@@quattrofour4188because Starting Strength is alright program that lasts much shorter than they advertise and then all of their post-novice programming is downright terrible.
I had the exact same problem being sick and literally shitting blood for the whole week back in 2017. I later found out I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. It's definitely worth a check up especially if u were shitting blood for consecutive days. Hope ur feeling good now though man.
@Fuck Jay I wasn't lifting weights back then so I'm not sure, but I can say it was nothing that severe. The actual problem was feeling light-headed and lacking energy due to not having enough iron in ur body. The severity of ulcerative colitis varies, but u can live a pretty normal life with a little bit of medication. I don't have any problem lifting weights for 4-6days a week now.
Would love to hear more about the time frame between the 400 pound squat and what got you to 600. Describe the high frequency training in greater detail. Thanks!
I remember the old days when you barely had 1000 followers. Now you have tens of thousands and a sweet porn star stache haha. Informative video. In general a lot of people seem to think that powerlifters don't do high volume or high amounts of accessory work.
I'm an idiot. The doc opened up differently on my phone. Ended up doing every squat exercise and was able to only finish that yesterday, no bench or deadlift. Now I can't move.
Update: I've regained about 89.63% mobility in my legs. Getting up from a seated position still hurts. My glutes are firm. Decided to just do bench and deadlifts for the rest of the week. Feeling strong on that end.
Hey matt, if you love doing so much volume, why never try sheiko? I mean your method of using high volumes of submaximal work mimics the principle of sheiko programming, but why didnt you use it?
@Milan D not matt, program same as conventional. Gradually widen your stance. Generally a good idea to widening it when you are pushing your thighs out and shins are vertical.
man, I benched 325lb but only have 405 squat, 385lb dead and 185lb strict press at 190lb. crazy hearing guys just get stupid strong. i feel my bench is really strong compared to my lower body. i wonder why there such an imbalance. this matt guys a freak lol
Basically regular folks lift their 60% one day then 70,80 etc. What you do is, I'm assuming, warm up and get to that 90 or 100% at the start then crank out 2 of those, rest FULLY, then crank em out again and again? Seems like if you dont just power through a sesh and drown in lactic acid like 90% of people, you can actually do more sets a day and practice doing your max more often. The only downside which can be addressed, is im assuming 1 or 2 weeks off sets you back a ton. I'd imagine stabalizing, cranking up more volume at a slightly lower weight fixes that instead of always running & chasing that next PR.
That seems vaguely similar to Chris Duffin’s programming. Just started it this week. Heavy doubles for as many sets as you can followed by 3 high volume ancillaries.
could you explain why you wear knee sleeves and then put the wrapping over it ? Wouldn't it be best to use one or the other or am I missing something ?
in my case it was because of multiple reasons, bench is a very technical lift, long arms made my leverages poor (but it helped my dl, on my first dl I had 2 plates on the bar and that was with muscle imbalances so the bar kept bending towards the left). Funnily enough I was squating less than my bench, had really poor ankle mobility when i started so when i squated I kept falling backwards.
Did you ever have any tennis elbow or any elbow issue in general?? My whole powerlifting progress stopped since I fucked up my elbow and now stuck in a rehab cycle.
when i had that i did before every bench and squat workout 3 sets of tricep pushdowns super light and controlled 3x20 reps then after i had no pain at all maybe its because youre tendons are cold or something but thats helped me
learn proper stretching. PROPER. not just looking like you're doing it. things like proper yoga or tai chi can get it if they're taught right. if it doesnt involve anything about breathing then its not real stretching, that will releaes it. It's trapped on muscle strands. Dont listen to quacks.
How long did it take you to scale up to the higher frequency training that you did? I lifted 5 days a week in high school + sports, but when I tried to go from 4 days a week training (smolov jr) to 5/6 days a week programs I felt exhausted all the time.
I'm not matt. If you are a beginner, just do starting strength. When that doesnt work, 1 week texas method When that doesnt work, move it to triples. When that doesnt work, add in accessory work for weak spots the day before your 5 sets and move it to 2 weeks and 5's. When that doesnt work, triples. When that doesnt work, 3 weeks and 5's. When that doesnt work, triples. When that doesnt work, 4 weeks and 5's. When that doesnt work, 4 weeks and triples. When that doesnt work, 5 weeks and 5's. When that doenst work, 5 weeks and triples. Then go to fives. Then triples. Then something else. But if you sleep and eat enough, you probably won't need it for a long ass time. Of course, getting a coach is the best idea. Ill edit later to provide more information on percentages.
Squatting every day can definately work. Look up Ivan Djuric, he squats every day and shares a lot of information about it. 5x5 with a heavy weight is probably too much. When squatting every day it's more common to work up to one top set followed by some back off work. And it's a good idea to ease into this. Suddenly increasing frequency and volume and doing it heavy for a lift is just asking for an injury to come.
