Achieving The Standards 1.0 - 135 press, 225 bench, 315 squat, 405 deadlift - is more important and useful than getting down to 10% bodyfat and it's not even close.

It’s emblematic of the anarcho tyranny we increasingly live under, wherein the state will ignore or even facilitate violent and lawless behavior by favored groups (who are somehow called marginalized), while cracking down with the full force of the armed law on irrelevant minor infractions by anyone else.

This, roughly

Putting the barbell down without dropping it is part of the deadlift

What's the best explanation for why each decade of the 20th century had its own cultural vibe, but the last 20-25 years feel like a big undifferentiated blob?

“Why don’t people trust scientists and experts anymore? Do they really think they can ‘do their own research,’ and get it right compared to my medical degree? The scientists and experts:

If I had to sum up the elites & pajama class vs regular people WRT covid in one picture, this might be it.

My gym is replacing a couple of squat racks with smith machines, so every time I walk by I'm gonna do a land acknowledgement that the smith machines sit on stolen squat rack land.

She literally whined on twitter a year ago about racism and injustice when man did, then, exactly what she wanted him to do here.

I don’t see a real apology showing he learned anything. I see a celebrity whose popularity dropped, trying to get some of it back.

Wow who could’ve seen this one coming?!?

Preworkout is a scam

It was fed by the oxygen of our collective misogyny. Do you even space physics, bro?!

Someone call 911 to report a dead body after this evisceration

What you think will happen after you bench 225 vs what actually happens

15% standard, 20% for good service, more if service was truly above and beyond (I’ve tipped up to 50% of big bills for truly outstanding service), 10% for subpar. If that’s not enough for you, you can find another job that pays more.

We’ve never been so back

Tale as old as time

Why do people think this? If I can put down 705 pounds, you can put down whatever you’re pulling instead of dropping it.

One of my rare non-shallow thoughts in between the deep squats

How do the most marginalized folx have so much time for such narcissistic navel gazing in between being constantly oppressed and fearing for their lives?

Squat, bench, deadlift, press.

unds like exactly what @christopherrufo and @therabbithole spent countless tweets trying to explain to @mcuban that DEI would lead to, by design.

Cuban has spent countless hours defending the motte while denying the bailey exists. Kamala just comes right out and blurts out the bailey.

The dedicated recreational lifter is a niche that didn’t even exist 20 years ago. You had casual exercisers, dedicated exercisers, and people actively competing or at least in the orbit of people who competed. Now for the first time you have a growing niche of dedicated but recreational lifters. No desire to compete in anything, not obsessed with lifting and the whole lifestyle like a lot of us are, but they actually train, not just exercise. They don’t just show up for a few weeks after new years or to get in shape 10 weeks before beach season, but put in dedicated work year round. They have specific strength goals measured in weight on the bar, that they know might take years to attain, but want to hit anyway. These are usually numbers that seem outlandishly strong for normal people, like a 405 deadlift, but would put you early in the first flight at most powerlifting meets. They don’t organize all or most of their lives around lifting and training like competitors do, or influencers who are all about dat lyfe. They are usually successful professionals with busy careers and family lives, who manage to squeeze training into 60-90 mins, 3-4 days a week. They’re not very concerned if their bodyfat is 8 vs 11%, but they’re smart enough to know that getting their squat to 315, their bench to 225, their press to 135, and their deadlift to 405 will absolutely change their lives. They’re mostly not interested in enhancement, aside from the men who are legit candidates for TRT. They want to be strong and fit for life, robust enough to handle whatever weekend warrior demands they have, but they’re never gonna wear a muscle stringer or spend 7 minutes flexing in the middle of the gym floor in front of their tripod to find that one perfect screenshot to poast to their followers for external validation. They want to hit their goal numbers, get that 405 deadlift and then see if 500 is possible. But they know once they’re past 405 or so, the process of doing so is maybe more important than whether they ever get there. These are my people. I love coaching y’all and am excited for another year of gains ahead.

