[quote]samoth2 wrote:
Those are some awesome goals. I hope to see you hit them sooner rather than later.
Every thread I read now seems to be filled with good advice from you, so thanks for that.[/quote]
Thanks a lot man, I see it as another form of exercise, to help solidify my beliefs and build my knowledge.
Plus I simply enjoy helping people that ask for it, the guys I coach in powerlifting aren’t very open a lot of the time, or want to try new things, so I let them, but it drives me a little crazy. I just try to remember it’s part of the process and I was much worse than them at one point.
Speaking from experience, experience of other lifters I know, and what I’ve read, pausing your bench in training will do wonders for you. I’m a god awful bencher, but I hit an easy 23lb PR at my last meet because I paused every rep in training. I’ve gotten two of our other lifters to do the same, and both have hit competition and gym PRs throughout their last two training cycles.
[quote]black_angus1 wrote:
Speaking from experience, experience of other lifters I know, and what I’ve read, pausing your bench in training will do wonders for you. I’m a god awful bencher, but I hit an easy 23lb PR at my last meet because I paused every rep in training. I’ve gotten two of our other lifters to do the same, and both have hit competition and gym PRs throughout their last two training cycles.[/quote]
I like your advice,
I think I’m going to continue on until I can touch and go 405, then start pausing all my reps, as I simply need to hit 405 to feel strong, that it’s touch and go simply doesn’t matter to.
Last night I taped all my bench sets and sent them to a high level CPU bencher, and he gave me a lot of feedback, and leg drive was one of them. I’m pretty happy that he found so many things to improve on, hopefully working at these little things will get my bench to 405
I second angus that pause benching in training works wonders. I didn’t want to do it either - I have a terrible bench, and I wanted to get my touch and go up to a respectable weight before “taking the hit” that I was sure would come along with pause benching. Well, I decided to start adding paused work in and immediately fell in love with it, and within 2 or 3 months I was hitting touch and go PR’s every session (and bench PR’s have always been few and far between, until now). Now, my paused and touch n go PR are one and the same. Again, I’m a crap bencher, but I’m finally improving and I believe paused benching was a huge part of that. I just added it in after my heavy touch n go, a few sets of paused reps at like 10% less than my heavy work for the day.
Anyways, I will agree with everyone that it’s great to see you posting on so many forums. You are obviously a very strong and experienced guy with quite a bit of coaching experience, and more often than not I agree with what advice you have to give completely. Thanks for helping out, and for putting up vids of yourself so everyone can put a face to the name.
[quote]N.K. wrote:
I second angus that pause benching in training works wonders. I didn’t want to do it either - I have a terrible bench, and I wanted to get my touch and go up to a respectable weight before “taking the hit” that I was sure would come along with pause benching. Well, I decided to start adding paused work in and immediately fell in love with it, and within 2 or 3 months I was hitting touch and go PR’s every session (and bench PR’s have always been few and far between, until now). Now, my paused and touch n go PR are one and the same. Again, I’m a crap bencher, but I’m finally improving and I believe paused benching was a huge part of that. I just added it in after my heavy touch n go, a few sets of paused reps at like 10% less than my heavy work for the day.
Anyways, I will agree with everyone that it’s great to see you posting on so many forums. You are obviously a very strong and experienced guy with quite a bit of coaching experience, and more often than not I agree with what advice you have to give completely. Thanks for helping out, and for putting up vids of yourself so everyone can put a face to the name. [/quote]
Thanks very much for the advice man, I actually took it to heart and paused some of my benches tonite, I also worked very hard on brining my lats into my bench tonite, and that made pausing really easy and natural. I had a bench specialist look at my form and give me a ton of great advice.
Also, thank you very much for the positive feedback on my help, I’m working on 3 seperate articles right now, and it would mean the world to me if T-Nation would publish them. Bret Contreras has agreed to look at least 1 over for me, hopefully I can get him to look at all 3.
Anyways, here’s what I did for bench tonite, top sets were 6 sets of 3 with 295, after the advice I received, this was the easiest my practice with 295 has felt, Really looking forward to moving my bench max up 10 lbs for next month and practicing with 305. When I get to 320 for my working sets for a month, I’ll be very close to a 405 bench.
[quote]tattoo’d’popeye wrote:
Nice work man. Good lifts
Is that your normal foot spacing when squatting? Only reason I ask is some guys are stronger narrower or wider.
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I have a shoulder width stance, I tried every style and that was the best overall for me in terms of getting out of the hole, getting depth, and power.
I think the only guys that have any business squatting a bit wider are guys with very long legs, otherwise it’s just too hard on the hips.
And thanks for the props, I’m really looking forward to getting back on track to 405.
[quote]csulli wrote:
I feel like Larry10 has revitalized the powerlifting forum lol.[/quote]
I don’t know if I’m responsible, but I agree, the forum seems to be hopping lately.
Thanks for the positive feedback man, wait until I finish my article on the raw squat, I’m hoping it’s done by Friday, but I’m putting a lot into this, and should really turn the the popular beliefs of squatting upside down with the facts to back it up.
It’s not easy getting through all the studies though.
[quote]solarFLARE wrote:
Nice lifts…I’ve liked all your advice so far as well. It’s good to have knowledgable, positive people here.[/quote]
Thank you very much for the positive feedback, I’ve worked for some time to change my attitude so that I focus on the positive, it’s nice to see that it shows.
