Had a quick look at your log -kneejerk reaction is that you are doing too much, too often, especially on top of a physical job. -You need to let your body have room to breathe so to speak.
Keep calories up but
back off to a moderate 3-4 day template. Something like this below gets very good feedback and will get your bench up…
Thanks for looking and for your feed back! I accualy designed this program to be a step down from volume I have previously done. I was making slow progress (but progress) on the Best Damn Strength Program, but I was getting bored and wanted to switch up, also just wanted to tweek a couple things to tailor it more to my personal liking. So, my plan is influenced by bdsp in that it is low volume, high frequancy, but not 3 times a week per body part like BDSP, only 2 with slightly more volume/intensity on those days. And 5 days per week instead on 6… I could go on about my theory, but you could be right. 531 could fit me well, except I would be bored quickly. It’s one of my downfalls as a lifter. Classic 1b mentality, if you follow Thibs nerotyping stuff. I figure I’ll give my program 4 weeks and re-evaluate.
As I began squatting today, the bench dropped on the scale on broke it.Probably the best analogy of what @T3hPwnisher was talking about
So many questions, I don’t even know which one to ask first…
Hahaha
I live in a tiny apartment, and to be able to move around sometimes I put the bench against the wall,raised on one side
This time I did it without paying too much attention
More context:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CA-uYaXl88S/
Across all feds and weight classes, just the top 11% of all powerlifters have topped 350lbs (raw)
Having a hard time believing I fall in the 4% category based on the graph.
When a couple of friends were training/competing, the economics of a big bench and a lot of emphasis on it were that the juice just wasn’t worth the squeeze. They were making good gains and moving some serious weight with the squat and dead, so allocating much training/recovery time to increasing their bench just didn’t make much sense for their purposes.
Also, in a bit of comedy, data that comes from powerlifting tends to EXCLUDE the strongest athletes, rather than include them, by sheer nature of the fact that the strongest athletes tend to go anywhere BUT powerlifting. Strength is prized in so many OTHER sports that have better payouts (cash, scholarships, or even simply the joy of being in a non-niche activity) that those that participate in powerlifting are those that “end up” there, rather than go there.
Which is to say that it’s a fantastic understanding of what is possible for the average, but it’s worth noting that we’re saying that the average top 11% of the population has demonstrated this potential, but there is definitely more potential for greater ability among the population.
Given there’s zero barriers for entry to powerlifting, besides being able to squat/bench/deadlift an empty bar, and it’s a “compete against yourself” sport for a lot of people, I’m not surprised that the weights skew low when you take it as a whole.
Edit: also as Pwn says, the strongest dudes in the world aren’t powerlifting.
Agree 100%
Part of the reason the US has gotten its ass kicked internationally in weightlifting for decades.
I wouldn’t doubt the number but I would add the context that will include people who compete once and never again or those who do powerlifting for six months to a year and then stop and it includes 59kg lifters, etc…
Take those away and you are no longer so special (well, to us you are)
You have a point, but the same could be said for the 100m dash. Baseball players make far more money than olympic sprinters, so the fastest people in the world might not even be in the olympics.
I don’t know anything about sprinting or baseball to be able to speak intelligently to that reply. My area of experience is strength/strength athletics.
Although an olympic gold medal tends to hold more incentive than a plastic powerlifting trophy.
No mights about it. There are athletes playing team sports that would excel at athletics if they put hours per day over many years into it rather than their sport.
That said, a gold medal usually comes with nice incentive payment, can come with an income/scholarship and usually has sponsorship money come with it. So you wouldn’t expect the gap to be as wide as with a powerlifter and say, the NFL.
Usain Bolt, for example, would be playing soccer and making 10s of millions if he was elite at it but he isn’t so he is an elite sprinter and just making millions lol
Apparently Bolt’s net worth is $90 million US. I think he did alright for himself.
Exactly! My bench in the past in my prime was good but not elite genetic freak level.
I remember the Panthers had an Olympic medalist sprinter at wide receiver many years ago named Michael Bates. He was definitely one of the fastest guys on the field, but you couldn’t just put him on a fly route and wreck corners - it wasn’t that big a difference.
He did excel in the kick return game, though.
I’m not sure if that added to this conversation; just something random I remembered.
90 million is a pretty good incentive to run fast. However, as we all know, powerlifters don’t make that kind of money or even close.
