Im 22 years old currently 6'4'' 205 been actively going to gym for about 18 months now.

Should have posted this thread 18 months ago, but didn't so here I am.

During teens I was a lanky mofo who participated in hockey, softball,swimming and water polo. Only really had any success in swimming and water polo due to lanky stature at roughly 6'3'' 150 back then. Over the years slowly put on some weight until spring 07 when I started working out when I was roughly 175 pounds.

Over the 18 months I've been at the gym I put on roughly 35~ pounds due to working out. Last spring I peaked at roughly 210~ pounds, and over last 3 months ive been roughly 205 pounds.

Last 6 months I've been eating alot better but still not perfect, cutting out alot of fast-food, pops, and other crap.

Over the last year I've been doing pretty much all SS 4-5 days a week at some waspy athletic club in toronto.

Typical workout is 10minute jog to start then 3-4 SS activities that varies each session.

I usually start light for warm up, then progress to do 2-3weight levels of 6-8 repetitions before going to max weights below.
DL-260lbs
Squat-290lbs
Clean/Jerk-130lbs
Press-130lbs
BP-160lbs

Videos to come shortly...

Goals - To increase strength, be roughly 215~ pounds, improve overall fitness / appearance, washboard abs ldo.

Calling something SS does not make it so. Buy the book.

I've been the SS wiki a bunch over the last year...

http://startingstrength.wikia.com/wi..._Strength_Wiki

Maybe I described what Im doing wrong in first post, but I'm doing the activities listed on that site for a while now..

SS program isn't just those specific exercises. It's doing them in a specific order and time frame i.e. 3 workouts a week on non consecutive days and rotating the exercises as described. I think that is the point dtemp is making.

What goblin said.

Buy the book. It has pages that go in order. Read these in order. The website, while handy, has just a fraction of the knowledge of the book, contains too much extraneous information for the beginner and is not good for folks with ADD, apparently.

You're doing compound lifts. That's good. That's a start. But you're not doing SS. Read the book.

Yeah, like the others said, buy SS. Don't be afraid to look into the Bill Starr 5x5 either (I'm a huge fan of that program).

Also, it's soda. Not pop.

"SS" 4-5 times a week is almost certainly overtraining. You'll see better results with a better structured program and regular rest.

Trollcet makes his way to HF. The quality of this forum is in marked decline as some of the better posters have disappeared and there is a prevalence of the lowest common denominator.

You are not squatting. Drop the weight down and actually learn how to do them right.

how many posts have you made in the last couple weeks?

edit to clarify; to count up your posts do not only count posts from your log regarding your workouts as that will not illustrate my point.

tercet. i think after 18 months of training your deadlift should be significantly higher.

No I do not troll, and go away, do you have anything else better to do.

Well I agree, probably should be able to do alot more bench press too. But I was pretty pathetic when I started, so I've come a long way.

Also Im a pretty tall guy with even longer monkey arms, so deadlifting is a bit harder/awkward for me then some 5'9''-6''0 guy who has less distance to deadlift with.

this is impossible

I shuold update this more then once a month... Anyways
Changed my routine up a bit starting from scratch somewhat to get basics/better form down on things.

On and off for the last year I've always had issues with my knees "buckling" as I can describe it when squatting. When I get down to a certain angle my knees click/buckle and it feels really awkard going down. It doesnt happen all the time though, so its really weird. Is this from weak knees, not streching properly or what?

Weak knees. You have to focus on shoving the knees out and resist them collapsing into valgus.

Yea changed that but knees still buckle a bit, hopefully knees better in a few weeks.

pretty decent chance that squat form is lulztastic

Yes before no doubt it was pretty lol, im just box squatting now and occasionally with some light weights to get form 100%.

Went last night spent probably too much time watching the yankees choke in between reps, also talking to former college/minor-league pitcher(http://www.baseball-reference.com/mi...d=taylor001dre) who is son of a 10+ year mlb year pitcher ron taylor.

Anyways, I have always been pathetic at chin-ups, bench, push-ups, upper body/core stuff while I have improved alot in other exercises over last 18~months.

Whats the best tip to get better at these when I haven't improved as much as I would like

Eating more. And doing them more often. Like following Starting Strength, for example.

Well, I'll admit last 2-3 months I haven't eaten as much hence losing 10~ pounds, but I have always been pretty pathetic at chin/pushups/etc. Im lucky to go double digits while those exercises in one attempt. I've progressed at everything else over the last 18months or so, but not so much here. But ill take your 2 cents, starting eating more and hopefully get better at these.

10 chin-ups is not pathetic. It's pretty close to getting to the point where you need to add weight. As soon as you can do 15 reps of BW chin-ups, you should add some weight.

Read Starting Strength for god's sake. And eat more. And do chin-ups every day.

Tercet, you're a very tall guy so gains in the weightroom are going to come slower for you than most....unless of course you eat like crazy. As always, I'd suggest a middle ground.

I didn't realize that's how it worked. No wonder I'm working up really slowly (6'4" and I don't eat much (though I'm working on that)).

Have you made any progress as of late? I noticed you have been active elsewhere in the forums. Maybe this will cheer you up: