You're right. Too large a jump close to my 1RM. I feel if I do too many reps close to my max, that I don't have the energy to lift a max. Must all be in my head.
I'll be squatting again in a week, that time I'll actually take your advice, work up with singles after just doing a warm up set with the bar.
I'll make smaller jumps and report back on how that works.
What I'm wondering about by only doing singles, is will I be giving myself a significant enough stimulus to increase strength?
For instance, if I do 45 x 5, 135, 155, 175, 195, 215, 225, 230, etc. Do you think this will be enough reps? Maybe I'm still under the impression that to build strength I need to do a few sets of 5s or 3s with a substantial % of my 1RM along the way? You're saying you've had good gains with doing heavy singles and not doing 3s and 5s of a lesser weight? Do both? Neither?
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Looks who's talking about huge lifts. 215 is a big number. Heavy lifts and awesome METCON times. The games await my friend.
That's what I've been telling him, Steve. Make the sacrifice and go to the regional qualifiers, Pat!
You're right. Too large a jump close to my 1RM. I feel if I do too many reps close to my max, that I don't have the energy to lift a max. Must all be in my head.
I'll be squatting again in a week, that time I'll actually take your advice, work up with singles after just doing a warm up set with the bar.
I'll make smaller jumps and report back on how that works.
What I'm wondering about by only doing singles, is will I be giving myself a significant enough stimulus to increase strength?
For instance, if I do 45 x 5, 135, 155, 175, 195, 215, 225, 230, etc. Do you think this will be enough reps? Maybe I'm still under the impression that to build strength I need to do a few sets of 5s or 3s with a substantial % of my 1RM along the way? You're saying you've had good gains with doing heavy singles and not doing 3s and 5s of a lesser weight? Do both? Neither?
Thoughts?
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