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Did back squats for the first time in 18 months and found my one rep max at 315, currently weighing in at 155ish

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When people talk about how much they lift, do they include the weight of the bar in their numbers? I just started using a bench press and I'm curious

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include weight of bar

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Thanks dude!

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Yeah, the bar is 45 lbs so always add that. Assuming it's a standard bar. I've seen 35 lb bars in my gym. They're usually shorter.

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Alright cool, thanks. Then I guess I'll start by saying that my current comfortable lifting weight is 95. I'm going to the gym more often now so that need should start to go up soon

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good work man, keep it up!

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Going to be logging all of my powerlifting progress on fitocracy from here out if anyone wants to follow what's going on.

https://www.fitocracy.com/profile/Reachg/?activities

Right now I'm cutting and focusing on a few things to prep myself for some strength gains this offseason, which will be in a few weeks for me.

For the time being:

All bench reps are 3 second paused reps. I want to be at a completely dead stop for this to have absolutely 0 stretch reflex. I need to build to strength off the bottom to help my bench (Realized I could bench 265x5 with a 1 inch board on my chest) because it's by far my biggest weakness on this lift.

I switched deadlift to conventional so I reset it @ 295 a few weeks ago. Slowly just moving it up over this cut in preparation for lifting conventional during this bulk.

Squat I completely reset a few weeks ago after 3 months of recovery after hip flexor injury. Extremely light right now, but I'm trying to re-strengthen those muscles. Going to push linear progression as hard as I can on this cut for those.

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That's insane... Those numbers lol. I added an extra 10 onto my bench weight yesterday and it was remarkable how it felt that it was heavier, but still manageable

Also I tried my first deadlifts yesterday!

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Fucking fitocracy, I can't see any of the workouts I've posted since July 18, and it's really pissing me off since I was relying on this to be able to record my lifts. Pretty mad. Have no idea what is going on; keep relogging the lifts, view in feed and they show up, and then they disappear. Want to shoot this site.

Hit a 205 incline bench today for 5 with 3 sec full pause on chest. Pretty happy with that.

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I've been using Evernote for a long time to record all my stuff. It's cross platform so I can access it everywhere basically. I've had no issues with it so far.

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Here's a few recent rep PRs.

Squat 335x10, 355x8, 360x6
Bench 195x10, 210x8, 215x6
Deadlift 285x10, 305x8, 340x6 (2nd week sumo)
Press 135x8, 140x7

Just building up a big volume base before my meet peak stuff.

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Good job man, that's solid

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I ran 1 mile yesterday. Trying to get back into running, but committing to anything for me is hard :/

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So I went to this city festival and my friend introduced me to a group of friends of his and the first thing the guy called david does is give me a pat on the back and says: I can tell you lift just by the way present yourself / hold yourself (not perfect translation but close enough)

This little comment at the beginning of the night made me immensely happy yo haha

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yea people are starting to notice that i work out finally. feels great

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i let myself veg the fuck out during college for no good reason so i picked up a lifting routine as soon as i got out
i did 3 sets of 5 squats with my bodyweight (180) today, felt p good

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You doing starting strength? Guessing so from the 3x5 squats. Good work. always nice to hit a bodyweight multiplier milestone! On to 2 plate man. Keep it up.

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yep, that's exactly what i'm doing

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So Sam did this today