545-545+495×2

It is indisputable that civilization weakens the human body, which by nature (like every other thing, in due proportion) requires strength and without it, or with less strength that is due to it by nature, cannot help but be most imperfect; and that civilization makes the subsequent physical delicacy a quality proper to civilized man, when in nature it is neither proper to man nor to any other type of thing, nor indeed should it be. It is indisputable that the human race, insofar as the body is concerned, is declining from generation to generation, each generation being worse than the last one, both in its own right and also because, having thus declined, it cannot fail to produce a generation which is worse than itself, etc. etc. — Leopardi, Zibaldone It’s not all glory, fellows. One must accept failure as a regular companion on the lifting journey to keep us humble. Last night, for example, I missed two attempts at deadlifting 545 off of a two-inch block. My arms twitched. My legs…