Hit 405 DL after herniating my L4-L5 disc a year ago. Hoping to break 500 this year

I had a minor tweak in the middle of my peak 😒

I think cause high(er) reps and improper belt placement...

ima back off for about 8 days

gauge where I stand and then try for 405, I know I have the strength now

Maybe just go a little lighter and focus on form until the tweak feels like it's gone away

my form was fine, I actually felt really good the whole time, and it didn't feel particularly heavy at all. I'm convinced it was just the culmination of doing heavy squats prior, poor belt placement, and high reps

I only felt it after the bad set

I'll edit my peak protocol to be shorter and lower rep as well

in fact I got under the bar again today and felt fine considering

but I'll focus on recovery

Glad to hear that the gains are coming @Steve - NJ
And sorry to hear that @Deleted User, hope you have a speedy recovery (although it doesn't sound too serioud)

Hit 260 bench today

y'all just wait, 300 in no time

I'm jealous lol. Proud of you, bro. 👍

Nice dude. How long has it been taking you to move up. I know bench moves up slowly

Well, the program I wrote took me from 245 to 260 in about 3-4 months

technically 5ish but I'm hardly counting the hypertrophy block I did before hand

Barely felt it

What was the program?

I can't include it in one screenshot because the way I made it in excel (different dropdown options give different schedule information)

But it's one I made roughly based around Candito's deadlift program, mixed with a push pull legs type style

Hit 315 on squat (it's poverty I know, but progress)

I had atleast 325 in the tank as well

Hey better than I can do with these knees 😂

nice @Deleted User same @StevePines -WA

January.....monday.....fucking hell its packed

Guy doing shoulder press in the squat rack......is this the 9th circle?

@Mark Vandal New year's resolutioners 🤢

Though OHP in the squat rack is a pretty Chad move

Theres a fat balding nerd doing karate moves with the 10 lbs dumbbells. I swear on my life

>tfw the hottest girl in the gym is working out with some skinny fat looking guy

@Mark Vandal she probably takes birth control pills tbh fam

Poisoning my fucking water supply

^^^Gotta filter that shit.

You guys heard of the Grey Skull LP program? Started it this week.. Came highly recommended from a competitive power lifter friend. I love it so far.

https://physiqz.com/powerlifting-programs/greyskull-lp-best-powerbuilding-routine-beginners-gslp/

I do DLs for 2x5 then AMRAP instead of the single set of 5.

Similar to SS 5x5 program, but better for multiple reasons.

@Sonic it got my bench up so it must be good.

@ExternalPepsi Nice. That's my main goal as well. Have made good progress in every other lift except bench.