/PLG/ - Powerlifting General

>that's what happens

here they are: the shit bench press manlet defense squad, fast on the scene to run damage control and start cope posting.

how fucking embarrassing.

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>he doesn't press or row for a massive, powerful and proportionate upper physique
I bet your squat is better than your deadlift too.

That's kg roight?

Of course.

Can't stand ipf mutts continuing to use lbs. It's irks the shit out of me a surprising amount.

So, let's talk bench.
Do you bench below parallel? Try to use as much ROM as possible (i.e. narrow grip), possibly with tucked elbows? Do TNG for your main sets?

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>Do you bench below parallel?
No

>Try to use as much ROM as possible (i.e. narrow grip), possibly with tucked elbows?
Nope and nope, I only tuck as much as is necessary, even when using a closer grip

>Do TNG for your main sets?
I used to pause my first rep and do TNG for the rest but imo pausing every rep is better

Always touch chest (if I'm not going to do that, I'm using a board or the safeties to keep my ROM consistent). Typically I do a lot of moderate-grip work without an arch outside of meet prep but my shoulders are a mess so that's a necessary concession to training what I suck at (the bottom end) without jacking myself up by taking a wide grip. Meet prep it's what I'll do in competition - moderate grip, hard arch.

Do you use a grip that makes you stop at parallel, or medium grip and stop halfway through (board or in the air)?
I always feel bad for having like 45º of ROM.

Max grip with a big arch, you should always touch chest, regardless of how much you are or aren't arching

Spoto doesn't.

Why are people even starting new plg threads anymore? This place is dead, no point of posting here desu

They're shitty OPs too, without any copypasta.

>A terrible tomato man that is heavily injured doesn't
That's one person over how many? Spoto presses are fine but people here need more practice with the basic movement

Slower doesn't mean worse, in the past couple years, having it be more active hasn't always been the best in terms of post/thread quality

There's a difference between deliberately using a variant of the lift in supplemental work to help what you suck at versus fucking up your form on the competition lift.

It is slow and quality is worse as well

>grabbed one 5kg~ bag from the grocery store on each hand
>decided to change my route home to get there faster
>walk about 200m of a huge incline
>hammies burning and I already need to catch my breath
>also shaved off like 6 minutes of walking with this new route

Farmer walks a best!

I hope you held them with the tip of a finger at a time for maximum forearm gains.

I thought of doing grip training a bit later, and put both bags on my mid finger and walked for some time and then switched hands. Bretty gud.

I don't think the user asking Bobby for bench advice is Spoto.

I can't get past 185x5 on bench these past couple weeks. I'm 172lb and eat 3.5k kcal/day. Do you guys do any assistance work for bench to help break plateaus? Thanks

You do more volume (aka try harder) to break any plateaus.

Are you counting calories or do you think you getting 3.5k?
How much has your weight changed in the past month? Three months?
Do dumbbell bench in the 8-15 rep range for 3-5 sets on days you bench.

Thanks, sounds like volume will be my ticket. I think I respond better to volume as well. It will help with elbow pain as well

Elbow pain might be from to much pressing.
Are you doing any curls?
If not do dumbbell curls or similar one day and dumbbell hammer curls or similar the next for similar volume to the dumbbell benching.
Curls are good for you elbows.

>completely ignore bench and all upper body accessories
>can squat and dl 300kg after several years
>can't bench a plate
>linear gains have absolutely run out for lower body
>could spend a year trying to add 20-30kg to total squatting and deadlifting
>could linearly progress bench by ~70kg in the same time

Made me reply well done

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Why does literally noone ever talk about how peanuts are a great bulking food?
>cheap as fuck, just bought some for less than 5 euros/kg
>you can eat a shitload of them and not get stuffed
>easy calories, easy protein

Cause most men don't like nuts in their mouth

Uuuuh honey you're on /plg/ you know, speak for youself.

They don't actually fill you up. I would much prefer eat 1000 calories of a solid meal than 1000 calories of nuts with is just a handful lmao

That's what I said, they don't fill you up, so for those who can't or don't want to eat a shitload of food to get some calories, peanuts sound almost too good.

Yeah, where the ankle meets the foot.

does anyone remember that guy who got his dl to go from 130kg to 270kg in 6months then got a hernia so bad he couldnt lift 60kg lol

I wonder what happend to him

I wonder what happened to that Swede whose cousin wanted to go into a meets with an extreme catback 5pl8 dl, claiming he had never gotten hurt lifting that way.

His cousin still post videos he dropped to like 160kg dl. Lost shitton of "strength"

>"squat" 1klbs to questionable depth, from a monolift, in an lolfed, wearing multiply, while roiding
>ripoff your high school's lifting program
>fuck you
>pay me

care to see some vids of contortionist bench presses with 3" rom?

in ipf classic world's the average bench contribution is closer to 25% of total. squat 35% and dead 40%.
in the fucking joke that is "equipped" "powerlifting" the bench is even more, because the dead gets only about 5% boost while the squat and bench get from 20% to 40%, depending. those numbers are based on lifters who competed in both categories in the ipf and are singleply; multiply numbers would be even higher.

common in the travesty that is "equipped" lifting. if you lift equipped, just kys.

Why is it so hard to brace for squats but so easy for deadlifts?

