I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but I'm new to this and trying to learn. What is the 1,000 lb club? Is it just the total amount I'm able to lift in all 4 exercises mentioned in this video (deadlift, squat, bench, and overhead press)? For example, if I use the lowest goals mentioned in the video, I'd be at 1,080 lbs. Is that what that means? BTW, congrats on achieving your goal!!!

@@joshuaevilsizer hey no prob. So 1000lbs excludes the press, so just bench squat and deadlift.

@@kevinaaronsonthanks!

@@kevinaaronson is there a meet up for the club?

On wat lifts did you go from one to four plates? n a year or?

Congratulations! Imma work towards this goal too!

Bhai, you are me and I am you. I just got to 102 kg x 3 3 3 on back squats and 50kg x 5 6 7 8 on BTN OHP. Still skinnyfat though. Haha.

Great Work Brother ... keep getting after it.

@@realeyesrealizereallies99 oh yeah, still got some fat on me. Just a lot more muscle underneath. Unfortunately us Indian guys can’t run too far away from our genetics.

@@ChristopherFoote69 thanks man!

i agree re: percentage.

what to the hashes mean? #

Pounds bro. It's the pound sign@@doyourownresearch7297

Good for you sir! When you say SS are you referring to starting strength or super squats? I just turned 30 and am also running SS (supersquats) and 5/3/1 My all time maxes are already in that "benchmark" zone but I just want to see how strong I can get in my 30s. May the gains be with you, sir!

Keep in mind that you don't HAVE to do deadlifts and squats if they hurt you. There are plenty of replacement exercises that might help you avoid injury, yet still train the same muscle groups.

Beat me to it. Good job

My bench is really my worst exercise. Beat up shoulders don't help much. I wish I could bench 300+lbs again but those days have passed me by.

@@bmstylee such is life.

@@bmstylee have you tried lighter and better technique. I have overcome all of my shoulder problems, and just tennis elbow and bicep tendon problems remain. Trying to overcome that with gymnastics straight arm stuff.

@@doyourownresearch7297 technique isn't an issue thankfully. That was the first thing I looked at and had reviewed by a coach I know and trust. It's just 20+ years of abuse and I'm happy with my current 120kg 1rm and being able to rep 100kg. I'm long past competition days and I just lift for fun now. At 43 I can still total 500kg which ain't bad.

makes no sense to ask that question. You have to decide how much you care about strength and how much about building. If just building, nobody will ask you as you pose before giving you the medal.

Singles. I wish people would use numbers that are a set more often for strength standards as I dont really test my 1 rep max. But people always use 1 rep maxes.

@@ElijahG98 I'm pretty sure the numbers he's quoting are for sets of 5. Because in the Starting Strength world, testing your 1RM is risky and is only advisable at a competitive meet. And only advanced lifters (meaning, people on a multiple-weeks- or month-long overload cycle) need to be doing heavy singles as part of their training. Novice (48 hour overload cycle) and intermediate (week-long overload cycle) lifters are essentially always going to be training with sets of five, so those are the numbers you're going to see. Those numbers are what a typical healthy male trainee will hit for sets of five as an advanced novice or early intermediate. Which is the kind of person he's describing - someone who hasn't just walked into the gym and picked up the bar for the first time, but has actually dedicated themselves to training for at least six months to a year. Gym bros always use 1RM because it's easy to artificially inflate your simulated 1RM by just doing sets of 20.

Okay my numbers are poo because to be honest I am an alcoholic. I have bad eating habits to. I squat only 160l lbs but that truly due to bad choices. I am 5"4 125 lbs.

Everything is relative! Your numbers are good!!!!!

@@jordypordie relative to alcoholics

Hey ​@sherrischwartz6844 how is your alcohol situation going. Im a lifter who doesn't drink (anymore). It can get better.

@@HooDRidEWhiteY Thanks for asking? I am still struggling with the alcohol. I am trying again. 48 hours sober. I will kick this habit. Take care.

Where are you missing lifts? Figure that out and program assistance work to work from that point up. Block/deficit/paused pulls, board presses, pin presses, slingshot bench, just a few accessories to try

I got stuck somewhere around there as well, the answer for me was more volume. Back off sets after heavy sets. Look up intermediate programming.

Sounds familiar! Mine are DL and OHP. Increasing the volume on my OHP. DL, however, I keep having to de-load due to back issues.

Do you have a coach? If not that might be the solution to your problem.

