Now what?

I am still blown away, that I’ve been able to deadlift 540 pounds, no straps, no belt, etc. Nearly 3.3x my body weight.

My next personal goal is to deadlift four times my body weight.

Greater things

I am not a professional bodybuilder, powerlifter, etc. My personal fascination with weightlifting is a personal one; my livelihood is not affected by it at all.

I just lift weights as a side hobby, not a primary concern.

Weightlifting as a philosophical pursuit?

What is the apex pursuit? I think a mix of entrepreneurship as well as philosophical. Many of our entrepreneurial drives are philosophical ones, for example, Elon Musk striving to make the human race interplanetary. This is more of a philosophical one, than a practical one.