/plg/ - powerlifting general

You sure you're not just having a migraine?

But its time to sleep

L O W T E S T

The feeling is pressure and now its in my ears, as if my brain is being squished.
I also am feeling disassociation, as if I am not really alive and as if I am about to die.

I feel like I am about to die and it is strange and extremely unpleasant.

Go outside and quit being such a giant pussy

Go outside and quit being a giant pussy

Oh look big surprise that the local alcoholic is acting all depressed for attention again

This is a projection because I am not depressed

It's not permanent, but a psychotic episode due to sleep deprivation is totally a possibility. Get medical help soon, dude.

I said acting depressed. Being illiterate must contribute to your make-believe depression

What is a psychotic episode

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The dissociative state you're describing sounds like an early signs. An episode of psychosis is when you lose contact with the real external world around you. Can involve hallucinations, could be a dreamlike state, could just be incredibly strong dissociation.

Genuinely laughed

Okay yeah I think I might be having a very mild one or showing some symptoms

Its hard for me to sleep though because my mind is racing. I am being kept awake by terrible thoughts.

Once I am asleep I can sleep for 12+ hours and then some, but falling asleep for me is really difficult because I quickly get fed up with the negativity of my brain.

I'm gonna run sheiko. I've got about a 550 total @93, which specific sheiko cycle should I run?

Intermediate medium load

Why have you deprived yourself of sleep?
>low to no sex drive, weak erections, and limited emotional "amplitude"
I can check these off most of the days in a year, and my bodyweight blows the fuck up if I don't watch my calories. I was measured at the middle of the normal range (didn't get the numbers) one morning with sub-par nutrition (relative to a sub-par baseline) and no training for the week leading up to the test.
I wonder how much those symptoms (or what you call it) are influenced by other things than testosterone, such as genetics and lifestyle - like you said, some are fine at 250, but why are they fine? Surely there's more to it than good training, diet, recovery, and natural testosterone levels?

But I wanna train 4 days a week. Do you think advanced small load would be too much volume?

Careful what you say to a doctor cause they will put your ass on antipsychotics aka bitch tit meds look up risperdol

You could do advanced medium load as well. Medium load is recommended for people with a bw >80 and 120, and considering it will be your first time running sheiko, it's best to do what he recommends first and then titrate based on how you feel after running it as written.

Also small load is less volume than medium load, due to the fact that heavier people are usually much stronger and lift heavier weights than people at lower bodyweights.

Alright I'll do medium then, thanks.

Okay will do

Stress. Simply stress. I would lay in bed and worry for hours so I stopped trying

What do you stress out about?

personal stuff that really needs to be said to a therapist and not online

I mostly stress out about being gay and not being very good at powerlifting

I actually look up to a lot of the trips that post here but I project my insecurities onto people constantly

Must suck being you

What's that to stress out about?

Yeah, there's a lot more to it. Estrogen is pretty important. Stress matters a lot (cortisol). More testosterone works for some, like me. For others, they might need to something else.

I really don't know much about this, but doesn't cortisol lower testosterone? Can you have too much estrogen if testosterone is within normal levels?

You look like Krist Novoselic

I just spend way too much time here

I put on my personas and convince myself that I'm having a good time

I'm sad and empty on the inside. No amount of money or Japanese supercars seem to fill the void

This UGLY SON OF A BITCH is banging hot 10/10 Brazilian girls and basically you are FUCKING STUPID

>try to reset my sleep schedule
>end up falling asleep at noon and fucking it up even further
J U S T

Thought I could give it some effort to see what deprivanon is really struggling with, but I see now.
Tip: None of the alleged possessions carry the tag "supercar".

I really need to vent laddos, this has been stuck on my mind all day.

>go for cgbp 5kg PR
>gym PT asks if I need a spot
>didn't really want one but said yes because I know he was just being kind
>he invites someone else over to help spot
(Both of them are on either end of the bar)
>bar explodes off my chest and gets a little stuck near lock out
I know full well I could have grinded this out BTW, its not too uncommon for me
>that random guy slightly touches the bar, effectively completing the lockout for me

This isn't fair. Now I'll never know if I can bench that amount!!!

youtu.be/eSw92CCHraA

I don't know what the interaction between cortisol and testosterone looks like, but I know cortisol does more than that.

Estrogen can be high with in-range testosterone, but not normally. Being fat can lower your testosterone quite a bit, though, since the estrogen is created in fat cells, and the body will reduce testosterone production to compensate.

Turns out getting older was a massive meme and wasn't worth it

plz tell me how to stop growing up

Seems most likely the reason I have these symptoms/struggles is cortisol from uni and life stress, then.
Probably true for most people, tho. Get a healthy and consistent body and lifestyle before worrying about test/est levels impacting health and strength gains (you being one exception, presumably).

Good night man.