Collegiate strength and conditioning coaches will do anything to keep their players busy except make them squat, press, deadlift, bench, and clean.

Pressing 225 is cooler than benching 315

“Criticizing is wrong, except when I do it.”

I’m not the strongest guy in the world but 150x10 incline DB bench without going to failure is half decent. You don’t need to drop the dumbbells either.

Even if the anti barbell squat guys were theoretically proven right*, I’d still squat because you can’t replicate with a smith, hack, pendulum, or leg press any of what Platz so passionately describes here

Ironically it takes a college degree to be indoctrinated into believing this nonsense.

Is this about right?

1124 lbs and it doesn’t even look that hard. @ThorBjornsson_ isn’t just next level, he’s next galaxy.

It’s not enough to not be weak. We must be actively anti-weakness.

YEAH BUDDY

Perhaps if they didn’t want their jobs to be declared non-essential, they should’ve spoken out when tens of millions of their fellow Americans’ jobs were declared non-essential.

I never felt anything from creatine. Eventually stopped taking it - didn’t notice a drop off, stayed off it for years. Started again a year ago, 10g per day. Didn’t notice anything when I got back on. It’s cheap enough not to care much but ya.

Conventional deadlifts have absolutely nothing to do with building muscle according to Very Smart People On The Internet, which is why the only man in human history strong enough to deadlift 505KG just happens to be one of the largest, most muscular men in history as well.

A rotisserie chicken is one serving

If your message is: -lift 5x per week - 30+ mins (fasted) cardio 3-5x per week -15k+ steps per day -track everything you eat, and adhere to a very specific macro and calorie plan 95%+ of the time -also you need to do this in 5 separate meals per day -don't drink -take Supplements That Work -which also usually means getting bloodwork 4x or more per year it's not that what you're saying is incorrect per se, for those who really want to optimize. It's that you are not talking to the general population and it's kind of disingenuous to pretend you are. This will always only be a tiny slice of the general population. If your message is: -lift 3x per week for 60-75 mins -try to get 8-10k steps per day but if not, at least do a 10-15 min post meal walk -cardio 2x/week, but if you can't, then you really should make sure to get those 10k steps per day -eat enough protein and not way too many total calories and don't worry too much about the rest -consider working with a good TRT-doctor if you're a man around 40 or over who has symptoms that is realistic for the vast majority of people in the general population to do if they want to. It's true that both of these things are more than what most people do now. But the latter is something most people can fit into their lives without making their entire life revolve around it, the former is not. My message is for the general population.

Before mocking people for turning to non mainstream sources of info and bemoaning anti-intellectualism, maybe do some reflection on why the scientists, experts, and intellectuals have inserted blatant political activism into their ostensible fields of expertise, and the expected effect that has had on people trusting them to tell the truth.

If you’re a healthy male under ~45, and you’ve never trained seriously before or even lifted before, there’s a greater than 50% chance that if you start this week and do it right, you’ll hit a 135 press, 225 bench, 315 squat, and 405 deadlift before next New Years. So do it.

If you can't: -Press 135 -Bench 225 -Squat 315 -Deadlift 405 You don't need to: -Do a 5 day bro split with 4-8 exercises for each bodypart -Focus on optimal isolation or targeting or angles -Worry about regional hypertrophy You just need to focus on the basics.

I don’t think it’s any deeper than that they know people of their ideological ilk dominate the bureaucracy.

The combination of one-size-fits-all maximum grip width and absurd arching that powerlifting allowed for decades, led to where now lots of people associate bench press with a party trick instead of basic upper body development. Sad!

76 year old Ric Flair just ended all whiny cringe claims about risk to reward ratio on deadlifts forever

No my man. You just need to stop doing that bro-split that you don’t benefit much from yet, and do a basic barbell-based linear progression.

“What about the Sith attack on the Jedi 100 years ago?”

