You got this mate. I’m backing ya.@dc you're safe for now. 24 reps at 225.
You got this mate. I’m backing ya.
I think you have a particular ability for "strength endurance". Would be interesting to determine where that comes from. My guess would be a really good aerobic base -- lots of mitochondria to keep producing high amounts of ATP (cellular energy), and lots of slow-twitch fatigue-resistant muscle fiber to carry a lot of the overall effort along with some fast-twitch for the hardest part of the lift. In contrast, most people are probably using almost all fast-twitch fiber for most of a set of squats, which fatigue more quickly and also build up by-products of glycolysis, lactate along with hydrogen ions (lactic acid) and forces set termination much more quickly. That's just my amateur physiology musings from what I've learned along the way from cycling, Pavel's Strong Endurance, this forum, etc..I was thinking that anyone who's put numbers up in the 315 or 405 category should be able to do 135 all day, or 225 for at least as many reps as I did today. I think my squat PR was 315 x 7 a decade or so ago, and around that time I also did 185 x 50.
Yes, I think Fabio has a test in Reload where you use a max reps test to determine where you are in that spectrum.@Anna C, I recall, at the first US SFL - was at Danny Sawaya’s place - that Pavel was mapping out some programming for Fabio and for Dave Whitley and comparing how, because of their differences, the programming would also be different. Dave was as you described above, someone who naturally came by the ability to do lots of heavy lifting where Fabio would have a much lower volume of 90%+ lifts.
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I think you have a particular ability for "strength endurance". Would be interesting to determine where that comes from.
I just did the three "Royal Court" exercises, the Hindu Squats, Hindu Pushups, and Wrester's bridge, and did them every day, religiously, for a year or more. I was in my early twenties, the perfect time to pick a modality, and milk it.
Probably would do some interesting things... But my guess is, the magic came from doing them every day "for a year or more". And you did it in your 20s, when adaptations come quicker... so it might take older people longer to adapt to a higher volume of activity, longer to fully develop the adaptations, and they might not develop as well.So getting back to you guys who put up big weights: I bet if you do Hindu squats for a few weeks (the right way), you'll consolidate your leg and PC strength and come back even more explosive on the barbell lifts, with notable gains in strength endurance.
Probably would do some interesting things... But my guess is, the magic came from doing them every day "for a year or more".
And you did it in your 20s, when adaptations come quicker... so it might take older people longer to adapt to a higher volume of activity, longer to fully develop the adaptations, and they might not develop as well.
Well, you guys are pretty convincing! A few years back I purchased @Pavel Macek's "Great Gama Protocol" but I haven't ever got back into checking it out. In addition to other materials, it has Hindu Pushups and Hindu Squats. So I'll see what I can do to get this going.I think a GTG approach with a few comfortable submaximal but progressive sets per day, without allowing the burn to start, would be useful for people of any age. It may take an older person longer to make the same kind of gains I did in my 20s, but they will still make gains quickly if they have not devoted any time to this movement.
Name | 60kg / 135 | 100kg / 225 | 140kg / 315 | 180kg | 220kg | 260kg |
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Chris M | 3 (1/3) | 3 (1/3) | ||||
Lee D | 12 (1/5) | |||||
Boris B | 5 (1/1) | 2 (1/1) 5 (1/21) 10 (2/11) | 1 (2/11) 2 (4/1) 3 (4/8) 4 (6/3) | |||
Timo K | 25 (1/2) 35 (3/14) | 1 (4/11) 3 (4/20) | ||||
Brock L | 20 (1/4) 30 (3/24) 35 (5/12) 40 (5/19) | |||||
Jayrob | 3 (1/6) | 3 (1/6) | 3 (1/6) | 1 (1/20) | ||
DannyHoj | 5 (1/7) | |||||
Halfakneecap | 5 (1/22) | |||||
S Mandal | 12 (1/23) | |||||
Steve K | 5 (1/24) | |||||
silveraw | 15 (2/1) | |||||
dc | 42 (2/23) | 20 (1/18) 31 (2/3) | 5 (4/11) | |||
Steven B | 7 (3/30) | |||||
BJJ Shawn | 10 (3/31) | |||||
David M | 51 (6/8) | 24 (6/10) | ||||
Hung | 7 (1/5) 8 (4/21) | 1 (1/18) 2 (6/11) | ||||
silverraw | 8 (1/6) | 4 (5/30) | ||||
Peter M | 6 (1/7) 8 (1/31) 10 (2/12) | |||||
Jeff R | 8 (1/9) 12 (3/5) | |||||
Jeff R's Dad | 1 (1/9) | |||||
Matt S | 10 (1/31) 13 (3/7) 16 (4/23) 20 (5/21) | |||||
Mike L | 5 (3/7) | |||||
Reardon55 | 4 (2/20) | |||||
North Coast Miller | 12 (4/5) | |||||
Eric WBB | 5 (4/11) | |||||
Jason S | 10 (2/7) | |||||
Washed Up Meathead | 7 (6/8) |
No just the forums table feature@Simply strong did you make this in Excel? It's nice!
It's nice. I don't know if I can copy and paste it into newer posts - if I can, I will. A limitation of the forum is that I can't go back and edit older posts - if I could, I'd just have the table at the front of the thread and just edit it as we go.No just the forums table feature