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Barbell Should we put a cap on our strength?

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For these reasons, and more, I intentionally put a cap on my limit strength training.

My deadlift doesn't need to be more than about 60% more than my clean.

Any time I spend unnecessarily trying to make my DL bigger means I'm not training other important competition qualities, such as power and mobility.

Also, for me personally, if I train exclusively for limit strength at the expense of everything else, I can make faster progress if I eat like a strongman and train at a bodyweight about 20 lbs heavier than I normally train at, but that has other consequences for mobility, blood pressure, aesthetics, joint health and general health that I prefer to stay away from.

At a certain age, perhaps over 50 just keeping your PRs may actually become a goal.
 
Another thought I've had to add to this: strength in what? My shoulders don't handle heavy press or bench & back squats ache, but DL, goblets, dips, chins & kb work are solid. I think that's good enough to serve my purposes. No sense pounding a square peg into a round hole....
 
Another thought I've had to add to this: strength in what? My shoulders don't handle heavy press or bench & back squats ache, but DL, goblets, dips, chins & kb work are solid. I think that's good enough to serve my purposes. No sense pounding a square peg into a round hole....

At age 50, my barbell lifting for my upper body is now intentionally constrained for risk reward reasons.

I still snatch and jerk because I must to in order to compete.

But shoulder strength building / prehab / conditioning / mobility is everything else: KBs, macebells, Indian clubs, resistance bands, body weight. It's worked out pretty well.

I haven't done heavy high bar back squats in years. I'm front squats only now.

No issues with pulls, though -- deadlifts in different flavors, clean high pulls, cleans, snatch pulls, all still good.
 
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