You cant pick up a 150kilo crate to chest height if you could you would be competing in worlds strongest man, the barrels those guys carry cap out at 120 kilo and would be nowhere near as hard to handle as a standard crate weighted to 150. And since as you say youve "never lifted a weight" then the crate must be filled with everyday items as opposed to dense metal weight. Thus it would be MASSIVE. For reference a washing machine will weigh in the region of 40kilos. Your talking about more than 3 times that and to chest height meaning you can essentially curl and hold it with bent arms, so rather than a 150kilo 'natural' (as in not barbell) deadlift, which i could believe if you were a beast of a man, your talking about clean-to-chest with a huge irregular weight. I dont buy that for a second, not if you have never seen a weight bench, i doubt id believe it if you were marius pudzianowski tbh, well actually...
Oh dear, now we have someone saying what i can and cant do.
I can pick up a industrial die weighed at 150kg on a properly calibrated scale. ( i dont think you appreciate how heavy steal dies, or gearboxes, or axels, or boxes of plumbing supplies are ((they come in cardboard boxes that can weigh up to 200kilos and a little bigger than a suitcase))) probably best not try and call a bluff when the other person isnt bluffing, you just look stupid.
I regularly pick up small pallets that weigh over 90 kilos a piece and load them on the trunk rather than wait for the forktruck.
Have you ever tried to lift one of the 10ft metal blades from a plow? or 8 discs from a plow? do you know what these are?
Ever had to lift a 6ft cage full of parcels back on to its feet after its been dropped off a fork truck? do you know how much these weigh?
Dude, I DELIVER washing machines BY MYSELF to people and have to carry them down their drives.
Just because you and you weight lifting buddies cant do something, dont think there are not people out there that can, I can lift a lot of weight, but I've arm wrestled and mucked about with people who've never see a gym who feel like they could tear my arm off if they wanted to.
Now dont get me wrong, 150kilos is lung busting, calf tearing absolutely pushing it is hard as i can, but I've still done it.
Difference between me and people who do the type of job i do, is that we are moving these kinds of weight each and every day, day in day out, hour after hour, its not suprising that we are going to be stronger than someone who does a couple of hours of gym a week.
I'll stop off at the gym in church lane in sleaford and ask the guy if i can do a couple of benches, see what i can lift.
