When to max out before competition?

[musclestack]

Doc, I'm going in today to prep for my meet. I'm going to do a couple light warm-up sets, then start maxing out. My plan is to start at 320, then do 2-3 more maxes after that to hopefully get up to 365. Once I'm done with this, would you advise to work in a light chest session, or just forget about training chest until after my competition? My meet is 11 days away.

[Docd187123]

Doc, I'm going in today to prep for my meet. I'm going to do a couple light warm-up sets, then start maxing out. My plan is to start at 320, then do 2-3 more maxes after that to hopefully get up to 365. Once I'm done with this, would you advise to work in a light chest session, or just forget about training chest until after my competition? My meet is 11 days away.

11days is really pushing it. If you're going to do that I'd skip the chest workout spend your time foam rolling, hitting trouble areas with a lacrosse ball, stretching, etc.

[musclestack]

11days is really pushing it. If you're going to do that I'd skip the chest workout spend your time foam rolling, hitting trouble areas with a lacrosse ball, stretching, etc.

Ok. And skip my chest workout next week also? Or can I incorporate a really light dumbell session and maybe some flys to stretch out/keep the muscles 'warm and ready'?

[Docd187123]

Ok. And skip my chest workout next week also? Or can I incorporate a really light dumbell session and maybe some flys to stretch out/keep the muscles 'warm and ready'?

My coach has me doing absolutely nothing the week before the meet except stay loose and do active recovery stuff. The week before that I'm deloading. Granted my meet is full power but you can see I have two light weeks of workouts immediately prior to the meet