[quote]Zerpp wrote:
Why not just continue to do 5/3/1? if you feel you’re not hitting your arms enough add in some curls, or close grip bench. I don’t see why your bench and squat aren’t going up with the deadlift. Is your form messed up?
When I stall, I up my intake of milk to a gallon again. Quick and simple.[/quote]
Don’t listen to this guy. Your smaller lifts are going to stall before the big ones if you started everything correctly. Thats just the way it is. Just because you didn’t make one type of lift doesn’t mean you shouldn’t keep progressing on the others.
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How is the bench and squat smaller lifts?.. They are all BIG lifts, reason why they’re named the BIG 3. On top of that the deadlift and squat are great assistance exercises to each other. For most people, the only reason why their squat isn’t going up but their deadlift is, is probably because of their form. I see plenty of football kids in my school deadlifting 315-405, but for some reason they can’t squat 135 all the way down without falling over.
Form work is ALWAYS necessary, you can reset the weights and deload all you want, but if your form sucks you can only go so far. Probably end up hurting yourself.
As for the OP, I’m not too familiar with almond milk. But as long as you’re eatting more than enough then it isn’t a diet issue. And since you’re hitting the prescribed reps, it means you’re getting stronger. Do you have a training partner? Having someone behind you, just being there pushing you can give you some motivation and support to push out more reps. Maybe it’s a mental thing?
And like I said, form work. During your warmup sets, really focus on what you’re doing. Don’t just speed through it, big mistake I still make when I’m in a rush. Best of luck.
^ I misread your post sort of. I agree with you on squats to a point. Have you done this type of program or are you just going off of what you see at your school? I’ve done the program he’s on and was always able to pull more.
[quote]crazyj23 wrote:
^ I misread your post sort of. I agree with you on squats to a point. Have you done this type of program or are you just going off of what you see at your school? I’ve done the program he’s on and was always able to pull more. [/quote]
lol it’s alright, I probably didn’t type it out in the best way. And yes I’m on 5/3/1, was on SS. As for the football kids I have no idea what they do. They’re strong, but bad coaching and big ego get in the way of their strength. I always check my form, diet, and whatever else may have made me miss that rep, before resetting or deloading.
[quote]Lol312 wrote:
Thanks to all, to crazyj, thats a really great post and i will definitiely be using that to help with some meals when i want to add some variation.
To The3Commandments, i do think this way, i was just extremely overestimating the amount of calories i was taking in. Now that i realize chicken breast on its own won’t do (unless i have 6 or more…), i will be more serious about my diet.
My question is, on 5/3/1, i have been hitting all required reps, but i am barely doing it. Should i just reduce the amount im lifting by 10-20 lbs on each lift with this fixed diet, or should i just fix my diet and see what happens from there?
EDIT: WHen i say barely hittin the reps, i don’t mean I am grinding them out, i am just not hitting 10 reps even on my 5 week. I am hitting 5 easy reps, probably fail on the 6th, most likely 7th. [/quote]
sounds like you’re lifting what you’re supposed to.
if you can hit 10 reps even on your 5’s week, you’re going too light IMO and you need to re-evaluate your training max.
^^Okay. I am going to stick with 5/3/1, its just that for the longest time I was hitting 7-10 reps on my 5 week on almost every lift, and now I am at the point where I am hitting the prescribed reps, and stopping before I hit failure (i have 1-3 reps in the tank). I then focus on the assistance exercises.
My form is good on every lift. I go beyond parallel on the squat with a low bar placement, keeping my back from rounding at the bottom. MY other three lifts seem to be fine.
[quote]Lol312 wrote:
^^Okay. I am going to stick with 5/3/1, its just that for the longest time I was hitting 7-10 reps on my 5 week on almost every lift, and now I am at the point where I am hitting the prescribed reps, and stopping before I hit failure (i have 1-3 reps in the tank). I then focus on the assistance exercises.
My form is good on every lift. I go beyond parallel on the squat with a low bar placement, keeping my back from rounding at the bottom. MY other three lifts seem to be fine. [/quote]
This is going to happen, it’s part of the program. If your reps didn’t go down over time then you could just keep adding 5 and 10 pounds to your lifts every month forever, and be squatting a thousand raw in 8 years.
Eventually you will reach a point where you can’t get the prescribed number of reps, at that point, reset your training max, by at least 10%.