I mean, I’m adding together your total, and my total (not really, just operating on gut feeling) and thinking that we end up in the same ballpark.
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Upper body pulling is purely a lack of focus. Deadlifts is a lack of practise, I think it’s coming back pretty quickly now I’m performing the lift regularly. I reckon I could have had 135 for double figures yesterday to be honest.
My squat has always been a bitnof a mystery though. It has always been piss poor, never been above 150kg, even when I was benching 120+. I’ve been tossing over in my head this last hour what I need to do to finally get it moving. I think lowering the intensity, programming ab work and maybe, reluctantly, finding somewhere for single leg work might do it.
Possibly so, purely because that only includes one weak link for me. I’m actually getting excited to see where my deadlift ends up at Christmas, I genuinely don’t know.
I’m the same way with the squat. My bench is nearly 120 a hard squat twice with 100. Rows with dumbbell with one hand reach up to 5x 50
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I don’t see my lifts skyrocketing that much during December. But come January, with my new program, I’ll be riding a wave of excitement that I’m sure will push up my work weights.
I think myself and @mortdk will be doing a fake meet between Christmas and new year to show the results of the commited challenge, feel free to join in. I’ll probably start a thread on it in a few weeks.
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Thanks for the invite, but no. I don’t have the space in my head for that at the moment as I have a lot of work to finish before the year ends. I’d be keen on a 2020 meet though.
I would imagine it will happen again. Seems like a good as time as any to test progress.
I assume it’s what happens when you use the quote function with Cyrillic as your primary alphabet.
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MarkKO,
Is this question and to me, what do I mean?
Now I understand you. I really don’t know why this is happening. The program automatically translates to my language when I read, but I write in English. I will quote no more so that there are no mistakes. Sorry.
On our screens, the quoted text appears in Cyrillic text. I assume he was asking if I’d originally written it that way or if it was a quirk of the quote function.
Maybe @Chris_Colucci can shed some light?
No dramas man, we got what you meant.
No, I thought it was weird why we squat so little on these benches. But I wrote to you above that I do not know why it is written in Cyrillic.
…It may be because, when I put the quote, the program translated it directly, and when I did post it, it would show it that way.
Ok we got it 
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Different focusses, I’d imagine. Most of my formative years training were heavily upper body focussed, climbing and machine based. Barbells and lower body work are fairly recent.
I’ve also never really tried that many different approaches for squat, just variations on the same approach, which barely works.
That sounds about right. The quoted part likely just autotranslated when deyan viewed it, so the copied/pasted section carried it over. No biggie.
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dagill2,
And what was the result when he trained more in machines. I ask you because many people deny them, but I think machines have their place mainly in muscle building
That depends on your goals.
When I trained mostly with machines first time around, I was late teens, climbing 2-4 times a week, plus other workouts to supplement climbing, swimming several times a week and going to the gym a couple of times as well. I looked pretty good, had pretty similar stats to Troy era Brad Pitt and certainly looked like I lifted with my shirt off (which was at any opportunity, being a teenager). I was also pretty stress free, slept well, etc. So yeah, results were good because conditions were good.
Second time around, I started using machines because I didn’t know anything else and barbells weren’t available at my old people gym. Again, made good progress in losing a load of weight and getting stronger and fitter (cardio was a big part of what I did, i was running a sub 20min 5k at one point). The results were good, because the situation was good, stress fairly low, sleep high and honestly, I was going from a pretty poor starting point. When I started I would get severely taxed swinging a 9kg kettlebell.
So yes, machines have their place, however I choose not to use them for much anymore because I have better tools available to me for nearly everything.
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@deyan all good, I was just teasing @dagill2
I can read cyrillic, just can’t understand more than maybe five per cent of what I read.
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Am workout:
Uphill treadmill walking: some