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Originally Posted by Shownomercy
What do you guys lift ? Just some numbers...
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bench: 405
hack squat: 650
i never could do squats without the benefit of a mchine to stabilize the weight. it was too much for my back. just to give you some history, i started lifting in high school. it was an elective, not attached to my prep courses, and i did it on a whim just to see what it was all about. well, one of the guys that had been lifting for a while noticed how quickly i grew and he took me under his wing. he kept me from making the same mistakes he had made and tailored my workout to increase my size. by the time i graduated, i had just made it into the 300 club, lifting 302 on bench and 400 on hack squat. it took me several years, and several mistakes and recovering from those mistakes to hit 400 on bench. i was clearly a candidate for competition and entered my first contest at 22 years old. boy, did i feel small compared to the guys on stage with me. here i was, one of the biggest guys at my gym, but those guys made me look small.at my peak i was 48" chest, 19" arms, 29" waist, 27" thigh and 19" calf. i have since had to back way off of lifting, since hurting my back. funny thing was, i was a real gym rat and i hurt myself lifting a box of 110# weights from the floor to an 18" shelf. who couldn't do that without hurting themselves? i regret doing it, as it herniated two of my discs and has forever changed my life. not to mention my body.
this is why i preach so much to listen to your body. it will tell you when you need to rest. and remember, you grow when you are resting! if you don't rest, you never give yourself a chance to get bigger, which is what they call overtraining. it's ok to take a week off, even two weeks, per year to allow your body to fully recover from your workouts. if i knew then what i know now...