Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/09/07/this-87-year-old-man-can-deadl.html
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iT’S GO TIME!
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Excellent.
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And I can deadlift 87 lbs.
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Are you 405 years old?
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I can dead-lift a similar amount; though, admittedly, that is mainly body fat.
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I remember watching a video of an elderly woman doing around 180/lbs in a deadlift. And here I am having troubling doing 100/lbs at 38. 
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Gosh, he doesn’t even have to take his shirt off to do it!
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Geez - I can barely lift myself up out of this chair.
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I got a hernia just watching that.
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Each time I got to the word broke in the article I thought the next word was going to be the name of some body part.
I’m happy to be wrong; very impressive fitness.
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Impressive. Back in HS my best was 315lbs. With my shit leg I can’t even do that stuff any more.
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I’m going to start training now and hope to deadlift 405 lbs by the age of 87.
405 lbs cumulatively, that is.
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Not to be a nitpicker, but he’s not actually doing a deadlift. He’s doing a rack-pull. Combined with the sumo stance, his vertical range of motion looks like it’s less than a foot. Also, you can’t say that he’s doing it for reps if he is bouncing off the bottom. The deadlift is defined as starting from a dead stop. Still, kind of impressive, I guess, but not as impressive as the lede would suggest.
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I’ve never understood weightlifting. I’ve tried it, but it’s so boring I can’t stand it.
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How much does he weigh?
There’s a certain appeal in being able to track your progress with hard numbers, and exhaustion can provide a welcome alternative to existential panic. But then, those are not features necessarily exclusive to weightlifting.
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It’s not the process, it’s the results.
Of course you can get similar results doing other things, like throwing hay all day.
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