Testing Your Max Too Often

[49ER]

There's a very good documentary on Eddie Hall on Netflix. How good is this documetary you ask? Well it's do fucking good they show you a clip where they are interviewing his wife and you can see Eddie Hall pissing on a free in his backyard in the background

I fucken loved that documentary! I teared up a couple times my estrogen must have been really high lol

 

[tenpoundsleft]

There's a very good documentary on Eddie Hall on Netflix. How good is this documetary you ask? Well it's do fucking good they show you a clip where they are interviewing his wife and you can see Eddie Hall pissing on a free in his backyard in the background

I started watching that one (assuming it's the one were the guy behind it spends too much time patting himself on the back in the beginning) but lost interest after it got too "Blair Witch Project" like with POV action going through airports and expos. Did it get better?

 

[Perrin Aybara]

That sucks bro i train in a facility inly powerlifters i think it helps so much having friends slap the shit out of your back and yelling at you. Especially on squats you are willing to push tje limit knowing you have side and back spotters. I use to always train alone and didnt reallly see my potential until i trained with guus stronger than me.

Yeah, I'm in a rural area. Nearest powerlifting gym is an hour away and that's too far to drive regularly. I'm almost always the strongest person at the local gyms around here. It'd be cool to have other strong people to train with for sure.

 

[49ER]

Yeah, I'm in a rural area. Nearest powerlifting gym is an hour away and that's too far to drive regularly. I'm almost always the strongest person at the local gyms around here. It'd be cool to have other strong people to train with for sure.

I feel really blessed to libe where i live and having a actual powerlifting gym. I never in my life thought id like powerlifting it took a very traggic event to happen to me amd someone sent me a link about a event in my city i figured my bench was strong and id try it out. Now i am completely in love with the sport

 

[Perrin Aybara]

I feel really blessed to libe where i live and having a actual powerlifting gym. I never in my life thought id like powerlifting it took a very traggic event to happen to me amd someone sent me a link about a event in my city i figured my bench was strong and id try it out. Now i am completely in love with the sport

I got into it during a dark time in my life, too. I honestly think it saved my life.

 

[49ER]

I got into it during a dark time in my life, too. I honestly think it saved my life.

Have you ever watched "the truth about us" by George Leeman? I dont know why but that video touches my heart bo matter how many times i listen to it lol

 

[TRT]

I've only done 1rep Max's on the bench, squat and deadlift once a year maybe. When I say "I'm gonna max out" I have to get atleast 6 on my own.

 

[Perrin Aybara]

Have you ever watched "the truth about us" by George Leeman? I dont know why but that video touches my heart bo matter how many times i listen to it lol

Is that the one where he says he goes to an awful place in his mind before every set? Like where he's crying?

I've only done 1rep Max's on the bench, squat and deadlift once a year maybe. When I say "I'm gonna max out" I have to get atleast 6 on my own.

Six reps on a max? So a 6RM?

 

[49ER]

Is that the one where he says he goes to an awful place in his mind before every set? Like where he's crying?



Six reps on a max? So a 6RM?

 

[TRT]

I won't lift any heavier if I can't put it up more the six times. If I 1RM it's not very often at all.

 

[MindlessWork]

I won't lift any heavier if I can't put it up more the six times. If I 1RM it's not very often at all.

Not a bad idea.

 

[49ER]

I won't lift any heavier if I can't put it up more the six times. If I 1RM it's not very often at all.

That's perfectly fine but not for a competing powerliffter unless you only do 1 huge event every year

 

[Eman]

I thought so, too. It's so common on these forums and at my gym that guys are maxing every week or every few weeks and they wonder why they're stuck.

There is a guy at my gym that maxes out often... Not usually with singles or doubles but maxes in the 5-6 range every workout.

The frustrating thing for me is, it seems to work pretty fucking well for the guy.

500 bench press, his deadlift is in the mid 600's I think... Squat is pretty impressive, probably approaching a 700.

 

[Perrin Aybara]

There is a guy at my gym that maxes out often... Not usually with singles or doubles but maxes in the 5-6 range every workout.

The frustrating thing for me is, it seems to work pretty fucking well for the guy.

500 bench press, his deadlift is in the mid 600's I think... Squat is pretty impressive, probably approaching a 700.

There's a guy at my gym like that, too. RPE 10 every single set ramping up to his top set and usually goes for a max single almost every workout, too. He can deadlift almost 700 with terrible form and 3/4 squat over 600, TnG bench low to mid 300's. They're the exceptions though, the majority of us can't handle that much max effort work.

 

[Eman]

There's a guy at my gym like that, too. RPE 10 every single set ramping up to his top set and usually goes for a max single almost every workout, too. He can deadlift almost 700 with terrible form and 3/4 squat over 600, TnG bench low to mid 300's. They're the exceptions though, the majority of us can't handle that much max effort work.

I agree... He'd be capable of more if he optimized his training I think. His form is rough on a lot of those lifts...

He's been off gear for a while trying to get his wife pregnant... He's antsy to get back on. Said he plans to run possibly dbol and adrol when he gets back on, what he described was basically 12 weeks of orals. I told him he might be able to get away with it but definitely get bloodwork to make sure his liver is okay, he smiled and looked at me like I was kidding.. lol. I hope he doesn't run it like that.

 

[Eman]

There's a very good documentary on Eddie Hall on Netflix. How good is this documetary you ask? Well it's so fucking good they show you a clip where they are interviewing his wife and you can see Eddie Hall pissing on a tree in his backyard in the background

I like the part where his wife is talking about what sex with a strongman is like lol...

 

[theprodgicalson]

There is a guy at my gym that maxes out often... Not usually with singles or doubles but maxes in the 5-6 range every workout.

The frustrating thing for me is, it seems to work pretty fucking well for the guy.

500 bench press, his deadlift is in the mid 600's I think... Squat is pretty impressive, probably approaching a 700.

i think alot of this depends upon what muscle fibers are dominant
slow twitch = more volume work
fast twitch = higher intensity work
this is from research ive read and videos ive watched

i mean, alot of the guys at my gym train westside style. some probably dont do Louies programming to a T. but i see a guy maxing out on deads like every other week. he is strong for his weight, but has been at this much longer than myself and the only thing he is really far ahead of me is Squats. but he is in wraps also. so who knows.

 

[TRT]

That's perfectly fine but not for a competing powerliffter unless you only do 1 huge event every year

Ya agreed.

 

[taco33150]

Guilty myself on deadlifts

 

[Perrin Aybara]

Guilty myself on deadlifts

That's the worst one to do it on, too, lol.