@@GitarenEnBananen yeah i found out about the injury part the hard way, luckily it was nothing serious, my lower back muscles were just too weak in compression to my leg strength (who'd know that ATG squats with a weak lower back would cause injury? *cough cough heavy sarcasm cough*) I've since then strengthened my lower back and can't feel any of my past injuries at all. I'd like to keep it as simple as possible, so i was thinking of doing something like a 7x7 or 10x10 every other day (I'm a little paranoid with going too heavy after the injury)
@@sakaue i appreciate the tips...but I'mma be honest here...Im a god damn caveman when it comes to training so half of this stuff just went over my head
With squats for me I do this 4-5 working sets Set 1: 8 Set 2: 8 Set 3: 5 Set 4: 3-5 And do a one rep max once every month. This really helped my squat.
i want to mainly focus on increasing my strenght for my squat bench and deadlift for powelifting whats the best sets and rep ranges i train deadlift 2 times a week light day and heavy day i do 2 squat days 1 heavy barbell 1 hack squat light day 2 bench days 1 light day 1 heavy day
wait you said you add 5 pounds every 3 weeks in your program but in your squat video you added 59 pounds in 3 months in 2018, which is about 5 pounds per week instead. was it a different program? if so, which was it?
Isn’t 6 neck a week and 4 deadlifts bad or is it something lower lifters do cuz I’m an athlete that is trying to up my numbers but I was wondering why he doing so many of those a week
Why measure your lifts in these wierd metrics. I mean lbs, what is that even measure your weights in number of white head eagle wings instead. you could also use the classic multiple of limbs of a 1.5 year old deer.
Would going from doing Johnny canditos 6 week program to that high frequency program would give me an injury or tendinitis you think? Also is it hard to do with sports bc i play football and have practice everyday
Its weird how lame influencers get millions of views when ive been searching for this exact video for the past 5 months. Ive had so many platteaus and im only at 405 1rm deadlifts. Im writing this when watching your video and the submaximal thing is exaxtly what i disvovered all by my lonsome :( i seriously saw progression with 5x5-7 5-6 days a week. Went from 315x5 to 365x5 in 6 months. I used to 1rm squats (335ish) and went nowhere in 3 months.
Ahh, the good ole Buljerryian method
by Greg Nuckols.
😂😂😂
Thanks for sharing your story! Cool to hear that your high frequency period pushed your progress so much. Some people are so afraid of over training.
I need to start linking this to every comment section on the starting strength channel
Why?
@M B It’s named Novice Linear Progression for a reason 🤷🏻♂️ they wrote a great programming book too
@M B The program is literally designed for beginners. You’re supposed to switch to another program when you’re no longer a novice.
@@quattrofour4188because Starting Strength is alright program that lasts much shorter than they advertise and then all of their post-novice programming is downright terrible.
@@quattrofour4188SS is ok for the time it lasts, but it lasts less than what they advertise. TM is plain bad.
I've been lifting 4 days a week at 16, and I was really inspired by you! Up to a 235 bench and 415 squat!
@@Markus-ww4tyleft side/right side
I had the exact same problem being sick and literally shitting blood for the whole week back in 2017. I later found out I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. It's definitely worth a check up especially if u were shitting blood for consecutive days. Hope ur feeling good now though man.
@Fuck Jay I wasn't lifting weights back then so I'm not sure, but I can say it was nothing that severe. The actual problem was feeling light-headed and lacking energy due to not having enough iron in ur body. The severity of ulcerative colitis varies, but u can live a pretty normal life with a little bit of medication. I don't have any problem lifting weights for 4-6days a week now.
I had no idea he had that reno 911 stache!!!thats where the power is coming from
Would love to hear more about the time frame between the 400 pound squat and what got you to 600. Describe the high frequency training in greater detail. Thanks!
Yes - I'm at 405# squat now. I want to know what to do different to get to 495# squat and higher.
thats his trade secret
@@diegocastillo5400 did you get 495 yet?
I remember the old days when you barely had 1000 followers. Now you have tens of thousands and a sweet porn star stache haha. Informative video. In general a lot of people seem to think that powerlifters don't do high volume or high amounts of accessory work.
Thanks for sharing the program matt
Bro you should talk about what u eat before training, and when do you usually train for better performance in the gym.
Exactly. We need details lol we must know everything
So honest person 💯 god bless him 🙏
awesome content
I'm an idiot. The doc opened up differently on my phone. Ended up doing every squat exercise and was able to only finish that yesterday, no bench or deadlift. Now I can't move.
Update: I've regained about 89.63% mobility in my legs. Getting up from a seated position still hurts. My glutes are firm. Decided to just do bench and deadlifts for the rest of the week. Feeling strong on that end.