Don't move out, play as many video games as you want, eat whatever your parents cook you.

Unfortunately your parents may die and when that happens you have to go too because nobody will care for you anymore

drop a 500 lb barbell on ur neck

Yep. Good night, buddy. Sleep well.

If it was that easy just do it again next time you go the gym

Why do I have strong triceps but they never get pump?

My CGBP and Normal bench are identical in strength, and I always get chest pump but I never get tricep pump.

Also should you push your knees out when benching? I've been told they collapse in, but I was told that a year ago, I just think they still do but I don't know for sure.

If you push your knees/turn your feet out, you can flex your glutes and get better leg drive.

so that's why he said it. not too sure about turning feet out cause that really strong manlet in the OP said that turning your heels away from the bench helps keep your ass on the bench and that to me helps push hard with the legs without my butt reaching off the binch

Depends on how big your arch is and how far back you bring your legs too. I never have any problems with my ass going off the bench and I bench with my knees out and my feet extremely turned out.

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I don't know which fat manlet to listen to now

>cutting
>gf sends nudes
>end up masturbating twice
>go to sleep hard anyway

Guess I'm okay then.

Share gf nudes

Show me those titties and I'll give you a small load.

My titties are for large loads only

That would not be appropriate, user.

Don't be selfish, what is she? 12?

No, user, she's mine.

Then I am, banning, you from, plg

>tfw I still have my ex's nudes and she's a bitch so I might consider posting them if this wasn't a blue board

Imgur album

Just do it you fag

What's the point of asking for some random girl's nudes when you can just go look at porn of hotter girls anytime?

Don't make fun of my correct punctuation or I won't let you reply to my posts.

I won't rest until I have seen everyone naked

I'm just curious. Already fapped.

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Post nudes

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Post them on a orange board and link us the thread

Bottom right of the web page you can change the theme to orange

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tl;dr is it okay to didly with weightlifting shoes?

Not proper /plg/ but seems like good enough question. grabbed up some weightlifting shoes this week (adidas leistung, for some reason someone sold them new for cheaper than any other shoe) and figured i might as well deadlift in them just to see how it went...

felt a crazy amount better than barefoot. the whole "press the floor away" stuff that gets thrown around i never got, but now all of a sudden it felt exactly like that without even thinking about it. is there any reason to not just keep deadlifting with weightlifting shoes on?

The only reason not to is that it creates an unnecessary deficit. If you don't really care about competing and it's more comfortable then go for it.

I've been deadlifting in my adipowers for the past month because I got lazy about taking them off. I feel like I'm getting a lot more drive from my quads off the floor than I ever used to and my glutes and hamstrings take over quite comfortably at the knee.
If it's working for you as well as it's working for me, why fix what isn't broken? we'll probably never be elite anyways

Form check on squat pls

youtu.be/52a6sAcMIGw

Pretty great for the stance you're using. If I had to nitpick maybe your spine is a little hyperextended but it's almost definitely not a problem at all. Sheiko would say your knees track over your toes too much, but that could be fine depending on your goals.

What to do instead of dips for Sheiko? Dips fuck my shoulders but good.

Was considering the chest press machine. Lighter chest-triceps work with a different ROM/angle than standard bench, seems like a fair replacement.

Dip machine works, I always did dumbbell chest press. It was between DB press and neutral grip DB press for me because I didn't have any glaring weakness on bench so I just targeted the prime movers with a lighter exercise which put less stress on my joints than let's say CGBP.

That last sentence was basically my thought process as well. Fanks lad.

For what it's worth on my second run through I replaced all the bench accessory work with tricep work and all the GMs/lunges with quad work, split squats on squat days and front squats on DL days. Fucked up my knees a little bit but it did magic for my squat, quads were a major weakness for me.

Sounds terrible, I hate quad-targeted work.
Though my quads make up like a full third of my BW so I'm lucky enough to not need it.

Some more 85% doubles, moving alright i guess.

Don't want to put more weight on as i still feel super unstable. 2 weeks left to go on #31 probably do a skills test then start again afterwards.

I dreaded it but I kept the reps on front squats like 1 or 2 reps lower than what sheiko would have prescribed for that weight %. 5x5 at 70% is around the difficulty I did them at because I really couldn't be fucked putting effort into any kind of exercise after bench AND 2 deadlift variations. I went fairly hard on the split squats though, usually RPE9-9.5 by the last sets.

That old guy has paraplegic tier legs

I have this to some extent

You need to concentrate hard on sleep hygiene hard. Like avoid all electronics for at the very least an hour before bed and stuff.

I don't play any video games on a work night at all otherwise it stimulates my brain too much

>$80 knee sleeves
>$20 belt

When will you fucking learn?

Week out from my meet and I feel weak s fuck. Wtf is going on. Scared this will happen on the day

shut the fuck up raffy