/PLG/ - Powerlifting General

>What ever happened to benching 3/4ths of your squat?

Those people learned how to squat, and subsequently left the life of a dirt dwelling BenchChad peasant behind them.

Do it. You won't regret it. My normie gym was a 5 minutes from my house, my new gym is 20 minutes away and I don't regret it at all.

Because they're trying to find an excuse to run 5/3/1, partly because they don't want to work very hard or do much volume, and partly because 90% of Jow Forums has daddy issues and these fools are using Wendler as a substitute for the love and attention they never got from their own fathers.

> I just checked the last regional meet's results and I would have out-benched people two classes higher than me
Better go sign up for a meet and blow their minds.

Ha ha, okay mr "bench is less than 50% of my squat"

Why is everyone here so lucky. Even the shitiest gym is like 20 mins from me and I drive 1 hour just to go to some crossfit gym because that's the only place that has more than 3 barbells and more than 1 squat rack.

yes, sugar from the tomato

12 more Wilks and I will. No point in competing if you can't win.

If you hold off on competing until you can win, you'll never win.

You can compete for fun and learn the commands. Unless you like warming the bench.

Are these places okay with newcomers? I'm just starting, building some strength with SS. Besides, I need to learn olympic lifts if I decide to do the weightlifting.

Holy shit this girl is unbearable. It almost seems like he hesitates before she swears, like her whole personality is an act. Hmm

12 Wilks nigguh, I'll probably be there by next year and come here to show off my plastic regional trophy and whey samples or whatever the prize is.

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This.
I use meets as a safe environment to max out in since I won't win.
Hoping for 227.5/105/195 at my next meet.
I'm going to be a squat lord one day.

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Oh wait forget it she's just slow. She's one of those people that gasp for air every time they speak.

Wait, there are prizes? Can you ask for s oy protein?

And as you get stronger, so does everybody else. The difference is they have experience weighing in, going through a flight, and listening for commands, and you don't.

At least in bodybuilding you can get 200€ at regional meets. Sometimes no one in your category shows up and you automatically win, to Paraphrase the great Jason Genova, so it's basically free money.

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Braaaapft.

What is wrong with your bench nigga? How long have you been lifting?

I fucking LOVE seated V grip low rows.

Any approved programs for weight/powerlifting? Looking to gains strength first cos I'm weak af.

The OP literally lists them.

I've been lifting too long.

It says intermediate, so not sure if I should do them as total beginner.

Do SS. Buy the book. Run it for around 3 months or until you stall.

Oh, SS then. Read the book and do everything it says, everything, like gospel. Don't do anything anyone other than Rippetoe says until you've finished the program. He has videos as well.

Wendler is a bit cringe, Swede is more like the father you never had.

Thanks. Any ideas on what to do about knees, like warm ups and stretches for them. I fucked my knee when I was 15, but it's not as bad now. It hurts sometimes but not too bad. Not sure if that's okay for squatting.

Agile 8 or Limber 11. Every day.

can you get mercury poisoning from long tube lightbulbs? smashed one in my home gym by accident, so I just stopped and came back to the house. kind or regret being a pussy

RIP
(only worry if you're a child or a pregnant woman)

Got it. Thanks. On workout days do this before squats after warm up?

cant a single drop kill you tho? I'll have to clean it up tomorrow. went on one of my straps. think I should throw them away?

There's 5mg of mercury in each of those bulbs, I think you'll be fine. People used to drink whole drops of it.

Yes sir.

Grow some nuts.

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>that boomer who starts making conversation mid-set
that's me haha

I bet you’re not even 25 you faggot lmao don’t call yourself a boomer again, zoomer

boomer is a mindset

Knee sleeves help too

Wear a t-shirt that says "I have previous knee injuries" if you do unless you want to end up in cringe threads.

Look up the symptoms of mercury poisoning and keep track of how you are feeling for the next couple months. I've heard of people dying from contact with certain types of mercury while wearing gloves.

It's a psyops attempt to shift the overwhelming hatred that every other generation has for the "boomer" generation.
They've been calling everyone a booomer or some variation of for the last few weeks.
It's pathetic and obvious.

bench press is the best gauge of RAW PHYSICAL STRENGTH. you only downplay this because you're a pudgy, weak little shit of a manlet with an equally embarrassing bench press.

nobody gives a shit that you can bounce your morbidly obese gut off of your legs for your little bullshit wide stance "squat". nobody cares about your 5 inch ROM sumo "deadlift".

bench. press. is. king.

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oh look, the retard posted it again. guess i'll copy and paste from the last thread so i can instruct newcomers on the facts:

>5th Set (modify to 7wk microcycle if needed)
garbage

>5/3/1 (non 2009 base template) ***GOLD MEDAL IN CRINGE***
garbage that was ripped off from a high school football routine. the chump who cranked this snake oil horse shit out is a total faggot fraud manlet.

>Westside for Skinny Bastards
great if you use steroids, subpar otherwise

>Madcow Intermediate
painfully mediocre for a couple of months, garbage after

>Destroy the Opposition (J. Lewis)
garbage

>Blevins Intermediate
garbage

>The Cube (+ Predator) *BRONZE MEDAL IN CRINGE*
garbage. the person who squeezed this turd out is a fucking loser and the "routine" itself is superfluous, stupid bullshit.

