not quite a power lifter here. I'm taking my time with adding muscle before I add quite a bit more weight. Right now I can easily perform most lifts at or just under my bodyweight. Except Bench Press. That is my sucky weakpoint.

As for Crossfit it is nothing more than a pumped up fitness fad for people who want to train like high level athletes. Fine for those with a safe and wonderful coach who teaches proper progression and technique. Awful for those who get slapped down and injured by the ego's need to push and not progress smartly and safely.

All the top CF athletes are just top athletes in a former fitness area. CF will not take a beginner adult to top form. It will destroy them.

High reps or high weight in differing intensities of workout and workout frequency are the oldest training methods in the world. CF did not create it but emulated it and brought that kind of training to the public in a group setting vs. a private personal training setting.

as for where I want to be:
I want to be super healthy and strong for the rest of my life! How heavy I lift depends on my patience and progress but I know I can always continue to get better and stronger as long as I never quit!

I'm 28
5'9", 150 lbs

Bench- 80. I'll be tickled when I get to 100 but ultimately I'd like to be able to bench body weight.

Squat- 155. 200 will be a spectacular landmark. But I love squats. I intend to do as much as I can forever.

Dead- 165. Again, 200 will be great. Beyond that will be even greater.

OHP- 65. I'll feel better about 100. I've read elite is 120 for my weight. Ridiculous. I been working on my deltoids. :laugh: It'll be better than that someday.

29yo. 30 at the end of June.
6'0", 90.4kg

Squat: 150kg
Bench: 105kg
Deadlift: 210kg


Train almost exclusively for powerlifting, more seriously for the last 15 or so months. I compete and will do for a while i think. Also looking to get into strongman in the future. Most likely second half of year. most definately the entire SM season next year.

Had a lot of trouble with the squat, finding the groove that best suited me took some time and some mucking around with my coach. being of "lanky" proportions (legs much longer than torso) i'm not overly suited to it at all, but i Will squat 200kg+ or snap in half trying. but i've got it now. and its been rising ever since. Also have long arms, hence hitting 200kg + deadlift relatively quickly. Though it has stalled out a little in recent months with my heavy focus on squatting.

Aesthetically i've never been vein in the slightest.
until more recently i've started wanting to look like i can lift what i can. a few guys getting around my gym now that "look" stronger than me...annoying a little. haha. but its just as annoying for them to be out lifted each week too! first world problems.

wrote this a couple of weeks ago.

started reading Arnie's biography.
starting wanting to be bigger and more defined. :P

when i return from Europe in july...i'm going to be incorporating a lot more hypertrophy focussed stuff, and god forbid some isolation work.

cant beleive i just wrote that.

I am a beginner as I just started training 5-3-1 in January. I have always been told I was "strong for a girl", so here I am. Let's see how far I get in 2013.

I am 32 yrs old and currently 195lbs. (I'd like to get down to 145lbs and have my numbers stay the same or go up and possibly compete)

*Here are my starting numbers for my 1 rep maxes: Bench Press: 145lbs, Squat: 205lbs, and Dead Lift: 230lbs. @204lbs

*Here are my current numbers after the first 5 weeks: Bench Press: 175lbs, Squat: 215lbs, and Dead Lift: 240lbs. @195lbs

I will post my new numbers after the end of these 5 weeks (this is week 3). :-)

^^^ Those are some STRONG lifts! :drinker:

Thanks! :blushing:

To be honest, I am excited to see where my numbers go as I have never really lifted before.

Great numbes man