Strength Training PR's - Brag About Your Success

I got two new PB's this week.

Squats - 100kg (220lbs) x 3

and

Bench 55kgs x 5 x 2.

I'm also impressed by the handstand press-ups, because I can't even do a handstand! LOL.

Push-ups I can do pretty well though! LOL.

Sweet! I see many men that can't squat that with good form.

Thanks!

When my trainer was away, I had a stand-in trainer for a bit. When he asked what my squat PB was I said 85kg.... the look on his face basically said "yeah, whatever".... and then he started talking about form and depth, and I got the hint that he thought if I was squatting 85kgs, then I wasn't doing it right.

So he made me do like 20 squats with just the bar, and then 20 more with 40kg on, and then finally he started putting more weight on the bar, but it was almost like I had to prove it to him. Granted I don't LOOK like someone who goes to the gym.. LOL.

So its been a while since I gave an update here. My biggest PR was on my deadlift for reps. I had done a 1RM at 250lb a while ago and last week did 220lb x 5. I probably could have gone for one or two more but my form was pretty fugly by the 5th rep I decided against it.

Other compounds:
Squats are up to 185 lb x 1 (I deloaded and am playing around with form at the moment)
Bench is 115lb x 3
OHP is 85 x 1 (slow going on this one).

Went up to four plates per side on my iso-lateral high rows today - drew some stares and lowered my rep count to 8.. always enjoy finding a new niche!

Also finally hit 12 reps on all four sets of my plated hyperextensions (45, 70, 90, and 115lbs).

Last night knocked out both of my strength sets on bench at 200lbs eight reps.. just barely couldn't lock out my 12th rep on 70lb dumbbell bench (fourth set of DB bench, 8th set of bench overall), and nearly pushed 12 reps on the chest fly station at 175lbs. I remember not too many months back only doing like 90-105 there >_>

I'm on some kind of hellfire streak since early October!

I'm SO jealous of your Deads!

Well, I am jealous of your squat!

Well, I am jealous of your stomach.

New pr on my cleans today. I did a clean at 140lbs today. more than my body weight :bigsmile: :bigsmile:


And not a strength training but still a good one I made a new best time on my 800m run at 3min 9 seconds. Not really super fast but pretty fast for me

New pr on my cleans today. I did a clean at 140lbs today. more than my body weight :bigsmile: :bigsmile:


And not a strength training but still a good one I made a new best time on my 800m run at 3min 9 seconds. Not really super fast but pretty fast for me

I just started doing Oly lifts with a trainer. My sessions are ad hoc and I only use one for these due to them being more technical. So I have only had two - but I I am loving it and 140lb, especially at your weight, is totally badass.

Someone told me to work up to handstand pressups. I regularly do pressups with my hands on the floor and feet on a bench but the advice i was given was to do them against the wall and gradually move your feet upwards. Wierdly, you do get the sense that you are going to land on your head but you just have to keep doing them regularly and you will soon increase your numbers. Don't compromise on safety though and at first, have someone there with you. However, form is everything - no point in doing 10 ****e pressups when 1 really good form pressup would work just as well! There are lots of things I can do now that 12 months ago i would have considered out of the realm of possibility for me.

Some new stuff between last night and today:

Leg press - upped my final set to 760lbs, I just missed being able to hit that 12th rep last night so I will be going it again later this week.

Squat - upped to ten reps at 275lbs

Bench press - currently maxed at 245lbs

Chest fly - I went off the wall on this station today. My setup previously had been two warm up sets, then two strength sets at 160 and 175 pounds, usually hitting 12 and then 8-10 reps. I pegged 12 reps with ridiculous ease at 160, so I jumped my 175 to 190.. pegged 12 with almost the same ease there so I added a fifth set at 220lbs.. and finally I was only able to do ten reps. No idea what gives there ^_^

Also threw in some planks. Did a one minute plank with 45lb weight on my lower back, then a 30 second plank with 90lbs of weight on my lower back, then did a 30 second decline plank with hands on medicine ball weighted with a 45lb plate.

(on a nice side note, I picked up a GREAT haul at GNC!)

Feeling like a n00b ... How do you calculate the 1RM dealie?!

That's ok. Not that many people know.

(weight x reps x.0333)+ weight = approx 1rm

It is more accurate with lower reps ie. 5 or less. And calculated and actually doing it are definitely different. The mental aspect of testing 1rm's is always a big thing.

I use this formula to determine perceived effort on sets e.g. last week of smolov squats, every single set I did was equivalent to a 175kg 1rm effort or more. Seeing as how my actual 1rm was 170kg at the time, I knew ALL of those sets were going to be very difficult.

http://www.exrx.net/Calculators/OneRepMax.html

Apparently my 1RM for Squats is 106kg, I take back my comment that I could get up 1 of your 130kg squats.

Although, I'm gonna keep believing that I can

squatted 65kg(143lbs) x111 reps a few days ago

And new 20rm at 130kg (286lbs) x 20

80kg body weight

That is ridiculous - and by ridiculous, I mean awesome.

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SUCCESS!

(And that's what this thread is about).

Found a vid of the 65kg (143lbs) x 111reps. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0bQVNopHeQ (just the last 13 reps )

Clean & jerk today at 135lbs.

Pretty happy with this one because I had no idea i could split jerk almost as much as I can clean.