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user-inactivated  ·  3212 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 27, 2016

What's the reasoning for such ratios?





veen  ·  3212 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My guess is that it's because of the different kinds of muscles used - your back muscles combined are, for almost everyone, stronger / bigger than their leg muscles, which are stronger than their arm muscles. My deadlift PR was almost twice my squat PR, just as an example.

OftenBen  ·  3212 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Lifting sounds like so much fun from your perspective. And I'm just sitting here with my low weight, high rep sadness :[

user-inactivated  ·  3211 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Is there anything to stop you from increasing the weight?

OftenBen  ·  3211 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Medical advice unfortunately.

user-inactivated  ·  3211 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Shame. Think of it this way, then: you're beating everyone who isn't doing any weight right now. If you measure your life from the successful people's, you'll always find yourself missing something, when in fact, the truth of what you have comes from what you had and what you gained. I came to call it "measuring from zero than from a hundred", referring to percentage of achieving some sort of an ideal that we chase blindly. It's not what we don't have that defines us - it's what we do have, and right now, you have it quite well, don't you?

OftenBen  ·  3211 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I mean, I like the 'I'm beating everybody sitting on the couch' mentality.

The problem is that I know the health benefits (Particularly for men) of high weight, low rep exercise.

user-inactivated  ·  3210 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's no reason to shed tears over what you can't do and not enjoying what you can.

veen  ·  3212 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What I left out was that my bench PR was half my squat, and that my squat form was appaling. Either the squat weight is too light to matter or my weak as shit ankles were in the way. Everyone in the gym sucks in their own special way.

That said, eat more proteins and heavy reps will get better over time. It's the trendline that counts, not the outliers.