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Honest question for those who train for strength: what do you think has been the biggest factor for getting your numbers up? Food, low reps, high reps, periodization, accessories, form, heavy negatives...?

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Assuming you're getting enough food and you've more or less capped your initial strength, it's hands down intensity. You can do high reps, low reps, work on form, do negatives, etc. But if you're not trying your hardest you won't get stronger.

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Sleep. & lift pacing. E.g., lowering for 2 seconds, pausing, lifting in one second, immediately lowering. You can play with this.

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In order: 0. Consistency 1. More Rest 2. More Food 3. Wendler 5/3/1 (first big strength jump) https://forums.t-nation.com/t/5-3-1-how-to-build-pure-strength/281694

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pharma bro, sustanol, trenbolone! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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honestly, it's mind-muscle connection. when you can feel the whole movement at where it's targeted. for me I sucked at pull ups and really wanted to get good. I then aimed to do only 3-4 pull ups each day with extreme control (apart from my workouts) now i can comfortably do about 10 clean ones.

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Sleep, food, consistency

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tons of food for me and high volume (I think that volume is more important as long as intensity is not too low) my bench press increased when I started to doing it 3x/week but I think you need to test everything and see what works best for you !

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Grip strength with dead hangs -> allowed me to get multiple PRs on exercises I had plateaued with, e.g incline bench

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honestly, just consistently doing the big lifts every week.

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When I was at my strongest I was doing high frequency barbell lifts and close variations, med to low reps, submax back off work. Basically 531 sort of stuff but high frequency. I was also bulking like a nut. Years later I'm still trying to shed that weight 😑

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Switch from low to high reps (and vice versa) if you hit a plateau Always go to failure Accessories/mobility so you don’t get hurt and can keep it up

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Learning how to program for yourself. For me that means low-moderate volume on squat and deadlift and high volume on bench. You’ll be able to break through plateaus way more easily than if you’re just jumping cookie cutter programs.

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Slowly adding weight each week consistently.

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Well it depends on the exercise. Some require an immaculate form to perform, some need simply time and perhaps low - rep sets. I improved my squats drastically by going heavier for less reps, the thing that you mentioned. Besides all - sleep and diet will affect all of it the most. Thats my perspective

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Rest days and focusing on recovery, I think it's underrated especially if you're training everyday like me.

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For me the biggest changes were after I kept a couple reps in reserve instead of going to failure. But really working to find out what weight was truly allowing me 1/2 RIR. I think it makes a massive difference to recovery and then allows for more consistency.

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my babe @paulp nailed it. after that let sleep and food fight it out for silver

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it's a joke. actually low reps with extremely high weight.

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