Great story.

Good luck on your meet brother! You’ve had a hell of a journey to get where you are

@storiedstrength

Ай бұрын

Thank you! Looking forward to throwing that banded bench in during my strength block

Good luck at your meet man!

@storiedstrength

Ай бұрын

Thanks! Main objective will be not shitting myself

I squatted 500lb by largely ignoring internet squat form info and just squatting the way my body dictated I should squat in order to move the weight. That and using a bit of anatomical information to determine the shape of my hip socket and femur and squatting the way that allowed me the most room in my hips.

@storiedstrength

Ай бұрын

That’s great man. Why was form such a focus for you (as opposed to programming)? It sounds like hip pain might have driven you to make those adjustments. I had a similar experience working around bicep tendonitis; hadn’t thought much about grip until my elbows hurt too much to squat or bench.

@IsaacMorgan98

Ай бұрын

@storiedstrength nah, I never had hip pain squatting. For me it's because I like to simplify my training as much as possible so I can more easily adapt my training into a busy life. So if I'm stuck somewhere then I think it's cause either my psychology, technique or strength needs work. Strength takes ages to come and takes doing a whole ass cycle of hypertrophy for months followed by an acclimation phase then a peaking phase, that's annoying so that's last resort haha, that leaves technique and psychology. Psychology is done in your head on the day so that's alright. That just leaves technique to mess with. Aside from that I know basic programming well and just track my workouts in a note pad amd try to follow basic programming rules while allowing room for ups and downs in performance. That's it, that's the whole training methodology.

@storiedstrength

Ай бұрын

@@IsaacMorgan98 very interesting. I guess for me the whole motivation is getting stronger, so steadily gaining muscle and periodizing my training are inseparable from the process

@IsaacMorgan98

Ай бұрын

@storiedstrength Well, the wonderful part about all this is that there's many ways to skin a cat. As long as it works, then it works! As long as you're training hard, consistently for a long time then you'll probably get where you wanna go and if not then you'll go further than anyone that doesn't do those things. The rest is all semantics and preference really.

I think 500 is my lifetime goal at 385 now 💪💪💪

@storiedstrength

Ай бұрын

It can happen! I was at 385 not that long ago