Hahahaha how the fuck is bracing hard lol just breath air and flex your obliques nigga hahaha

dont reply to my posts raffy

Yeah thats the easy part flexing it hard is not

you were right to just skip to Blaine. everything else was unremarkable. Euro EQ championships were way better.

Enjoy your phytoestrogen

Because humans have evolved over thousands of years having to pick up objects in front of them, not to bend their knees in place with a heavy object on their back

Been having to deadlift the doggo into the couch lately. I don’t think she’ll be lasting much longer.

So in other words shut the fuck up and try harder got it.

then why can we squat so much weight

Those who can are so fat they bounce their belly off their legs or are equipped or both at best.

>Enjoy your phytoestrogen
love how you imply that things like this matter but extra salt and low dose of steroids will kill you

i think im seeing a trend the stronger and less twink someone is the better their posts will be

Hey, i haven't posted here in a long time, but I remember Norsie was a chemical engineer. I got a BS in biology and a BA in chemistry expecting to go to veterinary school, but after shadowing a vet at a vet clinic, im seriously reconsidering it. I thought about going back to school for a degree in chemical engineering, because I've already taken all the chemistry and all but 1 of the math classes necessary (gen chem, organic, biochem, quant, calc 1, calc 2, diff eq), all i would need to do is take the engineering classes.

Norsie do you enjoy your job..? is it worth it

>norsie
Heh good luck getting an answer.

I literally reply to all
>GUYS X FOOD IS S-SO GOOOD AND CHEAAAAP
with that remark, I am not even going to bring up the salt dosing meme because it is retarded and the guy pushing it is retarded

I don't think he's around mate, if he is he's only lurking. Ask him on Insta?

Shitton of omega 6 which you already eat too much.

Because squatting is still something humans have done for thousands of years, but it was done as a sitting replacement, progressive overload works for all sorts of muscles, and people can always learn how to do movements properly, it just usually doesn't come naturally to them.

did you guys make norsie go away

His new job was already causing him a fuckload of stress, he wasn't lifting consistently, etc. He is building his home gym now though.

Is anyone here /Emerging Strategies/?

How do I do a washout week after I reach my time to peak?

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im too weak to do emerging strategies

need to build more workcapacity

You do lifts that are different enough from your usual lifts you've been doing, ones you don't usually do, and you can do some more unconventional lifts. You want the volume and intensity to be as low as possible without actually causing you to reach a detrained state.

Say something like front squat x8 @6, x8 @7, x8 @8, repeat once

>x8 @6, x8 @7, x8 @8, repeat once
explain the logic behind this

@6 @7 is to find the @8, no? Also explain why they do a set amount of repeats, i guess it differs per person how many

Part of it is to find out the @8, part of it is also to get reps in at a low intensity so you can allow some fatigue to bleed off. Yes, generally you want the minimum amount of volume possible without allowing yourself to detrain.

>generally you want the minimum amount of volume possible without allowing yourself to detrain.
Why is that?
t.someone else

Thank you. I didn't have the patience to go through the talk again. I think I'll do hi bar, incline bench, ab wheel and pull ups today.

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did she gain weight normally she looks STICC now she looks THICC

Looks pretty basic to me. Definitely can't tell she lifts weights.

Your want to have as little fatigue as possible going into your next developmental block.

You're welcome, enjoy user.

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im just memeing bro

Just finished today's workout of 1 set of study until failure. Lasted 8 hours, with food breaks included.

>tfw deodorant can't stand up to my squat sweat

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>one 8h set
Enjoy your ass gains. For knowledge gains keep sets under 90min.

Food breaks, my man

study 30min with 5-10min breaks for productivity

>Tfw deodorant can't stand up to my normal sweat

Are flat db presses about the same as flat barbell presses?

I just prefer the dumbbells.

How's the cut going?

I put 100kg on the bench and tested my wide grip, mid length grip and close grip.

Wide was kinda comfy but I couldn't achieve many reps
Medium was impossible barely got the first rep
Close grip was strongest, I could do 3x as many reps as I could wide

So what's weak here? My chest? Idk

>le widegrip is chest meme

More pec action with dumbbells, much better for developing the muscle.

Got an appointment for tomorrow at 8am to check if my quad is fucked

Not really a meme if you consider the angle of your upper arm in relation to the torso

>implying it isnt
Triceps are put in a less efficient position to apply force to the bar and the arms are put in a wider position, demanding more of the chest to apply adduction.
It's not that the triceps are not involved, it's simply that the chest is placed in a better position to apply force and bear the load

Narrower grip -> more elbow tuck -> more pec
Now what atheists?

reread what you just wrote

Lads, I was hanging out with a girl I really like over the weekend and a bit before I left she told me she's not gonna be able to have sex with anyone else after fucking me because I'm so hot and she'll just be disappointed. I looked her in the eyes and told her maybe she wouldn't have to. Then proceeded to make out with her.
>feelsChadman

I have a really comfy super high volume upper body workout today too. Gonna get some bench gains.

Nice autistic larp

What are your lifting stats, hun?

>larp
Haha, okay raffy

Wew. She was just being nice, it’s like when they say “you’re the biggest I’ve ever had” or “you’re the first one to ever make me cum”. They say it to EVERY GUY. You’re being way too clingy and she’s gonna drop you.

>wow you're big!!
So many girls say this to me I've become dumb to their lies

She did also say I was the biggest she ever had, but I'm 7.5x5.5, so it's not impossible. I'll definitely try to be less clingy though. Thanks, user.