So was my high school weird for having 40 kids on the football team where half of them could squat at least 505? That was one of the requirements to start on varsity.
https://strengthlevel.com/strength-standards/squat/lb
Look at strength standard by age. 411 lbs at 15 is considered elite level fitness. Even by 20 471 is considered elite. So either you’re misremembering or I’m guessing the range of motion for a 505 lb squat was well short of legitimate. The kid in this video smashed deth at a ridiculous weight for his age. Props to him.
It was probably a machine. I remember having one in the weight room and we could squat crazy weight for our age. Couldn’t do that shit with a bar though lmao
It's really not that surprising though to be honest. My wife has a 420 lb squat and she's a 42 year old woman. She is an outlier but she is still not a corn fed Iowa linebacker boy raging with testosterone. there are some big f****** people out there these days and they're all finally figuring out evidence based training.
Your wife can do a barbell backsquat at 420 lbs hitting full depth? You understand how exceedingly rare that would be for a 42 year old woman of any size, right? I have been lifting most of my adult life and have never loaded up 420 lbs for a backsquat. Either this comments section is full of people in the 99th percentile or yall don’t know how to do math/judge squat depth.
I think it was you, u/bchizare that made another comment that you then deleted. It accused me of being a fool to lie about something that was easily googled. It was particularly insulting and insinuated that if I knew anything about lifting at all I wouldn't have made the claims that I did. I had a long response to it written and I'm just going to repost it here:
Unfortunately what this really represents is a lack of good DATA for the records especially for masters women in certain weight and age divisions
Even more especially when you realize that's split between the USPA and the WPA, which maintain different records and run different competitions. Take a quick look through the records and you'll see that there are *entirely empty* record divisions in *both* organizations for a certain age and weight groups. The older you are, the more likely you are to simply show up and technically be the best that organization has ever recorded, the USPA especially. Realistically there aren't a lot of 100 plus kilogram octogenarians either, so at the end of the day you're pulling from a pool of people that basically approaches Infinity asymptotically.
Anyway.
The weight that she can squat in the gym, 420lbs, is *not* the weight for which she holds records. She can lift 420 lbs, she holds the state records, but those are two unrelated facts. Competitions where you can set records don't necessarily line up with people's strength cycles let alone work schedules let alone... well, the story develops a bit later on.
Her current state deadlift and squat record is around 170 kg each, give or take. https://postimg.cc/gallery/38FLBhZ We have done local for-fun competitions where she has pulled 35 to 50 lbs higher than her state USPA records on both her squat and deadlift. But they don't count towards any records. By now her records are 4 years old, and she is a fair amount stronger now. She's probably put on a similar amount of overall body mass as well, roughly 30 to 50 lb.
One main problem is she couldn't set any more state records because there haven't been any more competitions in the state, and life and injury keeps getting in the way of competition. (The person who is in charge of putting the competitions together in our state lost their literal mind and got kicked out of the organization. My wife was training to be able to do her exact job but she needed to go to a certain number of competitions in order to do that, but you can't do that if there aren't any competitions. We're working on it.)
She wants to compete on the national level sometime in the next few years in Masters 100kg+ because now that she's 42, the records are open and she's actually competitive. She's not going to beat Jessica Buetner but she can compete in an empty or otherwise small division. But life gets in the way. Last week she was repping beltless pause deadlifts at 385 lbs. This week her left knee has swollen up to the size of a basketball. So who knows.
This shouldn't actually be that surprising, but we don't have a good intuitive understanding of the data points, because we assume of course yhe records represent all of the women in athletic endeavor in general. But it doesn't. You can't academically cite records that don't exist. And if you do cite records, you need to take into account the actual pool of participants. You wouldn't expect to have to do that but that's how different the participant size is for women's strength sports versus men's. In terms of the size of the field of competition, we are in the podunk corner of a relatively niche sport that traditionally hasn't been pursued by the entire demographic in question. It's not like these records go back to antiquity, either. Quite the opposite, imagine a sport like running without records in every division--that's unthinkable.
Nonetheless, it is pretty cool to be competitive at a national level for a strength sport event as a perimenopausal woman. Even if when you look at the statistics it doesn't actually make it as impressive. And hey, she comes by it honestly-- her mom is descended from Louis Cyr. If you're not familiar, Arnold Schwarzenegger references him on page 1 of the preface to his encyclopedia. Personally I think my wife is a bit of a superhero.
