Wanting to enter a powerlifting meet sometime in the next year and want to increase my deadlift as much as possible before then. My current max is 195kg after 12 months of consistent strength training.
6 months, 23 days, 9 hours, 38 minutes, and 57 second. That sounds about right.
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Help me understand.
Are you an 18 year old male who weighs 62kg?
How many years have you trained with weights, regardless if you were “strength training?”
I assume by powerlifting you mean squat, bench press, and deadlift. What are your other two max weights?
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I’m 18m and I weight 62kg currently my best lifts are 195kg deadlift 110kg bench and 160kg squat after 18 months of total weight training sorry for not being very specific.
For your body weight and age you have good strength. Have you attended a powerlifting meet to have an idea of what to expect?
Do you happen to workout with or around someone who competes in powerlifting?
What could you deadlift the first time you tried deadlifting?
I’ve never attended a powerlifting meet and I don’t know anyone that has so I don’t really know what to expect. The first time I deadlifted I pulled 120kg
This has got to be on your “to-do list.”
Where do you live?
You need to find a gym that has some lifters that powerlift competitively. There are strict rules for every lift and they may vary from one federation to another. Navigating this cold turkey will likely cost your best total to drop by at least 10%, if you don’t “bomb out.”
Powerlifters are some of the most helpful people you will ever meet in the weightlifting community.
Have you hit a plateau yet? If not, how much do you improve monthly?
Also, a video of all your lifts would be helpful considering you have no one to guide you at this time.
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x2. They’ll usually help you assess form, technique and programming too. Some gyms are branded by and teach a specific training system, some are more general and broad. They’re all helpful but it’s good to shop around and get a feel.
I’ve made my best strength gains and had my most successful peaking cycles via Westside methods personally.
So lets see if i can unravel this time line.
A version of yourself posted back in early June of 2023. This alternate version of you clamed it was 18 years old.
6 month later in December of of 2023 a younger version entered the time stream. .
Saying this version was a 17 year old male
Who had been training for 18 month.
Now 6 month go by another altered version arrives a few days ago. This one being 18 years old with 18 month of experience under his belt.
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160kg /352lbs
62kg / 136lbs
At 6 foot?
Id be interested in seeing the depth of your squat.
Not because your squatting 352 lbs @136lbs because your 136lbs at 6 foot. Squatting 352lbs. Im sure several others eye brows are probably raised
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Not to mention the help it would be for OP to better know what would be expected to get credit for completing the squat in an officiated powerlifting meet.
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True…
Plus, i will bring up the elephant in the room
That by medical standards hes underweight.
His BMI (for what it’s worth) calculates to 18.4, which is just barely underweight: Below 18.5.
Plus he is young, so he should be seeing his BMI increasing the next decade.
The real question I have, being 6 foot tall in my 20’s, is what does his squat look like. I have seen plenty of guys built like OP and their squats are usually what I call “sky squats.” as soon as the hips start being engaged they stop going lower and end up doing little more than a 1/4 squat. I saw one guy “high fiving” his training buddies when he completed a 315lb sky squat.
Yeah, thats my thought on it also.
Don’t want to rain on his parade… having a hard time seeing a passable squat depth in competition at his height to weight ratio with the above mention weight.