Hey you Getbiggers, post up your best squats !
Shitzo, since you don’t lift you can post about faking your death or something like that.
Today I’m going to work on back and abs after we explore Colorado more.
Chaos and his scrawny legs are avoiding this thread like the plague.
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The last time I had enough weight at the gym (and I was much younger) I did the following:
Warm up with 135.
First set 20 reps with 515 lbs.
Second set 20 reps with 535 lbs.
Third "Heavy" set 5 reps with 585 lbs. It wasn't really heavy but I needed it to accustom myself to a heavier load. I also would load the bar to 700 or so lbs. and walk around the gym for the same reason.
Fourth and final set 20 reps with 515 lbs.
I them made the mistake of moving to another gym where there wasn't enough weight for that sort of routine so I would do things like one set of 50 reps with 300 lbs. or 1 set of 100 reps with 225 lbs.
I broke a leg extension machine (selectorized weight stack, plates and a 265 lbs. friend standing on it) well after 10 or so reps with an estimaged 750+ lbs. on it. And no, they were not stupid "Platz Setz", LOL! Performed 50 reps on a real (vertical) leg press with 700 lbs. I despise those angled leg presses. To me they are crap.
One time some good friends (the guys that got me into the J.C. Hise program) were deadlifting and had the bar and weights I needed. I asked them for it and they said if I could lift it, I could take it. 505 lbs on the bar. I deadlifted and carried it about 10 or so feet to the squat rack and set it on the lower tier. I then squatted under it and did a bottom position rep to full upright and placed the bar on the top tier of the squat rack.
Squatting changed me not overnight but over the years. It took about 10 years to reach these weights and I've yet to meet anyone else that could do that. I out squatted a couple of San Diego Chargers one day too. They had about 500 or so (could have been in the mid to high 400s at least) lbs. on the bar and I asked if I could work in. They replied only if I didn't take any weight off the bar. They were getting 5 or so reps per set and when my turn came I knocked out an easy 20 reps, racked it and then asked if we could go up in weight. These lads were big men, 6'3' was the height of the "shorter" gentleman or more, at least.
For me, squats and the J.C. Hise program changed me into a lifter. Alas, No one outside of powerlifters ever asks "How mucha squat?!" LOL!
Two women I trained with both were capable of doing 20 rep sets with 225 lbs. No drugs allowed. In my case it was "retard strength". LOL!