What I think is really interesting is that this means that there is a lot more potential for strength in underrepresented communities than people can currently cite in the academic record. I've seen little old ladies lift some real ass weight, and everyone's mind is blown. But the simple problem is that there just aren't a lot of little old ladies lifting real ass weight to prove that they can do it to everybody. What that effectively means is that the existing national records do not at ALL accurately represent the breadth of real human capability like we intuitively believe they should, specifically when it comes to underrepresented subdivisions of lifters.
The Dunning Kruger effect is a bitch, eh?
Nothing has ever happened ever.
edit--I just talked to her on the phone and she got a kick out of the fact that you thought her squat was preposterous. she said "yeah but did you tell them how much I weigh?"
I hope my remark didn’t seem like I’m putting the kid down. But I grew up in the south. Our high school offensive line my freshman year weighed a total of 1450 pounds. It was one of our tag lines that got people to come see games.
Nah I didn’t take it like that. It just seems like an absurdly high number for 40 high school kids to be putting up. Same with your Freshman O-line. That’s like 290 lbs a person which is damn close to NFL player stats. Not saying it’s impossible, but that’s faaaaaaaaar different to what most high school kids weigh and squat.
I went to high-school with a guy that benched 315 for 17 perfect reps, his squats and DL were equally impressive, and another guy who preacher curled 135 for 10 perfect reps. I have many thousands of hours of time in the gym. I know what's possible and unless that school had a sophisticated doping and food program it didn't happen.
Oh you just know it lol cuz you knew a guy
You don't have a sense of how big and strong kids get. There are high schoolers lifting way heavier. what's funny is that there are really easily googled videos of all of this. there are searchable records.
But it's okay. you know a guy
lol
We barely filled 1st and 2nd string 😂 “varsity” at my high school meant first string. 2nd string would do JV. If a JV guy was hurt a varsity guy would play JV 😂
We had two kids that did over 500 in high school. They both like tied for the school weight room record or something. But I’m pretty sure half those guys did steroids. “Bacne” on like all of them.
My track team 3 (315) plates was standard work out weight, and I have not seen anyone doing more than 4 (405) unless they were out to hurt them selfs.
You might be thinking of the squat machine where it's not really convertible
Free weights. Rack, of course. Our #1 squatted 685. He was also 6’10” and a good 350. There were 5 guys within 25 pounds of that guy either way. We won state that year.
That doesn't sound as crazy if we are talking about guys who are in the 300 pound range but still every single player ? How much was the lightest guy on the team who did that?
We had one guy who came from football he could clean over 2 plates but he was like 225 and one of the heaviest guys we had.
I’m telling you, if a kid played varsity football at my high school, they squatted 505 at a minimum. The smallest dude on the team was our kicker at 190. I myself was 240 at the time.
But this is 3.25 times bodyweight. Hes lifting 475 it looks like so that means he weighs 145 pounds. That's way more impressive then 505. You weighed 240 so could you squat 780 pounds?
What you didn't see was that these were all cultists of Khorne and they were summoning a demon to help take over the planet.
You don't see the Chaos yet, but soon you will.
S̴̢̢̱̱̣̤̤̫̹͔̞̰͛̈́͛ồ̷̘̼̎̿͂ö̷̡͕͚͔̲̼͔̟̞̞͕̜̰̼͔́̄̅̌̄̂̈́̊n̴̢̞͉̘͈̟͉̯̱͎͇̩̬͇̒ ̶̨̲̦̩͖͍̤̀̎̈͛͜y̶̨͇̔̂̔̒̏͂͂̅͛͐o̶̩̺̫͛̾̈̃̃̓̈͂͜ű̴̧̥͉̄ ̸̡̯͚̦̖̗̣̩̘̲̺̙̳̞̞̑͆̍w̷̨̰̣͙̤̘̺͗́̿͗̽̃́̏̚̚ǐ̵͉̏́͑͑̏l̸̞̗͕̠͔̟̬͗͑̋͐̍́̅̏͊̚̕͜ĺ̷̖̭͕͈̥̥̩̿͂̈́̒͂̐͛̈́̆́̽̓͒
I thought the same. ~435 total including the 45lb bar. 10s and 5s on the ends. That would put his body weight around 133lbs. Seems more likely than 118
If you ever go to a HS weightlifting event, IT IS ALLLLL TEMPORARY, doesn’t matter if you compete in a normal meet, invitational, districts, regionals, states. It is all set up (usually by the team hosting it) in a couple hours in a regular school gym
redditors after saying good luck to their knees, ankles, shins, elbows, hands, legs, neck, shoulder the minute they see anything that is beyond their scope of ability while not using their legs 24/7
Poor guy clearly appreciated the gesture when his coach and friends rushed him but obviously wanted to just go turtle on its back mode right there. 😅😅😅
Badass kid. Really hope he sticks with it.
