Recent content by Krakistophales

I've been benching for about a year and a half and I find my bench to be pretty respectable at a 275 1RM and 270 bodyweight. However, I'm pretty sure my form isn't as good as it could be, but every time I watch proper bench form videos or read online, I always get confused. Planting your feet...

Nice. If you want wiry strength, keep the sets low, 2 to 3, and keep the reps at 3 and you should be all set. Just lift heavy at least some of the time and you'll be strong before you know it.

At 150 lbs, I would assume putting on muscle isn't all that easy for you to begin with. So if you stick with 2 to 3 sets of triples you can build a great deal of strength without the mass. Keep us posted on how it goes for you.

I find the calves grow a great deal when you never do the same weight per set, especially in the squat, deadlift, and overhead press (assuming you clean it from the floor each press, of course). If you want to stack meat on, you have 2 options: Do 5 sets of 5 in the squat/deadlift/overhead press...

You may not like this answer, but it's one that's worked for me always: Cut the bullshit out of your program and just perform 2 lifts 3 days a week, alternating one each week: the squat and deadlift. Get yourself access to a real bar and a squat rack, smith machines are only good to hang towels...

Myself as well. My deadlift has always been abnormally strong for only 2 years and change of training, my squat is ok, and my bench is surprisingly high, especially since it's the lift I've trained for the least amount of time. Then again, sometimes people are great pullers and pushers, but not...

Wow, that's damn impressive. He must've eaten like a horse on this program, though, to make a huge jump like that. Either that, or sometimes huge jumps just happen as a matter of course. I remember when I tried my first deadlift single, I could only get 265 for a very hard pull. Afterwards, I...

Nice. What weights did they start with, though?

My problem isn't the press, it's the clean. I could probably press 225 overhead at least once, but I can't clean 215 up to my shoulders yet. I don't like separating the movements, though, since the idea is to do them together, so I train them together. It's also done in a power clean style...

Wendler's promises to put 100 lbs on your deadlift and squat, and 50 lbs on your bench and overhead press in a year. Has anyone done the wendler's for a year to attest to these results?

I lift 4 days a week and usually it takes about half an hour to 40 minutes to do 3 warmup sets and 3 main sets. Sometimes it takes an hour if I'm doing a program of 10 triples or 8 triples or whatever, but I haven't done that in a while. I'm currently trying wendler's 5/3/1 on all lifts...

I fluctuate between 260 and 270 lbs bodyweight and I've been powerlifting for about 2 years now, maybe 2 years and some months. I see all these videos online of people pulling 495 and 585 that are way below my bodyweight, and I can't help but wonder if my progress has been very slow in...

I've been trying to get the clean and press up for a long time now and it seems to have been proceeding at a snail's pace. My last best CP was 205 for a single. Afterwards I dropped down to 50% of that to go ahead and do triples work, with the goal being to hit 205 for at least a triple, if not...

Cool, thanks very much for the info.

Cool, thanks. So you're saying I can compete in smaller local or state meets or something without a qualifying total? Also, those numbers are the qualifying numbers for that class, or an average? I posted the clean and press as well just to get a general idea of what everyone else's C+P was...