Originally Posted by R_H_Clark
Originally Posted by benchman
Originally Posted by BlueDuck
According to those weight charts, everyone is fat.

I'm old, fat, and strong.


You can't be old,lean and strong?

Actually at about 12 %. Much of my life I was 120, under 5%. I am a bench press specialist, and have actually built significant muscle mass after 40. At my peak, at 50, I was 190 - too heavy for much of anything else, but among the strongest benchers in the world. At 65 and176, I'm far more mobile, and still pretty strong. Lighter weight class lifters aren't the hulks you see in the heavier weight classes. Fairly lean. I can tell you from experience at a world level, that if I am much leaner, I will be nowhere near as strong. That's a fact. I am not muscle bound. I train for efficiency, even though I have gained size .