I had a feeling you went to the gym to do some crazy shit again, I see that 565 squat on your IG. You are a madman for real. Quit while you are ahead. There’s a common thing you will hear, that powerlifting is a marathon, not a sprint. That’s how you have to look at this. If you can squat 600 next week that’s nice, but squatting 700 by the end of the year would be better.
Ahh, you caught me red-handed lol. I really didn’t care much for specifically setting a PR today, I just wanted to get a good video angle, as yesterday’s video angle was absolute crap haha. I did 4x4 on 585 for deadlifts after squats, so my back is absolutely wrekt (muscle, not skeletal), so tomorrow is a recovery day, as the gym is closed anyways.
Thursday-Friday I’ll be doing upper body work and my last heavy deadlift day on Saturday, then I’ll be following that very, very well outlined training program you placed up there on Monday.
My last deload week was about 2-3 weeks ago and I didn’t go above 80% on any of my lifts. My next deload isn’t scheduled yet, just whenever I feel completely 100% burned out.
I’ve got a few people on meal plans currently, DM me your email and I can send you a sample meal plan of what I usually follow or have my clients on.
My next B.B. show will be in either September or November and I plan on joining a PL federation ASAP so I can start breaking some records as I have two gyms currently sponsoring me for any competitions I decide to do
Yeah… theoretically I should be at least at a 375 bench by now based off of my strength standards, but I honestly don’t prioritize it as much as I should
Am I fucked up for thinking that sounds like a hell of a fun way to spend a million dollars lol
No, but you don’t need that shit at 18. AT your age you are indestructible and the wimmen folk swoon. You’re packed full of vigor without medication.
Shit, watched your IG. Just get your form locked in. . . looking at what you are doing, with a really good coach the sky’s the limit. I managed a 565 squat yesterday ‘with reverse bands’. We weigh about the same and I’m old as fuck but to be crushing squats and deads like that it’s pretty badass.
Maybe pick a sport that pays? LOL
Exactly, I want to get my form down packed, eliminating any discrepancies so that I can have a 700 squat and 800 deadlift before I turn 19 next May.
About playing sports that actually pay haha, everyone tells me I should play football and that it’s not too late. I don’t think they understand that football requires a ton of technique and not just pure RAW strength. Maybe I’ll try out baseball as my accuracy is 96% on the most difficult level at the batting cages (which doesn’t mean jacks**t when it comes to real baseball lulz)
I’m not really interested in a meal plan myself, I just want to see what you have going on. Nothing personal, but a lot of weird diets and advice are popular these days and in 99% of cases they are not appropriate for any sort of competitive athletes. Do you eat more or less 1g of protein per pound of bodyweight per day? You aren’t on any sort of low carb, keto, intermittent fasting or anything like that, right? As long as you get enough protein, enough total calories, and enough carbs to give you energy you should be fine.
For the deloading thing, that’s a good approach if you aren’t competing any time soon. But if you are closer (like 3 months or less) to a meet then it’s better to plan deloads so you don’t burn out when you need to be lifting some big weights.
Here’s the thing with the program that I gave you, it’s good if you are going to do a PL meet but if you plan to do a BB show first then it’s not really the best way to go. You can compete in PL and BB simultaneously but you need minimum 2-3 months between each meet to get a good training cycle in and actually make progress. The point is to get better, not just compete and not make progress. The exception would be if you are taking all kinds of drugs (and know what the hell you are doing), you hear guys like Stan Efferding talking about how he was bulking while cutting for a BB show and then right after did 6 or 8 weeks of PL training and set world records. You definitely need drugs to do anything like that, and that sort of cycle will probably be in the 10’s of thousands.
So at this point, it looks to me like you have some good momentum going on with your squat and deadlift, you could spend about 4-6 weeks working on adding some mass and improving your technique then 10-12 weeks gradually moving the weights up and peaking for a PL meet. Otherwise, more standard bodybuilding training would be the way to go if you are doing a BB show first, after that switch to PL mode.
You are in the US, right? USPA has meets going on all over the place these days and is probably the best fed at the moment ( I say probably because there was some fucked up judging at the US open), you might as well go with them. You can also set a whole bunch of records. In the USPA/IPL junior men 15-19 division, classic raw (what they call raw w/ wraps) 198 class world records are 574 squat, 352 bench, 650 deadlift, 1559 total. Right now you have squatted 10lbs less and pulled 10lbs more than the record, and based on you training PRs you are 30lbs away from the total record. Yes, you are bulking, but the 220 class records are 578/396/606 (yes the DL record is lower) and 1576 total. You are capable of taking all the records except for bench, you just need to make sure your lifts can pass in a meet. These are also the records from the untested division, by the way.
