Apparently the whole town is having Internet issues. I was going to post for Justin, but my connection sucks, too, so I”m going mobile. Sorry, guys.
It has been a month since I did the steroid primer post. I have spent the last several weeks gathering facts and talking to current and former steroid users about the ins and outs of supplementation. I should have something pretty good for you by next week.
So, in addition to your normal PR Friday posts, ask me any questions you want answered about steroids and I”ll try to cover it next week.
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Not really a PR, but I won the Masters brown and black belt division at my judo tournament.
PRs!
Bodyweight: 221
Squat: 275 3×5
DL: 345 1×5 + 355 single
Ego: Some friends of mine came up from out of town (last saw them in December) and as soon as they opened the door and saw me they both said “holy crap you”re a lot bigger!”
PR on bench – 230 lbs for 3 x 5
planning to get squat and deadlift back into PR territory this week
PR Deadlift 385×4
PR Bench 239x3x4
Signed up for my first powerlifting competition. It”s on March 27th. I can”t wait.
Bigger Stronger Faster was a pretty depressing movie, now that one of the brothers is dead.
@Hookgrip_
Which one?
@PR”s
I have to go buy new boxers and a shirt I bought in November is about to burst off me when I button it up.
I actually have welts on my thighs from wearing some of my boxers.
PR Friday:
BW: 96.5 from 96
BP: 171, pr up from 170! go me!
SQ: 237x3x4 – 2 set pr
Jerk: 135 – pr from 127!
Steroids:
The actions/effects of the different testosterone esters.
squat 290 3×5, then 315×1 (wanted to see if I could do it)
deadlift 345×5
bw 215/217
Gained about 3kg. (Don”t particularly trust my scale.)
Chins: 3×10 w/ +7.5kg
Deadlift: 5x135kg
@ Anonymoose the semi pro wrestler one, was in rehab I think. Sad stuff
Yeah Mike died, the older brother but im not sure of the circumstances
DL 525 for 1, up from 475 8 weeks a go.
BW 230 up 10# over the past two weeks, stopped trying to gain once I hit 220.
He died in some rehab facility in California if I remember correctly, steroids weren”t the only drugs he was using. The amazing, and really sad, thing is their father actually said in the movie he expects to find him dead some day.
Anyway, not that many PRs for this week:
BW – 80kg. Closing in on that 84kg milestone.
squat – 107.5kg 5-5-5F. collapsed on the way up, which is sort of a PR as well, my first real squat failure.
Press – 52kg 3×5.
Bench 2×5 240, 1×5 235
Deadlift 1×4 365
Press 1×5 140
Decided I haven”t been going deep enough on squats: going to scale back 20 lbs. on work sets tonight to get proper depth. I don”t want to be the guy scoffed at for squatting like a fool.
This week tried for several max”s
DL= 425
Squat= 375
Press= 205
I also signed up for a powerlifting meet on March 13. Missouri/Ozark Open.
I”m the 4th week of a Russian 9-week program preparing for a PL meet in March. I”ve set two PRs this week:
SQ 140kg for 6×6, PR for overall reps
BP 107.5kg 6,6,5,5,4,4, old PR 105×6
I”ve done 80% for 6×3,6×4,6×5 and 6×6. Next week it”s 85% for 5×5. Hoping for a few more PRs then.
Currently only having deadlift PR”s as I work some things out with squats and work back up from resetting on presses:
Deadlift this week 475X4. Its a PR even though i was going for 5. I will get it next week. My recovery was off this week.
Oh and I accidentally weigh 252 now. I”m trying to get “Chris-big”
Bodyweight PR – 199lbs. I will be an adult male next week.
DL 405×5 Nice thing is, I”ve never done more than that, so everytime I DL, will now be a new PR. BW around 255, so I need to get the DL up.
Bodyweight PR: 233 at 6”
Squat PR: 295x5x3
PRs on other lifts should arrive next week.
Congrats Gant…I believe I remember you stating that was a goal in the competition post a few weeks back.
BW PR of 195
Was up over twenty pounds since Dec. 1st to 193 until I got bronchitis and subsequently a stomach virus. Lost close to 10 lbs in a matter of days. Back up to speed with the eating finally.
Deadlift 325 x 5
congrats, to gant and to everyone else on your PRs. i”ll be shooting for mine after work today..
Squat Pr 3 x 5 x 305
Very professional (above). Justin, Gant, AC, and the rest of the 70sbig.com crew, can this person be removed please?
Thank you for being very calm about that. It”s in progress.
–A.C.
PRs:
Squat: 280lbs 2×5
Press: 100lbs 3×5
PC: 155lbs 5×3
PR BW: 88kg I”m allmost getting to the Big Mitswa
Steriod question:
* Granted that athletes want to find the next thing that will help them to recover better and train harder, but in what form isn”t using steriods cheating? Is that when everyone uses it? And how would it be like if steriods were made legal in sports?
