Thread: Hi, I'm Alberto

A little about myself. In 1994, I squatted my first 300 lbs. I then kept pushing way too hard, overtrained, and nearly injured myself, and chased 300 again for years. In December 2003, I read an article by Louis Simmons of Westside Barbell about the conjugate method and the box squat. I gave that a try and took time to learn not only the lifts but about lifting with speed and cycling related movements. I was at a 225 lbs deadlift and squat on December 29 and in the second week of April, I performed a 320 lbs squat below parallel and nearly pulled 355 lbs in the deadlift (settled for 325). My T-Bar Row almost doubled in the same timeframe, to 160 lbs. I'm now ready to apply the same work to my bench press, which is a lousy 200 lbs (I put all my experimenting time into DL and squats.). I feel I have a lot to offer, as I'm still experimenting.

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