They made some great pants.
What happened to your deadlift after that? What stance did you use?
I could probably help them improve a few things about their business software and handle any employees who become too drunk to be at work, but thatās about all Iād be good for besides dropping some Zoolander quotes.
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lol, I meant the sumo guys at meets
Ditched sumo entirely.
Focused on higher-rep deadlifts for volume, and doing more upper-back and more forearm stuff since I want to look like godzilla.
I havenāt hit 580, but feel content and not trying to push it.
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Sounds very interesting to try, although Iād be miserable only committing to that as you would need to stay away from pushing yourself on other stuff, which is no fun.
2-months = 60days, try to add 1# to your max as often as possible, train the lift every single day. Go into the session as you get started and see where it goes, because no one can predict this.
Accessary lifts to do here - light lat pulldowns, pullovers (maybe even heavy on them) and reverse grip bench AND bench with fat grips. All this to keep shoulders from snaping and tendonitis. Maybe even add floor press.
You might just get something pretty good even if itās not 55#.
Or just donāt.
Thatās the best way to prevent your shit from snapping
This is a rather limiting perspective to have. Iām pretty much trying to do exactly this (add weight to bench in a short amount of time), and while Iām sure Iām starting from a bit of a lower weight, I think 55 lbs. in the next couple of months is doable for me, especially since Iām up almost that amount in the past few months already and Iām confident in my programming. But itās how you approach and work toward itāI donāt believe that I can only push myself on one thing at at timeānot that we have no limits to our amount of volume and/or intensity that we can do, but complementary goals are possible with smart training. Personally, Iām quite enjoying progressing on my weighted pull up and bench right now in addition to hammering a bunch of isolations with intensity to boot since they feed into my bench and pull ups. But not going hard on pull ups just because I pushed bench hard the day before is of zero concern as long as fatigue is managed properly.
My personal experience and results of my current training disagree with this premise for two reasons.
Firstly, this assumes that linear progression will continue indefinitely. If linear progression worked forever, I could probably bench 500 by now lol. When building strength, programming is key. Doing the same movement indefinitely also absolutely fails to address strengthening the weak portions of the lift and improving your own personal limiting factors.
This also brings me to the second reason why this will not work for long term progress: continually maxing out on the same movement pattern with the same strength curve WILL result in fatigue and overuse issues. This usually takes the form of plateaus and/or injuries. It is essential to rotate variations to change the strength curve in order to avoid this. Maxing out twice a week on the same movement requires extremely intelligent exercise selection in the rest of the workout and the max effort variation must change each workout in order to avoid potential fatigue and overuse issues later, let alone what might happen with repeating the same exercise for two months straight. Additionally I am not convinced only heavy singles are more effective for strength gains compared to everything I shared above due to the fact that singles likely donāt provide as much stimulus in order to build strength over time. Regardless, without switching variations and getting strong at all the joint angles and via different strength curves, injuries or a plateau will happen given enough time. Neither of these outcomes will result in accomplishing sustained progress.
@Moonflower you said 6-months is doable. That aināt 2 monthsā¦
(confused).
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Not doing the challenge is even less fun and gratifying than being committed to one-lift.
15 percent for me would be 30# right now.
Sorry, that was a typo I made last night when I wrote this and didnāt catch before I posted. Iāve fixed it in my original post. Thanks for spotting it!
@Moonflower ok, well when Iām lifting and the hour mark starts creeping up (it takes about a 1/2 hour to get warmed up and primed) I gotta get it finished because Iāll be late for something.
I have minimal time to train.
Iāve stated in my journal Iāll do multiple 10-minute workouts throughout the day. Those are light workouts. I canāt hit top weights in 10 minutes.
For 2-months and gain 55# or even close, I have to commit on that lift only.
@freshyfresh thats a funny meme.
I used to post on some workout boards back in like 2005. I never changed much since then. I remember these older farts about my age telling me ā oh I canāt do anything heavy anymoreā āwhen you get our age you become chronically injuredā or something. Now Iām hearing it from a college kid doing dumb things!!!
Womp womp
Plus I never said anything about it not being possible. Just dumb. You have a strange amount of hero worship going on
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Firmly grasp it
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@freshyfresh Whoās my hero that Iām worshipping???
I was doing stienborn squats with around 275 back in 2007 before anyone did them and before they were ever an event in strongman.
About 5 years ago I got one with 290#
Womp womp