I’ll be doing deadlift for reps at a competition tomorrow. 450 lbs. for as many reps as I can get in 60 seconds. Any ideas on a warm-up for this that minimizes fatigue so I can conserve my energy while priming my body?
BW squats, then work up in triples to say 500.
Thanks. The weight ended up being 385 and I had to do two rounds for 90 seconds each of as many reps as I could get.
how many did you end up getting each round?
[quote]Sir Liftsalot wrote:
Thanks. The weight ended up being 385 and I had to do two rounds for 90 seconds each of as many reps as I could get.[/quote]
What a small world. I did a strongman comp yesterday myself and we had a DL for reps event too. Our weight was nearly identical, we had 375. Just one round of 90 seconds. I got 17 which for me is very decent. As I am a proportionally poor deadlifter. Im curious what warm up route you took? I always favor the work past the rep weight method for singles. So I did this: 225x5, 315x3, 315x2, 405x1, 455x1. Then my 375x17. Some say I dont warm up enough but I got terrible L4-L5 problems so I dont like reps to begin with and Im certainly not going to do a bunch warming up.
I did 17 reps my first round, with a pretty even pace for the first 60 seconds, then I started to gas. I made an error and controlled the negative too much, which not only slowed me down but also took more energy than if I would have done a quick drop negative with my hands on the bar. I had to do the event twice since we were competing as a individuals and a team. My second round I got 17 reps again, and I switched to the quick drops on the negative, which leads me to believe that I could have gotten more reps on my first round if I hadn’t spent so much time and energy on controlling the negative. I was working with the heaviest weight since I was the heaviest guy at the competition. More warm-up was 5-10 minutes on the airdyne bike just like in the old wrestling days, since some singles at 135 and 225. I had to load my own weight so I didn’t get a very good warm-up.