Reply With QuoteIt's very important not to try a max when you're cold. That's the easiest way to get an injury. You may find that doing some dynamic warm ups followed by bodyweight squats allows you to warm up with less reps on the actual squat exercise. You may find that you are able to work up to your max more quickly while still being adequately warmed up. While your lower body is certainly not weak, it is perhaps not as strong as is considered desirable in comparison to your upper body.
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03-24-2006, 03:54 PM #1Registered User
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max bench and max squat
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I find I can not do heavy weight without working up to it.
And I work my ass to get up what I do, good thing there are few guys in the gym when I do these cause I make some noise.
so since I cannot do a cold set of 300 to determine my max, I figure Im at like 330-340
this is not much greater than my bench max, and I think that just on principle of the movement it should be. Is my lower body just weak?
my max bench is 300
My squat sets today were:
135x8
225x6
255x6
275x4
300x4Last edited by ExiledX66; 03-24-2006 at 04:30 PM.
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03-24-2006, 06:42 PM #2Functional Lifting = Life
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03-24-2006, 09:12 PM #3Registered User
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thats what Im concerned about, and I know there are no real definite answers for these types of questions...but for a guy with a 300 bench, what is a good weight to shoot for on a squat....and a deadlift for that matter?
I was thinking like 400, but I have no idea how practical that is.
I should add that Im 194 lbs, 10% bf, and 5'10"Last edited by ExiledX66; 03-25-2006 at 10:12 AM.
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03-24-2006, 10:56 PM #4Lexen Xtreme
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For a 300lbs bench, I'd say around a 400-450 squat, and about a 450 deadlift would be about right.... Squat may be a little lower though, depends a lot on the person and their strengths/weaknesses.
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03-24-2006, 11:57 PM #5Amor Fati
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i actuallly need lots of warm up sets to be able to squat near my max. for example this week i got 365x1 atg squat and my sets looked something like this.
empty bar x 12
135x8
185x5
225x3
275x3
315x1
335x1
365x1
the only set i counted as a working set was the last however, because the others were only warm ups, your problem is that your working too hard on your warmup sets and you are fatigued before you get to the strength work."The greatest obstacle to knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge." -Barry Marshall, Nobel Laureate
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