140-Pound Woman Joins The 1,000 Club

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Reaching the 1,000-pound club is an impressive feat for any lifter man or woman. It is essentially a standard by which many lifters measure themselves to be “strong.” To join the club, add the total weight you can lift in a squat, bench press and deadlift. If the total is more than 1,000, you’re in.

And if you’re not in, it does not mean you’re weak. In fairness, that’s a damn lot of weight. Which made it all the more impressive when Gabrielle Tucker announced on a Reddit thread that she had eclipsed the 1,000-pound mark -- and she’s just about 140 pounds.

For context, it made national news when Hugh Jackman -- yes the same super swole Hugh Jackman that’s built like a superhero and hence played Marvel’s Wolverine. -- joined the elusive club, topping it off with a 410-pound deadlift. Tucker, who started lifting a bit more than six years ago, can deadlift 455 pounds -- or more than three times her bodyweight. That lift was worth a International Powerlifting Federation world record. She also benched 200 and squats 347.

When Tucker started training, she was 110 pounds. She’s stacked on 30 pounds of barbell-crushing muscle since then.

On her personal blog, Tucker said she started lifting because, like most other people, she just wanted to change her body. The softness around belly needed to go so she hit the gym and it wasn’t long before she was hooked. At first it was all about aesthetics and it wasn’t long before Tucker realized how strong she was. She started packing on muscle and filling out but this time she was much less concerned that her belly wasn’t rock hard.  

In her Reddit post, Tucker credited working with RTS (Reactive Training Systems), a powerlifting group dedicated to helping lifters attack their personal goals, for helping her crush such big numbers.

While Tucker trained for the US Junior Nationals she described a upper/lower body split training style, where she focused on bench presses twice a week, and squats and deadlifts twice a week. Now she said she’s focusing on full body training, hitting sessions four times a week and chopping down her volume.

If you’re thinking, “her diet must be nuts,” you’re wrong. Tucker said in the post that mostly focuses on putting in 2200-2500 calories each day and makes sure she hits at least 100 grams of protein per day while supplementing with protein powder and other natural supplements like fish oil, vitamin D, zinc, magnesium and melatonin as well as a multivitamin.



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