where is ur squat at compared with ur bench?? me personally i didnt realize the importantance of legs till about 3 months ago so they are about 50 pounds under my bench which is pathetic...what about everyone else....
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where is ur squat at compared with ur bench?? me personally i didnt realize the importantance of legs till about 3 months ago so they are about 50 pounds under my bench which is pathetic...what about everyone else....
mine's about 70 pound's higher than my max bench
Right now, they are about even, but I have been punishing my legs lately and I am trying to get under the big weight to encourage some growth. I started training them late compared to the rest of my body...in hinsight, I would have done nothing but squats when I started training, but all I have access to was leg press, which I never put enough weight on.
best competition squat... 804 lbs.
best competition bench... 567 lbs.
~you never want to be top heavy~ :D
Niiiice RJ!!!!Quote:
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I appreciate it... everyone knows here it doesn't come easy... a lot of mental focus... I start training for my next meet in a few days... :lift:Quote:
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do you wear the suit for bench???
how do you get 567lbs?? are there 33.5 lb weights?
I wear an inzer double denim... the apf meets that i do are all done in kilos. so my attempt was 257.5 kilos. which equals 567.5 lbs. I was using an inzer hardcore squat suit and groove briefs for the squat.Quote:
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there is a great kilo conversion chart at worldpowerliftingcongress.com... those are the choices you have when planning your lifts.
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ok cool.
gotcha!
nice lifts :lift:
My bench sucks...maybe 315-330. Squat is much better...somewhere around 450 or better. I don't do one rep lifts hardly at all but I know I can rep 450 for 3 or more.
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I've lowered my weight and raised my # of reps for legs recently based on Swole's routine. When I was going heavy I was working out with 305-315lbs for sets in squat and 275lbs for sets in bench. I have never maxed on squat so I don't know what it would be.
What are squats? :unsure:
When I started training legs I weighed 165 and struggled to squat 100lbs 10 times. 2.5 years later I'm squatting 300 for 8 with a clean max of 400. I'm not breaking paralel though at 400.
I'm 5'11" and weigh 195 now. I wish the rest of my body would grow like my legs. I didn't train legs for the first 8 months I lifted. They just seem to keep growing. Oh yeah my bench sux. Max of 270.
about 200lbs more. I was the opposite of every other guy in the world I think. When I was a kid, all I trained were my legs. Never touched upper body for a long time. my legs are way strong compared to my upper body. I can squat about 450 for reps but usually I keep it lower because I don't want to hurt my knees etc. So I stay around 300 and go for more reps on squats.
But my bench is pathetic. just about 275 for 4 or 5 reps at the end of a workout. I haven't maxed in bench in a long time
I have benched 200, and squatted 305. Not very impressive numbers, but I am only 17 and weigh 140.
My bench is weak. I max at 290. My squat is okay. I can do 315 about 15 times.
u guys are funny how you consider it weak, as if benchin 300lbs is weak or something to be ashamed of. I bench 155lbs im a lil guy whos startin out, but i mean 300lb bench thats like 2 women i think thats just amazing.
As for squating i want to go to failure but im scared about letting the bar drop, how many people out here have gone to failure? we have a couple power racks but i don't know about just lettin the weight drop to teh saftey bars, ive never seen anyone do it. Do you guys?