PR Friday

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PR Friday is a time to rejoice in any personal records you hit in the past week, update everyone on your training, and ask random training questions. Chances are other readers can help, and if not I’ll provide my own opinion. Good day to you, sir/madame.

I’ll add stuff to this throughout Friday, but the following video has nothing to do with 70’s Big.



Update: I said I was gonna add some stuff, but I’ve got nothin’. I’ve been doing this for over a year every week day, and unless I write an in depth post, I’ve got nothin’.

82 thoughts on “PR Friday”

  3. Jeremy@CFV,
    Shoving the knees out hard to the side and sitting way back are what you need to do. The top 1/3 of the squat is where any forward knee travel should occur. Past that, they shouldnt be coming forward. You could try standing a block of wood up in front on your toe. As you start to squat let your knee travel towards it, but dont knock the wood over. We use a foam roller to do this at the gym pretty often. It works great for makin people aware of their forward knee travel. But I didnt come up with this stuff. This is all out of Starting Strength. A lot of your problem I think is just form breakdown under load. Stick with your training maxes and dont grind through max rep sets relentlessly. Not everytime anyways.

  4. Also, where did you perform your 1 rep maxes for which you calculated your training maxes? Jim Wendler says not to use Maxes from a meet. Or meet type setting.

  5. @Ryan

    Haha they were all from a group total we did at a friends gym. I don’t remember reading the no meet PRs for maxes but do remember him sayin something about projecting maxes you’d like to hit at your next meet. I had them set far below my maxes but it was just plain boring hitting an easy set of 12 every day. I’ll do some serious work on knees out and go after some lighter wide squats. Again, thanks for the help. Everyone here is so awesome!

  8. All 3 were PRs today.
    Squat 330×5
    Press 125×5
    Dead 375×5

    Anyone want to guess why my press is so much lower relative to my other lifts? Or is this nothing to worry about? I set a 1RM of 200 on the bench press last friday, as a reference point.

  9. Jeremy@CFV,
    yea I don’t know if Wendler mentions it in the book, but I talked to him at the Coach’s Roundtable an he said not to use meet PR’s there.

  10. @Jalps
    Everyones press is going to be significantly lower than their bench press because of the size/amount of muscle used. (Press: Shoulders / tri’s / core, Bench: Chest / Shoulders / tri’s / core). Also its pretty damn hard to cheat with a press, where as with the bench press we start to get a little bounce off of the chest when the weight gets super heavy. Don’t sweat it, just keep working hard.

    Back in the gym PR! Took a couple weeks off and a deload week due to tendon issues in both biceps.

  12. A quartet of modest PRs from this week:

    Squat: 11×200
    Deadlift: 14×230
    Bench Press: 11×180
    Press: 10×110

    Pretty good improvement from when I started up again last month, I’m still kind of a bitch though.

  13. This week is the first back in the gym…started wendler 5/3/1 and here is how week one looked:
    Press: 140×8
    DL: 405×7
    Bench: 210×11
    Squat: 325×8

    Not exactly PR’s but after being out of the gym for a while it was awesome for me.

  14. There was an offer for Wendler’s and Elite FTS’ products for free. I don’t want this to look like 70’s Big is short changing Wendler cause he’s a cool dude.

    –Justin

  19. Oh, and that 310 was on squat.

    Getting-told-off-by-gym-employee-PR: Finally got told not to drop the bumper plates, even though I explained that it’s their function. Had to happen sometime.

  20. I love this site!!!
    PR’d my BP at 140 kg (I bench about 3 x year). Also a heavy DL single at 205 kg (not a PR but heavy for the day) I can pull off pins all day really heavy but my first pull off the deck is WEAK. Should I be working off 4″ blocks to rectify that? I’ve been seeking membership to the 5 wheel club for quite some time.

    Thanks to the 70s big crew

  22. @noah

    That bumper plate thing happened to me as well. It was bothering some yoga practitioner because dropping the weights were echoing into their yoga room. I proceeded to tell her that that was the purpose of the plates and how I didn’t feel like I could even carefully lower the weight slowly to the ground. She told me that I should use less weight, and then I told her that I wanted to get stronger. I kept it polite but I was adamant.

  23. Did a 2x90kg (198lbs) bench press, was aiming for 3 reps but..
    Also, i did 7x75kg (168lbs) just before that lift so I’m quite pleased.

    Other than that, noting special to mention.

  25. Well, this is my first time posting for a PR Friday, but I wasn’t disappointed. Did a CrossFit Total, got the following numbers.

    Squat – 335lbs
    Overhead Press – 160lbs
    Deadlift – 390lbs

    Body weight: 155lbs at 5’7″

    Been gaining some mass lately, but it has created some nerve impingement problems. Am stepping the bulk back to maintain normal function for now.

  26. Justin, If you running out of ideas, you could feature a member submitted 70’sbig recipe one day a week.

    There aren’t enough recipes submitted to do this. Gant and I always wanted there to be a regular recipe feature though.

    –Justin

  28. PR Deadlift – 310lb:5-5-5.

    Almost got bench 190lb:5-5-5.

    After all the tips on squatting, I’m going to back off ~10% and make sure my form is good on “high bar” squats. Maybe learn “low bar” squats later this winter.

    We’ve been trying to convince the manager of our gym to get some bumper plates and a platform. He said he was going to have to charge our I.T. dept extra. I think it’s funny the computer geeks are the ones asking for this type of equipment.

  30. Press 140x5x3
    I’ve been trying to break the 135 barrier for a while. Justin I know it has to be hard coming up with something every day. If you are looking for topics I would like to see something on foam roller work.

  31. Justin

    You are correct. The diamiter is about 2 inches smaller then olympic sized plates. I wouldn’t call them bumper plates, but they are rubberized. I was putting a plate underneath, but it felt a little high. I’m still going through LP, so I’m not doing any olympic lifts, just power clean and deadlift.

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