Hell yes, you crushed that set
Looked like you had a few left in the tank too, congrats on the PR!!
I wish I had a magical PR belt.
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I was only half-sarcastic in my response, at least
Just lift without a belt for like 4 years and then use one again lol
I wish my PRs were so easy to come by I could just downplay them and discard them like that.
Me too, hadn’t managed a squat PR in over a year.
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Ha that’s longer than what I have been lifting for to begin with. I’m still a baby in the grand scheme of things.
The beauty of submax training right? Im lifting stuff right now that is basically half of my max and it is murdering me haha.
Do you think the belt is just allowing you to display the strength you already have? I mean… a belt only helps you brace better.
Fixed that for you.
Absolutely. I don’t feel like I’ve built any strength the past several months.
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5s realization
Pull ups
+10x4x3
+0x38 total
Press
35x5
45x3
50x2
55x1
60x5
BB Curl 45x21,12
Dips
+10x7,6,8
+0x22 total
120 band pull aparts
some lateral raises
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Fair enough
At least now that you know how long I have been lifting, you have a better sense for how weak I am
Idk I (and I’m guessing everyone posting in your log) think you’re stronger than you give yourself credit for. Your last squat day looked, to me, like you had a few reps left in you… and was a PR so that’s a win in my book.
Lets pretend that’s the case. What have you tried to fix that? Cue misappropriated Einstein quote
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Sorry for being a broken record.
I suggest you try double-progression. Your issues with getting stronger sound exactly like the one I had.
@boilerman A win for sure… I am whiny, which does me no good, and perhaps too hard on myself, but I will ask you something – if you were lifting as long as I have and a 2 plate squat weren’t sorta not too difficult by now, how would you feel?
@dagill2 Can you elaborate?
@magick Not a broken record at all. I intend to run primarily strength-oriented programs for a good portion of the year, and although I think I’ll be doing Coffinworm next, I have kept double progression like you and a few others have suggested in mind. I do tend to err toward following more comprehensive approaches, as I don’t trust myself very much to program assistance myself.
100 cal assault bike 11:45
75 band pull aparts
SSB still not shipped yet @ Titan fitness pls
Two more days left of 5s wave. I might take a deload week as an interim before whatever I do next, as I am erring toward not doing the 3s week. But I don’t feel very fatigued, so I’ll see.
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As in, try something different. More different than Juggernaught.
I understand what you’re saying for sure and I agree it’s frustrating when stuff stalls. My bench and press have basically been stalled for a year which really has been getting to me, so I’m kind of in the same boat.
To echo what @dagill2 posted though, I have been trying many many different approaches… GMM, Leviathan, pervertor and now I’m onto DW (which tbh has been the most promising). I’ve also (at the peak) put on 12-13 undeserved but planned pounds to no avail. There’s a ton of stuff you can manipulate to try and drive your squat up. TBH I think a bit of self confidence would go a long way.
If I were in your position, I’d load the bar up and squat something heavy that I’ve never hit before to prove to myself I can do it… Deload, and then start a new program. That’s just me, and it probably wouldn’t help me progress in any way, but that mental block that “I suck” would be gone
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If mentality is the issue, I’ve found clusters to be effective. 3 sets of 5 singles with 10-20 deep breaths in between. You can really get comfortable with heavy weights, and get your volume in too.
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What’s your best 1 rep squat? I haven’t seen you do any heavy triples or singles since I have been following, which isn’t that long so perhaps I missed it?
225 remains an out of reach goal for me as well. I hit 205 maybe once or twice… I think we’re both going get there this year though. 
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How long is that?
I can certainly relate to how you feel. I often feel the same way. We compare ourselves to others and see how we are virtually doing the same thing but yet, they surpass us. How we approach our journey plays a vital role obviously. I don’t work as hard as @T3hPwnisher so I can’t complain about not having the same results.
Still, determination, consistency, dedication and all those big words that those fitness Influencers like to throw around, are by far not all there is to it.
The truth is we all start from different points, bring different assets to the table, hit different bumps in the road and overall move at different speeds, no matter how we approach things.
I am in my 5th strongman season this year and have been going to the gym for almost 10 years (the first few weren’t serious strength training but still) and it was only a few months ago that I hit a 500 lbs deadlift.
Terry Hollands (British pro strongman) deadlifted 260 kg/ 573 lbs the first time he maxed out (I think he said that in a q&a recently,if I am not mistaken). He reached a 450 kg deadlift within his career so far. I guarantee you that NOTHING in this world will get me a 450 kg pull in my career. No drugs, no weight gain, no lifestyle choice. I didn’t start from the same point and don’t have the same circumstances, no matter how hard I dedicate myself to it and how passionate and all that I am: I won’t deadlift 450 kg.
Now that is not to say that we should not set our goals super high and be ambitious! If I dedicated everything I had, did everything right and committed hard as fuck to the goal of deadlifting 450 kg, I would still absolutely reach a fucking great deadlift.
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That is the plan.
Sorry, I should clarify – 225 is a lofty goal for any average female lifter. I don’t think not hitting that for the short period over which I have been lifting is surprising, nor is it demoralizing for me. I picked that number as an example for @boilerman or any other male lifter, as women do not dominate this website.
I also don’t care about absolute strength. I don’t compete in anything that demands a heavy single or triple. What bothers me is that there is very little if any progress over years of lifting. Though I’m clearly better at cranking out reps than I am at lifting efficiently at higher intensities, that the weight I lift for reps has barely budged is discouraging. I am of the opinion that hitting a new 10RM is as good an indicator of progress as a 3RM or a 1RM.
Now, you and others might say – well, maybe you’ve been doing volume for so long that you need something higher intensity in order to make strength gains now. Maybe that’s true, and that is a hypothesis I am about to start testing. But the above is my rationale, and I don’t think I’ve been training like a total idiot the entire time.
About 4 years. A blip on the radar compared to many people on this forum, but I don’t think it’s short enough that for me to feel this way is silly.
To be honest I don’t really compare myself to other lifters here, and I’m not an active social media user to watch everyone’s perfectly staged PRs. But fair, maybe I don’t work as hard as I’d like to think.
I’m not asking for a 300 pound deadlift, a 2 plate squat, or a 100+ pound press here. That’s not to say that I feel these are entirely out of reach at some point in the distant future; they’re not terribly elite. It’s more that like any other hobby I pursue, I would like to not be stuck at nearly the same point I was about 3 years ago.
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