Naturally
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No - sorry I dont do wraps. I’ve only just tried a belt. Im not going to compete with wraps soni dont train with them.
I mean 220kg is impressive. But it’s not for I.
y no belt tho
I’ve always trained for rugby. So I dint belt up for rugby so I dont bekt up in training.
Now I’m doing strong man I use a belt. Which tbh I love. Its added several kg to my squat front squat and press. So all in all it’s been a great purchase.
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Yea I’m a big fan of the belt, definitely a worth while purchase for lifting in my humble opinion.
I’m still getting used to it. I’m struggling for deads. I cant get into position. But it’s a learning curve. But yeah - over all belts are great. Cant believe I went this long without one.
Been trying to get the belt to work on deads since i started training towards powerlifting. Hasn’t really ever clicked. Not sure if it ever will lel
Nice squats, mate. In regards to depth, not only is it arbitrary, but the more important factor if we are even going to bother with the conversation is the angle between the upper and lower parts of the leg. “Parallel” is really just a lazy word to describe achieving something around 90 degrees. Looks like you get pretty close to that, and the speed of the lift left no doubts that you are strong enough for it.
But let’s have a conversation about your choice of music at some point.
Haha not a fan of the Jesus music?
Thanks Cyrrex - yea feeling confident with the squat, depth is arbitrary, but even so I don’t want to give myself a free pass to delusion thinking I’m getting stronger when really I’m just cutting depth. All that said I’ll take that depth for the time being and just make sure it’s improved for next time, still claiming a 190kg squat!
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Whilst I’m online, the scale finally budged, somewhere between 207/208. Might be related to the very salty roast dinner yesterday but I have been consistently eating somewhere around 3.5-4k per day so I’m hoping my body is finally getting the hint. Still not at force feeding levels yet. Also might be related to significantly dropped activity levels, deloading and 1rm testing isn’t going to demand high calories. Looking forward to BtM (and dreading the 20 rep squat days).
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I didn’t even hear what it was specifically. But it was the working out equivalent of having Taylor Swift’s greatest hits on shuffle.
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Now I’m just offended…
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Phat/thicc
At 6’2 it’s borderline skinny/slim!
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21/09/20
Conditioning:
Deads:
60x3, 100 X 3, 120 X 3
140, 160, 180, 200kg X 1
210 X f, f
Well that was frustrating, my deadlift is by far my worst lift and probably the one I want to improve the most. That is a “PR” in name only because I pulled 200kg from a deficit, this was just the first time I’d done it from the ground. 200kg made me feel a strain in my pecs which I’m reasoning is probably a sign my upper back/shoulders rounded, 200 wasn’t an absolute max effort and I got 210 off the floor (about 1 inch haha), didn’t budge second time.
Never mind I was thinking I might not make massive deadlift gains just because of my years of battling for it, i reckon it might have been about 2+ years from 180 until 200kg. Wish I could find something that would make big impact on my deads, maybe more paused worked (with actual pauses) as it’s off the floor where I’m struggling (or just being weak all over).
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This is the exact opposite of me. I struggled and fought for years to hit the mythical 4 plates. 5 plates was a comparatively straightforward journey.
Magic bullets for me were clusters and ROM progression. Both gave me reasonable gains in a pretty short space of time.
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Squatting with an SSB has helped me put a few pounds on my DL these last couple months
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Lots of sub max work done it for me.
531 took me from 150x5 to 170x10 in just a few months. Perhaps as I was doing back hypers for the first time.
Also head space. Squat and bench if you fail a lift - the weigh is gonna crush you. It focuses the mind. Deadlift you need to get the same sort of head space. I imagine all sorts of shitty things happening so I can get the weight up.
2 other things to remember:
6’2 is not massive but its tall enough to make a difference to the lift. You’re bending down more and have further to come up at worse leverage
You maxed your squat 3 days ago. And bench 5 days ago. I said a short time ago if I’m lifting heavy 3 times a week - at the end of the week my lifts are terrible. You 200kg whilst fatigued is a solid effort.
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Range progression as in ever lowering rack pulls/block pulls?
Might see what I can piece together for deads after BtM, it’s not going to be 531, that’s never been good for my deads.
Might just go the @Guineapig route and get bumpers and DL bar, spend £1k on and set up… might just pull 210kg!
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Really?
Matt Kroc’s deadlift programme is good. Really simple. Just dead lifts once a week for a prescribed weight and reps. 12 (or maybe 16) weeks later you’re stronger.
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