What was the most weight that you warmed up to before your opener?
For having done 501lbs the last meet and you feeling strong on the squat and bench. I would have opened around 475lbs to get in the meet. Then gone to break your 501lbs on the second lift, like about 510lbs. If that came easy, maybe try up to 5% more weight, which is about 25lbs more.
Warm up was not much because i use alot of low back to pull and i get gassed out.
I did 225x3, 315x 2, 365x1 then 405x1. Which 405 felt easy but there are some training days i have trouble getting 450 up. But maybe i should have tried 455 in warm up and if easy went with a bigger opener. But ya what you listed would have been better. Like 474, 508 then like 529 or 534 or 540
Nice lifts! What do you weigh?
Well, I am a 72 1/2 inches tall and I usually easily get in the 220 pound class
However, I have not been watching my diet or cutting and I also weighed in on the morning of the events because I never am able to get the day before off of work so Iām fully fed and carb loaded and hydrated by the time I weigh in
So basically, I have a lot more body fat than I usually have and I donāt think very much more muscle but I weighed in at 249lb this last event. Which is the most Iāve ever weighed
Last meet i did 518lbs pretty easily. I have been trying to improve. Tonight i got a new 4 rep PR 215kg calibrated (474lbs x4). Equivalent to about 536lbs. I actually have never did more than a single at this weight. All 4 reps let the weight settle and then lift again. Not touch and go. And no more grip and rip. My body proportions suck. To reach the bar even when lifting 225 my back is curved. But i am trying my best to get better.
Got another PR. This is a 3 rep PR.
225kg/496lb x 3. This was basically my last lift in April meet and my middle in sept meet. And i have never done this much for more than a single.
@littlelarry Taking a quick peek back through the thread, 455 was a grind for you on your April 1st post, so youāre definitely making progress repping out five plates for a solid triple and moving more fluidly with the weight. IIRC, I was repping 495 for 8 reps or so when I finally broke the 600lb barrier.
Has your squat progressed similarly?
You appear to be mostly back on this lift, which may have something to do with your start position. I found that combining a set of cues and REALLY focusing on my setup enabled the leap from 545 (where I was stuck for some time) to 600+, along with just getting stronger.
Chest up, butt out, flat back, pull the slack out of the bar and build tensions in your lats, then push the world away from you.
If what youāre doing feels good, by all means continue as it is working, but I think you have room to improve on your setup to recruit more leg drive into your pulls. Just my $0.02.
Yes i feel i have made progress for sure.
My squat has stalled. I did 452 at the meet in September. And i have done a lot of 430, 440, 450 singles in gym and 385 for 5 is my best set of 5, and 407 is my best triple. But i cant seem to improve. I pretty much have been at a standstill for the last 2 months. And it feels harder and i have to push myself just to get those lifts i stated some days.
I used to pull with arms to jolt it and now i really try to push with legs in almost like if i was trying to jump off the floor to get it going and have been not using arms.
I am decently tall. Just over 6ft and have short arms comparatively. And have trouble getting into position. If i do proper set up and then just push i am probably 100lbs less on what i can lift.
I have never had any back pain or issues with my current setup. Which i feel is better than my grip and rip i was doing. I know i need to eventually build up my strength with a proper form. But this seems to be working and i am making a lot of progress. I just think my dimensions are not good for proper mechanical leverage. I wish i could have a more vertical back. I know it would make me lift more. Its a work in progress. When i farmer carry i could do 600lbs back when i could barely deadlift 405.
At the risk of being nit picky, roughly 50% of the people in the world are women, and a 600 LB deadlift would be extremely unlikely for nearly all of them. So the obvious answer is no, āmost peopleā donāt have a 600 LB deadlift in them.
Nearly everyone who said yes in some way applied the extra constraints of āa healthy young man of average or larger body size who is willing to work his butt offā, which makes a lot of sense. But even with that constraint, youād have to assume everyone in that population responds to training in a uniform way. I doubt that is the case.
Even among powerlifters, the 600 LB mark seems to be a note worthy achievement. Iāve seen estimates that less than 0.01% of the worldās population could actually demonstrate that much strength. Of course that includes men and women, big and small people, young and old, trained and untrained, healthy and not.
If you are one of those rare 600 LB lifters, maybe you should just revel in your elite status?
At the time of thread creation no woman had ever pulled 600, so I think that was a given. I believe Tamara Walcott was the first to do so and itās possible for more women to achieve, but very few.
It is eminently doable for most healthy, normal men, and far more than 0.01 percent hold this potential.
@LittleLarry You might drive your deadlift up more by focusing on your squat strength for a while. You may need to gain weight to achieve it, but the squat is definitely a better muscle builder than the deadlift. If your deadlift is going up but not your squat, itās possible that youāre mostly becoming a better deadlifter.
Well did 501.5x3 today (551lb equivalent). I was pretty sore from my last squat day so it was a grind to get 3 reps but i got them. And then after tapped out i tried an 11lb PR and got the 529lb single.
Agreed. At my heaviest, at 5 and a half feet I saw just at a 400lb deadlift. Idk how absolutely fat and stacked Iād have to be to even get an additional clean 500lbs. Let alone 600.
Between her and April Mathis (given sheās much taller), I have an idea of what Iād look like if I just dropped everything and streamlined into wanting to pull/squat like they do.
The urge is thereeeeeeee lol
I hadnāt heard of Mathis but I looked her up and something tells me she has higher testosterone than I do. Much higher.
Iām kind of surprised she didnāt break 600 with her other monster lifts.
This is just speculation, but I think sheās fairly injured, or was. I used to watch a lot of her lifts, and some of the pulls she just seems like sheās battling some injuries. I think maybe that leaked into her other lifts, but again I could be completely wrong though just guessing.
Excellent couple of vids. Congratulations on your PR.
New PR today. 245kg. 540.1lb. I did my warm up then 385x3, 440x2, 496x1 then 540x1.
My squat is down. I squatted 3 days ago and hit 363x3, 385x2 and it was a grind for 407. Not sure why deadlift is increasing weekly and squat is going down.
Providing you are not hurt and considering that your squat is 75% of your deadlift, IMO, you should be focusing on your squat form much more than you should be chasing more weight on your deadlift.
The squat seems obviously a form challenge for you. Maybe higher rep squats will provide the additional work (more reps) needed to sharpen up your form. I thought that you were headed in the right direction earlier in the year.
The squat involves entirely different muscle coordination than the traditional deadlift. Your deadlift increasing has little to no carryover to the squat.
