# Why don’t you lift weights? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Tags:** diet-weight-loss\ **Created:** [August 15, 2020, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-don-t-you-lift-weights/918144 "2020-08-15T01:48:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 127
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-don-t-you-lift-weights/918144/127 "2022-02-09T00:43:40Z")
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!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-physical-fitness/553229/95)) I declared my fitness goal as follows: [quote] > [@Define physical fitness.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-physical-fitness/553229/95): > > I’ll speak only for myself. I am a 51 year old Jewish guy. My youngest is my 9 year old daughter. One of my fitness goals is that when she gets married in maybe 20 years, that I won’t only still be around to celebrate, but that she’ll feel confident in having me be one of the people lifting up her chair above our heads and dancing around, or maybe even her husband’s. If I am going to have enough strength and endurance to do that at 70 plus, then I’ve got to work on preserving or increasing it now. Moderate aerobic alone won’t be enough to have me be that obnoxious proud 70 year old father, embarrassing his daughter one more time. 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 … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-don-t-you-lift-weights/918144)._