Not Starting earlier is my biggest regret
I probably should have done a three lift comp when I was younger and more capable instead of just bench competition. Was always worried about not being able to get total in the 700's in front of my peers and it just never happened. Now I'd be content with a total in the 600's with nobody around (there never is at local PA events anyway).But I'm glad I didn't bust myself up too much so I can still lift reasonable weights now. Definitely regret not doing more Olympic lifts but again, I might not be capable of training heavy now if I had done so.Best lesson from 30 years or so of lifting weights - no one cares about your pecs or what you lift, only you care.
yeah a guy with your training numbers isnt capable...im weaker,probably suffer from social anxiety as much if not more than you do and i love getting up there,i really enjoy grabbing that bar not knowing if im going to make that lift or not.gives me the shits..its great.
i think you arent prepared for having your numbers judged.they do make you do it properly.not being an ass here,but my first comp i bombed weakly because of not following comp rules.and ive had troubles with various things in following comps.it finetunes how you train.
Rippetoe teaches people to squat for exercise
It's different to squatting for powerlifting
Riptard kool-aide: 3x5 is so magic that if you do more reps than that it's totez dangerous and ineffective and if you do less reps than that you need to decrease the weight by 10%; squats are a hamstring exercise and shooting your bum up into the air is what your glutes are good at; if you do more than 1x5 deadlifts you'll burn out; upper back exercises exist only to make your bench press improve and not because training your upper back is a good idea in its own right; rows and RDL's aren't useful if you're a beginner; if you gain 10lb in your first two weeks of barely training it will be lean; if you aren't stronger this week than last week it's probably because you aren't eating enough and not because the body has limited adaptation capabilities; you definitely need to build a strength base before you ever do any intentional hypertrophy training even though strength is the product (not cause) of muscle mass.Can you elaborate on the kool aid Ryan?
What specifically did you not like about SS or PTC standards.
I only ask because I find both training methods interesting, i'm considering doing SS for a few months because bored and Im currently doing Markos beginner program.
The only thing a competition makes one "do properly" is barely break parallel on a squat, bench with an almost non existent pause with bum chums to help it in and out of the rack and deadlift without dumping the bar. All rather pointless effort that translate into nothing of any consequence in athletic performance or life skills. (Unless of course knowing how to speak the dialect of puffy faced spastics is considered a life skill).
The challenge is - can one lift and keep strong when no one else is watching and the other squishy faced retards who wear the powerlifting badge aren't there for motivation? Powerlifting does not facilitate that autonomous level of commitment and it is safe to say that 90% of people currently taking the competiton platform will barely even look at a barbell in ten years time.
LOL! Sad thing is, on the bb.com forums this is barely hyperbolic.
It certainly is a lot better than what a lot of people come up with on their own, and 140/100/180 are generally good targets. For both, it's all the ideological baggage that people heap onto it that I have a big beef with, and for 140/100/180, it's also the way people act like those numbers are the magic line between beginner and intermediate. Some people will be well and truly beyond the beginner stage long before they reach those numbers, some people will easily hit those numbers and keep progressing for a while longer before either establishing solid technique or needing more advanced programming to move ahead.And yet while I'm not the biggest fan of rippletitis it's better than the bulk of the program's you see people write up for themselves. And also the 140/100/180 target is also a pretty good target for beginners.
LOL! Sad thing is, on the bb.com forums this is barely hyperbolic.
This is what most do, is blame the program, more often than not you (and this goes for most of us) are just not good enough no matter how hard you work or which program you use.
A bloke who has the skill and ability will (when he applies himself) will progress extremely quick, so quick it's unbelievable.
Try training a donkey for the Melbourne Cup to see see what I mean.
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