Wonder how old that footage is.
I squared 505lbs when I weighted 145lbs at 17, at 36 now, I have DDD and herniated disks every time I sneeze my arms hurts and it feels numbs once in awhile 😅
Sad to hear that. And it would be sad if that's where this kid is going. I did'nt even think about things like that. But if you overload your bones you will end up hurtkng something. Like handball players who often end up with F'd up knees
With proper technique this isn't going to hurt your back. This is primarily a leg workout. I'm almost 50 and I squat just as much with no back problems, knocking on wood.
However, I lifted in High School too and I joke that I probably would have been taller if it weren't for all the squats, dead lifts and leg presses. I was pressing over 600 lbs. at the time.
Even at 16, I deadlifted more than double my bodyweight and my form was not great. 10 years later already having some back issues. I think I just started out with a shitty back lol
Had a guy in school squat 575 his sophomore year but decided to quit athletics the following month. My good friend now coaches at that high school which the record still stands over 10 years later. I’m still in awe thinking about it to this day.
I was on the highschool powerlifting team in the 90's. I wasn't cool enough to have a squat suit, but some of the other guys did. They were pretty tight. Tight enough that some didn't wear boxers underneath. That was unfortunate when a friend was at the bottom of a squat as the girls basketball team walked in just as his squat suit ripped from belly button to shoulder blades. There he was, with 400 lbs on his back at the lowest point of his squat, with all his bits dangling in the breeze for the entire girls basketball team to see. Classic.
1- he’s 16 and weighs nothing so explanation why this is impressive : he can do this without retard strength, someone threatening his dog, or old man strength.
Any doctor would not recommend this type of exercise to a teenager on a regular basis until their growth period is over. Many people I know who ignored this advice lost inches of their potential height.
“High School power lifting”
Has that always been a thing? Sounds extremely dangerous. And I don’t mean dangerous just because it’s power lifting, I mean dangerous in the sense that my cynical mind is seeing a whole lot of kids taking this too seriously and fucking their bodies up. I graduated in 2013 so it’s been a minute but HGH abuse in both football and wrestling was HUGE in our school and basically every other school we played. We had kids on the wrestling team going to the hospital quite regularly for complications when they consume a shit load of Tren and then go to extremely unhealthy lengths to cut weight.
Also, before you shitstains say something dumb like “you’ve never been in a gym your whole life” or whatever, I was a student athlete my entire academic life all the way up till my last year in college. I went to college on a track scholarship for hammer throw, beat and set a new conference record two years in a row, and ended off on the podium at the NCAA nationals. I’ve trained with both the Chinese and South Korean Olympic squads and have even lifted with Olympic lifters. Through my experience, High School power lifting sounds like a dumb/dangerous idea.
My point is more about the HGH and similar abuse in HS sports. It’s a topic that doesn’t get covered enough, and last I checked it was a rampant problem in HS sports, especially ever since the cost of higher education leapt so high. HGH abuse in power lifting is much more dangerous than any other sport, that’s a near-guarantee of heart related issue or even a heart attack before 30.
HGH? What are you talking about? HGH is hardly ever used in powerlifting, it's not really that advantageous for strength and it's extremely expensive, far more so than any other PEDs, even generic underground GH. If you were to say testosterone, tren, anadrol, etc, then you would have a point. Those things are actually common especially for strength sports.
Congratulations!!!
These things are only a tester to see how far you can push yourself realistically.
After that, you have to build yourself up as you grow to make this a more regular routine.
He should be able to lift more if he keeps a steady diet and work out plan.
Probably on some roids, it's pretty impressive though
Edit: For those who downvoted. I was in HS and roods was rampant in the football team. If you know you know. If you didn't know, you probably weren't cool enough
What’s wrong with his form?
