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Due to various injuries and ailments, I had altered my lifting habits to be more functional/physique focused. I?ve been running gh for about 3 months now and am feeling better than I have in a long time. Worked my way up to 405 on squats today for the first time in a while. No belt, no wraps and atg. Pure muscle pushing pure iron feels damn good!
 
I haven't been there in a long time. I'm happy with 255 for 15 reps now.
 
Glycomann said:
I haven't been there in a long time. I'm happy with 255 for 15 reps now.
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You are speaking my language Gman. Injuries and surgery have taken away one of my favorites. (I am weird, I know) I can still leg press a shit ton of weight but no heavy squats any more.

I am not very big and I used to love to crawl under pile of plates and have people stop to watch. If it wasn't for having a shitty bench on par with a junior high school girl, I could have been a powerlifting contender with my squats and dead lifts. Genetics are an odd thing. How can a person be so strong on one type of lift and so terrible on another?
 
That's what's up. How many reps you get.
 
b52 said:
That's what's up. How many reps you get.
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I only hit it for four. Maybe had one more in me but I was starting to get shaky. I doubt I?ll go heavier than 405 just bc of past experience/injuries and really no need to. I?ll work back up to ten reps and be content probably.........probably :rolleyes2
 
Tore my right posterior labrum in August 2018. I can't bench more than 155 for 30 reps now, so I get the feeling. It's a mind fuck more than anything. Just don't go too big too soon or you'll be back to square one or worse.
 
I don’t go real heavy anymore either. I focus on better sets with more reps and more concentrated tempo and got bigger, if not stronger. People ask me how much I bench and the answer is “I don’t”
 
Darkness said:
I don?t go real heavy anymore either. I focus on better sets with more reps and more concentrated tempo and got bigger, if not stronger. People ask me how much I bench and the answer is ?I don?t?
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That's the thing most people get confused with. You see guys in gym doing 1-6 reps max. They look the same year after year not realizing that it's not the super heavy weight that shapes their body but higher reps. I focus mostly in 13-17 rep range, sometimes more up to 40-50 but try going heavy in those rep range. Huge difference. Super heavy weights are for the power lifters...
 
After re-injuring (herniating) my disc's 5 months ago, they finally healed, it took this long. Started back squatting again, feels good just to have a bar on my back again. Just did a few sets w/ 135, and a few sets w/ 225. Going to take it slow, and maybe work back up to 445 over the course of a year. Need to come to grips w/ age and injury, hard for me to admit it, but at the point in my age (early 50's) where I probably need to tone it back a bit. (The weight used).
 
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