First let me be the braggy daddy. My eldest got into power lifting and fairly recently hit his personal bests of a 535 deadlift and 445 squat.
62 now and lift some but I see no need to build to personal bests at this point in my life. It was never my primary focus but in a previous house I had a nice rack and bench set up and was motivated by those personal bests whether it was lifting of doing a tri (which I don’t do anymore either). Past that.
Moved to condo and sold off the bulk of the set except for the set of dumbells. Kept the rower and the elliptical, a balance disc, and got a pull up bar with rings from it, all squeezed into a tiny space. Now back in a house (decided condo living was not our style) and have a basement again, but no interest in replacing the rack. My boy can do the deadlifts and big lift squats. Still the rower, elliptical, balance disc, and dumbbells. (Ceiling low for the rings but maybe I’ll try some set up yet, just for dips and reverse rows.)
On one past fitness thread here (over 11 years ago looking it up!) I declared my fitness goal as follows:
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It still applies and that’s why my weights portion is focused on goblet squats lifting the dumbbell over my head, and squats holding dumbbells while on the balance disc! But clearly I’m no longer making major deposits into the fitness bank, I’m just delaying the bigger withdrawals.
Of course who knows if I’ll ever have that wedding …