A New Animal: JDM135 for 1-2-3-4 plates

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1222

Awesome work man.

Did you load up the big blue bumpers for the occasion?

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1223

Thanks @OTHSteve @boyce79 @dagill2
@dagill2 my gym doesn’t have anything fancy like that, just black neoprene coated non-bumper plates. In fact I had been working up by adding 10s and 5s, so to avoid being ostentatious about it I simply added another pair of 5s and got my PR with 135+nickels-and-dimes.
But I definitely wanted to! And there were very few strong people in the gym today (besides my spotter, who used one hand for the liftoff).

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1224

Oooh…I dunno mate. We are going to have to convene a special committee to determine whether or not this counts. We will let you know of our decision as soon as possible, but it may take us some time to determine exactly what this “neoprene” stuff is.

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1225

PRs all over the place recently, good stuff

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1226

Freakin’ sweet PR, congrats! You’ve accomplished the first half of your lifting goals; now onto the second set (while continuing to build the upper body lifts, of course!)

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1227

Awesome work in here @jdm135 you just keep on getting stronger, love it!

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1228

Nice work on the PRs mate. Now to get that squat moving !

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1229

Thanks guys!
Yeah exactly, got the easy two knocked off the list, now maintain/improve those while building the squat and dl.
I already squat 2x/week. Should I up the DL to 2x/wk as well? Easiest way would be
Monday: squat heavy, dl volume
Wednesday: bench and press
Friday: DL heavy, squat volume

Issue with adding DL session is, it may reduce my ability to focus on squats. I’m confident the DL will come up anyway once my squat does and it may not need 2x/week. May just wear me out and slow down the squats.

Thoughts @simo74 @Cyrrex and the rest of y’all?

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1230

I would not add more deadlift. For me if I focus on squat then my deadlift goes up anyway. If I deadlift too much it negatively effects my squat. Just keep slowly adding weight to the squat. I would Keep a heavy had and a medium heavy volume day. It will come but you can’t rush it.

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1231

I agree with @simo74

You’re crushing it dude, congrats on the bench PR. That’s awesome!

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1232

Agree

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1233

Good, thanks guys - I was not looking forward to a lot of deadlifting. I’ll keep my current weekly structure and manage weight and volume to reflect priorities.

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1234

Congrats on the PR!!!

Not an expert, but by anecdote, my deadlift maintained/gained slightly with more squat, even though I couldn’t deadlift

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1235

Deadlift more, it’s fun.

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1236

I don’t know about this, but…

I’m sure of this.

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1237

I’ll just echo what everyone else is saying. What you’re doing right now is working, so ride that train and don’t mess with what’s working. Once things start to stall again, you might want to reassess, but more volume isn’t always the answer. Sometimes it’s the recovery you need more of, either food or rest. Don’t just pile on more work without some serious evaluation.

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1238

I mean… I kind of agree with this too. I think no matter which way you choose to go, you’ll see your DL go up. Just remember, the more you do, the more you gotta eat or it’ll be a one way ticket to burnoutsville.

I think if you could swing 6-8 weeks of comically high volume on both squat and DL and then ramp up for a few weeks you’d be close.

This is nonsense, though

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1239

I’m in the squat twice and deadlift once per week camp. Slow and steady wins the gains.

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1240

Congratulations - good work.

It just so satisfying when ones efforts pay off :+1:

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1241

My personal thoughts are that you can improve your deadlift really easily by training your Squat, then just doing an absolute bare bones DL program. Something like 531 3s PRO or the Kroc deadlift program. In general, you’re training the same muscle groups so doubling down on both just seems like a recipe for burnout. Train your Squat hard, train your deadlift easy.

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