@@_taKKamura uh
LOL
Shits blood for days in a row, keeps lifting lol
Built different
Whatever it takes goddamnit
@@NeuronActivation lol that’s it. I’m subscribing to you.
Went from not knowing any big name lifters to being one of the big name lifters.
Going to work but will watch tonight
2nd
3rd actually
im do
@@danielschirrmeister1352 shhhhh
10 sets of 2 every day. Got it
Super informative Matt! Crazy going to a meet that sick tho Jesus haha
Hey matt, if you love doing so much volume, why never try sheiko? I mean your method of using high volumes of submaximal work mimics the principle of sheiko programming, but why didnt you use it?
I did base some of my own programming off it. But by the time I’d heard of it I had already wanted to program for myself
@Milan D not matt, program same as conventional. Gradually widen your stance. Generally a good idea to widening it when you are pushing your thighs out and shins are vertical.
So basically high frequency suboptimal weights seems like the best
Bulgarian lite
man, I benched 325lb but only have 405 squat, 385lb dead and 185lb strict press at 190lb. crazy hearing guys just get stupid strong. i feel my bench is really strong compared to my lower body. i wonder why there such an imbalance. this matt guys a freak lol
Lmao just do my deads don't be lazy.
i deadlifted 700 but can only bench 275
I'm also imbalanced. 265 bench, 275 squat, 335 deadlift
@@andrewm8598 You must have very long arms
I have short arms bench leverages but pull 605 beltless 405 squat and 310 - 320 bench
Lifting in converse is fine. Source a world class powerlifter that can rep 725lb
never realized how much you look like Luigi
Basically regular folks lift their 60% one day then 70,80 etc.
What you do is, I'm assuming, warm up and get to that 90 or 100% at the start then crank out 2 of those, rest FULLY, then crank em out again and again? Seems like if you dont just power through a sesh and drown in lactic acid like 90% of people, you can actually do more sets a day and practice doing your max more often. The only downside which can be addressed, is im assuming 1 or 2 weeks off sets you back a ton. I'd imagine stabalizing, cranking up more volume at a slightly lower weight fixes that instead of always running & chasing that next PR.
Also aches and tendon issues
That seems vaguely similar to Chris Duffin’s programming. Just started it this week. Heavy doubles for as many sets as you can followed by 3 high volume ancillaries.
Thanks for sharing this information
Very interesting story and progression. I doubt you’re a super hard worker and definitely put the time In
Doubt? In case you aren't clear on that word, using it here means that you think that he is not a super hard worker
"doubt" = "don't think"
u mean dont doubt.
You're accidentally saying you think he's lazy
could you explain why you wear knee sleeves and then put the wrapping over it ? Wouldn't it be best to use one or the other or am I missing something ?
I found it helped knee pain when I had it, now it’s mainly placebo
Wow your bench was low in the beginning. I always wonder why is that for some guys (me including)
in my case it was because of multiple reasons, bench is a very technical lift, long arms made my leverages poor (but it helped my dl, on my first dl I had 2 plates on the bar and that was with muscle imbalances so the bar kept bending towards the left). Funnily enough I was squating less than my bench, had really poor ankle mobility when i started so when i squated I kept falling backwards.
Did you ever have any tennis elbow or any elbow issue in general?? My whole powerlifting progress stopped since I fucked up my elbow and now stuck in a rehab cycle.
when i had that i did before every bench and squat workout 3 sets of tricep pushdowns super light and controlled 3x20 reps then after i had no pain at all maybe its because youre tendons are cold or something but thats helped me
learn proper stretching. PROPER. not just looking like you're doing it.
things like proper yoga or tai chi can get it if they're taught right.
if it doesnt involve anything about breathing then its not real stretching,
that will releaes it. It's trapped on muscle strands. Dont listen to quacks.
Try overspeed eccentrics Alex Leonidas does these
Why do they keep you behind a fence in the gym?
Trying out deadlift 4 times a weak myself. Gonna see what happens.
i tried that too, it destroyed me. i can only deadlift heavy 1 time a week, the second day i lift light with paused.
You're like Maxx Chewning. Both of y'all don't look like you lift but omg you really do lol.
He's more likeable than Maxx
buljerrian
How long did it take you to scale up to the higher frequency training that you did? I lifted 5 days a week in high school + sports, but when I tried to go from 4 days a week training (smolov jr) to 5/6 days a week programs I felt exhausted all the time.
looking sleek bro
Useful stuff Matt
great video
So basically what you're saying is increase the volume. Im 27, 145Ibs sick of being small and weak. Can barely bench 225Ibs
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Would a 5x5 squat routine everyday do me any favors? I'm trying to get my squat up but it's going very slow. I'd appreciate any tips at all
I'm not matt.
