BenchPauper

#Intro

As my name may indicate, pressing has never been a strong suit of mine. However, the pandemic period has actually been probably the most consistent period of growth in terms of my pressing since I ran out of LP gains on Stronglifts. Consider:

• May 2020 I failed a 210 OHP. In 2021 I’ve hit a cheaty 250 triple, a much more strict 255 single, and a 300lb push press despite this being only my third time push pressing since I se

Before we start: iIf you haven’t read the last writeup I did on daily squatting, please check it out. It’s not required to understand this, but I did make some changes this time around.

#Background

I’ve been lifting since February of 2016. I ran SL for way too long, thought I knew how to program for myself, didn’t, and have spent a great deal of time since then running various mixes of other programs. Off the top of my head I’ve run (whether strict or modified) a great deal of the Nuckols 28 free programs, MagOrt, Coan/Phillipi, Candito DL, Gillingham bench, Gillingham DL, Dark Horse, H

The June lifting challenge has finally come to and end! We had 23 unique lifters contribute entries - with 4 of them submitting more than one - for a total of over 380,700lbs of squats squatted. That's some serious output, and I'm incredibly proud of everyone who gave the contest their best shot.

For the men: we had a battle between u/whatwaffles, u/NRLlifts, and u/DegenerateDoug (and his brother) with all three of them submitting more than one run. Just these three fellows alone accounted for over 35% of all of the volume done in the competition! With a last-minute final entry, u/DegenerateDoug clutched out the win. Congrats, you absolute monster!

For the women: u/bethskw kic

r/weightroom is having a contest through the month of June - total squat volume in <10 minutes! We'd love for you to join. Prizes include custom flair in r/weightroom and a newfound appreciation for how much suffering you're willing to subject yourself to in order to beat strangers on the internet.

Contest rules and discussion can be found here.

Entries can be submitted here starting on June 1.

We hope you'll join us!

r/weightroom is having a contest through the month of June - total squat volume in <10 minutes! We'd love for you to join. Prizes include custom flair in r/weightroom and a newfound appreciation for how much suffering you're willing to subject yourself to in order to beat strangers on the internet.

Contest rules and discussion can be found here.

Entries can be submitted here starting on June 1.

We hope you'll join us!

This is where to post entries for the June 2021 r/weightroom lifting challenge. Full contest rules and discussion can be found here.

You must submit your video to this thread for it to count for the contest. I will be reviewing videos as they're posted and updating the leaderboards. Wildcard candidates will be collected and voted on at the beginning of July.

Good luck!

Current entries (in order of submission):

• u/bethskw: 110 total reps at 95lbs, total volume = 10,450lbs

• u/Astringofnumbers1234: 88 total reps at 60kg, total volume = 11,640lbs

• u/Dadliftsnruns: 70 t

#The Challenge

Squat more total volume than anyone else in 10 minutes or less. Easy!

Entries must be submitted in the entries thread to be counted.

#The Rules

1. The squats must be performed in June 2021.

2. Only uncut videos will be accepted. I know this will end up being long videos, but it's important to make sure the time is accurate.

3. Squats must be performed through a proper range of motion. I'm not going to be measuring every rep to make sure you hit proper depth the whol

This isn’t so much a “program review” as it is a method review? Experiment review? But I’ll call it a program review anyway since it’s loosely based on some existing work and “method review” seems silly.

Background

I’ve been lifting since February of 2016. I ran SL for way too long, thought I knew how to program for myself, didn’t, and have spent a great deal of time since then running various mixes of other programs. Off the top of my head I’ve run (whether strict or modified) a great deal of the Nuckols 28 free programs, MagOrt, Coan/Phillipi, Candito DL, Gillingham bench, Gillingham DL, Dark Horse, Hepburn B, and possibly some more that I’m forgetting. I like messing around and I’m