Maybe your problem is that you're going balls to the wall 5 times a week. Try just doing it 3 times a week and do cycles where you have hard weeks and backoff weeks. I suspect that you are not giving your muscles enough time to recover, hence you aren't getting anywhere.
And about squats, I agree that you shouldn't just stop at parallel, you go as low as you can go. I was a competitive weightlifter for 7 years, and I only once hurt myself the entire time (elbow)
I do not bench 5 times a week. Mondays I do chest, tuesdays back, wednesdays biceps, thursdays shoulders, and fridays I do legs.
I was thinking about cutting it back to 3 days a week. But it will be hard to squeeze it in I think.
Sounds logical. I don't think starting with your max would be a good idea but doing something you can do 4-5 reps of would probably be fine.
I have been working out hard for the past 7 months solid so I may try that just to mix it up.
You don't start with max, but about 80% of, or you will get hurt..
What I have found in general is certain methods work for some people and not for others... I just listened to what everyone else was doing and combined certain factors to build a program that works for me.. My Bench is only 310, but I have never really been good at bench.
I am 6' and weigh 215 by the way.
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Cool! Thanks.Do you compete? Local or national?
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