@@drunknnirish no coach.... I work out alone in my garage. I've only been lifting consistently for like 8-9 months though. 42 years old. Just frustrating when my squat keeps going up, and press too to an extent, but bench and dead are much slower. I can squat basically the same as I can pull

Right there with you!

225 squat 135 bench 315 deadlift

The thing to be careful with is dynamic, explosive movements. If you stick to the slow barbell movements (deadlift, squat, bench, press) and avoid the explosive lifts (clean, snatch, etc.) you'll be fine. Your injuries will likely come from outside the gym. Your connective tissues just can't tolerate high-impulse explosive loads anymore at that age.

I started SS a couple of years ago and was constantly tweaking something that kept setting me back. I'm 55. It's taking me two years just to get to the point where I can lift on a regular basis without getting hurt or tightening up so much I can't move. I think just decades of sitting in front of a computer and either partying or laying in bed hungover really wreaked havoc with my strength. Fortunately I think I caught all this early enough so I can still get significantly stronger and healthier. I'm nowhere near the numbers he mentioned in his video. My best was when I did SS NLP and I was three months in and I did squat 5x3 @ 185, DL 1RM @ 200 lbs, Press 1RM @ 105 or 110 and Bench 1RM @ 200 lbs. My numbers today are much lower and I'm progressing way slower. But I don't think I'll ever see these kinds of numbers on the squat or deadlift - potentially I will with the bench and press though.

I am almost 55 and have been lifting for a year and one rep maxes keep me motivated to keep lifting.

I don’t know any of your current stats but I was in this boat ten years ago, 5’8” 265 lbs, pretty much obese. I got down to 175 in just over a year. Lift in your calorie deficit. Find a good 5x5 program to start with. Eat the required protein amount for your body weight. Only shoot for 1-2 lbs of fat loss a week, anymore could set you up for heartbreak/failure or both. I weighed myself every day of the week, some say it’s not good to do, I needed it, kept me on track. Get enough sleep. This is important!- follow your lifting plan for no more than 12-16 weeks, take two to four weeks of recovery(also in a deficit) and make sure to keep active, walking, hiking etc. Then get back to lifting. You need to plan to lift but also plan what you do after as well that will keep you aligned with your goals, it’s good to have a schedule between lifting phases. You may not end up with huge muscles or have a huge increase in strength but is an increase nonetheless and you will have put in a good number of reps where you should have good form so that when you do get down in weight it will help the transition to gaining more strength and muscle if desired. I hope this helps and good luck on your journey!

look around at most 50 year olds. Most can barely get up out of the chair and if they do weight lift they are using the pink weights. You're in the upper 10% of the upper 1% of that age group.

Well thanks for that lol! I'm just trying not to end up like my old man. He's 80, no muscle mass to speak of and can barely negotiate a curb or a few stairs. He used to be "strong". @@brianhopkins5251

It's a life long pursuit, you're doing great!!!

This video makes me feel weak, I am 63,160lb with a 120x3 press 185x3 squat and 185x3 bench and a 225x3 deadlift, I’ve been lifting off and on for 40+ years but just got started strengthtraining seriously about 4 months ago.

A thing to keep in mind is strength training is fairly specific. I lifted for years and didnt get strong either as I wasn't doing strength specific stuff. People say higher reps can build strength, which is true, but it does seem to be a whole lot less.

Watch one of the strength-lifting meets at Wichita Falls athletic club. You’ll see many people lifting very heavy, none of whom are obese. They all train the SS way. Think of the “extra” strength as insurance against something strange happening in your life (Illness, accident, etc). The bigger point is continuing to train the SS way will improve your confidence / mental strength. Every workout is hard; every, single, one. Will you be consistent? Will you sleep, eat well, so you can recover and do the next workout? So many benefits beyond simply being strong. And you can be quite strong with body fat around 20%. (Or lower). A lot of serious lifters (who do not compete) stay on top of metabolic health metrics and dial in their body fat so blood, pressure, lipids, etc are in a good range.

@@66Bones I agree with what you’re saying and I want to say that I think it would be cool to hit a certain standard and then go for aesthetics. Not saying starting strength can’t get you aesthetics either but do it and then lean out, get abs that Rip doesn’t like.