* And what about the health risks, I remember some youtube movies stating that the health risks aren”t that great if used moderately and wisely. Overdoing things will ofcourse kill you. Hell even drinking to much water will kill you.
@cha0sblader
Does that make you like….cool? or something?
@dcurrin
Congrats on the ego pr
PR: BW205, up from 155 in early summer and 175 in fall
PR2: split my jeans while squatting to lower large box.
loved the film, really makes me think. I feel bad that this is the first that I have heard of Mike Bell”s passing.
you can watch the whole thing online here: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/bigger-stronger-faster/
But it”s worth it to rent the DVD. There are some outtakes that should have found their way into the final version. Including a short interview with Jay Cutler, and some clips of Chris Bell lifting weights with Michael O”Hearn aka “Titan” from American Gladiators.
Only Pr this week was Press 65kg 3×5.
Squat went 3×5 but I was told they were all high, so I don”t count them.
Then I was told to take the week off from heavy lifting because I have to lift some 5rms this weekend in San Diego.
I did do handstands longer than I ever have before in my life as part of a conditioning session on wed and broke the window on my garage door.
Deadlift PR – 455lbs…easy off the floor, tough to lock out…i think that means i need more glute strength…maybe do some rack pulls too.
O also, hit a 52″ box jump from a standing 2 foot position. Up 2″ at almost 20lb heavier bw than my previous pr.
Been lurking, finally decided to join. Back on linear progression after losing my hard earned gains through Xfit :(
I”ll be back in PR territory in the next few weeks! In the meantime, PR of eggs consumed: whole dozen!!!
Sorry for double-post. I had a question regarding AAS. Let”s say you have a trainee who TRULY exhausted their linear gains, ate right, etc. Would taking AAS after one”s linear progression put you back in “linear progression” mode since your recovery rate has increased again? Hope that makes sense, love the site guys!
still out of the gym bc sciatica is giving me problems. seeing a chiro for the first time on monday so hopefully i can get back at it again soon.
I think that”s a good question Justin. I would think, most definitely. I don”t see that as an excuse to start using AAS, but if a trainee was to start using, even if they were and intermediate, they MIGHT be able do some more linear progression.
I”m under the impression that AASs should be used by advanced/elite level lifters to get a little more than what nature intended. Novices and intermediates should just carry on eating, lifting and getting stronger.
But I”m still a novice and haven”t used AAS so I”m not the person to ask; that”s just how I see it.
I have been lurking for a while. Decided to post my PR”s from a grip contest this past weekend.
2HP – 183lbs
DO Axle DL – 310lbs
Grippers – 155# CoC #3
@SMed I agree that the extra push in performance doesn”t justify on it”s own using AAS. I just think that exploring the question can reveal a lot about training and how our body responds to it (as well as exogenous supplements). It”s more of a rhetorical/thought-provoking question than anything.
For the record, I agree that a novice/intermediate trainee should probably just eat a $hit-ton, lift hard, and rest. I”m still back in the novice phase and am continually learning how my body responds and adapts to training/eating/recovery methods.
@SMed
than when you say that advanced/elite level lifter could use it. Is it then ok to use it for competitions?
@kincain
Regardless of our varying personal morals of which we decide whether or not exogenous hormone ingestion is “okay or not”, rules of competition are rules of competition.
In baseball, an infield fly results in an automatic out for the batter. If the MLB declares that AAS are against the rules, then so be it, it is cheating (this conclusion is independent of one”s personal morals/opnion of using AAS).
Gant, what age range does Masters compete in? You look like you could be in your late 20s, so weightlifting has kept you young
@Justin_C you are completely right, but what I was trying to induce was a bit of a discussion whether AAD should be made legal in sports.
The only thing that comes to the top of my mind is that it isn”t allowed (atleast in the Netherlands) because of the health risks not really because it would be performance enhancing. That is why creatine is allowed because it is a substance that is already present in the human body. As I understand it correctly that is.
Just want to know your opinions
D = S, sorry :D
heaviest I”ve ever been this week: 82kg.
Food PR: frying chicken breasts at 3AM. eating 2 days in a row 0.5kg of humus (1600 calories with tons of fat)
3 singles with 105kg on the bench press.
BW: 221lbs
BS: 260lbs
that was on wednseday, then on thursday i had three wisdom teeth pulled. i probably lost 5lbs from not being able to eat.
Squat PR
400 5×5
The rest was not so great.
225 lb snatch balance is all I”ve got this week.
body wt. PR of 181 @ 5”8″. Up from 170 two weeks ago after starting GOMAD.
PR”s:
OHP 87.5lb 3×5
Gained 8lbs, busted out of a shirt at the shoulders, dress size = exactly the same :)
Steroids question: How much of the gains made on steroids persist after going off steroids, if you were near your physical strength limits before steroids? And if you weren”t near your strength limits before juicing?
No intent to juice, just intellectually curious.