Gym Rats Festive and New Years Meet - 12th January 2013

icecold · 12 Oct 2012 at 11:41

How much do I have to sandbag my squat recovery/improve my bench so that I can use squats??

LiE · 12 Oct 2012 at 11:51

So we are basically doing 8 rep max, or close to.

Syla5 · 12 Oct 2012 at 12:14

yes an 8 rep max in your weakest lift, simples

then the final top 2 bottom 2 teams would be 3 rep max of your strongest lifts

icecold · 12 Oct 2012 at 12:21

Whoever has me on their team is pretty pooned, sorry in advance!

From the looks of it, it's best to have your squat/deadlift as the weakest... Damn you bench!

Delvis · 12 Oct 2012 at 12:26

I'm basically doing bench regardless.

So whoever is on my team, it's 60kg bench mmkay?

Syla5 · 12 Oct 2012 at 12:30

in theory every member will be doing bench because i dont expect anyone to have a bench that is better than either there deadlift or squat!!!

How do you decide what is your weakest lift if all of them are pretty reasonable?

Delvis · 12 Oct 2012 at 12:35

We'll come to that bridge later

EDIT: I'm presuming we'll use the exrx table or something similar?

icecold · 12 Oct 2012 at 12:44

UE's weakest is his squat, same with LiE.

TBH most people will have a weak squat, because only IDIOTS like squatting.

Steedie · 12 Oct 2012 at 12:58

If everyone in the team decides they are all weak benchers, well then you go by your next weakest lift. Basically, just use a bit of common sense about it

Just make sure someone who can churn out 200kg squats isn't doing squats just because there bench is "weak"

Morba · 12 Oct 2012 at 13:05

if we are going by the PL thread then i haven't deadlifted over 235kg in ages. its my weakest lift

Delvis · 12 Oct 2012 at 13:06

When it comes nearer to the time I'm sure we can all post up current 8rm's

LiE · 12 Oct 2012 at 13:14

icecold said:
UE's weakest is his squat, same with LiE.

TBH most people will have a weak squat, because only IDIOTS like squatting.

Yep, my squat is weaksauce comparatively, but works out better for the team.

Squat 150-160 for 8
Dead 190-200 for 8
Bench 130ish for 8

Ultra_Extreme · 12 Oct 2012 at 14:56

yeah squat - bench - dead for me

Syla5 · 13 Oct 2012 at 08:25

Might actually be dead-bench-squat for me!

Steedie · 13 Oct 2012 at 13:27

YEAH BUMP-Y

MBennett · 15 Oct 2012 at 14:03

Steedie can you put me down as coming?

Steedie · 15 Oct 2012 at 14:32

Sure thing mate

nice one

Gamefreak501 · 15 Oct 2012 at 16:04

Could I be put in as coming too? Thanks very much Steedie.

Delvis · 16 Oct 2012 at 11:11

12 confirmed

Steedie · 16 Oct 2012 at 11:20

Don't get too excited. People always drop out