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@pakalolo For me personally, I don’t love this for compounds since what muscles you “feel” doing the work isn’t necessarily reflective of reality. In regular training I usually treat “failure” compound sets as 1-2 RIR sets and use bar speed/grind to assess how close I am to failure (and every...

@maggie123 Hmm, I’m not sure this works as a blanket statement. If you are so focused on good form that you lift well below your ability, you’ll likely see slower/fewer gains. What “perfect form” is also has some nuance to it. For a strength, the best form in their competition lifts is whatever...

@nextstep First, I would not overly fixate on the results from those scans: Body composition estimates are less useful than you think. (DEXA is used as the example here because it is the best commercial method for measuring body comp, other methods generally have even higher errors). Are his...

@chrissy I second @dhilawinslate-for-life-1984. Especially since compliments are kind of a gym etiquette gray zone - a lot of people wouldn’t do it because they don’t want to be seen as rude.

World record deadlift from Heather Connor

@allthingsarebecomenew Yeah a program that doesn’t give you a clear guide on weight is probably not good. For me, I am currently running vanilla GZCL. Weights are based off of percentages of a training max, here defined as approximately a 2-3 RM. I haven’t done proper max testing in awhile but...

@ronit Ena’s deadlift last year was one of the most exciting moments, even though he missed it. Can’t wait to see what he does this year.

@ortho This might be part of your problem - this is called “linear progression” and it is a form of progressive overload only suitable to beginners (or people returning from a long break). Take a deload and hop on one of the intermediate programs in the wiki :)

Tiffany Chapon hits a world record bench on the way to winning the 47 class

@wpjo I’ll take that as a compliment ☺️

@baabaasheep2010 Who do you have winning it 👀

@countrygirl011 There are different definitions of failure. Muscular failure is when you try a rep and literally fail - you can’t move the weight through the sticking point. Technical failure is when you can no longer move the weight with “good” form. This is probably one of the most common...

@allthingsarebecomenew Having a program with clear targets to meet/beat kinda negates the need for me to really feel THAT motivated. If I know I am supposed to lift a particular weight for a particular number of sets and reps, I trust the professionals who wrote the program and just do the work...

Another weight class I should have given some attention to in the main post: the men’s -66s, where the top three lifters (Brian Le, Kyota Ushiyama, Kasemsand Senumong) have near identical nominating totals, and #4 is Pana Tarinidis, is known as the king of grind for his ability to fight through...

@anon103 ❤️

@ycgp That last paragraph is so so true.

@rania You’ve gotten lots of great advice, OP, but I’ll add: if you can’t add weight or reps to progressively overload, add sets.

@camo320 Amazing! Hope they kill it 🥰

@scruffers I’m on a mission 😃

@ortho How do you choose your weights each day + implement progressive overload?