My Journey to 100kg High Bar

Some things in the gym are free.

I worked my way up to easily doing 20kg lateral raises.

• Squats started off as weak

• Squats stayed weak

• Squats suffered from a knee injury…

It all goes together to create a guy who for a long time struggled to squat 100kg.

Yes I can easily do that now 🙄 

Here’s a bit of a short explanation of what happened.

This won’t be a powerlifter everything but ownership article…

I started off in the gym making progress and exercising.

I was sandbagging my squats and was not taking them seriously…

• I go to the gym with a friend

• I’m coaching the friend

• He tries, and reps my squat

It’s not like it was a one rep max, but still.

He did my low bar high bar…

He laughed and joked about it being “Fletcher weight”

It kinda got to me a little.

I realised I’d been training soft. I hadn’t been giving it my all. i didn’t know overtraining was the reason why.

It did motivate me to start taking it seriously.

So I started getting much much stronger.

Then I do a cut and things go bad and I stop going to the gym and missing sessions…

I end up losing a lot of strength and get back into things.

BANG or snap…?

There wasn’t a sound but I got injured.

In my knee…

Yeah that won’t help my squat.

I have to rehab it for a while, and then it gets fixed.

I have to be careful with loading my knee but I finally end up doing it. I hit 100kg. Boom.

Sometimes a goal takes much longer than you ever expect.

Don’t give up on it, even if there’s an injury.

Find the right path to get there, and keep working hard.

Your Hypertrophy Hero,
Fletcher