[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
[quote]Chi-Towns-Finest wrote:
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
deads- real max- 700, working max-630
warmups
135x6
225x6
315x6
working sets
70%- 440x3
80%-505x3
90%-565x4 +1 rep
315x10
405x10
short and nasty.
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565 is about 80% of your real max–do you go higher than that very often?
Edit: BTW I started a training log, I decided to do CT’s beast building–seems everyone’s doing 5/3/1 these days! Anywhoo, when you have a minute drop by and let me know whatcha think!
on the third week we hit 95% of our working max and that’s 600 for me and that’s plenty for me. Deadlifting and squatting heavy in the same week and also having fairly heavy sets before the last one keeps the working weights fairly low. the actual max of 700 would be totally fresh after a good deload.
i find that moderate weight for reps seem to give me the best bang for my buck. it also doesn’t beat me up like it used to when i was training close to my actual max. that Wendler guy is pretty damn smart.
i’ll check out your log. is your avatar a recent competition pic??
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Gotcha, so after a solid deload is an ideal time to test your max lifts. I figured there was a very good reason why everyone was following Wendler’s program, I just wanted to take the path less traveled.
Yes that pic was from 11/20/10–I was at 175 before carbing up, after a couple weeks of pizza and ice cream I’m back at ~193 and looking average again–lol. I’m cutting back on the junk now and getting down to business!