How do you explain to the typical fizeek bro that the guy on the right is one of the best coaches in history and the guy on the left (who looks like AI tbh, but regardless) is doing retarded slop that won’t help anyone accomplish anything?

It’s amazing that 95% of the developed world wore masks for 1-3 years, and they didn’t reduce covid by 53% anywhere on earth. Every single place masks were touted to have worked, subsequently got hit with a massive covid wave, hilariously documented over and over again by @ianmSC . And yet “study says,” so once again we have to ignore our lying eyes.

You’re the strongest man in the world. You just deadlifted 1113 lbs in competition conditions, the most of any man in history. You still have a faint outline of abs despite weighing 445 lbs. You post this picture and a bunch of sub 200 lb bros who have body dysmorphia and probably take more gear than you do, call you fat and tell you you need to cut to 10% bf before you do anything else, you’re seriously not in a good position to put on muscle right now bro, not metabolically healthy and insulin sensitive enough to put on mass properly. This is 2025 on Twitter.

The executive order requiring masks at airports and on planes, shot down by a federal judge two years ago, was only officially rescinded TODAY. They kept it active for two more years just for funsies. Let’s go back and look at how they characterized the judge at the time 🔽

BIGGEST MALE CANON EVENTS: -Squatting 405 -Benching 315 -Deadlifting 500 -Pressing 225 -Power Cleaning 225 -10 bodyweight chins -Weighing over 200 lbs -Becoming the fat and pink man you were born to be

I think serious lifters tend to be more rightwing because it’s all about personal agency: You want to achieve a certain physical goal, the only path is individual effort. It takes the responsibility from vague unfalsifiable systemic factors and places it squarely in your own lap.

Try and keep up (you can’t)

I understand why people don’t like the recent take your dog with you everywhere and treat dogs like the children you never had trends, but denying the amazing bond we as a species share with dogs is insane.

You have lists of words you can’t say anymore that are longer than your nasty toenails, think comedy is supposed to be “punching up” activism rather than just be funny, and you’re surprised when one of the most successful comedians in history tells it like it is. Lol. Lmao even

Struck up a friendly gym bro-ship with a newly hired trainer at a commercial gym I briefly trained at 10 or 15 years ago. He had recently finished playing football at a D1 program. Told me about how “someone” would just leave “supplements” with instructions in their lockers so everyone had plausible deniability.

They treat normal distributions as if they’re logical propositions wherein one exception invalidates the entire rule, instead of tendencies and averages around which to form general understandings of how things work.

Your terms are acceptable.

Today @michaelmalice taught me that Chick-fil-A is merely Raising Cane’s driving the speed limit.

Funny too because wokeness, far as I can tell, requires the denial of core tenets of both evolutionary psychology and biology.

Yeah buddy

“Republicans are uniquely gullible and conspiratorial” @wanyeburkett From October 2023

“When I am weaker than you, I ask you not to bully me for my looks because that is according to your principles. When I am stronger than you, I bully you for your looks because that is according to my principles.”

“This was an effort to take a very fast track of something which would have potentially been a major change in national policy without the opportunity for any debate or discussion.” - Oh you mean exactly how the entire lockdown and covid regime was implemented in the first place?

Maslow’s hierarchy of gains

Know what does work though?

They know it exists when it suits the needs of their argument at the moment

After Trump wins, we’re going to deport everyone who uses a trap bar

Many such cases

2025 is a great year to start training seriously and hit The Standards 1.0: 315 Squat 225 Bench 405 Deadlift 135 Press Achieveable for most men in about a year (or less) of dedicated training, if you know what to do.

“I deadlift 3x bodyweight.” “Alright but what kind of deadlifter are you? 900 @ 300 or 405 @ 135?”

These weigh less than normal 10 lb metal plates. You can’t change my mind.

The people who demanded your private medical info to go to a diner or the gym, are now pretending to be offended when people ask about the same info when someone collapses or has a major health event in the public eye. Even as that happens more often than anyone can remember.

