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    Kept lifting, and got weaker......

    3 months ago i lifted 205 as my max on the bench. During the 3 months i did about 6 sets of 3x10 sets. And today i tried to bench my max and i could only do 205. Why did i not increase at all?
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    The next time you hit the bench make sure you get a good sleep and have eaten properly through the day so your energy levels are up. Unless you have been overtraining and undereating your lifts shouldn't have gone down...
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    Have you been doing the same reps and sets the whole time?
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    Originally Posted by NewYorkGiants24 View Post
    Have you been doing the same reps and sets the whole time?
    Yeah pretty much. I used free weights half of the time then i used a regular bench. I built muscle though i can tell my chest grew a little. But there are no strength gains.
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    too much volume man i suggest just making your goal to constant progress each workout, think about it...if a man was stuck at a 225lb squat for 3 months in a row with no increase do you think his thighs would get during those 3 months?..with that amount of sets and that high of reps overtraining becomes very easy and makes it harder to focus on upping your weights each workout. pyramid up to 4-6 rep max and make it your priority to up the weight by 5lbs each workout which won't be a problem if your diet is correct
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    Originally Posted by arslanian1020 View Post
    too much volume man i suggest just making your goal to constant progress each workout, think about it...if a man was stuck at a 225lb squat for 3 months in a row with no increase do you think his thighs would get during those 3 months?..with that amount of sets and that high of reps overtraining becomes very easy and makes it harder to focus on upping your weights each workout. pyramid up to 4-6 rep max and make it your priority to up the weight by 5lbs each workout which won't be a problem if your diet is correct
    I want my chest to grow in size, i heard more reps is better to build your chest when your bulking. Will upping my weight to 4-6 reps build my chest as fast?
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    heres a concept for you to consider...muscle size/strength are directly related. have you ever seen someone with 20 inch thighs squat 600lbs? no. if i were you i would start powerlifting until your weights plateaued then switch over to a bodybuilding routine and vice versa
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    You didn't tell us what your 3x10 starting and ending max was. All you said is you didn't train 3x1 and are surprised 3x10 didn't have carryover.
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    Originally Posted by SwoleNeck View Post
    3 months ago i lifted 205 as my max on the bench. During the 3 months i did about 6 sets of 3x10 sets. And today i tried to bench my max and i could only do 205. Why did i not increase at all?
    There are two things you need;

    MOAR RECOVERY: Your muscles will not grow no matter how hard and often you work them. They will grow once they have had enough time to replace what it has lost through exercise AND then some. I suggest spacing your chest days a day or even two further apart from each other then they currently are.

    PROGRESSIVE RESISTANCE: If you are using the same weights for the same reps, your muscles had no need to get stronger. You must try to press for new personal records. Try finding a bench periodization routine. There are plenty on the internet that are good routines.

    http://www.impulseadventure.com/weights/bench-rick.html

    There's one. Follow part one. I've done that and my max has gone from 225 to 240 in about a month. And I've been lifting less often.
    355 Bench
    565 Dead
    520 Parallel Box Squat
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    Get on a good strength routine.
    Eat enough, sleep enough.
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