There’s a good reason we only do it once a yearLast time I did that shyt it took a whole-ass two hours, straight Larry status.
I said no mas and haven’t again.
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Son Goku
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Cool. Few last re-attacks:
If you're making session-to-session progress from a 3x5 LP, you're not an intermediate to advanced lifter. Advanced lifters don't even make measurable weekly progress like that.
A 3x5 is almost assuredly not gonna get you to a 3/4/500 Big 3, so what program are you planning next? Three days a week obviously won't be it either, so you're gonna be looking at various splits.
Were you planning to actually test your maxes or just basing everything off a e1rm? I can't do sets of ten for shyt right now but I can hit heavy singles everyday I train. AMRAPS ≠ 1RMs, they require different types of strength, tax the muscles and CNS differently, etc.
Very few people are totaling 1200+ in a commercial gym and almost none of them got there by accident. I go to the biggest gym in my city and can't even think of 10, including myself.
Not even tryna sound like a hater but your current e1rms barely even have you in the 1000 pound club; I don't see you joining the 1200 pound club in 2023 with only 8 months to go and no real apparent plan.
Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
Goals
shyt like that is why i don’t even think I’m that strong, it’s just that so many cats in the gym are weak.
Either goals or
with fake plates. 
Unless it's a video from a professional lifter or a clip from a PL meet, I take all of these SM posts with a large grain of salt. You know clout is one helluva drug, word to Rick James.
Intermediate strength for my weight. My form and mechanics are solid just from doing it over the years.Cool. Few last re-attacks:
If you're making session-to-session progress from a 3x5 LP, you're not an intermediate to advanced lifter. Advanced lifters don't even make measurable weekly progress like that.
A 3x5 is almost assuredly not gonna get you to a 3/4/500 Big 3, so what program are you planning next? Three days a week obviously won't be it either, so you're gonna be looking at various splits.
Were you planning to actually test your maxes or just basing everything off a e1rm? I can't do sets of ten for shyt right now but I can hit heavy singles everyday I train. AMRAPS ≠ 1RMs, they require different types of strength, tax the muscles and CNS differently, etc.
Very few people are totaling 1200+ in a commercial gym and almost none of them got there by accident. I go to the biggest gym in my city and can't even think of 10, including myself.
Not even tryna sound like a hater but your current e1rms barely even have you in the 1000 pound club; I don't see you joining the 1200 pound club in 2023 with only 8 months to go and no real apparent plan.
But that's my point. My strength is already fairly decent again and I'm eating off of a very basic program. I'll probably switch over to Texas method, or madcows or something later (eventually 5/3/1). Tons to choose from.
No offense taken. You come off more like a cheeky jokey type than a hater.
In my experience those calculators have been fairly close to the mark for me (particularly from a 10 rep maximum standpoint) Maybe with like a 3% or so discrepancy depending.
We'll see how it goes.
Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
Fair enough. A beginning strength program means you can still progress linearly, but prolly not to a 1200 # total unless you're a SHW dude.
I know a lotta cats who took the e1RM as gospel and then were dumbfounded when they failed singles below that weight. Hitting an AMRAP is all well and good, but submax work (word to 5/3/1) is no substitute for maximal effort singles IMO.
Both have their place but only one can simulate the real deal.
Good luck either way. Try not to do a @Gully Bull and end up retiring from the game early.
now that I think about itEither goals or
Unless it's a video from a professional lifter or a clip from a PL meet, I take all of these SM posts with a large grain of salt. You know clout is one helluva drug, word to Rick James.
Squatting 6 plates believable
benching 6 plates
if you're not some 300lb, 6'4 cat
Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
now that I think about it
Squatting 6 plates believable
benching 6 plates
It's also wild the plates didn't even shift when he was walking even with those shytty-little wire clips on the bar.
But dude squats and pushes over 1100 pounds and ain't in PL meets, the Olympics, or the league?
A person that's legit that strong shouldn't have any problem monetizing said skrenf. 
now that I think about it
Squatting 6 plates believable
benching 6 plates
You have freaks out here. Dude is like 215ish
I know there's cats my size benching and squatting that much.
But dude did that in one swoop, with no spotter on bench....
Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
The yt dude is also a powerlifter and didn't squat the weight into the bench before he hit his rep.
Never thought about the possibility of itsdreamsworld being fake with the plates but who knows.
The truly freaky strong specimens usually solidify their greatness in some sort of federation of some kind. Leaving a mark.
It's why you don't see Brad castleberry ever competing.
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But it seems like dude always in commercial gyms. If he was bringing in his own shyt you would think he would have been exposed by now. I could have swore I read comments of people saying he attends their local gym and that he's legit
The truly freaky strong specimens usually solidify their greatness in some sort of federation of some kind. Leaving a mark.
It's why you don't see Brad castleberry ever competing.
Edit:
But it seems like dude always in commercial gyms. If he was bringing in his own shyt you would think he would have been exposed by now. I could have swore I read comments of people saying he attends their local gym and that he's legit
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Gully Bull
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Someone gotta be the Ken Griffey/Penny Hardaway/Grant Hill of the squadFair enough. A beginning strength program means you can still progress linearly, but prolly not to a 1200 # total unless you're a SHW dude.
I know a lotta cats who took the e1RM as gospel and then were dumbfounded when they failed singles below that weight. Hitting an AMRAP is all well and good, but submax work (word to 5/3/1) is no substitute for maximal effort singles IMO.
Both have their place but only one can simulate the real deal.
Good luck either way. Try not to do a @Gully Bull and end up retiring from the game early.
Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
You also prolly read folks saying you have to take gear to look like Creed Jr. n'dem in comments too.
Any lift not performed on the platform is just a gym lift anyways.
Whether it's real or fake, it doesn't count for anything more than clicks or daps until he does it before judges.
