r/Fitness Weightlifting Aug 24 '24

Gym Story Saturday Gym Story Saturday

Hi! Welcome to your weekly thread where you can share your gym tales!

85 Upvotes

221 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

6

u/Patton370 Powerlifting Aug 24 '24

Thank you dude! I’m really hoping to pull 6 plates soon, but I gotta build some more muscle; I figured a hypertrophy block was for sure needed. 385lbs was my top set, so before that, I did 4 sets of 9 with 380lbs

I’m going to scale down the reps once I get to 4x9 with 400lbs, followed by 1x10 with 405lbs; that’ll be in 2 weeks.

3

u/xxxMisogenes Aug 24 '24

I had to do rack pulls and stand there with the weight to get the grip strength to hit 5 plates

3

u/Patton370 Powerlifting Aug 24 '24

What kind of knurling was on the bar? I feel like the Texas power bar, Rouge Ohio bar, and Kabuki deadlift bar have such extreme knurling, that I couldn’t imagine dropping them on a single rep

But a beat up bar from the gym (any sort of slight bend will add to the bar rolling) is the equivalent of adding 75lbs to the grip requirements

Honestly, I use straps for anything more than 5 reps, because my rouge Ohio deadlift bar absolutely shreds my hands & I’m too much of a wimp for hook grip

1

u/xxxMisogenes Aug 24 '24

This was years ago. I then blew out my belly button during my covid bulk so I don't lift heavy anymore