Seems reasonable! I have a friendly comp going on with my friend that we are doing until marchish!

I set pretty high goals for myself, but I feel the best I've felt in my life and am actually gaining weight decently.

What are your goals?

8x127 kg/280 lb bench
https://www.instagram.com/p/BKvbFxADmw7/?taken-by=mpstraining

Odd question but do any major strength comps still use the overhead press? I know it went out of fashion when the Olympics cut it out, but it's such an important lift. Do you do a lot of OH for your upper body training or do you stick more to the bench press?

Also, there's a debate I have seen about vertical bar path in the bench press. You have a fairly long moment arm in your own bench press, but, minus the arch, my form has always been more like yours than a perfectly vertical path. What are your thoughts on those who try to teach a completely vertical bar path?

btw gz on the squats above. Thought they looked pretty good. I'm still waiting to get my squat back, was doing 360x10s before the big concussion, then got back to working with 345 before I slipped my fekking disc (basketball related) and then got covered in poison ivy. A comical parade of horrors.

You can probably get 350 now m9

Goals are to hit: 245x1 bench, 295x1 squat, 335x1 deadlift, 175x1 OHP.
OHP is probably unrealistic, but I'm confident in the rest!

Sets high goals
335 deadlift

Cmon Ethan. The goal should be 405

237.5 / 524 is gonna be my 3rd as well

Comp is 17 December

deadlift has been by far my worst lift forever and always...and this is only in 6 months.

I set the goals before I tested my maxes

I did 195x1 bench, 205x1 squat, 245x1 deadlift, and 115x1 OHP

I'm a month and a half in and all is going well!

May I recommend steroids?

Only after trying steroids should you ever try creatine.