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Originally Posted by RGRCamaro

Haha I had a feeling...my max squat is still somewhere around 440-460lbs, I haven't gone for a 1 rep max yet. I put hitting 500lbs on hold as I am starting rugby back up so I am cutting up a bit of weight to get faster.

Well you are young....keep plugging along. If I knew then what I know now it would not have taken me near as long but you have to have an open mind to training methods other than the "mainstream" way of training. This is how my other half, who had never touched a weight in 38 years, went from squatting the bar up to 95lbs for max, and a year and a half later squatting 365lbs.

Flip side is like you stated hard to get a bigger squat cutting weight. Flip side to the flip side is increase your maximal strength and you will get faster.

I don't know what your bw is....if it's at least 235 I feel I could have you squatting 700 in 3 years...

230lbs and under though would be tough unless you are...ummmm..."bulking". The difference between a 2.8-2.9 bw squat vs a true 3x bw squat is tremendous....not in lbs but what it takes to achieve it.

You and Dznts are in the same state. Y'all should get together and train some time!