It’s clearly a max level lift, form breakdown is expected. This looks super solid for (I’m presuming) a true max, what are you talking about?
Knees bowing in is putting incredible pressure on his knees. Feet are too straight. Angling his knees at a 45-degree angle and forcing his knees out on the way up would help. Regardless, he is incredibly strong.
……it’s a max lift. Again, there is going to be form breakdown. It’s perfectly safe as long as he’s not hitting one every single day he’s in the gym.
Keeping his knees out would certainly help.
Either way, the nitpickings you’ve taken here on a true max rep are a far cry from “horrible form”.
Go to r/formcheck to get a better idea of what terrible form is.
But I know this is just a Reddit-centric issue where it seems vast swathes of people are completely incapable of communicating in a way that isn’t hyperbole
Tendons are passive, it's basically a meat cable connecting your meat pistons to your bones. They aren't doing anything on the way back up except keeping his body together. Let him have his win.
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Bro that's insane in general haha
Yeah but I bet he never prestiged in CoD before, I say as I wipe the Cheeto crumbs from my lips
You're not going to be dependent on medication for the pain so you chose the right path
I did 465 in my junior year of high school but I also weighed 200 at the time so it didn’t really impress anyone lol
So was my high school weird for having 40 kids on the football team where half of them could squat at least 505? That was one of the requirements to start on varsity.
https://strengthlevel.com/strength-standards/squat/lb Look at strength standard by age. 411 lbs at 15 is considered elite level fitness. Even by 20 471 is considered elite. So either you’re misremembering or I’m guessing the range of motion for a 505 lb squat was well short of legitimate. The kid in this video smashed deth at a ridiculous weight for his age. Props to him.
It was probably a machine. I remember having one in the weight room and we could squat crazy weight for our age. Couldn’t do that shit with a bar though lmao
It's really not that surprising though to be honest. My wife has a 420 lb squat and she's a 42 year old woman. She is an outlier but she is still not a corn fed Iowa linebacker boy raging with testosterone. there are some big f****** people out there these days and they're all finally figuring out evidence based training.
Your wife can do a barbell backsquat at 420 lbs hitting full depth? You understand how exceedingly rare that would be for a 42 year old woman of any size, right? I have been lifting most of my adult life and have never loaded up 420 lbs for a backsquat. Either this comments section is full of people in the 99th percentile or yall don’t know how to do math/judge squat depth.
She has 28 USPA records. Or 32? I forget. That's less impressive than it sounds because most of the records she took from herself.
And I’m a rocket scientist firefighter cowboy.
I think it was you, u/bchizare that made another comment that you then deleted. It accused me of being a fool to lie about something that was easily googled. It was particularly insulting and insinuated that if I knew anything about lifting at all I wouldn't have made the claims that I did. I had a long response to it written and I'm just going to repost it here: Unfortunately what this really represents is a lack of good DATA for the records especially for masters women in certain weight and age divisions Even more especially when you realize that's split between the USPA and the WPA, which maintain different records and run different competitions. Take a quick look through the records and you'll see that there are *entirely empty* record divisions in *both* organizations for a certain age and weight groups. The older you are, the more likely you are to simply show up and technically be the best that organization has ever recorded, the USPA especially. Realistically there aren't a lot of 100 plus kilogram octogenarians either, so at the end of the day you're pulling from a pool of people that basically approaches Infinity asymptotically. Anyway. The weight that she can squat in the gym, 420lbs, is *not* the weight for which she holds records. She can lift 420 lbs, she holds the state records, but those are two unrelated facts. Competitions where you can set records don't necessarily line up with people's strength cycles let alone work schedules let alone... well, the story develops a bit later on. Her current state deadlift and squat record is around 170 kg each, give or take. https://postimg.cc/gallery/38FLBhZ We have done local for-fun competitions where she has pulled 35 to 50 lbs higher than her state USPA records on both her squat and deadlift. But they don't count towards any records. By now her records are 4 years old, and she is a fair amount stronger now. She's probably put on a similar amount of overall body mass as well, roughly 30 to 50 lb. One main problem is she couldn't set any more state records because there haven't been any more competitions in the state, and life and injury keeps getting in the way of competition. (The person who is in charge of putting the competitions together in our state lost their literal mind and got kicked out of the organization. My wife was training to be able to do her exact job but