[quote]grettiron wrote:
Why not train with a deadlift bar to mimic meet conditions?
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well I don’t own a deadlift bar so that makes it difficult, but I guess I just figured pulling on a stiffer/more difficult bar will make a competition bar feel like a toy. Hopefully it works.
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By the way, your RAW progress has been awesome. Does it have anything to do with stallion being a huge prick way back when in your squat thread?
I bet you would smash some serious weight in an unequipped meet if you re-learned wraps.[/quote]
Haha I’d like to say no…but yea that kinda lit a fire under my ass, I’m surprised you remember. The other major reason is there are no big raw meets in North America that allow wraps so if I want to compete in major competitions I needed to learn to squat without them eventually.
I doubt I’ll use wraps but maybe if I thought I had a shot at 600+ I might throw them on again
I took Weds off in preparation of some big squatting tonight and I was not disapointed. Hit 230kg without a belt, I even made a point of wearing my rehband sleeves instead of the EFS ones. Very, very, very stoked about this. I feel like in order to squat 250 in a meet I want 235-240 in the gym. I’ve started following an abriviated version of the Anello deadlift routine, this week called for a 510 pull, ideally I’d like to use a squat bar or standard bar for most of this cycle but the deadlift bar was in use so I just pulled on that, didn’t feel great but not hard by any means.
Bench PR tonight, worked on keeping a decent length pause on all my reps. I let the bar touch a little lower than I usually do on the last rep so I might have heaved it a bit, whatever 325 went up smooth and felt pretty easy. I think 330+ is there. Hellraisers sucked balls, I couldn’t get back on to my heels as much as I wanted and my back was pretty tired so keeping tight was hard, overall got some good work in though.
[quote]jake_j_m wrote:
Excellent overall numbers (which is useful for totals I guess??!), especially impressed with the squatting. I’ll be following[/quote]
Thanks man, I appreciate the support.
Haha, for a raw lifter I feel dead, squat and bench are the order of importance for a big total, luckily that seems to be how I’m built. But the squat has definately been progressing better than the other two the past few months.
so that makes it difficult, but I guess I just figured pulling on a stiffer/more difficult bar will make a competition bar feel like a toy. Hopefully it works.
