How much weight do you work out with on squats v.s. one rep max?

[Uthinkso]

So I was feeling silly and went to my gym today with a spotter this time. My mission to find my one rep max on three excercises BB Bench, Squat, and Deadlift.

I typically end my last squatting set with 225lbx10 yet today I did 275x2 easily, then onto 285, 295, 305. I'll be honest 305 was ALL I had but I was pushing for the roof and nothing was going to stop me from racking that bar under my own power.

So the question here is this. How can my one rep max be 80lb more than my last working set or is this fairly common? Is it sign of poor muscle conditioning or recovery? As a reminder I've only been back at weights since mid January so barely 16 weeks.

 

[Witchblade]

I imagine you train with a high intensity? Your body adapts to what you do. You don't have great muscle endurance, but you have great strength apparently.

Btw, don't do more than a single 1RM attempt per day. It's killer for the CNS.

 

[Bakerboy]

ExRx.net: Predicting One-rep Max

300 is your 1 rep max according to this calculator which is almost dead on.

 

[DOMS]

I bet the knowledge that you had a spotter is was really let you cut loose.

I had the same sort of thing, albeit on a lesser scale, happened to me when I started using saw-horses for safety.

 

[P-funk]

Like Bakerboy said, you can calculate an approx. 1RM from any rep maximum that you have. It sounds like you are right in the ball park of those numbers.

A lot of things play into performing a 1 rep max.......metal psyche, environment, rest, energy intake, etc....

 

[kcoleman]

The calculators place your last working set at pretty much the same intensity as your 1rm, you've got nothing to worry about.

 

[Uthinkso]

Thats a pretty slick calculator I'll have to monkey with that a bit. Thanks for the input everyone.

 

[MeatZatk]

so that calculator is pretty accurate? I haven't tested my 1rm in a long time so I don't really have an idea of what it might be.

 

[Soul of Sol]

On another note, how wise is it to go for a 1RM? I was under the impression that the risk vs reward is not good for the 1RM.


Imma cat, curiousity rules me.

 

[fufu]

On another note, how wise is it to go for a 1RM? I was under the impression that the risk vs reward is not good for the 1RM.


Imma cat, curiousity rules me.

If you aren't a PL-er, there isn't a specific need to attempt it.

 

[DbLPLatinum89]

it could also mean that your fast twitch muscle fibers are more dominant than the slow twitch fibers. Either way, u r about where u need to be.

 

[CowPimp]

The bigger the weights you are using, the greater the absolute variance between a true maximum and a sub-maximum. So, the difference between your maximum and a given sub-maximum will increase and the maximum goes up, and decrease as the maximum goes down. Make sense?