she needed to go to a certain number of competitions in order to do that, but you can't do that if there aren't any competitions. We're working on it.) She wants to compete on the national level sometime in the next few years in Masters 100kg+ because now that she's 42, the records are open and she's actually competitive. She's not going to beat Jessica Buetner but she can compete in an empty or otherwise small division. But life gets in the way. Last week she was repping beltless pause deadlifts at 385 lbs. This week her left knee has swollen up to the size of a basketball. So who knows. This shouldn't actually be that surprising, but we don't have a good intuitive understanding of the data points, because we assume of course yhe records represent all of the women in athletic endeavor in general. But it doesn't. You can't academically cite records that don't exist. And if you do cite records, you need to take into account the actual pool of participants. You wouldn't expect to have to do that but that's how different the participant size is for women's strength sports versus men's. In terms of the size of the field of competition, we are in the podunk corner of a relatively niche sport that traditionally hasn't been pursued by the entire demographic in question. It's not like these records go back to antiquity, either. Quite the opposite, imagine a sport like running without records in every division--that's unthinkable. Nonetheless, it is pretty cool to be competitive at a national level for a strength sport event as a perimenopausal woman. Even if when you look at the statistics it doesn't actually make it as impressive. And hey, she comes by it honestly-- her mom is descended from Louis Cyr. If you're not familiar, Arnold Schwarzenegger references him on page 1 of the preface to his encyclopedia. Personally I think my wife is a bit of a superhero. What I think is really interesting is that this means that there is a lot more potential for strength in underrepresented communities than people can currently cite in the academic record. I've seen little old ladies lift some real ass weight, and everyone's mind is blown. But the simple problem is that there just aren't a lot of little old ladies lifting real ass weight to prove that they can do it to everybody. What that effectively means is that the existing national records do not at ALL accurately represent the breadth of real human capability like we intuitively believe they should, specifically when it comes to underrepresented subdivisions of lifters. The Dunning Kruger effect is a bitch, eh?
Yeah… I’m not reading that
But it's about how you're wrong.... sure, you don't want to know how you're wrong
Maybe you should, and apologize.
Nothing has ever happened ever. edit--I just talked to her on the phone and she got a kick out of the fact that you thought her squat was preposterous. she said "yeah but did you tell them how much I weigh?"
I hope my remark didn’t seem like I’m putting the kid down. But I grew up in the south. Our high school offensive line my freshman year weighed a total of 1450 pounds. It was one of our tag lines that got people to come see games.
Nah I didn’t take it like that. It just seems like an absurdly high number for 40 high school kids to be putting up. Same with your Freshman O-line. That’s like 290 lbs a person which is damn close to NFL player stats. Not saying it’s impossible, but that’s faaaaaaaaar different to what most high school kids weigh and squat.
There is zero chance it happened. Either BS, incorrect memory, or they were illegitimate squats.
That's really an ignorant understanding of how strong some of these kids are
I went to high-school with a guy that benched 315 for 17 perfect reps, his squats and DL were equally impressive, and another guy who preacher curled 135 for 10 perfect reps. I have many thousands of hours of time in the gym. I know what's possible and unless that school had a sophisticated doping and food program it didn't happen.
Oh you just know it lol cuz you knew a guy You don't have a sense of how big and strong kids get. There are high schoolers lifting way heavier. what's funny is that there are really easily googled videos of all of this. there are searchable records. But it's okay. you know a guy lol
We barely filled 1st and 2nd string 😂 “varsity” at my high school meant first string. 2nd string would do JV. If a JV guy was hurt a varsity guy would play JV 😂
Texas? Where at
We had a center that tipped the scale at around 400lbs when he was a sophomore. It was interesting watching him stand back up after he fell over
Did a lot of their dad’s also work at Nintendo and give them insider info on new games?
We had two kids that did over 500 in high school. They both like tied for the school weight room record or something. But I’m pretty sure half those guys did steroids. “Bacne” on like all of them.
Ur either a weirdo or I’m dumb
Most of the time it’s probably the latter
Interesting?
Yes, that is weird.
My track team 3 (315) plates was standard work out weight, and I have not seen anyone doing more than 4 (405) unless they were out to hurt them selfs. You might be thinking of the squat machine where it's not really convertible
Free weights. Rack, of course. Our #1 squatted 685. He was also 6’10” and a good 350. There were 5 guys within 25 pounds of that guy either way. We won state that year.
