The Limits Of A 300lb Weight Set :
Everyone who thinks a 300lb weight set isn’t enough weight aren’t being very creative.
They’re thinking inside the powerlifting box, and not with vision of the wide world of strength sports.
Firstly if you aren’t hitting a 900lb pre-1972 style three lift weightlifting total (press/snatch/jerk), and a 300lb York combo you don’t get to talk.
May as well use strict early 1900s feet together to end the lift rules too.
Secondly going back to the same period in weightlifting you have one arm variations.
It’s possible that no one has snatched past 225lbs on a one arm barbell snatch since Charles Rigoulot set his 253lb world record with his specially made globe barbell in 1928 (edit : twice – Alekseyev with 231lbs pictured below, and Koklyaev more recently with 242).
Clearly you have a ways to go with a 300lb weight set.
And you’ve got one arm pressing in many variants :
Strict/military, push, side, bent –
315lbs for 20 on a back squat is something of an intermediate goal, one I’ve hit…
Now imagine 300 as a 20 rep overhead squat max!
High rep overhead squats are damn near limitless thinking in sets of 50+ with 300lbs to top out at.
One can get a 300lb weight set, put it anywhere (outdoors being preferable), and get very very strong with it – with no other equipment.
The limits are only what you accept.
Persistence & Tenacity