[quote]Destrength wrote:
[quote]Captain Wheels wrote:
[quote]Destrength wrote:
[quote]Captain Wheels wrote:
Thanks for the kind words, but I’m 100% sure you’re stronger than me at a lesser bodyweight, I’m like ~225 morning weight - a fat fuck, I weighed 235 in the gym yesterday, I plan on getting to 242 gym weight by August 17th
I don’t really care about bodyweight, I just want to be big and strong rather than lean, and when I compete in powerlifting (probably in 2016 when I’m 18) I’ll be competing in at least the 275 lb weight class
But my lifts right now (being really conservative, like stuff I know I can hit)
250 bench
425 squat
475 deadlift
So not strong at all, but I’m hoping to reach some insane numbers at some point in my life, so for right now I just got to keep grinding[/quote]
I am at 415/315/465 at like 195. I am going to try for a bench PR in about six weeks once I’ve gotten a couple DE cycles in and I’ve retrained my bench. I smoked 240X1 against doubled minis last week and probably would’ve gotten 250X1 if I made a more conservative jump.
So… I beat you by 45 on the total and 65 on the bench. You’re still pretty damn good for your age. I’ve been doing this for awhile longer than you so it shouldn’t be too surprising about how your strength compares to mine at our different bodyweights. You’ll be kicking my ass pretty hard soon as far as absolute strength goes with your weight and still being somewhat new to lifting. I was expecting you to weigh around the same as me so I was like "What the fuck have I been doing for training in the past couple of years? This guy has shat on my progress pretty hard. " lol
Also, try out westside training once you’ve stalled from normal training. Training like that did wonders for my bench (it consistently added 50 pounds to it per year for a couple of years), and did wonders for my squat and deadlift once I actually figured out how to train them properly. [/quote]
I really gotta work on my bench, I’m doing what my friend who hit 350 at age 16 for bench, basically 5x10, so I’m hoping to make some gains
As far as westside I will soon follow some of their principles by doing some speed work and stuff, but I’m not a huge fan of the whole routine setup as I like to do my accessories more bodybuilding focused because I care about strength and size nearly equally (just don’t care about leanness) but when I do like the coan deadlift routine it has speed work
Today:
missed 345 on breathing beltless paused squats, i don’t know why, I’ll hit it for 3 next time, but then I hit 365 on normal squats faster than I’ve ever done it before, so that means these breathing beltless paused squats are working
Barbell row
45x5
135x3
185x3
225x2
265x20 difficult
Stiff leg deadlift no belt no straps, double overhand, but used chalk
135x1
225x1
265x20 nice
back circuit:
1 hammer grip pull ups:
me x12
10x8
20x7
t bar cable rows
195x12
210x12
225x12
Wide grip lat pulldown
180x12
195x12
210x12
Machine row
210x12
230x12
250x12
Machine pulldown
190x12
240x12
250x12
Felt like I really hit my lats hard… But I really hope my squat is there next workout[/quote]
Alright man, do what you need to do. Speed work is pretty noice, coan phillipi peaked me like a motherfucker too. Funny enough coan phillipi added more long term gains to my squat than my deadlift (I lost my deadlift strength but I kept my squat strength).
Wanna have a race to the first 550 pound raw (belt and maybe knee wraps if you somehow get anything out of them) deadlift? No hitching, soft lockout, or straps. [/quote]
Why not man, sounds good, anything for the extra motivation. Good luck!
Yesterday:
Bench
45 warmup
120x10
140x10
160x10
180x10
200x9 spotter (brother) grabbed it but I could have got it
220x5 eh, progress is progress
db shoulder press
warmup
60x10
65x9
70x6
squatted 375 quickly then a db side raise dropset starting with 50x10
Then a face pull dropset superset with db rear delt raises