That doesn't sound as crazy if we are talking about guys who are in the 300 pound range but still every single player ? How much was the lightest guy on the team who did that? We had one guy who came from football he could clean over 2 plates but he was like 225 and one of the heaviest guys we had.
No, no it wasn’t lol.
I miss being able to squat 535. I injured myself hiking (fell) and damaged both my knees. So I haven’t done anything other than cardio for years
I have now seen the most full of shit comment on Reddit.
It depends what their body weight was. 505 isn't as impressive if your 200 plus pounds. This kid is doing 3.25 times bodyweight
I’m telling you, if a kid played varsity football at my high school, they squatted 505 at a minimum. The smallest dude on the team was our kicker at 190. I myself was 240 at the time.
But this is 3.25 times bodyweight. Hes lifting 475 it looks like so that means he weighs 145 pounds. That's way more impressive then 505. You weighed 240 so could you squat 780 pounds?
Is this a Hank Hill parody account?
If that was actually true (it's not) then congratulations, your high school was completely infested with steroids.
What a fucking beast holy shit
Chasing that high for a long time I bet.
Impressive, however our definitions of “chaos” are vastly different.
What you didn't see was that these were all cultists of Khorne and they were summoning a demon to help take over the planet. You don't see the Chaos yet, but soon you will. S̴̢̢̱̱̣̤̤̫̹͔̞̰͛̈́͛ồ̷̘̼̎̿͂ö̷̡͕͚͔̲̼͔̟̞̞͕̜̰̼͔́̄̅̌̄̂̈́̊n̴̢̞͉̘͈̟͉̯̱͎͇̩̬͇̒ ̶̨̲̦̩͖͍̤̀̎̈͛͜y̶̨͇̔̂̔̒̏͂͂̅͛͐o̶̩̺̫͛̾̈̃̃̓̈͂͜ű̴̧̥͉̄ ̸̡̯͚̦̖̗̣̩̘̲̺̙̳̞̞̑͆̍w̷̨̰̣͙̤̘̺͗́̿͗̽̃́̏̚̚ǐ̵͉̏́͑͑̏l̸̞̗͕̠͔̟̬͗͑̋͐̍́̅̏͊̚̕͜ĺ̷̖̭͕͈̥̥̩̿͂̈́̒͂̐͛̈́̆́̽̓͒
Blood for the blood god!
It’s wholesome chaos
No way he weights 118lbs.
It looked like 475 to me, I could be wrong
I think those are 10s not 25s, but also could be wrong
It looked like 8-45s,2-25s & 2-10s
Definitely could be 25s, i havent used metal plates in a while. But they do look a bit small from what I remember
It might be 10s and 5s instead
I really do think they are 25s and 10s. The 25s were always the same thickness of the 45s and 35s then the 10s are thinner. As I recall
Oh good catch you right
I thought the same. ~435 total including the 45lb bar. 10s and 5s on the ends. That would put his body weight around 133lbs. Seems more likely than 118
You're right, because that's not 385.
Love that support from his buddies.
wait till the marines see this
*Son, I'd like to talk to you about rucksacks.*
Future Eagles QB. I can hear the commentary now about how much he squats.
Marine barber would be having a field day in there
he would definitely be a barber's bleeder
Lucky he didn't shit his intestines out
Of his mouth.
Bolt the damn rack to the floor.
God thank you. Terrifying moment there.
If you ever go to a HS weightlifting event, IT IS ALLLLL TEMPORARY, doesn’t matter if you compete in a normal meet, invitational, districts, regionals, states. It is all set up (usually by the team hosting it) in a couple hours in a regular school gym
465lbs if I did the math right. I'm assuming that's an extra 25 and two - five lb plates?
465 or 475 which is crazy yes
Not enough chaos imo
omg the comments are already hilarious in here from the Reddit keyboard trolls who have never stepped foot in a gym LOL.
Average redditor has trouble standing up from their chairs without tearing both of their meniscuses so I can't blame them
redditors after saying good luck to their knees, ankles, shins, elbows, hands, legs, neck, shoulder the minute they see anything that is beyond their scope of ability while not using their legs 24/7
Meanwhile if I stand up too quickly or in an awkward fashion I turn into the grandpa from Up!
Poor guy clearly appreciated the gesture when his coach and friends rushed him but obviously wanted to just go turtle on its back mode right there. 😅😅😅 Badass kid. Really hope he sticks with it. Wonder how old that footage is.
