I should be able to do WHAT?

[flexagon]

Yikes. Recent posts on a weightlifting board have informed me that, as a nicely balanced human being, I should be able to squat at least 1.5 times my bench press weight or twice my military press weight (these happen to come out to the same number anyway). My original question about glute-to-hamstring ratio remains largely unanswered, but people are still posting responses. We'll see. At any rate, that goal seems almost unattainable from where I am now. Half of that number, yes, I think I'll get there pretty soon.

rumgirl sez the heaviest thing one does should be leg presses, followed by squats and deadlifts, and that's about what I thought. Well, just for amusement value, here are my some of my rankings at the mo'; I know some of the machines have differing pulley arrangements, but hey.

#1 Leg presses / calf presses, when I do them.
#2 Lat pulldowns, RAARRRRGH, go lats.
#3 Adductors
#4 Leg extensions
#5 Bench press and hamstring curl and abductor machine (tie)
#6 Military press
#7 Bicep curls and squats (tie)
#8 Tricep skull-crunchers, and kickbacks (not a tie)

Wow. It's gonna take some work or maybe a miracle to get that tie for #7 up to #2! I must have pudding in my butt.

Comments

You do bicep curls with a 50lb db?!

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

Goddamn.

fo me:
#1 Leg press
#2 Squat
#3 deadlift
#4 toe press
#5 leg ext
#6 lat pd
#6 low row

hmm. you see my strengths...and they ain't in the upper body.

With both hands together, yeah...

[flexagon]

Crap, I typed this out then lost it because I was somehow not logged in anymore.

I do curls either around 50lbs with a bar, slumped over a bicep bench (I have no idea what those are actually called), or else standing up with a 20lb (first set) or 25lb (next set) dumbbell in one hand.

A couple things my rankings don't show: a couple more leg things are set to pass my lats, so that's good. I'll try to remember to do this again in a couple of months, I think they'll have changed more :)

Oh....he he, I was like WOW!

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

Yes, lets compare rankings again in a bit - I'd like to strengthen my upper body. Although actually, I'm thinking about doing a higher rep moderate weight cycle for a few weeks, or a pylometrics program...my weaknesses for the triathlon are endurance (hence the first idea) and I think my sprinting would be improved by pylometrics...neither one would really increase my regular weights though.

It's a compliment you even thought that :)

[flexagon]

Okay, gimme 2 months and we'll see what's happened to us. :)

I definitely think you could get some solid lats slung across those shoulders, at the very least. You've sure got the frame for it. I guess they should still rank below most of the leg exercises. I don't intend to stop working mine just to change the ranking though... *yawn* back to debugging...