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Home » Shirley Webb’s Deadlift Results Will Motivate You To Get Fit Today

Shirley Webb’s Deadlift Results Will Motivate You To Get Fit Today

Updated September 13, 2023 by Richard Hashimashi

What is Stopping You from Getting Fit and Strong?

How can a Shirley Webb deadlift change your life? 

Do you need a shot in the arm to get fit?

What is holding you back from getting into shape again?

Is it your age?

Do you think that once you hit 40 or 50, it’s all over?

Only downhill from there?

Do you think it is possible to regain your mobility even after the age of 75?

This post will address these questions.

Table of Contents Hide
What is Stopping You from Getting Fit and Strong?
Introducing the Shirley Webb Deadlift
What This Means for You
Watch Shirley Webb Deadlift at the Age of 81
Deadlifting Benefits are Not Just for Athletes
Meet the 78-Year-Old Lady Deadlifting 245 Pounds
From Better Posture to Climbing Stairs
Getting Weaker is a Dangerous Myth
Start Deadlifting Today for a Stronger Tomorrow
#1. Ability to Stand Up without Help
#2. Climbing Stairs
#3. Feeling Good and Fit at Any Age
#4. Independence Day
#5. Hormonal Tsunami
Shirley Webb Deadlift – Wrapping up
What’s Next

Introducing the Shirley Webb Deadlift

Only seven years ago, Shirley Webb was your everyday grandma.

By the age of 75, Shirley, like many other seniors, was finding it harder to get up from the floor without a chair for support.

Even climbing the stairs was an ordeal without holding onto the handrails.

One day, she went into a gym to keep her granddaughter company and ended up signing up with trainer John Wright.

Would you believe that Shirley did not start deadlifting until the age of 76?

Well, not only did she finally start, but soon she started to compete in powerlifting.

Yes, you read that right.

And in only two years, Shirley could lift 225 pounds.

Here is one of the first videos documenting this incredible story:

“A 78-year-old Illinois grandmother is becoming a viral celebrity thanks to a video showing her deadlifting a staggering 225 pounds.

78-year-old Shirley Webb of East Alton said she joined a gym at the urging of her granddaughter in April 2014, and she soon took up weightlifting for the first time in her life.”

Credit Story and Video – Người Việt TV (c) 2016 – https://NGUOIVIETTV.com

In case you have never done deadlifts before, they are not easy.

Shirley Webb makes it look easy, but in fact, deadlifting takes a lot of strength, power, and proper form.

Deadlifting 200 pounds is great; imagine 225 pounds at the age of 78!

What This Means for You

Deadlift Motivation.

Deadlifting Inspiration.

If you think you are all washed up because you are over 40 or 50 or older, stop it.

Can you imagine an 80-year-old man or woman deadlifting 255 pounds?

See how it is not only possible but the remarkable effects that deadlifts have had on her life.

Just watch the marvel of Shirley Webb deadlifting 255 pounds at the age of 80 and listen to HERcules explain how weight lifting has changed her life.

The human body is amazing.

Push your body more than you usually do.

See how deadlifts can miraculously change your health and fitness.

Never give up!

Today, you can start to eat healthier, get moving, and start deadlifting.

You can deadlift to compete or powerlift for fitness.

Watch Shirley Webb Deadlift at the Age of 81

See the sensational Shirley Webb deadlift of 259 pounds at the age of 81 in 2018.

 
 
 
 
 
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Wow !!! Goals !!!! 81 Year Old, Shirley Webb pulls an EASY 117.5kg/259lbs deadlift at 2018 USA Powerlifting Raw Nationals World Championships! #amazing #inspiring #whyicompete #ageisjustanumber . . ?: @mbohart92 #usapl #usapowerlifting #champion #deadlift #raw #powerlfiting #iliftclean #raw #over80 #over80 #rpstrength #sbdapparel #titansupportsystems #a7intl #gnclivewell #bodybuildingdotcom #girlswholift #girlswhopowerlift @spokanesports

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shirley webb deadlift 78 year old lady from St. Louis deadlifting-image-credit-ed-webb

Can You Deadlift If You Are Over 50? – Shirley Webb deadlifts over 250 pounds at 81 – Photo Credit: Ed Webb

Deadlifting Benefits are Not Just for Athletes

Deadlifting can benefit a person who has never done weightlifting in their entire life.

Deadlifts are so powerful that they can rehabilitate a 78-year-old grandmother who could not get herself up out of a chair.

Meet the 78-Year-Old Lady Deadlifting 245 Pounds

By AVIANNE TAN

Meet Shirley Webb.

She is a 78-year-old grandmother from East Alton, Illinois, who calls the gym she hits up several times a week her ‘second home’.

Webb has become an Internet sensation after a jaw-dropping video of her deadlifting 225 pounds has spread like wildfire on social media.

Check out this video of a near 80 year old grandma deadlifting 228 pounds!

If this deadlifting video does not inspire you to start a strength training program, what will?

Read more of Shirley’s rise to deadlifting fame.

From Better Posture to Climbing Stairs

I have written about my own personal experience with deadlifting benefits for posture and stability.

Just about any day after a deadlift workout, I felt like I was walking taller with better posture.

However, Shirley Webb’s experience with deadlifting goes far beyond walking taller.

In her own words:

“When I first started, if I was on the floor, I couldn’t even get up without the help of a chair or someone to help me up,” Webb said.

“And the stairs? I could barely get up holding onto the railing.”

When we say astonishing deadlifting benefits, this is not an exaggeration by any stretch of the imagination.