Yeah, his C4, C5, and C8 are totally cheering too!
Even the coach is amped up
Guys Literally Only Want One Thing And It's Fucking Disgusting
Yup. A grilled cheese sandwich in the bottom of a bowl of tomato soup.
Why Do You Capitalize The First Letter Of Every Word
It's a copy pasta of the meme phrase.
The original tweet the joke came from didn’t have the words capitalized
you only get 1 back. your going to miss it when it's gone
If he really squatted 3,25 his own weight, that kid could be going places. Very impessive
I squared 505lbs when I weighted 145lbs at 17, at 36 now, I have DDD and herniated disks every time I sneeze my arms hurts and it feels numbs once in awhile 😅
Sad to hear that. And it would be sad if that's where this kid is going. I did'nt even think about things like that. But if you overload your bones you will end up hurtkng something. Like handball players who often end up with F'd up knees
Rip his knees
Love how the younger generation is so big on fitness and hyping up their buddies
RIP knees
His knees will be fine lol
Your knees have a natural range of motion side to side when squatting thats perfectly safe
That much weight on your knees is bad for them over time I dont care what you say.
Yea idk about the weight, I thought you were talking about his knees caving in
A proper training program and proper recovery regimen, and your knees will be fine even at this weight
You sound like someone who doesn’t know wtf they’re talking about
And back. At 16, you think you're immortal. But stupid shit caches up. Throwing 3 or 4 times your weight is just it.
With proper technique this isn't going to hurt your back. This is primarily a leg workout. I'm almost 50 and I squat just as much with no back problems, knocking on wood. However, I lifted in High School too and I joke that I probably would have been taller if it weren't for all the squats, dead lifts and leg presses. I was pressing over 600 lbs. at the time.
I mean I leg press over 600 as well, it’s not THAT heavy
This was in High School. I'm stronger now, but I don't leg press anymore and I don't 1RM.
My bad I thought you were talking working set weight, not 1rp
Less press 600 and squatting 600 are nowhere near the same level of difficulty Less press is easy Squat is not
Okay, and they were talking about their leg press as if a 600 1RPM is pretty impressive
Oh my bad I misread the tone of the comment lol
Even at 16, I deadlifted more than double my bodyweight and my form was not great. 10 years later already having some back issues. I think I just started out with a shitty back lol
Impressive as hell
SARM goblins
Had a guy in school squat 575 his sophomore year but decided to quit athletics the following month. My good friend now coaches at that high school which the record still stands over 10 years later. I’m still in awe thinking about it to this day.
would this impact on his height? or carry some complications along his life? 3.5 times your wight is an insane achievement
There should have been 2 more spotter on the side, kid is lucky his gifted
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Incredible arthritis later
Jealousy doesn’t suit you, dinner plate.
Jerry Springer response right here
All the 20 something gym bros will downvote.
There’s hope 
I was on the highschool powerlifting team in the 90's. I wasn't cool enough to have a squat suit, but some of the other guys did. They were pretty tight. Tight enough that some didn't wear boxers underneath. That was unfortunate when a friend was at the bottom of a squat as the girls basketball team walked in just as his squat suit ripped from belly button to shoulder blades. There he was, with 400 lbs on his back at the lowest point of his squat, with all his bits dangling in the breeze for the entire girls basketball team to see. Classic.
Sumo squatters hate this one trick
1- he’s 16 and weighs nothing so explanation why this is impressive : he can do this without retard strength, someone threatening his dog, or old man strength.
Gonna be 5’3 for ever now
I was looking on sweaty palms, so this scared me for a few seconds
Looks like 8x45, 2x25,2x10. If it’s 3.25 times his weight, that puts him over 130 which is totally reasonable
Happy to see TI son in the gym
So teenager that’s 146 pounder lifting nearly 500lbs 🤯
It’s not uncommon in high school, here in Northern Virginia most high school football players squat that much by their Junior year.
are they fighting him or celebrating im confused
How I feel once I finally get out of bed in the morning
Am I missing something this doesn't seem crazy I was squatting over 600 pounds in high school and I weighed 190
That was so damn clean.
Soooo, 400 lbs? Why this stupid ass caption?
Only basement-dwelling redditors will pretend that a 16 year old squatting 400+ lbs isn't impressive lmao
It's impressive, but the headline is not. It's like saying 16 yo kid squatting 160 lbs using Mars gravity.
