The other day, I just hit a new personal record in my deadlift. And I think this is what perhaps matters the most, not your ultimate strength, but your power to weight ratio.
“How much can you deadlift bro?”
I haven’t weighed myself in two years, but to my understanding, I think I weigh about 160 or 165 pounds. In in terms of height, I’m around 5 foot 10 to 5 foot 11 inches.
Finally after doing the maths, it looks like I was able to successfully deadlift 245 kg, which is around 540 pounds. And in terms of my personal weight, I think I am around 73 to 75 kilograms. This then means I was able to successfully deadlift around 3.3x my body weight. I did this while fasted, no food or supplements before my lift, just some black coffee in the morning. Also, without a belt or straps, only chalk.
Why I am anti-straps
Certainly, if you’re gonna try to deadlift over 1000 pounds, or over 500 kg like Eddie Hall, yeah, use all the equipment as possible. But for the rest of us, I think using straps is a crutch, as it prevents you from building your grip strength.
For example, about two and a half weeks ago, I tried to deadlift the same amount, around 540 pounds, and got a little bit off the ground, but my left hand grip gave out. This was good personal information for me, because it signaled to myself: I am not strong enough, yet.
Then about a week ago, I tried to deadlift a little bit less weight. I subtracted 5 kg from each side, and successfully got it off.
Then after another week of eating lots of beef, all you can eat shabu shabu, etc., getting some rest and recovery and muscle augmentation, Yesterday I was able to success with the lift to 540 pounds.