once i realized that "doing compound lifts with perfect form means you don't risk major injuries" is fricking cap because if you're trying to push muscles close to failure, you are almost definitionally not lifting with perfect form
I honestly don't even know, my deadlift was in the mid 400s too and my OHP was getting worryingly close to my bench (around 115lb iirc) so I just fricked it off and did a "powerbuilding" split and never went back
I think I was just benching with moronic form for my build tbh
99% of the time it's poor bar path. Every person I see that's eating and training correctly but can't build their bench has a moronic bar path >muh x hurts when benching
Also barpath
Same here, started with SS, quickly ran out of upper body gains, added shit ton of upperbody volume which resulted breaking my bench and OHP plateaus. It was way smarter than gaining 10kgs of body weight like Rippetoe would probably advice.
I honestly don't even know, my deadlift was in the mid 400s too and my OHP was getting worryingly close to my bench (around 115lb iirc) so I just fricked it off and did a "powerbuilding" split and never went back
I think I was just benching with moronic form for my build tbh
When I learned that more muscles = more strength, and that it's impossible to gain strength without gaining muscle first and polishing it with 1RMs later.
What would you guys recommend for upper body volume when someone hits the wall on LP?
10-20 sets per bodypart + focus on strengthening your weak points, hammer isolation exercises hard and it'll fix itself
the new issue for you will be managing your recovery though but that's something you'll have to learn by trial and error unfortunately since everybody is different
strength matters, but realistically most people lift for visual vanity rather than pure strength, and so bloatmaxxing to increase strength doesn't really make sense
Muh strength > aesthetics is almost exclusively a cope by 30+ married men who have lost the willpower to lose their beer gut. Lifting is the easiest part of being fit. Diet and cardio are way harder.
it's truly incredible how people just get so fat as they get older
I struggle to understand it, fatness just obviously looks horrible, yet despite this being so self-evidently true, people nevertheless almost always fail to stop the gradual decline
guys, girls who were thin in undergrad have now packed on prominent beer bellies after 8 years or so, we're talking about well paid professionals who can even afford dieticians, personal trainers, whatever, not like workers who have no time to do anything but eat slop
When I learned that more muscles = more strength, and that it's impossible to gain strength without gaining muscle first and polishing it with 1RMs later.
I did SS as a beginner to build a strength base. My first gf and I could have sex for a long time because I had strong legs. When I lapsed, I noticed my sexual prowess dip dramatically.
Now I do a set of pushups, leg raises and squats xf at max intensity every day because I think it's sustainable and it's gotten me up to almost ottermode
People interested in looking good were never meant to stay on these program forever, you do it for a few months to get your lifts up to a somewhat decent working weight and switch over to something like a powerbuilding/hypertrophy split.
at what point did op fail to keep putting weight on the bar and delude himself with a brosplit?
once i realized that "doing compound lifts with perfect form means you don't risk major injuries" is fricking cap because if you're trying to push muscles close to failure, you are almost definitionally not lifting with perfect form
when I was squatting 315 and still benching 135 with 25% bodyfat at 200lbs after 3 months thanks to mark shillatoe
how does one manage to bench only 135 at 200 lb bodyweight
I honestly don't even know, my deadlift was in the mid 400s too and my OHP was getting worryingly close to my bench (around 115lb iirc) so I just fricked it off and did a "powerbuilding" split and never went back
I think I was just benching with moronic form for my build tbh
By being a lying poo in a cubicle farm
99% of the time it's poor bar path. Every person I see that's eating and training correctly but can't build their bench has a moronic bar path
>muh x hurts when benching
Also barpath
i never left it but I did realize pretty quickly how dogmatic rippetoe is. still think strength matters and always will
Same here, started with SS, quickly ran out of upper body gains, added shit ton of upperbody volume which resulted breaking my bench and OHP plateaus. It was way smarter than gaining 10kgs of body weight like Rippetoe would probably advice.
What would you guys recommend for upper body volume when someone hits the wall on LP?
10-20 sets per bodypart + focus on strengthening your weak points, hammer isolation exercises hard and it'll fix itself
the new issue for you will be managing your recovery though but that's something you'll have to learn by trial and error unfortunately since everybody is different
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strength matters, but realistically most people lift for visual vanity rather than pure strength, and so bloatmaxxing to increase strength doesn't really make sense
Muh strength > aesthetics is almost exclusively a cope by 30+ married men who have lost the willpower to lose their beer gut. Lifting is the easiest part of being fit. Diet and cardio are way harder.
it's truly incredible how people just get so fat as they get older
I struggle to understand it, fatness just obviously looks horrible, yet despite this being so self-evidently true, people nevertheless almost always fail to stop the gradual decline
guys, girls who were thin in undergrad have now packed on prominent beer bellies after 8 years or so, we're talking about well paid professionals who can even afford dieticians, personal trainers, whatever, not like workers who have no time to do anything but eat slop
When I learned that more muscles = more strength, and that it's impossible to gain strength without gaining muscle first and polishing it with 1RMs later.
I did SS as a beginner to build a strength base. My first gf and I could have sex for a long time because I had strong legs. When I lapsed, I noticed my sexual prowess dip dramatically.
Now I do a set of pushups, leg raises and squats xf at max intensity every day because I think it's sustainable and it's gotten me up to almost ottermode
People interested in looking good were never meant to stay on these program forever, you do it for a few months to get your lifts up to a somewhat decent working weight and switch over to something like a powerbuilding/hypertrophy split.