lol. that sounds like he is on steroids. I can assume he just improved his form which contributed to such a huge increase
Yeah he's definitely Natty, improved form is a lot of it. And training every single week
Monday is bench, Wednesday is deadlifts and Friday is squat. Working really heavy... Warm up then 5 sets of heavy 5s or 3s. Then 2 sets of 12 or 15 (cool down Kinda pump) Then 2 accessory lifts.
Sunday he trains biceps and shoulders at his house.
So yeah between consistently training heavy, gaining 10lbs and learning good form is really helping him. Also getting him into the right headspace... A few times now I've seen him go into a heavy lift and I can tell he's not in the right headspace and he'll fail it. Either laughing or joking... Or just talking as he goes to unrack. I'll make him wait 5 minutes and walk him through the process of preparing for a big lift and 9 times out of 10 he'll crush the lift he failed at 5 minutes prior.
I've also learned not to tell him what weight he's doing or he's about to do.
Like last week when his current PR was 270lb on deadlift... We were working up to a heavy triple. I put 270lb on the bar and just said 3 if you can. He did it. Went up to 280 and said 3 if you can... And he did it. (I stopped there because I could tell he was at his max) And said congratulations you just got a 10lb PR and did it for 3!!!
He was fucking shocked, he thought we were only at 250lb.
And then I broke his heart and said it doesn't count as a PR because you did it 3 times

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That's why Wednesday we did it and he got the 308lb for 1.
I think he can get 350lb by his birthday