I feel so weak. Or maybe I was fooled.. but it was a few days before April fools.

I feel so weak. Or maybe I was fooled.. but it was a few days before April fools.My friend and his girlfriend wanted to come exercise with me. We did passes for the day for them and they wanted to lift. I was saying how much I enjoyed the SL program and they wanted to see what it was about.. but when I first started lifting weights I didn't feel confident whatsoever.. they said they would just do whatever I was doing. I kept saying maybe we should switch weights, starting too heavy might be bad if you don't know what to lift and we can start with the bar. We did start with the bar. We started with squats. I added weight for mine. They said they never used the Olympic bar before. Their form looked good but i'm a novice so I can't say much about right or wrong. Now I had been squatting for 12 weeks working up to 155, and I was just going off my program on the phone but kept saying maybe do lighter weights but they kept saying they will just keep it the same to make it easy. I kept insisting, but oddly, they insisted back it was fine. They did 5x5 at 155. No issues, both. Looked easy. I wasn't too confused, because squats were really hard for me. Problem was, same story happened on overhead. I was lifting 105, they lifted 105 5x5. I was baffled, because I thought I had been doing great on overhead. If beginners could do this, maybe the program really did nothing for me. Then we did deadlifts. My friend said he heard they could really hurt you but I showed him and he just went ahead on the warmup reps and looked great. His girl did too and she looked great. I did my set of 235, and he did it too, didn't break a sweat. His girl did the 235 for 5 sets. Again, I thought.. I never saw this before. Then she asked a very strange request.. for more weight. I no longer hesitated to stop them. She slapped a ten on each side. There was 255 lbs on the bar. She did 10 reps with it. I never did that. I couldn't do that if I wanted to. I was expecting after we did a short run afterward post workout that they'd let me in on it being a joke. I asked about what they do to workout normally and they said they don't really do anything. I asked about machines. Nope. They said they don't even do cardio but want to start a class. My friend said cya and they left. Do you think this was fishy? Do I just underestimate other people's ability to lift? Am I so weak that I am wearing weak glasses? Is it wrong for me to expect less of them? I dunno. submitted by /u/Cenki [link] [comments]

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