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[drugsarebad...hummmkayy]

how do you set your workout for power lifting. is it pretty much the same as bbing but with more weight and less sets. how many days a week do you train

[Weee]

Focus on the big three: bench, deadlift, and squat.

Everything else you do should be to work muscles that will make you stronger in bench, deadlift, and squat.

Lower rep ranges for compound movements especially deadlift and higher rep ranges for the few isolation movements you might do (for safety)

You gotta lift heavy to get stronger!

There's a LOT to it, but that's just some basic stuff, maybe someone else here can give you a more details response

[drugsarebad...hummmkayy]

thanks im kinda stuck in between bbing and power lifting. sometimes ill go to the gym and hit as many reps as possible. but on some days ill go and just stick on heavy compound excersizes. i geuss a lot of people do this really.
for the first 12months of liftin i was dedicated to bbing but then i got into the strength side of things.

[Spankybear]

I'm kinda in the same boat. I recently started concentrating on the powerlifting routine but often times find myself reverting back to bb'ing workout right in the middle of my powerlifting workout. LOL. I forget sometimes. It's difficult, but I've mostly decided to just concentrate on the powerlifts; bench, squats, and dl's. The deadlifts are hard to get used to. Hell, I thought squats were tough. They're a piece of cake in comparison.

[POWERJIM]

I used to find it tough shaking off the useless Bodybuilding exercises, useless as in no good at all for Powerlifting, if your Powerlifting then you should be sticking to the 3 powerlifts and those lifts that will help you in achiving the bigger numbers in the long run, you can still do higher reps as i myself start off by doing 8-10 reps and get down to 1-3 reps by the end.

[drugsarebad...hummmkayy]

Originally Posted by POWERJIM

I used to find it tough shaking off the useless Bodybuilding exercises, useless as in no good at all for Powerlifting, if your Powerlifting then you should be sticking to the 3 powerlifts and those lifts that will help you in achiving the bigger numbers in the long run, you can still do higher reps as i myself start off by doing 8-10 reps and get down to 1-3 reps by the end.

could you gimmi an example of lets say,,, your bench routine.
how long will you train for. theres a guy at my gym whos around 280lbs who has a lot of fat, but fk me he can lift weight. he must be a power lifter. he spends a lot of time in the gym sittin down takin about the weights hes been hittin. but every 5-10mins he,ll just pile on the weight and hit around 4-5reps.
. i cant say ive seen another one at the gym....

[Sean]

Try a 5x5 program...those gave me lots of power just after 4 weeks...so much so that I fractured my wrist while using straps while doing 405 shrugs once I switched up to a different program...

[drugsarebad...hummmkayy]

thnks.....

[Noir]

Originally Posted by Sean

Try a 5x5 program...those gave me lots of power just after 4 weeks...so much so that I fractured my wrist while using straps while doing 405 shrugs once I switched up to a different program...

Just out of curiosity...How much weight were you adding each week? (I've been just adding 5 lbs and its been really easy so far)

[Sean]

Here ya go:
Sean's 5x5 program

[Noir]

Originally Posted by Sean

Here ya go:
Sean's 5x5 program

Thanks, forgot about that lol.