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Am I training properly

I want to get strong and big and I don't know if I'm doing it right.

Mrzerg
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Hi, I am a 23 year old guy, I weigh around 76kg and I train 4-5 days a week. I do a push-pull-legs program. I want to get bigger but also every Saturday I do a strength based routine. My main goals are to get a big bench press and get more muscular overall. So most days I will do a pyramid type workout going from 12 to 10,8,6 reps increasing the weight but on Saturdays I will do 3x5 on the bench but it is so frustrating cause this tactic helped me get my bench to 100kg but I cannot seem to get past it. I do pause reps, I do overhead press, heavy skull crushers and dips. I don't know what else to do to get my bench up. My diet is on point, I sleep 8 hrs every night, I hydrate properly. I have been stuck for months.

William_Steinset
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Posted By: Mrzerg

Hi, I am a 23 year old guy, I weigh around 76kg and I train 4-5 days a week. I do a push-pull-legs program. I want to get bigger but also every Saturday I do a strength based routine. My main goals are to get a big bench press and get more muscular overall. So most days I will do a pyramid type workout going from 12 to 10,8,6 reps increasing the weight but on Saturdays I will do 3x5 on the bench but it is so frustrating cause this tactic helped me get my bench to 100kg but I cannot seem to get past it. I do pause reps, I do overhead press, heavy skull crushers and dips. I don't know what else to do to get my bench up. My diet is on point, I sleep 8 hrs every night, I hydrate properly. I have been stuck for months.

You may simply be doing to much. That is a lot of work and movements that is going to effect your pressing ability big time. Sometimes doing less gives you more. I would consider trying it at least. So instead of heavy skull crushers and dips do something lighter for your triceps.

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Mrzerg
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3 Post(s) Gender: Male Goal: Gain Muscle Date Joined: August 8, 2019
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Thank you, Interesting advice.

William_Steinset
William_Steinset p William Steinset
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Posted By: Mrzerg

Thank you, Interesting advice.

No problem. Yeah one very important thing to keep in mind is that as a natural lifter there is definently a thing called overtraining. I love training so for me its hard to do less, but I find that I get more results that way. Especially when it comes to my strenght. This is because as a natural lifter we do not recover as fast and if you are destroying your chest, triceps and shoulders you will have a hard time gaining strenght in exercises like the bench press. A good quote that I like for situations like this is "stimulate not annihilate".

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