Quote: (05-31-2015 05:53 AM)CrashBangWallop Wrote:
I get that you want to give back to the community; you're obviously a sporty guy and want to share your experience.
But you're 21 with a small amount of personal experience.
I respect your lifts and if they're all true they're pretty badass, especially the 1.5x bodyweight overhead press. Speaking of which, you should drop some kind of data sheet on pressing since that's a world class lift.
In OP's defense, if a guy had to train for like fifteen years to write a post on an internet forum that itself demands no credentials whatsoever then that would eliminate something like 95% of all weightlifters, especially since people are married to the idea that they burn out once they hit 30 or 40 and have to quit using free weights.
That also being said, his self reported numbers (300 bench, 340 squat, 450 deadlift) are not bad for a 21 year old so he's clearly doing something right. Most lifters take a few years to get there, especially a 300# bench press.
I have had conversations with people (mostly coworkers and really chatty gym strangers) who have been "lifting for fifteen years" or "been busting ass in this gym for twenty years" and they still struggle to bench two plates for more than one rep or have "outgrown squatting" and/or "fucked up my back several times trying to finally deadlift 315#". Since they weren't plagued with cancer their entire lifting careers and were not, in fact, women, their advice is worthless to anybody sensible unless their goal is to be talked down to by somebody who lacks the self awareness to know how much they truly suck, then proceed to fuck off in a gym with grandma's dumbbells for decades and not get any stronger. I didn't say that to their faces because nobody can be that direct and honest about something and not get jumped in the parking lot afterwards but I would be a damned fool to take the advice seriously that they invariably heaped upon my brow.
This is why I don't automatically consider training years to be valuable, something of value has to be demonstrated as a result of it.
The jury is still out on OP's lifts since he has not posted a video but supposing his lifts are accurate he's probably not a novice lifter and might have a future in powerlifting if he sticks with it, considering he's only 21.