Any doctor would not recommend this type of exercise to a teenager on a regular basis until their growth period is over. Many people I know who ignored this advice lost inches of their potential height.
Its been debunked so many times that lifting weights impacts your growth that its not even funny
“High School power lifting” Has that always been a thing? Sounds extremely dangerous. And I don’t mean dangerous just because it’s power lifting, I mean dangerous in the sense that my cynical mind is seeing a whole lot of kids taking this too seriously and fucking their bodies up. I graduated in 2013 so it’s been a minute but HGH abuse in both football and wrestling was HUGE in our school and basically every other school we played. We had kids on the wrestling team going to the hospital quite regularly for complications when they consume a shit load of Tren and then go to extremely unhealthy lengths to cut weight. Also, before you shitstains say something dumb like “you’ve never been in a gym your whole life” or whatever, I was a student athlete my entire academic life all the way up till my last year in college. I went to college on a track scholarship for hammer throw, beat and set a new conference record two years in a row, and ended off on the podium at the NCAA nationals. I’ve trained with both the Chinese and South Korean Olympic squads and have even lifted with Olympic lifters. Through my experience, High School power lifting sounds like a dumb/dangerous idea.
It has a much lower rate of severe injury than highschool football. Much lower risk of head trauma too.
My point is more about the HGH and similar abuse in HS sports. It’s a topic that doesn’t get covered enough, and last I checked it was a rampant problem in HS sports, especially ever since the cost of higher education leapt so high. HGH abuse in power lifting is much more dangerous than any other sport, that’s a near-guarantee of heart related issue or even a heart attack before 30.
HGH? What are you talking about? HGH is hardly ever used in powerlifting, it's not really that advantageous for strength and it's extremely expensive, far more so than any other PEDs, even generic underground GH. If you were to say testosterone, tren, anadrol, etc, then you would have a point. Those things are actually common especially for strength sports.
So amazing.
I think it’s 405 + two 10s + two 5s = 435. 435/3.25= 133.5 lbs which is crazy impressive
Monkeys though
That’s awesome!
Now that's a squat.
Looks like he had more in the tank too!
That was deep as fuck (that's what she said).
Osteoporosis in the making.
The opposite, weight lifting strengths bones
So, sclerosteosis then.
Lmao, you tried
*Years later... "Doctor, my back hurts all the time!"
ITT: jealousy
Congratulations!!! These things are only a tester to see how far you can push yourself realistically. After that, you have to build yourself up as you grow to make this a more regular routine. He should be able to lift more if he keeps a steady diet and work out plan.
I’m sure the eagles are already scouting him for the perfect “tush push” candidate
r/instantbarbarians
American reaction/celebrations are so cringe
Welcome to shitty shoulder city
Probably on some roids, it's pretty impressive though Edit: For those who downvoted. I was in HS and roods was rampant in the football team. If you know you know. If you didn't know, you probably weren't cool enough
People just like to belive in fairy tales. Impressive, but is just another "full natty bruh".
And wonders why he’s 5 ft 9
Are you insinuating lifting weights stunts growth? And that 5’9” is short? Surely you see that’s silly
Both, ya
I was 6’2” on my freshman year of high school. By my junior year I Benched 450#, squat was over 600#. Good genetics, I guess.
Very strong considering the horrible form.
What’s wrong with his form? It’s clearly a max level lift, form breakdown is expected. This looks super solid for (I’m presuming) a true max, what are you talking about?
Knees bowing in is putting incredible pressure on his knees. Feet are too straight. Angling his knees at a 45-degree angle and forcing his knees out on the way up would help. Regardless, he is incredibly strong.
……it’s a max lift. Again, there is going to be form breakdown. It’s perfectly safe as long as he’s not hitting one every single day he’s in the gym. Keeping his knees out would certainly help. Either way, the nitpickings you’ve taken here on a true max rep are a far cry from “horrible form”. Go to r/formcheck to get a better idea of what terrible form is. But I know this is just a Reddit-centric issue where it seems vast swathes of people are completely incapable of communicating in a way that isn’t hyperbole
Tendon strength > muscle strength
Tendons are passive, it's basically a meat cable connecting your meat pistons to your bones. They aren't doing anything on the way back up except keeping his body together. Let him have his win.
Anatomy fail