"My question is the utility of getting extremely strong?" Protection against injury. Longevity. Someone who has the extra muscle mass to lift 200 more lbs is going to have that much more useful life in them. There will eventually come a time when you can no longer add muscle mass due to age, injury, illness, etc. Do you want to hit that point with baseline sedentary strength? Or do you want to hit that point having accumulated as much strength as possible? Put another way: when you get hospitalized at age 80, do you want to have 20 more pounds of muscle mass? I do. Because that's your body mass bank account for survival. When you get out of the hospital at age 80, do you want to still be able to get up off the toilet under your own power? That extra 200lbs you added to your squat when you were 40 years old might be the difference between being bedridden and being mobile at age 80. Personally, I want to see how strong I can get. I want to be as strong as I can be at age 80, so I can still enjoy life and do the things I like to do. I see so many people who just retire into being chair-ridden or bedridden. I'd rather go full-tilt on my feet and then drop dead of a heart attack at age 70 than live to be 100 while suffering progressive decay and degrading mobility. "Your stamina is garbage" Why do you make assumptions about someone's stamina based on their apparent bodyfat percentage? I assure you, anyone who can deadlift 500 has more stamina than you do. Because they have more muscle mass, more glycogen stores, and each rep of a long, slow-distance exercise is more submaximal for them than it is for you. It doesn't matter that they have a little extra subcutaneous fat on them. And if you think they aren't conditioned, you've never done a heavy set of five squats. The oxygen demand is every bit as intense as the most brutal interval sprints. "I think it would be cool to hit a certain standard and then go for aesthetics." Getting your deadlift from 405 to 495 will do more for your aesthetics than cutting. Nobody can see your abs unless your shirt is off. And nobody wants to see you walking around with your shirt off. Frankly, I don't understand why you'd bother getting your strength up to the point where you can deadlift 405, only to go on a cut and drop your deadlift down to 300 again so you can post bathroom selfies for other dudes on instagram. Sure, you can claim they're for women, but you shouldn't want the attention of thirsty ratchets. You don't need to be at 12% bodyfat to look good. Also, quit giving yourself excuses not to lift heavy weights when it starts to get hard.

"My question is the utility of getting extremely strong?" One more thought on this. When you get real strong, you don't have to worry about limiting what you eat anymore. As someone who likes food, it's a joy to not have to worry about limiting what I eat, but instead to be forced to eat more (of the right things) to the point that I'm full every time I get up from the dinner table. When the holidays come around, that piece of pie or plate of cookies goes into making the next workout easier, rather than turning into fat. Even better, I can eat my fill of protein and fat.

@@dafunkmonster you’ve misunderstood my point. My question was in regard to how much is enough strength before you reach diminishing returns. What’s the greater utility of someone deadlifting 600 vs 400? How often can you use that extra amount of strength in life? Chances are you won’t have to lift something this big in your life. I didn’t say to stop lifting so that you won’t have a good life in your 80s. I encourage that. But you won’t lose the ability to lift your grandkids in your 80s if you decide to stop at a 400 lbs squat. Buddy if you’ve been in the dating market anytime in the last few years, you know that women are aroused by muscles including abs. Assuming all girls are ratchet cause they like abs goes against the well established idea of hypergamy. Have Nick D or Carl from starting strength be in a boxing match for 12 rounds. They’ll be too exhausted and have to energy from the weight they have to carry. Or get them to play hockey for an hour, see how long they’ll last and how fast they are. Those are the people I’m talking about. I’m not saying you can’t get aesthetic from starting strength. I’m running the NLP right now and it’s working. But at a certain point I know that I’ll have to lose some aesthetics to reach a certain weight level. Just cause my priorities are different than yours doesn’t mean there isn’t greater overall utility. I’m not saying what you prioritize doesn’t have utility. I’m saying you’re at a point of diminishing returns and maybe even regressive returns. There are still returns but you’re losing out on other things if you get to the size of some of these people. If you can get to the strength level you’re talking about and maintain an awesome physique, more power to ya. But you haven’t convinced me this is the optimal way to go.

I think if you aren't afraid to gain weight, it's possible. Ive been on the program for almost 5 months and my reps are almost there or have surpassed them. And 1rm far surpassed. Starting strength is no joke.

@@kevinaaronson I’m at 385 right now 5x1 it’s attainable for sure. It was more so the number he had set, I was like “aghhh so close”

405 for reps isn't that hard. It's not easy by any means but if you train consistently it's more than doable.

Yes, 405 for a set of five is what a normal healthy male can achieve within a year of beginning a novice linear progression.

Genius move.