Thread: Road to elite total

Originally Posted by jnab

Nice lifts !!
Good to see someone keeping the Powerllifting subforum alive.
Why do you keep the safety bars so low on the rack though ? Your lifts sure look easy enough (when you do them... 555lbs would crush me) you are unlikely to need the safety but how do you manage to get away from the bar if you ever miss a rep ?

Good point I just don’t plan on missing reps at this weight. When I get above 600 I adjust them for sure


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Originally Posted by kaneman

455 training - YouTube
Forgot to post this from Monday’s workout.


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Bro... Thats amazing nice work

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I like your choices of exercises that supplement your main lifts (bench, squat, and deads). Are you following a certain program and how did you come up with the certain exercises and your split and also the percentages you are using?

Originally Posted by Leoterelli250

I like your choices of exercises that supplement your main lifts (bench, squat, and deads). Are you following a certain program and how did you come up with the certain exercises and your split and also the percentages you are using?

I have a coach who writes my programming. The percentages are off my one rep max from my last meet. He has moved some of the percentages up 15-20lbs cause the lifts were to easy.


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I’m currently on de load week so not much to update. I had bloods pulled yesterday so I will post results as soon as they come.


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ok, looks good man good luck.

Originally Posted by Leoterelli250

ok, looks good man good luck.

Thanks brother. You powerlift?


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I do and our lifts are very close thats why I am very interested to see how this works for you. Both my squat and deadlift are 675 but my bench is 435. I only weight 238 at the moment though but I am looking for good supplemental exercises to increase my bench because I feel like after the program I have written for myself my deadlift and squat really benefited but my bench did not. I have my own progression formula that I wrote that I believe works well I just need to find certain exercise that work on my weak point of the lift. Fore example, right not I have an A and B split. One week I bench according to my progression using percentages of my max and then I do reverse bands bench with certain weight, the following week or week B I bench according to my progression and then I do 3 board presses but have slowly switched to pin presses bc i feel like that works better for some reason for me at least. I am thinking about adding reverse band deads and maybe squats as well. Its awesome to see how you are making progress though. any reason you went with npp instead of tren?

Originally Posted by Leoterelli250

I do and our lifts are very close thats why I am very interested to see how this works for you. Both my squat and deadlift are 675 but my bench is 435. I only weight 238 at the moment though but I am looking for good supplemental exercises to increase my bench because I feel like after the program I have written for myself my deadlift and squat really benefited but my bench did not. I have my own progression formula that I wrote that I believe works well I just need to find certain exercise that work on my weak point of the lift. Fore example, right not I have an A and B split. One week I bench according to my progression using percentages of my max and then I do reverse bands bench with certain weight, the following week or week B I bench according to my progression and then I do 3 board presses but have slowly switched to pin presses bc i feel like that works better for some reason for me at least. I am thinking about adding reverse band deads and maybe squats as well. Its awesome to see how you are making progress though. any reason you went with npp instead of tren?

I use pin presses a lot to get past weaker points in my lifts. If I find I get stuck at the top I set it high if I feel like I have a harder time getting out of he hole I set it to the bottom. They are great at breaking those hard sticking points. My coach also has me use reverse bands but usually only closer to meet time and sets the weight at like 115%. I went with npp for two reasons. One I don’t handle tren very well and can usually only run it for a short amount of time and as beneficial as it is for strength if I’m not in the right state of mind it’s just not going to work for me. Secondly I like npp cause I feel around the same amount of strength gains as I do with tren just slightly less but the joint help is really what I find to be most useful when it comes down to grinding it out during prep. Staying healthy with good joints is just as important if not more then the huge strength gains from tren.


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Ok so fantastic news I kinda went off program this last day of deload cause I honestly really feel like I’m not to fatigued and didn’t need that long of a break. So I went in yesterday and was supposed to just hit a 3*3 at 60% for deads and some accessory work after that. I said fuuuck it and ended up pulling a 45lb pr on deadlifts!!! 675 came off the ground so fast I really couldn’t believe it!! So stoked!! My coach was a little pissed when I showed him but I honestly think he was super happy and just didn’t want me to know cause he needs me to stay on program lol. I’m so excited though cause we sat down and talked a bit about where I’m at and what he projecting for me as far as openers and lifts for the meet and we’ve decided that my last attempt on deadlifts and squat are going to be state record numbers!! If I could break two state record in the same day at my 3rd meet ever I’d be so dam happy!! Anyways still on cloud 9 from yesterday sorry for the rant will try and post video later!!


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