>Conjugate
fantastic if you use steroids, textbook meme shit otherwise.

>RTS Generalized Intermediate
garbage

>RTS Emerging Strategies
garbage

>Nuckols Average to Savage
reddit garbage

>Nuckols 28 Free
reddit garbage

>GZCL
slightly above average for a total novice for a few months, permanent stall garbage otherwise

>TSA 9 Week
garbage. anything based on "weeks" is pretty much guaranteed dog shit.

>Candito 6 Week **SILVER MEDAL IN CRINGE**
garbage. look up the faggot midget who cranked this shit out and you'll know immediately why.

>Texas Method
great if you want to be a squat hero, garbage otherwise

>Sheiko
decent

>The Bridge
garbage

>Smolov Jr.
great if you want to be a bench hero for a while, garbage otherwise

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I hate bulking so much.

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Agreed

Fucking sucks dude, my gym listed deadlift as the best exercise on their website

I am rather hyper competitive when it comes to shit I do for fun, and even I wouldn't say you should only compete if you can win.

You should only compete if you could at least keep up, however. And not be a colossal waste of everyone's time, failing a 1.5x bodyweight squat three times in a row because, not only didn't you take literally one minute to google up the commands, but are also too goddamn retarded to figure it out after two attempts.

There is ALWAYS one dipshit like that at a "local" type meet. And if it's you, kill yourself.

>Hoping for 227.5/105/195 at my next meet.
>I'm going to be a squat lord one day.

You are well one your way. You're already like a Squatbaron. Keep it up and you'll be Squatviscount in no time.

I know that feel, closest gym is 5 minutes away on foot, but only has one bench, no rack.
I have do ride my bike for 20 minutes to get to a normal gym with racks and deadlifting platforms

So what do you recommend fag boy?

Makes it worse when you consider the fact that there's a meeting going over the commands before lifting even starts

my knees hurt after last time i squatted. i been lifting for months without a problem. what do

>What ever happened to benching 3/4ths of your squat?
because to increase your total, it is much easier to gain 20kg on your deadlift than it is to increase 20kg on bench.

That reminds me, I need to add PH3 to the meme tier.

You should make an injury alert tier and have PH3 on it

So why is the ohp not a competition lift? Seems like it'd be a good way to have lifters focus more on their upper body

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Meets are already really long with 3 lifts already, and ohp cannibalizes bench a fuckload

Wat about strict curls?

Added spotoshot under bro tier

Sup lads, posting lifts from meet yesterday.

Went 9/9 with 572.5 at 97kg.

Squats 187.5/200/207.5 (no video of first lift)
Rushed the first squat and had some pain in my knees after it, made the second two attemps harder but pushed through.

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I'd be okay with just squat or deadlift, and bench or ohp. Mix it up.

stfu faggot and gtfo

Is alcohol before a competition lift a thing or is it just her attempt at being cool?

Bench went really well,

122.5/130/135, all moved really well.

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It's a duffin meme, but I've tried it for fun. If it works, it works.

don't care virgin

Bench more.

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Why did no one tell me about pause squats and bench.

>female spotter
I appreciate that she might be strong for a girl but isn't this a safety hazard

Somehow got all 3 deadlifts despite my technique shitting itself and my grip being shit.

Was doing hook grip but ripped my thumb open 2 weeks ago, so it was a last minute change back to mixed.

Was super fun, looking forward to competing again, blog over.

Yeah fuck these people talking about powerlifting in a powerlifting thread.

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If there's one thing I agree with Cuckols, is that y'all fagets need to be benching 3x a week.

RIGHT? It's not that they're dumber than a bag of rocks, it's that they refuse to get any fucking smarter.

Meets should be Clean&Jerk, Squat, Deadlift. But powerfatters lack the A T H L E T I C I S M do to anything more complicated than bouncing a bar off their fat tits.

is this where the owg guys gather now? i am sad to see the threads gone

i hit 3x140kg of highbar atg squats yesterday. my front squats is not too far behind, with 3x120kg. my oly lifts have been increasing, i hit a 83kg snatch and 105kg C&J for what might be the best in my life so far, and i did them twice. if i can hit 100kg snatch in my lifetime, i will be happy. making progress feels good friends

I'm doing Nuckols' bench 3x int for bench and OHP at the same time, although I offset the programs by one day so I'm not maxing on both lifts on the same day.

I am become press.

Your C&J should be 80% of your squat, and your Snatch 60-66%, so 124 and 93-102.5. Stop underachieving and git gud.

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Meant for the owg guy () obviously

Take that shit to

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who is this milk mama

Traps aren't gay.

>only 30kh higher
okay just throw 30kg on your bench and go take it if it's that easy you incel

The master of generals, Raffy. He killed /owg/ and almost /plg/.

Yes, they are.

you're definitely a flaming homo if you wouldn't fuck an 8/10 like

Where did she go?

twitch.tv/trappychan/
Ask her, she's streaming.

>Your C&J should be 80% of your squat

That would put me less than 5 lbs away from breaking an American record. Which would be really neat, but isn't at all realistic.

I'm too shy