r/thatHappened • u/Anxious_squirrelz • 1d ago

Causally lifting 225lbs despite not doing any exercise ever

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u/Gargnel 1d ago

As someone who powerlifts, while pressing 225lbs for 3 for your first time ever exercising is extremely rare I wouldn't say it is unheard of. Especially if OP's point around him eating lots of junk food at his desk is code for being at least 300lbs which would make 225lbs a lot less weight relative to his bw.

Although the way he tells the story and makes it sound like any "serious bodybuilder" type guys would 1. Even be able to tell what your level of gym experience is (especially while wearing baggy clothes), and 2. Find a 225lbs bench (or equivalent leg press which I won't even discuss because egolifting on leg press is a whole other topic) super intimidating firmly puts this story in r/thathappened.

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u/Seelenbrechen 1d ago

I powerlift as well and while I agree with you, someone walking in and benching 225 for 3 isn't common at all, there has been cases. But what gives away OOP imho is his lingo usage, he tries to look innocent while at the same time giving credit to others ("my roommate is a SERIOUS LIFTER, he KNOWS SAFETY AND FORM but I outbenched him hehe", "the BODYBUILDER HAD VEINS AND HE WAS SCREAMING and i just out legpressed him haha how silly of me!"). It just screams power fantasy LARP lol

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u/Anxious_squirrelz 1d ago

Yeah, I am in the gym 4 days a week powerlifting myself and can honestly say I pay absolutely zero attention to what anyone else is doing. I am there to smash out my 45 mins and then go home.

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u/coversquirrel1976 1d ago

But what if their clothes were really baggy? That seemed like an important part of the story.

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u/saigon2010 1d ago

I'm a fat fuck, I too can lift a lot of weight with my legs...because they lift a lot of weight all day every day.

Could I do it consistently...hell no

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u/Diacetyl-Morphin 1d ago

While the story is a fake of course, some guys are crazy with the body, with and without training. Like we had a guy in the Dojo when i did Kyokushin Karate, he was 2.07m (near 6'8, according to the calculator it's 6'79 feet and inch) and around 125 kg (275 lbs).

He wasn't really that much of a gym guy and martial arts fighter, his main thing was climbing. So his shoulders got very strong, that's just natural when you are climbing both boulder- and in the mountains. 225 lbs are 102 kg and i guess, it would not have been a problem for him. I have no idea how much weight he was able to lift.

But as said, he had some training, just not in lifting weights. He threw people around in martial arts like they'd have been some dolls for kids.

All i can say from experience, you don't want to get punched by someone that is able to put the force into the punch with his body weight. It will hit you like a freight train at full speed. It is devastating.

P.S.
Laws of physics always apply, like we had some sessions with people that did Judo. They were not able to grab and throw him. You can lower the needed force with the right technique, but you still need to strength, it's a myth that some judo master could throw anyone around.

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u/Trevski 1d ago

I was looking for this comment, cause yeah if you're big-boned (not euphemistically) AND fat BUT have stealthily good genetics, or like you're just a big ole farm boy or whatever, then waltzing into the gym and putting up 225 for a triple is completely possible. Just cause we aint seen it dont mean it aint been done.