u/manBearRilla

Still working on getting my deadlift back up, still haven’t really maxed it out in a bit but I think we’re moving in the right direction.

475lb single with an 18s pause (timed to Chester Bennington’s long scream from Given Up) followed by an AMRAP set where I took 255lb for a ride and got 30. That shit felt terrible.

I’ve started adding in weighted dips once a week on my lower intensity bench day (I bench twice per week at the moment) and they’ve been killer with helping to break through plateaus when I’m stuck.

This was a quick set of 5 with 90lb of weight in addition to my own BW of 275lb.

Been incorporating more AMRAP sets after my max effort working sets lately. Today was my second bench day of the week, stripped the weight down to 275 after hitting my top set of 465 for a single and went at it.

Probably had at least 1-2 more but took my win and walked away

My old account got hacked and then banned and Reddit support isn’t a whole lot of help, so posting from a new account.

I had set a goal of benching 500lb by the end of this year, ended up hitting it at the beginning of March. This successful lift was preceded by a failed attempt 7 minutes earlier and 4 failed attempts the week prior, so this attempt was just pure spite and grit that helped me get it.