Good thread. A lot of people think everyone is already deeply entrenched, I suspect there’s a lot of ppl out there like Mitch. The broader Q is: why have smart, well meaning ppl like Mitch become used to farming out their own agency & critical thinking on such important topics?

It survived in the sense of the old joke: “How do you become a millionaire? You start with a billion and waste most of it.”

3x5 vs 3x10

5 years ago this week I had to drop him off at the vet during the height of Covid madness because I wasn’t allowed inside. He’d been diagnosed with osteosarcoma, which they have no cure for, but can amputate if you catch it early enough. They said we were trading 1 leg for 1 more year of life, otherwise he’d be gone in 1-2 mos. But we’d just get that year. Better than 1-2 mos but still brutal to hear when your otherwise perfectly healthy and energetic dog just turned 5. Well, it’s 5 years later and we just got back from a 1.25 mile hike, now 10 years old and still on 3 legs. So there.

Put the form police and arguments about full ROM aside for a minute, just imagine how absurdly strong you have to be to do this on a seated press at 315x12.

Christmas party season mode: engage

I love how 39 mos later a judge forces the feds to admit that The Science™ was literally a manufactured consensus achieved via 1st amendment violations in collab with media and tech, and the authoritarians who did it still think it was not only justified but righteous and good

This is probably the most interesting answer so far. Other replies also strike me as having correct elements to them but I hadn't thought of this and I don't think anyone else has mentioned it yet either (though I can't keep up with all the replies).

If you’re not eating 20,000 calories a day to get your squat from 165 on Monday to 170 on Wednesday during your novice linear progression, you’re not really trying.

In June 2020, I went to Florida and coached a squat/deadlift camp at a gym in Tampa, which was fully open. I ate indoors at restaurants all weekend. I then flew to NJ, where both gyms and restaurants were still closed. I’m all for slugging it out on the merits but this is absurd.

The only Exercise Physiology you need to know, in reps: 1-3: STRENGTH, size 4-6: STRENGTH, SIZE 7: No one does 7s you psycho 8-12: SIZE, strength 12-20: PUMP, size 20-25: Silliness 25-30: Madness 30+: Death

Jake’s drinkin that sour milk

Twitter lifting discourse be like

“He’s gotten elite results on the court for 20 years, so you can’t question whether this might not be effective S&C,” is a type of brain rot that infects the entire industry. The post hoc fallacy at scale.

One of my favorite pictures from @SS_strength illustrates two crucial points: 1. Getting bigger and stronger literally makes you more mechanically efficient at lifting, it literally transforms you. 2. How your training needs change as you get more advanced. One of the common midwit replies when I post about training development is something to the effect of, "Please explain to me how human physiology changes, otherwise what works for an advanced lifter will work the same for a beginner." There are many ways to explain why this is a midwit take but this is the most visually compelling without needing to understand any abstract concepts. As the muscle belly grows, the angle of attachment of the tendons change too, making them more efficiently placed (closer to 90 deg) to exert even further force against the external resistance of the weights you're lifting. From the perspective of an accessory lift, this might also effect the ROM needed to achieve best results - it may not be exactly the same when you're a 225 lb beast after 10 years of lifting as it was when you were a 175 lb n00b. Human physiology doesn't change in an evolutionary sense, but there are real, germane difference between novices and advanced lifters that effect what works best for each in a myriad of ways.

The avg liberal is still smarter than the avg conservative, but almost no one comes to beliefs based on thorough research, they rely on sensemaking institutions. Liberals slightly higher avg IQ is no match for the feelings of moral superiority and tribal cohesion they get from continuing to use the captured and deranged institutions like the NYT, CDC, etc to get their sensemaking.

Deadlifts are a low-risk, very high-reward exercise if you know how to do them correctly, which isn’t very hard to learn or do. Best to learn and then do them instead of being a mewling quim.