I mean, do you really need someone to tell you what “rest” looks like?
That I understand, I’ve dealt with injuries that have restricted me for 2-3 months. I know it’s not 6, but it’s a mental game that sucks regardless of duration. With your deadlift numbers in relation to your bodyweight (hell, even irrespective of your bodyweight), you have to be proficient at the movement already, right? You can use this time to build the prime movers of the deadlift while not beating yourself up, which should lead to gains in the deadlift once your form adapts to your (hopefully new and improved) musculature.
Deadlifting is a great way to improve your deadlift, but it’s not the only way. Some even argue that deadlifting isn’t optimal for building muscle - not sure I agree with that, but we need to at least give it thought. You can be sprinting for power output, you can get some heavy sandbags and be picking/carrying/pressing them for core and back strength, and you can do lunges/pistols/weighted lunges with random objects. It’s not ideal and it’s not what you want, but it’s still progress.
On it
I ate a lot and did a lot of the things I didn’t do because I was dedicating so much time to training. On our honeymoon we hiked a lot, ate everything in sight because Icelandic food is fucking delicious, and drank a lot because their beer and liquor are also fucking delicious. When we got home I didn’t have an ounce of stress or pain in my body. Take advantage of the not-so-obvious benefits of seemingly non-optimal changes in circumstances.
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But seriously, rest and recover first though.
So much this. Don’t discount the recovery benefits of just moving in a different way for a bit.
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You can build a tire sled for free, buy 2 sandbags and some ratchet straps (for a harness) at a hardware store for $20, and use that too. The sandbags aren’t indestructible, but they work. If you wanna get extra froggy you can wrap them in 2 contractor garbage bags and duct tape the shit outta them. Then they’ll withstand some abuse.
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Sometimes those are the best ones.
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Yeah, that’s probably not going to happen given that I live in a dorm
Those have also shut down 
Oh damn, I thought Ohio was the most extreme by shutting down restaurants and bars, didn’t realize other places in the US were shutting other things down.
All “non essential businesses” including retail are being shut. I passed a hardware store on the way back from my new gym( which shut) and it was shut
Ironically, my calorie expenditure might actually go up in the next months since my lifting workouts don’t actually burn that many calories. The problem is that burning more calories won’t get me a 3 plate dead
Not Pinky, but does not seem like what he recommended.
It’s more than “SOME” work, and it does not sound like taking BW-stuff to acute failure either
In lieu of any added resistance, make leverages worse. I’m not sure what your BW-skillset includes but, slow-eccentric handstand push-ups, 2-3 sets to failure every other day and 2-3 sets of tiger push-ups might be an alternative.
Acute failure for bw leg stuff is hard since my mind gives up at least 50reps before my body does
Scott Abel’s quad blast for three circuits should be enough,
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Challenge accepted- I’ll try that later today
Here’s something for another training day:
I refuse to do abs…
Prepare to feel nauseous
Agreed. In my opinion doing a few sets of more advanced pushups, (I like planche pushups) to failure a few times a week would be much better for your goals. Same with pistols, do what you can to increase tension and replicate heavier reps. That’s the stimulus you want your muscles to be under.
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