How did you end up behind me on bbb? I started like 2 weeks after you.
Itāll vary a bit from person to person depending on muscle fiber types and whatnot, but most people can get 4-6 reps with 85ish% of their 1RM. So, in theory, if you can pull 345 for 5, you should be able to grind out 405 for one. In practice, I wouldnāt be confident in a good 405 single until youāre handling 365-375x5.
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Be safe: do 400lbs for 5. Iām confident this will give a 405lb pull.
In all seriousness though, Iāve found deadlift very difficult to estimate 1RM from rep records, in my n=1 experience.
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Iām gonna be testing these weights after winter break.
Bench
195x5
Squat
235x5
Deadlift
345x5
OHP
115x5
If I can do more reps I will. I am confident I can get all of these. I mean I should be able to do at least one rep. The weight is projected maxes of my old 5 rep tm. Thatās so I wonāt embarrass myself and do a weight I canāt do.
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Hey Chris or @dagill2 or anyone. Is it bad to take a week off lifting. Iām on vacation right now and Iām going back friday, then I have the weekend.
52 weeks in a year. Nothing you do in one of those weeks (barring serious injuries) is going to have serious long term consequences.
Tl:dr: yes.
I think youāre missing the point of all this. Where, in the programs you were prescribed to do, does it list to do 5RMs of weights you want to hit? Stick with the programs and you will eventually hit those numbers, and by that point your actual 1RMs will be higher.
No where thatās what Iām going to test for my Tms.
I benched 225 on new years eve. That is quite nice. My brother took me to the gym.
@liftangryordie500 @dagill2
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Nice work dude!!! Your bench is stronger than mine. See where hard work gets you? Great job, way to ring in the new year.
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Good work man. Iāll have to up my game.
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Bench: 225
Squat: 275
Deadlift: 315x2 this was a warmup before failing 365 and 335.
Ohp: to be determined maybe
Lol 335 on deadlifts wouldnāt budge.
Welp bbb beefcake was a success. Onto building the monolith. Deadlift was kindāve epic fail tho. I want to improve it. I feel like I should be training my deadlift with heavy weight @Chris_Colucci
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What was your starting and ending bodyweight?
If I followed your log correctly, your working sets went from 215x5 to 275x5 in about 10 weeks. Thatās improvement, not what Iād consider an epic fail by any means.
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I will have to check the following morning. My body composition has changed. Last year the most I deadlifted was 325 yet I could deadlift 300 for 9. I couldnāt even do 335 this year. Itās so weird how I can do deadlifts for reps but it doesnāt make my deadlift stronger. It made my back look really good though.
My squat and bench responded great to the volume. My overhead press too, I pressed 130 today. Why not my deadlift. I find that extremely odd. Anyway I have tms based off the one rep maxes I did. I feel very confident I can used these numbers.
Bench:190
Squat:235
Press: 110
Deadlift:305
I feel I can do these for 5 strong reps.
In my experience, my deadlift 1RM gets better with lower volume and higher intensities. However I canāt stress enough that that isnāt the purpose of your training program right now.
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Starting bodyweight:190
Ending bodyweight: 191
I havenāt really gained much weight.
My legs got more muscular so did my back and chest. I also got stronger.
Did I do something wrong by not gaining weight. What do you recommend for dieting when Iām on monolith I only ate 3 meals while on beefcake should I eat 4 on monolith.
Thereās a prescribed diet that goes with that program.
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