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I'm going to go play around on my sons weight bench and see what my old ass can do. I want to ask this now and see how I stack up with the answers when I get back.

Max one time lift curl

Max one time lift bench press

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I am an average older adult male.

I'm going to go play around on my sons weight bench and see what my old ass can do. I want to ask this now and see how I stack up with the answers when I get back. Max one time lift curl Max one time lift bench press ? I am an average older adult male.

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[–] • 5 pts

Lol, fuck around and tear something. Warm up and stretch!

[–] • 1 pt

I decided the same. Didn't push my luck. I could hurt myself because I'm not conditioned for it.

[–] • 0 pt

It takes one wrong move to change everything. Slipped off a chipper 4 yrs ago and messed my back up. I still do hard labor, but I move slow and make better choices. Lol, now I feel my age.

[–] • 0 pt

If you have never lifted before, you probably aren’s strong enough to damage yourself too bad. The stronger you are, the more careful you have to be

[–] • 4 pts

150lbs and curl 25lbs done perfectly. I think that's average man. One should never ego lift, it creates bad habits.

[–] • 2 pts

I cannot bench press that much but I can curl that much. I decided not to push my luck.

[–] • 2 pts

Ah. you'd be surprised. We had a joint yard sale a couple months ago and a guy who's rather hefty, about 6'1" 260 lbs in his mid-30s, decided he'd play around with the 25lb dumbbells I had brought over. He could not curl them without throwing himself around.

I've been lifting weights since I was in 7th grade. As I get older, I have more frequent breaks from the gym. It's incredible, even in my 40's, how I can still do a warmup set then lift heavy weights. I guess that's muscle memory. It's just strange because my physique can be so drastically different from when I'm consistently working out and when I have gotten lazy and soft. Either body can still put up almost the same weights.

[–] • 2 pts

Muscle memory is real. Once you stretch the muscle fascia and get bigger it’s much easier to do it again if you drop weight for whatever reason.

[–] • 1 pt

And as middle aged guy, I've learned that just because I can still lift heavy, I shouldn't push too hard. Last year, I befriended a younger guy at the gym. Big strong kid. He would challenge me. Well, once he hyped me up to try a max. I benched a nice number. I was surprised. It felt good. Then it resulted in a pinched nerve that made my left arm down to the elbow numb. 3 months of physical therapy. I'd woken up crying that next night and couldn't lift at all with that arm. Now I take it somewhat easy. My neck was already jacked up from playing football through college and a bad car accident. And that arm was the same one I broke my ulna many years ago. Not good.

[–] • 2 pts

Should be able to do your own weight for bench, although most over 200lbs can't do that anymore.

Curing with both arms combined, half body weight.

[–] • 1 pt

It’s often one may have to start with something abysmally small like curl 15. But it’ll jump to like 20 or 25 within two weeks.

This is especially true with people who do the pec machine for the first time. They start at like 10 then are at like 80 in a few weeks.

[–] • 0 pt

25lb curls are kinda pathetic

[–] • 1 pt

That's the average guy though sadly. I was doing Lyle McDonald's UD2.0 and I was doing quick 20 rep curl sets with 25 each hand same time as exercise. I felt bad doing it next to dudes doing the same one hand at a time slowly.

[–] • 0 pt

1.22 pounds of that soylife.

[–] • 0 pt

Depends on size and lifestyle but my guess would be 60kg bench and 30-40kg curl, curl is much easier to cheat.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

I didn't test my max recently but decided to hit some weights the other day. 3 sets of 10 benching just the bar and I was sore the next day. Embarrassing but eye opening. I feel like I could maybe hit a max of 100 if we're talking about just 1 rep but I'd rather build up to doing 100 comfortably and not hurt myself.

[–] • 0 pt

Bench 300 to 315. Not sure haven't had a spot to try that lately. Curl I don't know because I don't do curls. I can do this thing with 3-4 plates. Better workout than curls. https://www1.lovethatdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/FeaturedImage_T-BAR-ROW_00.jpg

[–] • 0 pt

300 is a lot

[–] • 1 pt

suggesting that anyone untrained can bench anywhere even near 300 is retarded.

[–] • 0 pt

Yeah it took about 5 years of lifting a few times a week.

[–] • 0 pt

My son does 5 sets of 10 repetition each on bench press at 135lbs. Do you think that is good?

[–] • 0 pt

Yeah. Instead of all sets of 10 a variety of sets with more weight with less reps will build strength. Good form is important. There's plenty of videos on bench form.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

He’s lifting. He’s already ahead of most guys. I know guys in pretty good shape who work in that rep range at that weight.

Some of them are still learning to bench, some are thinner guys with smaller frames but muscular and 135 is good for there they are. Some guys can just flat out lift a lot more because they’re more advanced and/or have bigger frames and can naturally blow last 135 faster because of how big they are.

There are plenty of guys who just don’t need to go all that heavy to get great results because they are still working their way up or are just not big guys.

If he wants to lift heavier, stick with it. Use progressive overload.

Add five pounds every week or two.

Don’t rush, the results will come. Patience and a programmed game plan to progressively overload will work with consistent work and adequate protein. I am 5-10, 160lbs, good body fat numbers and look stronger than I am because my muscle is visible. I need 160 grams of protein a day or i won’t grow. Whenever I slack off on the protein I take a step back.

With my bone structure and wrist circumference and skeletal width and length I will never mechanically be able to bench 300, not even close. Even if I hit my genetic ceiling. For some guys, it’s attainable.

Every body is different. Have him set goals and work towards them and as long as he is advancing towards those goals, be patient and keep going. Once the results stop improving, then adjust.

He’s doing fine.

[–] • 0 pt

He is about 5'11" and 175lbs and has 15" biceps but they look huge. Maybe because of the shape. He looks like a body builder next to a normal man his height. He wants me to start lifting weights with him.

[–] • 0 pt

187cm, 99kg, 163kg bench pr. Right now, I'm injured, about 105kg and I'm not pushing my bench past 130kg, I'll probably work on adding reps going forward, dropping my weight to about 92-95kg, get ultra lean, no more 'faint ab outline' bs. Health more important these days,

I don't know my best curl, I've never tried, I can do 12-15 reps at 60kg, not sure how that translates, probably rubbish, my arms are lacking at my height 17" left 16.5" right. I tend to the resistance bands more now too.

Had an old home gym for 3 years before moving to a new area, so I've been mostly consistent for nearly 5 years. I think my upper body genetics are average or slightly below, but legs are slightly above average.

I'd say don't rush into a PR, you might just get hurt. However, a bench of 1.25 bodyweight and a deadlife of 1.75 bodyweight should be goals. As for curl, I'm not sure, maybe .4 bodyweight goal? For 1RM. However focus on form and reps for now. John Meadows was great on youtube(RIP). I followed a lot of his advice, his "Gamma Bomb" routine was actually too much for me.

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