My 1RM thread

[JJFigure]

After screwing around for four years, I'm finally going back to percentage based training. I decided to train for 6 weeks after my comp to get some strength back before I did my one rep maxes. Unfortunately, I hurt my shoulder last week, but I've got my ART guy busily working on it, so hopefully I'll be able to get my squat and bench 1RMs by Tuesday. I went ahead and did my DL today and will add my squat and bench. I'm actually a little frustrated with my DL 1RM, since I had hit 375 before I started traveling weekly and quit deadlifting. I've spent the last 8 months building my hamstring strength and working on my form, but I still kind of expected to get better than this. Oh well - let's see what the next 6 week cycle brings. I'll be updating this thread every 7 weeks or so.

8/7/2003
DL: 315 lbs
Squat:
BP:

 

[THeMaCHinE]

That's a great deadlift -- no shame there, especially if you are just getting back into it! I'm working on breaking the 600-lb barrier.

Sorry to hear about your shoulder. I did ART on a hamstring and elbow injury and it helped quite a bit.

 

[JJFigure]

My shoulder and elbow have been kind of beat up for a while, and then I did a stupid thing last week (wide grip BB curls) and really inflamed it. Unfortunately, my ART guy went away to a seminar right before my stupid day and just got back yesterday. The inflammation has already gone down a bit after yesterday's session, and my range of movement is coming back, so hopefully I'll be good to go after Friday's session. Have I mentioned how much I love ART?

 

[THeMaCHinE]

Sounds like when I do skullcrushers -- kills my elbows every time, but love the excercise anyway...

 

[pwr_machine]

Good job! Keep it safe and keep training hard. I started a training log on the training forum as a challenge to myself. With the opportunity for others to look at it and watch my progress, I have to get bigger and stronger. I look forward to seeing your progression also.

And your results from the CSCS.

 

[slinky]

Awesome deadlift, JJ.

Great stuff. I may have to do the same here; I can see how this would be a kick in the ass for training.

 

[JJFigure]

8/12/2002 - Gave the shoulder a few more days and 2 more ART sessions, but still had problems with it today, so these 1RMs kind of suck. The good news is they should be easy to break; we kind of just had to stop with my testing because the shoulder just wasn't cooperating. At least we pinpointed some weak areas, so I have plenty to work on - although I plan on taking a couple weeks off from pressing to clear this shoulder up.

Squat:
235 lbs.
BP:
135 lbs.

 

[Liftbig]

looking pretty strong, fine lady.

 

[pwr_machine]

Very good job.

 

[JJFigure]

Well, I tested last night with fairly frustrating results. My PLer spotted me, and I think he was as frustrated as I was. I had the strength; just didn't have the mental part worked out. My failure points were odd - I basically bombed on the squat, but was well out of the hole when I bombed out - it's like I had five more inches to go and just couldn't. Same thing with the bench; there was no reason I shouldn't have gotten at least 145 lbs; I was well out of the hole and just quit. My PLer did remind me I was lifting well outside of my normal time frame (8:00 pm instead of my normal am workout), so to not be too hard on myself, but I'm still disappointed in my results.

So, I don't have a new squat max - even though 245 was almost there, I just couldn't get it up and racked.

Bench: 140
Squat: 235
DL: 325

So we're going to change up the workout a little, and I'm going to increase my volume at the heavier percentiles. We're also going to rotate my percentages during a workout; so if I'm doing 80% of 1RM, I'll work my way up to 90% for 1x1, then come back down to 80% and do the rest of my working sets.