If you are a beginner, just do starting strength.
When that doesnt work, 1 week texas method
When that doesnt work, move it to triples. When that doesnt work, add in accessory work for weak spots the day before your 5 sets and move it to 2 weeks and 5's. When that doesnt work, triples. When that doesnt work, 3 weeks and 5's. When that doesnt work, triples. When that doesnt work, 4 weeks and 5's. When that doesnt work, 4 weeks and triples. When that doesnt work, 5 weeks and 5's. When that doenst work, 5 weeks and triples. Then go to fives. Then triples. Then something else. But if you sleep and eat enough, you probably won't need it for a long ass time.
Of course, getting a coach is the best idea. Ill edit later to provide more information on percentages.
Squatting every day can definately work. Look up Ivan Djuric, he squats every day and shares a lot of information about it. 5x5 with a heavy weight is probably too much. When squatting every day it's more common to work up to one top set followed by some back off work. And it's a good idea to ease into this. Suddenly increasing frequency and volume and doing it heavy for a lift is just asking for an injury to come.
@@GitarenEnBananen yeah i found out about the injury part the hard way, luckily it was nothing serious, my lower back muscles were just too weak in compression to my leg strength (who'd know that ATG squats with a weak lower back would cause injury? *cough cough heavy sarcasm cough*) I've since then strengthened my lower back and can't feel any of my past injuries at all. I'd like to keep it as simple as possible, so i was thinking of doing something like a 7x7 or 10x10 every other day (I'm a little paranoid with going too heavy after the injury)
@@sakaue i appreciate the tips...but I'mma be honest here...Im a god damn caveman when it comes to training so half of this stuff just went over my head
With squats for me I do this
4-5 working sets
Set 1: 8
Set 2: 8
Set 3: 5
Set 4: 3-5
And do a one rep max once every month.
This really helped my squat.
i want to mainly focus on increasing my strenght for my squat bench and deadlift for powelifting whats the best sets and rep ranges i train deadlift 2 times a week light day and heavy day i do 2 squat days 1 heavy barbell 1 hack squat light day 2 bench days 1 light day 1 heavy day
Who in there right mind would play rugby against you!
wait you said you add 5 pounds every 3 weeks in your program but in your squat video you added 59 pounds in 3 months in 2018, which is about 5 pounds per week instead. was it a different program? if so, which was it?
His 59 pounds were 90% and tested maxes. The 5 pound increment means every 3 weeks on his typical training cycle
Isn’t 6 neck a week and 4 deadlifts bad or is it something lower lifters do cuz I’m an athlete that is trying to up my numbers but I was wondering why he doing so many of those a week
but how do you butcher the word "bulgarian"
Like bulge
Bloody shits go bbbbrrrrrttttt.
When does the video start?
Why measure your lifts in these wierd metrics.
I mean lbs, what is that even
measure your weights in number of white head eagle wings instead.
you could also use the classic multiple of limbs of a 1.5 year old deer.
You didn't do Cleans or Snatches on SS?
What's your conventional max?
BulJarian!!!!!
How much do you think you could pause squat below parallel raw?
Around 305kg. My pause squat is very close to my normal squat
@@mattvena226 are paused squats recommended even to people who aren't weak out of the hole? thanks
What is a back off???
Would going from doing Johnny canditos 6 week program to that high frequency program would give me an injury or tendinitis you think? Also is it hard to do with sports bc i play football and have practice everyday
Where are you from? Trying to put my finger on what accent you have 🤔
Canada
@@mattvena226 Oh ok cool!
Buljairia
Bench?
Matt I know it might sound silly but can you stick to either pounds or kilos the entire video.
3x5 curls for the girls baby
Conveniently left out bench of the title.
Buljarian
I almost got the Matt, but I fucking hate English, not exactly, I hate every language I don’t speak
Starting strength.....hmmmm doesn't the name imply its for starting strength.
you look like a mexican taco vendor named Carlos in this vid
You look like the canadian version of Clarence Kennedy if he did powerlifting to be honest
Its weird how lame influencers get millions of views when ive been searching for this exact video for the past 5 months.
Ive had so many platteaus and im only at 405 1rm deadlifts.
Im writing this when watching your video and the submaximal thing is exaxtly what i disvovered all by my lonsome :( i seriously saw progression with 5x5-7 5-6 days a week. Went from 315x5 to 365x5 in 6 months.
I used to 1rm squats (335ish) and went nowhere in 3 months.
I recommend the Buljarian program too
Wait what's wrong with a 3x5 on bicep curls lmao? I was literally planning on doing exactly that with a barbell though.
works.. but ive heard ideal hypertrophy range is 6-20
RPE 5 high volume??? For strength??? Wtf is going on I dont believe anything anymore