My squats passed 112.5 kg (250 lbs) on my last workout, hitting 3x5 was hard and I’m a little scared of going for 115 kg next time. Still managed 7 reps on the last set though and I was fucking sweating for it lmao. This is also the only major movement I haven’t had to deload yet.
Making progress on OHP is ridiculous - someone here said they’ve hit 230 lbs on that and I have no idea how, you must be a monster. Like the last time I worked out, I’m hitting a wall around 50 kg (111lbs and also 3x5) - I failed the last attempt at that weight and I’ve reached that point again, which I’ll be attempting later today. I will say that learning you have to activate your core during the lift helped a lot, but that advice kind of goes for all major lifts.
And finally, I can do a full 3 sets of pull-ups unassisted now, albeit with great effort. Overall feeling good about it and I can see my body getting kinda beefy now, but that’s also because I’ve been eating so much food now.
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you must be young or something your progress is crazy. i think either my oldness or me not eating enough is holding me back. also im worried about hurting myself so i dont push it as much. Anyway well done. This boomer is envious.
Thank you! I’m actually kinda old (could probably get a good idea of my age looking at my post history), but I have been focusing a lot on nutrition/eating a lot and sleeping enough this time. I think, in the past, when I tried to work out consistently, I didn’t focus enough on recovery (and I’d say nutrition is a big part of recovery), but I’ve found it’s extremely important - I’ve been injured a couple times in the past, so I learned that the hard way.
I’m a dirty omnomivore, but I was able to quickly jump from a 135lb atg squat to 185lbs(could maybe do 205 now that when I get out of the pool where I’m at, I do a janky getup with one leg) deadlift is around 230 now too (and could do more but I’m pretty sure the back is too undeveloped and my grip limits me, when I did the 230 my arms temporarily went numb, the sweat turned icy, and had two very distinct oval white splotches near my shoulderblades, other than that been fine since) my pullups suck rn but I think I can do like 2 or 3 chinups. But yeah it only took about 3 weeks, focusing on form, bracing core, and breathing. Did multiple '1rm’s with lots of rest between. But I’m gonna cut the weight in half and work on reps to build better endurance because to warmup to do the prs safely put me on my ass more than anything and I only would do like 3 as I increased the the weight each time. Was being a bed rotting potato though so to me it’s still impressive.
Did it without a spotter or proper spotter arms too :3 so I can now GTFO from under safely albeit noisy
