squat 275x10, 250x10x2
Pp 175x10, 155x10x2
bench 165x10, 150x10,8
Bulgarian ss 35sx10, 30sx10x2
press 105x10, 95x10x2

squat was hard, other stuff easy. bw is still 177, I need to eat more.

My friend squatted 425x10 @195 today. wtf.

hi hps 150x5, 140x5x5
sn dl 220x10, 200x10x2
Rdl 240x10, 215x10x2
Shrug 200x10x3
row 155x10, 140x10x2

felt easier than last week

That is a lot to sqat.

Are they honorable beltless HBBS or shameful, degenerate belted half squats?

u kidding me br0? Beltless Hbbs atg.

I do put a velcro belt on when I get to higher %s. There is video of 330x5 if you scroll back a page or 2

I think he was talking about the 425x10@195. #foreversmall

They were Hbbs with a belt. Also FU

squat 250x10x3
Pp 155x10x3
bench 150x10x3
Bulgarian ss 30sx10x3
press 95x10x3
4x leg raises

pretty k.

Correct.

One of the bros I used to train with squatted 400 without a belt. He is pretty strong.

he did 405x10 beltless last week if you prefer that

hi hpc 180x5, 170x5x5
clean dl 220x10, 200x10x2
Rdl 215x10x3
pullups 3x6
reverse hypers 3x12

What do you think your squat 1RM is at these days abra?

If you mean what could I hit in the next few days, maybe 330 or 340.

But I'd estimate my 1rm from during my last lsus training cycle to be about 365 and hopefully by the end of this one it gets up towards 380

Also I'm pretty facking terrible at low reps. Like my most impressive set from last time was 295x10 which is supposed to be a 390 1rm, nevermind the fact that I did it beltless.

Yeah high rep sets translate terrible into 1RMs, it's just a completely different struggle.

Still 365-380 sounds solid, was just curious if I was still ahead is all, doesn't seem like it

snatch 160x3x6
cj 185x3x6
arms and abs

Jared Fleming was at my gym today for a bit but didn't lift at all. Says he's doing crossfit for a while before he gets back into training hard for 2020.

At least I got to see my buddy hit a 415lb cj pr. It is pretty cool to train with these beasts but kindof demoralizing at times....

Seriously. How do you go about improving this other than just spamming triples?

I'm just like you WRT higher reps, had a set of 10 at 140kg and my 1 RM at the time was like 160.

It really is that simple folks.

Yes, I feel that pain. Training buddy pulled my 1rm for an easy triple weighing 8kg less

Islanders amirite.

The other day I was grinding my 120kg squats and some jacked as f*ck maori walks in throws three plates on and busts out about a thousand reps and walks out.

I've seen him since come in and "warm up" for his deadlifts by shoulder charging the brick wall with a medicine ball a few times, place kicking the medicine ball at the wall, doing a few med ball throws at the wall, then repping out 200kg like they were speed deads.

On the other side of the spectrum, I've never even seen anyone pull or squat 3 plates or more. #crappygymlife

One day you're going to end up in a "real" gym and wonder why you didn't take that step earlier

Believe me, I would if there was any such facility even reasonably close to me.

They are just other bros man. They just wanna chill. Sometimes they win some contest called the Olympics, sometimes they just wanna bounce a 200 bench off their chest like some sort of frat boy.

I think it's a combo of being a lolwhite with no explosiveness to start with, and then compounded by me mainly doing higher reps on the squat.




Being around big lifts is the cool and motivating part, and I highly recommend finding a place where you can train with a bunch of strong people overall.

It just sucks cause you train with these people every day so you know they aren't out working you, they just make way more gains or started out naturally way stronger.

Anyway I shouldn't be facking whining because there are plenty of people that would feel the same way about me. k.

squat 282x10, 255x10x2
Pp 180x10, 160x10x2
bench 170x10, 155x10,9 no spot so I didn't try the 10th
Bulgarian ss 40sx10, 35sx10x2
press 110x10, 100x10x2
leg raises

You're a strong guy. But, you aren't training the rep ranges for power and strength... two different energy systems at work too.

That's the only reason you're lagging imo, otherwise you would easily hit big 1rms

squat 275, 245x5, 225x5
Pp 155x8x2
bench 155x10x2
unweighted Bulgarian ss
press 95x10x2

legs were somehow hurting just from warming up squatting the bar.

This was my 3rd time getting sick already this year when I got sick 1 time all of 2016. wtf, this is really destroying my gains.

In my opinion the biggest factors to 8RM+ not translating to appropriate 1RM are lack of heart and yugoreps. Where yugoreps are defined as resting too much between reps. Yugoslavian was notorious for doing deadlift 5reppers in 60s.

For example syndrom does 285x20 and it doesn't translate. But he fails to mention that it took him 3 minutes to hit those 20 reps.

Lol. Good stuff.

time between reps >>> heart >>>>>> never training 1RM >>>>> differences in muscle fiber distribution

I realize the differences in muscle fiber distribution can be a big factor between muscle groups but I don't think it's as much as a factor in different human beings when taking into account the same muscle (or else these calculators would be way off). Obviously blacks don't count because genetics. The traditional bodyfat formulas don't even work on these guys, I don't recall why but pretty sure bone density was different than lolwhites.