How long are plateaus supposed to last? | Topic Thunder
50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD
Jim McDonald
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🗓️ 13 December 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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This is Topic Thunder episode -- our rapid-fire panel discussion show.
Today’s question is really a general one about plateaus. Can you know when they’re going to happen? How do you get past them?
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| 0:39.0 | into the video. Topic Thunder is where we take your questions and we answer them as fast as we can five to ten minutes and this one is about deadlifts in particular |
| 0:46.6 | But I think we'll stretch it out and we'll transform this man's questions what is the biggest plateau period of deadlifts So maybe what's the biggest plateau period of deadlifts. So maybe what's the biggest |
| 0:54.0 | plateau you went through? How did you fix it? How did you not fix it? |
| 0:58.9 | Plateau is gonna happen bureau. I think my biggest, I bet's 315 I swear to |
| 1:02.1 | God for like three years straight. |
| 1:04.1 | Yeah and just wouldn't go. |
| 1:06.2 | Really? Yeah, I just wouldn't go. |
| 1:08.2 | Probably like 20 to 22. I think I bench 330 in my first powerlifting meet but previous to that I was yeah I was benching I swear at 315 forever |
| 1:17.5 | Is it something about the arrangement of the plates? Sometimes I think that there's for sure |
| 1:21.4 | logical things around that. |
| 1:23.2 | That's for sure and then like ego and back in the day when we lifted like you |
| 1:27.1 | didn't really use two and a halfs and fives you know you're trying to jump a ten |
| 1:30.2 | or it's not really worth it right. Plus I was trying to stay in a way class |
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