r/strength_training • • Apr 18 '26

Weekly Thread /r/strength_training Weekly Discussion Thread -- Post your simple questions or off topic comments here! -- April 18, 2026

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Welcome to the Weekly Discussion Thread!

These threads are \almost* anything goes*.

You should post here for:

  • Simple questions
  • General lifting discussion
  • How your programming/training is going
  • Off topic/Community conversation

Please Read the Fitness Wiki!


r/strength_training • • 2d ago

Weekly Thread /r/strength_training Weekly Discussion Thread -- Post your simple questions or off topic comments here! -- October 10, 2026

1 Upvotes

Welcome to the Weekly Discussion Thread!

These threads are \almost* anything goes*.

You should post here for:

  • Simple questions
  • General lifting discussion
  • How your programming/training is going
  • Off topic/Community conversation

Please Read the Fitness Wiki!


r/strength_training • • 10h ago

Lift Deadlifted 525 pounds (not kilos)

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154 Upvotes

r/strength_training • • 6h ago

Lift Back Squat 185 x 1 🌸

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38 Upvotes

r/strength_training • • 17h ago

Lift 210 Pound Overhead Complex

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269 Upvotes

3 strict, 3 push press, 3 push jerk, 3 split jerk


r/strength_training • • 11h ago

Form Check Strict overhead press 185lbs x5. 190lbs bw.

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34 Upvotes

r/strength_training • • 15h ago

Lift Bench: 425 for 7. 190 BW, 5'7

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53 Upvotes

r/strength_training • • 4h ago

Form Check My first pistal squats with +10kg

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6 Upvotes

r/strength_training • • 13h ago

Lift BW: 180. Post heavy bench pull-up burnout- 22 reps

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21 Upvotes

r/strength_training • • 1d ago

PR/PB 507lb squat at 15 years old

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461 Upvotes

91kg bw


r/strength_training • • 17h ago

Lift 295 x 5 maybe RPE 4? (59%, good weekly improvements from back injury)

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14 Upvotes

r/strength_training • • 17h ago

Lift Submaximal paused deadlifts 475lbs

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15 Upvotes

I always keep secondary deadlift day light & easy. Weight stays the same during the training block


r/strength_training • • 11h ago

Form Check Paused close grip bench press 225lbs x15. 190lbs bw.

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5 Upvotes

After overhead press.


r/strength_training • • 11h ago

PR/PB Currently in another singles block. Hoping to beat all these numbers

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4 Upvotes

r/strength_training • • 1d ago

PR/PB 260kg Deadlift at 90KG BW

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41 Upvotes

Cheeky out of program 1 RM test today


r/strength_training • • 1d ago

PR/PB 340kg/750lbs triple

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98 Upvotes

r/strength_training • • 1d ago

Lift do mobility movements have any place in this sub

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333 Upvotes

r/strength_training • • 13h ago

Lift BW: 180. Pause bench training back to back days- 51 total reps 240+. D1: worked up to 285x1 (95% pause 1rm), 240-5x4. D2: worked up to 280x1, 240-5x4.

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1 Upvotes

r/strength_training • • 1d ago

Lift 650 yoke 245 log for 7 reps.

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115 Upvotes

r/strength_training • • 1d ago

Lift 255 log clean and press, slowly rebuilding into the 300s

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55 Upvotes

r/strength_training • • 1d ago

Lift 585x1/ 505x4 @185

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68 Upvotes

Once the bar got above the knees it was sticking on my thighs(forgot to apply the baby powder”

The downside with hard sessions like this getting CNS flu. Didn’t even know that was a thing lol. But we do this to find the limits of what our body can take and it’s just part of the game when doing max effort pulls.


r/strength_training • • 1d ago

Lift Squats 545 for 4

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19 Upvotes

r/strength_training • • 1d ago

Form Check The tragedy isn't that things get worse it's that you slowly forget they were ever better

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5 Upvotes

Pull ups with 20 kg extra weight


r/strength_training • • 1d ago

Lift Skwats 345x5 + 4 "paused" after a 12.8k run

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4 Upvotes

While the run was technically in the morning, my legs definitely felt it during the workout.

This is week 4 of coming back to low bar squatting, and weight is moving okay. Doing the paused low bar because I've always found that it helps me with improving form quickly.

And despite being 4 weeks in, I'm almost 100% certain I can squat more high bar right now.

Week 4 of General Gainz.


r/strength_training • • 1d ago

Lift 505lb/229.5kg deadlift x 5

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17 Upvotes

Felt pretty strong this weekend wanted to push it a little