Getting Weaker is a Dangerous Myth

In the ‘normal’ course of human events, we expect our grandmothers, grandfathers, and ourselves to get weaker as we get older.

We probably expect any person over the age of 40 or 50 to get gradually weaker, and yes, the sight of an elder not being able to get up without help is not surprising.

The fact that an 81-year-old woman who could barely climb stairs is now deadlifting up to 259 pounds and shooting for a deadlift weight of 300 pounds is shocking, to say the least.

And best of all, so inspiring.

If you are a teen or in your twenties, make sure that you share this post with your grandparents, especially if you have seen them struggle with walking or climbing stairs.

I will never forget seeing my grandma sitting in a wheelchair at the relatively young age of 60 and not being able to walk.

All of her strength was in her hands.

She mesmerized me by cracking walnuts in her bare hands, but she could not walk and I felt so helpless to help her.

I do not know if deadlifting could have helped her because she had Parkinson’s, but for anyone out there who is struggling with having energy, power, or fitness, deadlifts cannot be beaten for many reasons.

Believing that you must get weaker as you get older is a dangerous myth.

Shirley Webb, an 81-year-old grandmother deadlifting an impressive 259 pounds explodes that myth.

Keep working out, keep strength training, keep moving your body, keep deadlifting and you can keep getting stronger no matter what your age is.

Start Deadlifting Today for a Stronger Tomorrow

If you are already over 40 or 50, then you should be even more motivated to get to work on getting fitter and stronger.

There is no question that if you start now, your golden years can be much healthier, and what greater wealth than health is there?

If you are over 70 or 75 and can barely walk up the stairs or get up off of the floor, Shirley Webb can inspire you to never ever give up.

The miracle of a Shirley Webb deadlift demonstrates five amazing ways deadlifts make you stronger, no matter what your age:

#1. Ability to Stand Up without Help

We take standing up for granted.

But we should not, because as we get older, we lose more muscle if we are not exercising.

Our body is designed to move, not sit all day, with minor adjustments between the kitchen table, the car, the train, the office, the dinner table, and finally, the couch.

Shirley could not stand up without help at the tender age of 76.

Today, she is doing just fine at 81.

“At the time, I couldn’t walk up the stairs unless I held on to the handrail, and if I got on the floor, I couldn’t get up without a chair,” she said.

“Now I can come right up off the floor. The harder I work out, the better I feel.”

Five years ago, she started deadlifting and powerlifting.

The amazing benefits of deadlifting will keep your muscles strong, so when you enter your seventh decade and beyond, you will still be able to stand up.

#2. Climbing Stairs

As Shirley attested to above, she could not climb stairs without holding on to a railing to pull herself along.

Today, she has strengthened her body to the point that she is feeling great and can climb stairs without assistance.

Isn’t it hard to enjoy life if you cannot get up easily, move around, and climb stairs?

You or your parents do not have to keep losing muscle strength and function.

No one says that deadlifting is easy, just as any exercise requires effort, but look at the results.

Instead of walking around with a cane, this 81-year-old grandma is competing in powerlifting championships.

How great is the design of the body that even in the eighth decade of life, you can reboot your health and fitness.

Don’t wait; start today!

#3. Feeling Good and Fit at Any Age

In Webb’s own words:

“I hope my story encourages others to want to do the same.”

“You don’t have to go and lift 200 pounds, but anyone — no matter what age — can go out there and work out.”

“I promise you, you will feel great.”

“I feel fantastic, I work out twice a week with my trainer, sometimes three times, and I’m just feeling great.”

Do you need more proof of the powerful benefits of deadlifts than this quote from an 81-year-old grandmother who started deadlifting only five years ago?

#4. Independence Day

Every person wants to be independent.

We all want to be self-sufficient and not be a drag or drain on our family or friends.

I imagine you wish you had a buck for every time you heard:

“I never want to be a burden on my family.”

Those are great intentions, but the question is how to achieve physical and mental independence.

Here is a clear example of a person gaining so much strength that she has regained function.

She has gained independence.

Without strength, every activity becomes difficult: walking, standing, getting out of a car, even going to the bathroom.

At least now you know how you can remain strong throughout your life.

Functional independence is one of the most precious deadlifting benefits.

#5. Hormonal Tsunami

The fantastic deadlifting benefits of staying young and strong are tremendous.

An older person might shy away from deadlifting for fear of injury.

However, with proper form, deadlifts are not only safe but will elicit a flood of testosterone and growth hormones.

These hormones help to keep you looking and feeling young and strong.

The deadlift is so powerful because you are targeting nearly all the major muscle groups with one exercise, the deadlift.

Your legs, your arms, your back, your core, even your grip, just about every muscle in your body is going to get a workout.

The deadlift is a fountain of youth because you are doing right by your body.

Shirley Webb Deadlift – Wrapping up

This is how the wonder of a Shirley Webb deadlift can change your life.

Because you see the miracle of the human body in front of your eyes.

Your muscles get weaker because you do not use them, not because you got older!

What’s Next

Start moving your body, start lifting weights, exercising, whatever type you prefer.

Weight training works with barbells as well as with your body.

Look how Shirley Webb regained her mobility and increased her strength by adding resistance training to her life.

You can do the same, no matter where you are on your fitness journey.

If you need to lose weight before you start weight training, find out how to lose 20 pounds in 3 months here.

If you are ready to deadlift, then start with this 12-week Deadlift Program for Beginners in Fitness or Powerlifting.

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