Ask Powerlifter - Gents and gals of all goals welcome

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What is the peak age for a weight lifter?

cos as it takes so long to build muscle your not going to have 20ish year olds being completely massive (most of the time), and surely as you get older there is general body degradation.

Weightlifters tend to be younger, mid twenties.

Powerlifters hit their peak around early thirties onwards.

So you haven't hit your peak yet?

Nah far from it, getting stronger all the time

Nah far from it, getting stronger all the time

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I was just looking at youtube and came across this guy picking up a car by the rear

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZywDW...eature=related


How would I go about training myself to do that? Is it all feasible? Do you reckon you could do that with the back end of a light car?

thanks

Couldn't be arsed to watch it but with some of the cheap light cars of today it wouldn't be that hard.

Why would you want to train to do that? Just deadlift and squat a lot I suppose

hey matt, creatine monohydrate or CEE? Or both as good as each other, i'v noticed i can get monohydrate for as little as £15/500g. Thinking thats a good place to start?

x

Posted deadlift and bench vids in my blog. Would appreciate any comments again

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?p=29737390#post29737390

Hey Matt.

I want to go for 1RMs in the next week or so and was wondering how to go about it.

Was planning on light warm up(up to about 50% of current lifts) than taking my current lifts from SS and adding 5kg for the big 2 and 2.5 for the smaller ones and starting from that. If i complete a rep successfully then i add 5/2.5 respectively...

Would do it over the course of 2 workouts. Like Squat/bench one day and then OHP/Deadlifts the next workout in 2 days time.

That sound good or is there a proper plan to going about it?

OK will look later

I prefer full body and I have squatted 4 times a week

The only real difference is the speed and rep range you use for the lifts

Thanks a lot for your reply Matt.

Woah. Isn't that too little time to recover

No, not if you train correctly

What rep range do you use? This may be broscience, but it is a good idea to "mix it up" e.g. sometimes 4-6, sometimes 8-12? If so, how do you mix it up? What are your opinions on pyramiding, drop sets and supersets?

1-5, usually 2 to 3

What speed is best to use? I've always thought that doing it as fast as possible in the concentric phase is best, then doing a "concentric pause" and then a controlled slowish eccentric phase.

It is for strength and power

But I recently have read a lot of bodybuilders spend a lot of "time under tension" or do really slow reps? I really have no idea if it's good to do fast / slow / medium rep speeds! I hear different things everywhere.

Thats optimal for hypertrohpy

Cheers.