Another thing to consider, USPA has meets with cash prizes like the US Open ($40,000), there are some other meets with smaller prizes and they are soon going to have a drug tested meet with a $10,000 prize. If you can’t get a football or baseball scholarship then this might be your next best bet. You are already selling meal plans, if you have a bunch of world records you won’t have a hard time finding coaching clients. So think about what you want to do in the near future, you don’t have to quit BB to do PL, you just have to put it on hold for a moment.
Didn’t really feel like typing up the entire meal plan, as MyFitnessPal won’t let me copy and paste, but my total calories are 3,510 P:245g F:151g C:285g
And WTH?? Are you serious about those lifts being recorded as untested?? That seems extremely low for an untested federation. I honestly plan on being at a 600 squat and 700 deadlift naturally within the next couple of months.
I watched some footage of the US CT Opens when they had them and they did wrongfully give some red lights
No joke. Look up the world records on the USPA site. You have to remember that not many kids your age have been training seriously for as long as you. Also you must have some crazy genetics for real, you definitely not a hardgainer. Probably you just don’t need too much volume to make progress. Your back is abnormally strong too, most people would be crippled by now squatting 500+ like that.
Yeah, get serious about powerlifting and you will have all the records in a few years, and 3/4 junior records at your first meet if it goes well. Only now is there some half-decent money coming into the sport, mostly lifters make money from coaching people, sponsorships rarely give you any actual money. To get anywhere in bodybuilding you pretty much have to take drugs, nobody cares about natural bodybuilding. And no, I’m not telling you to do that, I don’t do that myself either. In PL you have a lot of people cheating in the IPF, probably not so much in other feds since they have untested divisions, but drug tested lifting is a serious option.
At the US open the judges on the Sunday were giving red lights for depth to almost every squat, and ones that were definitely below parallel too. The day before Ben Pollack got some high squats passed too, no consistency.
So listen, start a training log here and post some videos of your work sets. Look for a meet in your area (ideally) in maybe 4-5 months.
And I should have mentioned, yes, your diet looks OK from what you have there. A lot of things pass for diets nowadays, I just wanted to make sure you are on track.
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NO. If you do it you will die.
Cool, I’ll start I log next Monday. I think I’ll be taking Friday-Sunday off to let my joints and tendons recover. Finally hit an easy 315 bench today ^-^
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Nacho, Please put up your IG account again. I’m interested in this thread and I want to see the latest teenage beast lifter phenom.
I’m nothing special, but the goal is to “become” something special haha
Second this.
That is a damn big squat for such a damn ugly squat. Compliment intended. You have huge squat gains available from some technique improvements.
Big lifts. Stick with it and you’ll go very far.
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Following up from that Squat technique thread… I’m sure you’ve been in good hands with Chris and he has told you something along the lines of sustainable training is da wae and maxing randomly/frequently is not sustainable. No sense rushing in a game of decades where longevity is king.
There’s plenty of impressive junior lifters who we don’t see years or decades down the line going ham because they got injured or some shit. Even bodybuilding perhaps to a lesser extent can benefit from smart sustainable training.
Now that I’m here may as well go along for the ride. In for the future log and any formchecks you’re going to post. I got you fam.
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Man you are a beast! It would probably benefit you quite a lot to get a strength coach at some point.
Also, why no bench press clips?
I looked into a powerlifting coach about 2 years ago and he was trying to charge some absurd amount and it was like 45 minutes from where I live, so that’s when I actually opted for my first contest prep coach instead for my first bodybuilding show as he was much more reasonable in price. He’s one of my good buddies now, and one of my sponsors.
And my bench is only in the 315-325 range, that’s why haha
Your total is more important than any single lift, and like I told you the other day, you could easily beat the WR total. There’s a guy named Matt Sohmer who has some junior IPF records in the 120kg class, he squat and deadlifts over 800 but I think his best bench in a meet is somewhere around yours.
Maybe teennacho puts in the work for a few years and pops up at IPF Worlds like this lad. Absolute unit lel. Competes in JRs but beats the winning open total on the day with room in the tank.
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