Thread 76515140

How does this happens? Is /fit/ lying when they say 99% of gym goers can hit 2plmao8 their first year? I've been lifting for 2 years now and my 1rm is like 190lbs.

Should I stop chasing arbitrary strength numbers as a natty and just focus on aesthetics with high rep ranges and isolation? I bench 2x week right now and thinking of uppin it to 3 days to see if I can finally get 2pl8.

Volume instead of weight, holy shit how many more times should we address this.

>>76515140 (OP)
>Should I stop chasing arbitrary strength numbers as a natty and just focus on aesthetics with high rep ranges
Here's a protip, bro.
If you get a PR even in the 20 rep range, your 1rm will increase.

i am kind of like you bro and I cant exactly put my finger on why exactly I look way fucking stronger than I am. Something about my muscles just wanting to hold a lot of water and gycogen I suppose. And fat distributions that sit thicker over my arms and shoulders and stuff instead of just being in my belly and or lower body. Its a blessing but I also want to just be actually as strong as I look like I am

I can incline db bench more than I can barbell bench and my chest is fine. BB bench is a shit chest building lift at least for me.

>>76515140 (OP)
I think you look stronger than me and I can do 10-11 reps of 2 plates, although I am overweight.

There's no science to what i do, I started with starting strength and just kind of haphazardly progressed. I did most of the climb to my current level benching 3 days a week, now more like 2 feels better and seems like it lets me recover better and not feel weak going into the next session,

I do 5x5 with about 40 seconds, in practice more like 50 seconds between sets. I directly go against advice in not doing warm ups. I actually do the most I can for reps on the first set. I start with the max for 5 reps, hopefully improve over time, and at the point where I'm doing 10 or more reps at that weight for my first set and its feeling quite solid, I'll up the weight.

For sets 2-5, I drop the weight a lot. Right now I drop from 100kg to 92.5. I'll do 5 reps for sets 2-4.

For the 5th set I stay at the lower weight, but do as many reps as possible. This is usually, again, a difficult 10 or so since I'm already tired.

I guess in some ways this echoes people saying volume is the key here, really don't know, but this worked for me over a long period of time. However its easy to underestimate yourself this way. I found out I could bench 100 for the first time by accidentally loading an extra 10kg to the bar and still managing the same number of reps.

>>76515140 (OP)
As someone just above your level of progression (100kg*4) here is my tip that has got me some really good results out of the few different ways I have approached strength.

Go for your one top set, 1*5. Whether you hit it or not, leave the weight on and then hit one rep every minute on the minute. Once you can do that for like ten minutes before failing you are probably ready to put the next weight on.

its mental. if you didn't play sports as a kid you'll always be a poser and eventually will start doing hgh and develop a giant head to be able to put up the same numbers as the local highschool's 2nd string linebackers

>>76515278
what sort of maniac puts their sunglasses in the front pocket of their jeans? they're gonna get ruined

why is everyone here so retarded, if you really care that much about your bench press, just hop on a powerlifting strength program, improve your form work on ur weak points etc, if your not willing to do that then u js dont care abt bench press that much, also make sure ur not on a caloric deficit

>>76515297
what's more important?
>gaining weight so you can lift good
vs
>losing weight so you can look good

>>76515302
he can still significantly improve his bench with no need of gaining weight since he not dealing with some IPF wr type lift, just get on a strength program for god's sake, or ask powerlifting general even tho im not sure if they legit or they actually some crossfiters

>>76515302
Gaining weight so you can lift good so you can look gooder when you lose weight.

225 g protein a day for 4-5 weeks and youll hit 2plates guaranteed, just do it brother

>>76515140 (OP)
How can you be lifting for 2 years and not understand the difference between training for strength and training for hypertrophy

If you really want to get your bench up then train it like a powerlifter.

>>76515519
Almost nobody knows this because all of fitness youtube (outside of powerlifting, sports spesific training, olympic lifting) is focused single handedly on training to failure or not, high or low volume.

>>76515519
I thought getting bigger muscles would make me stronger