BoBandy
07-11-14, 2:11 am
Hey all,
I'm 25 and I've only been at this for about a year and a half, but it's safe to say I'm gonna be a lifer. Year and a half ago, it was winter and I was out of work so my buddy told me to hit the gym with him, so I did, on and off. A few years ago I weighed in at 265 and I had managed to get myself down around 225 and I thought this would probably help more than my living room floor workouts were. A year ago, I started to take training seriously and about 6-7 months ago I was introduced to power lifting and started to put some of that into how I train, bet you'll never guess which Youtube channel I was shown... I'd never done a one rep max lift and I'd never done a dead lift in my life, so I tried it.
Now I've got PRs of:
405 squat
405 dead lift
275 bench
It was great to break 1000. A lot of the time though, with dead lifts, I'll stop myself short because I'm worried I'm gonna hurt my back. When I get past it, good things happen, last time I did, I went from 315 to 365 to 385 in one day. I'm confident in my form, but I still sometimes drop it halfway and I feel like I'm robbing myself of more weight I know could be moving. I wanna get past that. I have a belt too, but I don't really find it helps me that much. I've tried it across my lower back, and a touch higher, over my stomach just to see, but neither seemed to do any good, even as a placebo. I'm still looking to shed some fat too, but I figure that'll come with good diet and hard training. I train 5 on, 2 off but thinking about changing it up a bit. If anyone's got any thoughts, I'd love to hear em!
Here's hoping I break 1100 soon.
I'm 25 and I've only been at this for about a year and a half, but it's safe to say I'm gonna be a lifer. Year and a half ago, it was winter and I was out of work so my buddy told me to hit the gym with him, so I did, on and off. A few years ago I weighed in at 265 and I had managed to get myself down around 225 and I thought this would probably help more than my living room floor workouts were. A year ago, I started to take training seriously and about 6-7 months ago I was introduced to power lifting and started to put some of that into how I train, bet you'll never guess which Youtube channel I was shown... I'd never done a one rep max lift and I'd never done a dead lift in my life, so I tried it.
Now I've got PRs of:
405 squat
405 dead lift
275 bench
It was great to break 1000. A lot of the time though, with dead lifts, I'll stop myself short because I'm worried I'm gonna hurt my back. When I get past it, good things happen, last time I did, I went from 315 to 365 to 385 in one day. I'm confident in my form, but I still sometimes drop it halfway and I feel like I'm robbing myself of more weight I know could be moving. I wanna get past that. I have a belt too, but I don't really find it helps me that much. I've tried it across my lower back, and a touch higher, over my stomach just to see, but neither seemed to do any good, even as a placebo. I'm still looking to shed some fat too, but I figure that'll come with good diet and hard training. I train 5 on, 2 off but thinking about changing it up a bit. If anyone's got any thoughts, I'd love to hear em!
Here's hoping I break 1100 soon.