Hey, I haven’t seen that strength level website before, I just checked it out and it’s pretty cool. Also not surprising, I put my #'s in and got elite with 96-98th percentile on squat, press and deadlift… and intermediate with 77th percentile on bench 
Damn poverty bench.
My bench is in the 60-something percentile on that website, while my press is in the 80-something percentile. My press is ADVANCED. Unsurprisingly, I’d rather utilize the press as MY measure of REAL upper-body strength. 
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Okay. Sumo deadlifts went well today. Hit a PR there, and my form was immaculate. Strength for a 400+ pull is there, just have to put it all together.
Deadlifts
135 x 2 x 5
185 x 3
225 x 6
255 x 1
285 x 15 — PR!
315 x 5 — more in the tank.
Ab Wheel x 2 x 25
Capped it here, ran out of time. Just as well, I’ll save my energy for a Squat PR come Thursday. I finally feel well enough to put some balls and intensity into my workouts without feeling like I’m gonna shit myself or puke. BW still at 165.
Do strongman so that meh bench doesn’t matter
Edit: also put on some weight you skinny cunt
But then I can’t pull sumo! Oh, decisions, decisions. @T3hPwnisher is rolling in his grave right now.
Also, I’m trying. I hate being skinny.
There’s an increasing growing/vocal contingent of strongman competitors out there pulling sumo in the off season to strengthen their conventional lift. Apparently it helps strengthen the hips.
I’d have no idea if that’s true, but there’s room for it.
If you’re interested in possibly giving your numbers a boost, why not try it? Make it a supplemental lift?
I have SO many lifts to prioritize and only an hour of time that I allot myself to train. Just one of those cost/benefit sort’ve things.
Same reason I’d love to focus more on good mornings, kelso shrugs, GHRs, direct tricep work, etc. They’ll all occasionally make it into the rotation, but they don’t stay long compared to the consistent winners.
Ah. Have you considered waking up…an hour earlier to train? 
I have, yeah, but the marriage would not fare well with that COA.
This CANNOT be true.
I mean, with the way sumo is vilified in the strongman community; I’d agree with you. I don’t see pulling sumo as any worse than ramping or hitching.
The only people I see vilify it are wannabes. I will say that the hitching and ramping never equated to sumo to me, because sumo doesn’t seem like a way to cheat a conventional deadlift, but more just a different lift. I always go to the example of my wife at my first powerlifting meet seeing sumo for the very first time and saying “That’s not a deadlift”, with zero prompting from me. A way to get weight off the floor, yeah, but just too alien compared to a conventional.
However, I would say it’d be far more analogous to say how can you hate on sumo but be ok with the jerk for overhead events? In that case, the jerk is also very much a different lift compared to pressing, but seems to fit within the strongman mentality just fine. Although, in that regard, there ARE a contingent of folks that think the jerk shouldn’t be allowed in competition, so there’s folks from all over.
Instead of saying "sumo isn’t allowed’, it should really just be “this isn’t a sumo event”. I’d be totally up for a deadlift event that mandated it HAD to be pulled sumo. I think that’s well within how strongman operates. I’ve done medleys that were deads, partials, farmers handles and trap bars: throw a sumo pull in there too.
Yeah, I agree with you about everything except one thing. Why shouldn’t a sumo pull be considered a deadlift? Hell, I can pull behind my back in a PL meet if I so choose.
Really? Many of the meet rulebooks I’ve read have ruled that the bar has to be in front of the lifter.
But herein we’re doing the thing of “by WHOSE definition”. Sumo became a deadlift because it fit within the rules of the sport of powerlifting, in much the same way that the Fosbury Flop fit within the rules of the high jump. In my case, in referencing my wife, I’m going by the common usage explanation instead.
Not that it’s not “A” deadlift, but that it is not “THE” deadlift.
Alright. I hit another Press PR today. I can safely say a BW Press is there. I hit 125 x 10 fairly easily, I misgrooved the 11th and couldn’t save it at the top. BW @ 165. Finished off with some back, grip, and tricep work. Good session. I need to string more of these together.
Press
45 x 2 x 5
75 x 3
95, 110 x 5
125 x 10 (PR)
135 x 4 (a fight!)
95 x 5 x 5
https://www.instagram.com/p/BwGKW0Yg7PWpJrG-PGhjCPfgp27EbFGgnLVTpY0/
Well, I was wrong about this, but I am making progress (however slow it is).
Also…I don’t know how I’m setting PRs. My diet is not conducive to setting PRs, and neither is my sleep. I don’t think I’ve done mobility work in 6 months. The two things I do take are Amino Acids (don’t hurt the stomach) and CBD oil (helps me feel okay).
Also, should I squat early tomorrow morning or Friday afternoon?
Depends on we’ll you perform in the morning. I’m relatively dog shit in the morning so I go for afternoon lifting
Yeah, I’m pretty dogshit too. But, I have to pull heavy on Monday; so I’m concerned that moving a heavy squat workout to Friday is going to compromise recovery. I may also just not go for max reps on my AMRAP set tomorrow and speed through my assistance.
Alright. An easy deadlift PR today. Double BW x 10, pretty huge for me. Had 2 in the tank I didn’t take. I’m satisfied with that.
Deadlift
135 x 2 x 5
185 x 3
225, 255, 290 x 3
330 x 10 — PR
365 x 1
255 x 5 x 5
Dimel DL (beltless) — 185 x 5 x 10
Ab Wheel — 2 x 25
Floor Press PR. They just keep coming. Also hit a Chin-up PR (off a 2 x 4 no less) and Strict Curl PR.
Floor Press
45 x 2 x 5
95 x 5
115 x 3
125 x 3
145 x 3
160 x 12 — PR!
125 x 5 x 5
Chin-ups: 57
Strict Curl: 95 x 10 (PR)
Pushups: 2 x 50
Note: I can routinely knock out sets of push-ups over 50. This was an unattainable number for a long time.
