Dave Tate's Westside Gym Bulking Story

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Originally Posted by Kuytrider

I'd prefer to be 210 and hitting 1000+ for the big 3 than 190 and staying at 830.

Hey, that's me! Well, close. I'd easily total 950+ raw at 210, but I also need to be able to run 5 miles and do wind sprints for 20 minutes followed by 50 pushups, so I can't focus on max strength.

The crazy thing about my weight loss is that I'm STRONGER now at 210 than I was at 275lbs in high school, and I trained and ate like a beast in high school. I thought I was strong because I could clean my bodyweight at 275. . .now I can power clean my bodyweight for reps. The only thing that's gone down is my squat, but I'm also not sure how close I ever actually came to parallel back in the day when I could do 400+. I probably wasn't even close.