I literally said that I beat them (in just that one lift). Most of them would probably out-lift me on the backsquat. And they would 100% beat me in the 40.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow! That’s so impressive-that’s like Olympic level. The women I saw doing the press up and overhead were doing 280lbs I think?

Nope, unfortunately, as already explained it is not even close to Olympic level. I don’t train Oly lifts but I doubt I would clean and jerk even half of that. The people at the Olympics warm up with what I am lifting.

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Anonymous wrote:"Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels"

Except it was proven to be untrue because what it feels like is destroyed adrenal glands and nervous system.

We keep seeing this as a defense to being wildly out of shape and fat. The level of actual skinny that creates health concerns is difficult to achieve. Perhaps you should go ahead and quote the one meta analysis study of people with terminal illnesses to make your point about being fat so we can get that over with too.

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No. I am grateful if my body is healthy.

Life can change on a dime so I have stopped having any sense of superiority about anything at all.

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I'm focused on fitness because after my Dad's open heart surgery, the surgeon specifically told us that the type of blockage Dad had was heavily linked to genetics. I consulted with my own doctor and she.emphasized exercise particularly. My Dad's recovery from his bypass was not easy on him.

My granddad had a heart attack I his 50s, my Dad his 60s. Maybe I can push it older if not avoid it entirely.

No guarantees, but I'm going to try to do everything I can to resist the hand I've been dealt.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow! That’s so impressive-that’s like Olympic level. The women I saw doing the press up and overhead were doing 280lbs I think?

Nope, unfortunately, as already explained it is not even close to Olympic level. I don’t train Oly lifts but I doubt I would clean and jerk even half of that. The people at the Olympics warm up with what I am lifting.

+100. People underestimate how difficult the jerk is. Getting under the bar is actually really hard. And then having both the shoulder strength and the shoulder mobility to get that overhead squat up is just plain nuts.

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Anonymous wrote:"Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels"

Except it was proven to be untrue because what it feels like is destroyed adrenal glands and nervous system.

We keep seeing this as a defense to being wildly out of shape and fat. The level of actual skinny that creates health concerns is difficult to achieve. Perhaps you should go ahead and quote the one meta analysis study of people with terminal illnesses to make your point about being fat so we can get that over with too.

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Skinny without working out is bad. Certainly worse than fat and work out. They key is the work outs not the weight.

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Anonymous wrote:So how many reps of 225 does it take to beat hs football team?

I cannot see many HS kids doing more than 10.

PP here that said i beat the HS boys.

I got to 21 reps at 225. Next best was 18 from a junior.

That is a lot. Offensive linemen -- round 3 or later int he draft get only a couple of more.

The guy is fat

I'm 5'11 and 240. So I'm definitely big. But, I did just run a 5k ins 29 minutes last month! Which, tbf, is not a great time, but I was happy with it.

During my 30s, I get very into strength training and power-lifting, and I'm still reaping those benefits now in my mid-40s. I can still bench 315 for reps. My last one rep max on the bench was 365 but I think I had more in the tank. And bench has always been my best lift.

I'm strong. And the original question was does your fitness make you feel superior. And I admitted that being stronger than almost every other Dad that I know does make me feel superior. I'm not necessarily proud to admit that, but it does.

Wow you are a fat short dude of course you can bench a lot