Powerlifting Training!

[Hollywood]

Alright guys I have a question. I'm training for a PL meet in November and I really wanna get my numbers up. The guy I'm training with has been to many meets and holds some records, so I trust he knows what he's doing. Right now were on a 6-week schedule with the 3 main lifts 3 sets of 5, Mon Wed Fri. Every week he says to go up 20 pounds until you've hit your goal at the 6th week. For example, my close-grip goal for 6 weeks is 225, so the first week I'm close-gripping 125 for 3 sets of 5, which I'm obviously smoking no problem. The second week I'll go 145 for 3x5 etc etc. I just feel that for the first couple of weeks, these lifts are doing nothing for me. Any other powerlifters in here do something similar? If not how do you guys train? Thanks.

[Liftbig21]

Rich When you do those 3 sets of 5 do it with a weight you can just get 6-8 reps with and then after the 3 sets of 5 go to a weight where you can get 3 reps and do 2 sets with one forced rep each set....I did this and tonight i hit 212 on close grip...last week i barely got 195 so its moving up...heavy ass negatives,dips and skull crushers helped me out as well.Give it a try brother.

[AU_Lifter]

I do a MWF program but we generally have three warm up sets at 3reps, 2reps, and a single before our work sets. Generally we do three to six work sets depending on the exercise, also the reps on work sets vary

[Thunder-Thighs]

If your not tearing your muscle down at all then your not getting any stronger. Do you ever do warm up sets or do you just jump in on your 3 main sets. I was never able to get good results with anything less than 5 sets per main lift and 3 sets per auxilery lift. If you are not feeling the least bit worked after your workout it is doing you no good.
I have a friend who went on a routine like this except it was 3 sets 12 reps first week at 50% of his max. 3 sets 10 reps second week for 55%. 3 sets 10 reps for 60% for third week. Then 2 weeks of 8 rep sets going up 5% each week then 2 weeks 6 rep ssets going up 5% and so on. He say very little strength gain and very little size gain.

[Powerfreak]

Alright guys I have a question. I'm training for a PL meet in November and I really wanna get my numbers up. The guy I'm training with has been to many meets and holds some records, so I trust he knows what he's doing. Right now were on a 6-week schedule with the 3 main lifts 3 sets of 5, Mon Wed Fri. Every week he says to go up 20 pounds until you've hit your goal at the 6th week. For example, my close-grip goal for 6 weeks is 225, so the first week I'm close-gripping 125 for 3 sets of 5, which I'm obviously smoking no problem. The second week I'll go 145 for 3x5 etc etc. I just feel that for the first couple of weeks, these lifts are doing nothing for me. Any other powerlifters in here do something similar? If not how do you guys train? Thanks.

Check Out the powerlifting journals in this section. You can see mine and Kathy Fields', who is one of my training partners and strong as hell, Also I think my girlfriend has been updating her journal here (Bombshell). Don't knock em' cause' they're girls, most of the guys on this board can't hang with them.lol
We all have meets coming up in the near future that we are training for.

[mark]

you can also follow Prilepin's chart found here in this article which is a good read:

http://www.elitefts.com/documents/prilepins_chart.htm


Pick one percentage group to train in per workout, train as per the chart, increase the percentage for 3 weeks before dropping it at least 5-10%.
Strength can be built in the 80-100% range, and RFD can be built in the 70-100% range. As long as you're in the 70-90+% range you'll get stronger, and focus on moving the bar as fast as possible on every rep of your working sets and you'll be fine.

Assitance work: do some reps for some sets on exercises that'll build your weak links.