Testing Your Strength Is Holding You Back (Here’s Why)

Back in 2015, I was the strongest I’ve ever been on squats and bench press, lifting 350lbs and 265lbs respectively.

The way I got there was by doing a modified version of Bulgarian style strength training which had me doing heavy single rep sets 3 times per week on squat and bench press and once per week on deadlifts.

In a mere 6 weeks my strength and confidence under the bar skyrocketed, but…

The reason I stopped this aggressive strength building phase was due to a debilitating shoulder injury that, interestingly enough, happened on a light day of “pump” work aka lots of reps.

This injury put me out of the gym for 4 months, which was extra rough mentally because I was working at a gym at the time.

Fortunately, once I recovered I reverted back to a method of training that allows me to gain strength without maxing out.

And it’s kept me injury free for 8 years now.

Here’s A Prime Case Study Of This New Training Method:

Fast forward to 2018, I was really focused on bringing up my deadlift since it was lagging behind my other lifts even on that foolish program I just talked about.