Can you lift your own bodyweight?

[chem1st]

I had a walk round town today, and one thing struck me. The physical condition of the people.

 

Can you lift your own bodyweight?

[Amaranthus]

What, just off the ground or over your head?

[Mecky]

I had a walk round town today, and one thing struck me. The physical condition of the people.

 

Can you lift your own bodyweight?

 

of course I can, I can do pressups, pullups etc

[Jabberwocky]

I used to be able to military press my own bodyweight when I was into weight lifting and dead lift and squat three times my own weight.

 

That was ten years ago though so I could probably dead lift my body weight but certainly not press it above my bonce.

[Amaranthus]

I used to be able to military press my own bodyweight when I was into weight lifting and dead lift and squat three times my own weight.

 

That was ten years ago though so I could probably dead lift my body weight but certainly not press it above my bonce.

 

I've dead lifted about double my body weight, that was back when I was into the weightlifting & powerlifting competitions.

[HeadingNorth]

When I was young and fit, I could bench press my own body weight, and leg press about ten times that.

 

Now I'm old and decrepit ... probably not. I haven't had cause to try. Swimming and cycling are my only exercises nowadays.

[medusa]

I leg press using 190kg at the moment, but with my degenerative spinal problems and one arm that doesn't work sometimes I struggle to get myself upright, let alone picking anything else up!