Yea, and going by what's important to me I'm willing to take the risks on some of those exercises.
You and I are nothing alike, I'm not into powerlifting, it's all about getting a little wider back and some definition in the chest for me. It's not like I'm just curling away either, I do compound movements every workout. You recommended pullups -- I'm already doing them.
Last I checked this thread is still named "Fitness" and not "Powerlifting", seems like a lot of you tend to forget that.
So you're willing to take a risk with those exercises, but not deadlifts. Mmmmmmkay.
Look, I didn't say you need to be like me, or be powerlifting oriented. I didn't say anything bad about having a bodybuilding centric routine. I didn't tell you to do SS or anything else.
Shit, I never did SS. The first routine I actually followed was 5/3/1 and even that I butchered to hell and back. I'm the last one that should be telling anyone to follow a routine, however, I'm modestly strong enough to give a little bit of advice and I eat, breath and sleep fitness literature. Even the shit that's not "powerlifting."
The thing I'm getting at is your reasoning for not doing DL. It's not that you CAN'T do them. It's not that they "don't work for you" or you don't think they would work. Hell, you've never even been injured doing them. It's that you just don't like them and that kind of mentality leads me to believe that when things get hard you might quit. So inevitably you're wasting your time.
Until you got adversarial in your posting I was attempting to help, but I'll be quite honest. You don't see to know much at all about lifting or fitness in general. I'm not gonna go back and break down all of your posts, but it's pretty obvious. Then when people begin to offer advice you get hostile.
Well sir, fuck that, that kind of shit gets you ignored. It's not like we are berating you because you don't worship Rippetoe and the almighty skwat. It's your god damned attitude.
Plenty of people here put the notion of "SS for gains" and "Skwat,press,dead for maximum awesome to shame Szu immediately comes to mind.
Others put us "powerlifters" to shame. Darth and Cooter are ontop of that pile of corpses.
So pull your head out of your ass, and while your at it, un-bunch your panties.
And for the love of god, don't come in here posting shit, getting to know this community only to quit like 90% of the people who come here do because shit got hard and you didn't feel like doing it anymore because "you didn't like it."
Edit: Just saw this.
You should read the OP. It depends what you're going for, lower rep ranges for strenght, high rep ranges for size.
Graph from the OP
Might as well post it, here are my progress pictures from the past few months.
You look exactly the same if not worse than you did a year ago, and you're busting on Petrie's "proportions?" Get the hell out of here.
