[jayb]

Anybody can make a suggestion, and plenty of people can get good results doing stupid things... take note of your source when looking at this sort of thing. Hitting your 1RM weekly is probably not endorsed by many people who know what they're talking about, as far as I know.

[Ian Coe]

Originally Posted by RuDOWN4It

i read this article a couple weeks back. I cant remember the guys name, but he was benching in the upper 500's and reaching 6. he suggested to max out one every week or so. i mean all these suggestions make sense, is there a way to decide which works best?

well, everyones different and different genes mean different abilities


The general consensus is not to though due to frying your CNS

But all you can do is try it and see. If you can get away with it, why not, but most (99%) people will burn out by week 2

[RuDOWN4It]

Originally Posted by Ian Coe

well, everyones different and different genes mean different abilities


The general consensus is not to though due to frying your CNS

But all you can do is try it and see. If you can get away with it, why not, but most (99%) people will burn out by week 2

That sounds good. do you guys see good gains maxing out once every 6 weeks or so? I've been seeing pretty good gains the past couple weeks since I've been using some of the techniques on Urban's website, so I guess I get too excited and want to max out often. But I'm going to just slow down on the maxing a little bit.

[RuDOWN4It]

http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459808

That's the site I was talking about, number 11.

[Ian Coe]

I'll have to leave it up to the other boys to answer the maxing out question. I'm too fucked these days to max out

[letsgotribe9]

I have a friend who powerlifts, and he is quite unbelievable. He would bench every other day, maxing out, trying to add a pound or two every time he maxed. He would do one rep of 50% his max, rest 30 seconds, one rep of 75-80% of his max, rest a minute or two, then max out. That was the entire workout- that's it, but because he did it every other day, he wasn't drained of energy, and made gains. He never does more than one rep so he doesn't tire himself out with the lighter weight. He just does the two reps before his max to warm up his muscles. His strength gains were incredible. He hardly gains weight, but gains incredible strength. He went from weighing 155 benching 225 to 165 benching 335.

Today, he's approaching 400 on bench, and weighing about 175-180. It's honestly quite incredible. In either instance, he maxes on bench every other day and improves. I've never heard or seen anyone else do this. I tried it for a few weeks once and increased my bench by 20 lbs. or so. I don't even remember why I stopped it. Probably because I wanted to gain weight and was interested in muscular endurance too. Now that I think about it, I should probably try it out again. I think this may help you. Try it out, let me know.

[Ian Coe]

see, if I had the room thats the number one reason why i would get a power rack.

Its just have it there and every day jump in it and do a few high end % lifts and then go on my merry way

[RuDOWN4It]

Originally Posted by Ian Coe

see, if I had the room thats the number one reason why i would get a power rack.

Its just have it there and every day jump in it and do a few high end % lifts and then go on my merry way

Yeah a power rack sounds real nice. Can you really set the safety bars low enough to let the bar hit your chest and not injure yourself?

[Ian Coe]

I think so mate

Unfortunately I have never EVER had the pleasure of using one


Fucking hippy uni gyms

[blandy]

Originally Posted by RuDOWN4It

i read this article a couple weeks back. I cant remember the guys name, but he was benching in the upper 500's and reaching 6. he suggested to max out one every week or so. i mean all these suggestions make sense, is there a way to decide which works best?

Just to point out although Dave Tate recommends to complete a Maximum effort (ME) workout every week (well two, one for bench press and one for squats), it's not all ways using the same exercise. One exercise is used for at most 3 workouts (for beginners) and for more advanced trainees the exercise changes every workout. They also dont really use actual squats or bench presses for the ME work, rather using variations such as floor press or board presses for example. This allows the athelte to avoid the CNS burnout Ian talked about.