Alex_uk: 40 years in the making

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DD day 4:

RDLs (sort of)
60 X 1 X 2 sets
100 X 1
120kg X 1 X 5 sets

Chins: 5 X 4 sets, 6 X 3 sets

Axle ohp: 41, 51kg X 5, 61kg X 5 X 3 sets

I was fiddling round with positioning trying to figure out what felt good, so not exactly RDLs. My back was a bit uncomfortable going in and some reps didn’t feel great, but overall way better than from the floor, I’m guessing that hips being so much higher. My struggle is locking in lats when setting up - I can’t do that and get hips as high as I do with RDL.

Ohp was just on a whim - good to get something other than deads and chins in, bit of pressing to balance it out, short breaks in-between - fun. Love the axle.

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2168

I flat out don’t get what you guys see in the axle. It feels almost identical to a barbell to me.

2169

A barbell honestly feels like a toy to me after years of exclusively using an axle. It’s interesting you feel otherwise. I wonder if hand size plays a role.

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2170

Do you use a thumb less grip?

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I even feel like this with a power bar vs. a deadlift bar. Might be hand size related.

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60kg

100kg

120kg set:
1

2

3

4

5

2173

I tried a deadlift bar once, didn’t feel a difference, must be that I’m too weak for it to make a difference

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Always. Sole exception would be on rows, and even then, it’s a case by case thing.

Oh definitely. Deadlift bar feels SO tiny, haha.

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2175

For me it’s more comfortable and I feel it more in my shoulders and generally all of my upper back (in a positive way).

I have fairly large, meaty palms and sausage fingers.

Nope

2176

There is a bit of a learning curve to it but I can’t remember right now what you deadlift. If it was too little total weight and you were using metal plates, it might not make a difference.

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My best DL is 120kg. I think I was doing around 100kg and with bumper plates (it was at the gym I went to right before lockdown)

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Won’t be a lot of difference with 100 kg in terms of bend in the bar. Just grip (smaller diameter).

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I only use thumbless grip on presses, and have fairly small hands. I’ve used an axle maybe 5 times for pressing, and never noticed enough difference to be worth hunting it out any other time.

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Whilst I’ve got a load of strongman looking; has anyone used yoke straps?

Found a super cheap DIY method: DIY Chain Yoke For Strongman — RJ Kayser

I’ll give it a go (sound harder than a standard yoke, but when’s harder ever a bad thing?) Unless anyone has any red flags?

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Yeah, I can see smaller hands making it seem about the same. I do appreciate how the axle results in my connective tissue being beat up less.

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I have comically small hands (meaty palm, very short sausage fingers). When I say comically, I mean that I am 6’3" and my fingers are almost the same length as those of the 5’5-6" tall girl I am seeing.
So the smaller the bar, the better for me, haha.

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Will absolutely be harder. I have never tried one but I am not sure it has great carry over to a standard yoke. The yoke is all about developing foot speed.

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2184

Chain yoke will definitely make you strong.

By beating all the weakness out of you.

It may not necesssarily make you better at yoking, but hell, that’s a dumb skill.

Which reminds me: I need to take my yoke out more.

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2185

That’s all the positives I need.

Particularly this:

I need a lot of this.

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2186

most of us could use a lot more of that

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