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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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?[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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

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