How many plates on a deadlift impresses you? Be honest.
When I see someone deadlifting 3, I think they are trained. When I see 4, I am genuinely impressed. Somehow 5 is not any more impressive than 4 since it becomes abstract at that point.
I personally know guys that compete and pull 6-7, but that is so far out there as a normie that I just don't think about it.
>How many plates on a deadlift impresses you?
500 plates would impress me
4 is impressive, 5 is cringe.
very correct.
Depends on bodyweight and how long they've been training. Saw a kid, weighed about 200ish, come to the gym and pull 4pl8 his first session once. Genuinely impressed. Saw a morbidly obese regular come in and do the same. Wasn't nearly as impressed
I don't buy the whole "being fat helps" larp past a certain point. Test drops. Doesn't help with grip. Sure, overall they are disgusting, but the "boost" is vastly exaggerated.
Also, from what I understand, the manlets gets benefits early from short pull distance, but then they can't pack on as much muscle later on.
Grip stops mattering once you have even intermediate experience with hook grip. I can grip 100lbs+ more than I can dl
1. Hook grip is pain and suffering.
2. I still don't think being fat helps DL.
You will never impress anyone with any deadlift other than teenage boys
I hit 345 when I weighted 155 and I did that while balancing lifting and combat sports. So if you're focused purely on your strength numbers then i'm not impressed with anything less than a 2.5xbw deadlift.
>use 6 10lb plates on each side
>mog everyone
Thats a 300kg deadlift
When I see a guy who weighs like 250 struggle with 4 & a half plates I'm thinking man this guy is living his life wrong. You're only supposed to be fat when you're freaky strong, not when you're hitting Scott Herman numbers
>4pl8 deadlift
>impressive
What weak ass counties do you live in? All American gyms have one guy benching that at minimum.
You’d be lucky to find a gym where someone benches 3pl8 honestly
>verification not required
This guy actually looks muscular and not fat. Kind of a refreshing change from all the walking ham planets usually doing these lifts.
Everyone i see dl'ing 4 plates is super fat and looks like shit or short and that's less impressive.
>>When I see someone deadlifting 3, I think they are trained.
thats very kind of u anon thank u
I'm usually impressed by a 4 plate deadlift, especially if it's by a 170 lb high schooler. 3 plates is solid but not really that impressive, unless it's a 13 year old or something. I've only seen two people pull 5 plates, and they both looked like 250 lb football players.
For some reason it's always 1/2 a plate above what I can do
Burgers, weigh in now that you are up and on the way to mcdonalds
As other anons said it depends, if I see a teenager or a girl deadlift 3pl8 with good form I'm mirin, likewise with a reasonably fit looking man and 4pl8, anything above those even more so
t. 600+ lbs around 200 lbs bw
Seeing anything above 220kg IRL is kinda impressive. Especially for reps.
Unless you have absolutely garbage tier genetics, a 180kg deadlift shouldn't be a challenge to achieve.
Virtually no one pulls 405 without a year or two of training. Year to get to 315, and then year of perfect program and no fricks up to get to 405. Most people take longer or never get there though. 405 isn't some feat, but it does imply a very serious level, though yes, most healthy people can achieve it IF everything is dialed in.
Genuinely only impressed if you also do 12 strict pull ups and run a 35 minute 5 mile. Otherwise you are just hyper specialized. I acknowledge its a lot, but not impressed.
>12 strict pull ups
ez
>run a 35 minute 5 mile
impossible, at least for me with my thunder thighs and anemia
I pulled 405lbs for 3 reps within my first year. My programming was a brosplit where I did DL and back one day, and squats and RDLs on another day. Simple +5lbs, 1x5 weekly then at some point I dropped down to 1x3. 190lbs BW at the time. I think I started around 200lbs and just kept adding.
I believe you, but that's rare. Some people do pull 315 their first time in the gym, but it's probably less than 5% for people who didn't train in some close way before. It would make sense that those people get to 405 on a moron program and have whatever advantage in lifting. Virtually no one pulls 405 untrained though. A lot of people don't pull 225 untrained, especially for more than 1
I don’t know why you’d judge an olympic weightlifter by his raw deadlift
>Normie impressive
200kg
>impressive for a lifter
250kg
>seriously competitive
300kg+
>god tier
350kg+
Only conventional deadlifts above 700lbs impress me, basically they need to have a stronger deadlift than me.