Not a damn thing…
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I wear my belt a notch looser on my deadlift than I do on my squat.
It seems to allow me to sit into my deadlift without all the pinching and shit.
Unless I’m working out shirtless, then it always hurts. But obviously worth it; mirin’ myself in my home gym.
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I vote go Yury Belkin on the deadlifts and tag him until he gives you an interview then post the link in my Belkin circle jerk thread. k thnx
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22/12/17
Christmas is almost here (not that I care much having gifted myself all the things already) and coincides (not on purpose lol) with my deload. Good food, less stressful times and chill training combine for hopefully some great recovery gains.
Iron Revolution on a Friday afternoon with some good friends is a perfect afternoon.
I have got no exact program today just some general guidelines so I’ll fuck around in the gym today, try out some new technique cues for all the lifts and show my mates around this sexy establishment
Squat
130kg x 2,2
Tempted to AMRAP 3 cookies like @Despade and @lord_humongous but weight felt heavy anyways so probably better that I stuck to the plan.
Bench
90kg x 2,2,2
Chill sesh on the Bench Press with a couple of doubles at 90kg. Will keep working on form thru the next training cycle
Deadlift
170kg x 2,2,2
Deadlifts felt kind of awkward today but didn’t look too bad. Pulled on a DL bar for kicks so maybe that’s why.
Also some hook grip action and I think I’ll be doing a lot more hook grip work next training cycle.
As for belt… umm forgot about the belt entirely #YuryBelkin. Will try to make the belt work in the next training cycle though. Tho will try some combination of higher and looser as suggested by @painter27 and @littlesleeper next time.
Would like to get a more vertical back position over time. Dunno how exactly to accomplish that exactly though…
Nothing much to say about today’s session but am looking forward to the next training cycle. Most of the program will be written up by my friend but I want to have some input into it with the help of the forum
I’ve got lots of ideas mostly from googling all the stuff and have got a lot from the bench stuff in my other thread.
We’ve got a week until next cycle starts so plenty of time to bounce ideas around and make changes. Am looking forward to more gains.
Have a nice holiday season all and hopefully get the gift of gains.
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Enjoy the deload mane. You’ve worked so hard sandbagging everything so you can set rep PRs all the time.
Everything besides your warm ups has been using straps so probs a good idea. Straps carry over to hook grip quite well actually but nothing beats destroying your thumbs on a regular basis. #specificity
Push your position on all reps and/or push the mobility work. ez. Probably won’t end up looking like one of those perpendicular to the ground guys or even near vertical ala Belkin tbh. Can try tho
Test only. 1g EOD. Ez
Srsly tho bounce away tho if it’s anything stupid I’ll be less chill than flipcollar.
*Parody of “All I want for christmas…” except all I want is gains and as soon as she says “is” the video cuts to death metal with barely discernible lyrics: “gains”. Is not part of my GIF dominant skill set so you’ll have to imagine it.
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Thanks for the tips. Always appreciated
But @flipcollar is already below absolute zero…
Bitch pls
According to Wikipedia “It is commonly thought of as the lowest temperature possible, but it is not the lowest enthalpy state possible, because all real substances begin to depart from the ideal gas when cooled as they approach the change of state to liquid, and then to solid; and the sum of the enthalpy of vaporization (gas to liquid) and enthalpy of fusion (liquid to solid) exceeds the ideal gas’s change in enthalpy to absolute zero. In the quantum-mechanical description, matter (solid) at absolute zero is in its ground state, the point of lowest internal energy.”
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I have no idea what any of that means
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Man your pull looks so efficient. Makes me wanna go back to the gym and work on technique. Good stuff!
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Thanks man. Got a lot of good advice from peeps on the forum like @Vincepac1500 and put in some work is all. I still feel my technique could be much better so I am always trying to better technique. That’s probably the easiest and fastest way to lift more.
How’s your DL going? You’re pretty close to 500 now
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Getting there, but the weight is starting to feel pretty heavy. I hope I can make it!
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In youe best russian accent
“Everybody want be powerlifter. But nobody want lift heavy fuckin’ weight”
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Yep Yep Yep YEEEEEEEEEEEEAH…blyat.
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What do we think of block pulls?
I was think that I’d set it up at a height so that my back angle would be around about the same as my sumo starting position so like 45 degrees.
Because like I’ve found that while my lower body can probably move the weight, to my back and core the weight feels “heavy”. The last and only time I ever maxed out with sumo I failed because I rounded a bit and lost positioning off the floor.
I was thinking to do alternate rack pulls and conventional every workout to like overload my back in this position and work on my weaknesses. Good idea or no?
@khangles pls be chill
For Christmas I will be chill af as a christmas present to u.
In principle it sounds alright but dunno how it’d do relative to other approaches e.g. if just doing straight conventional will be just as beneficial. I hate giving the “try it and see if it works for you” but that’s my recommendation. I suspect it will be of benefit tho especially if you haven’t been doing it or have not done it before.
For max carryover don’t go crazy with the weight. Just more: enough to overload but not so much that you get rounded out and destroyed after every workout. Also importantly for carryover to sumo keep your back straight/flat/braced at all times else you defeat the purpose.
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This is very important
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@chris_ottawa I remember you being a fan of josh Bryant. Does doing block pulls sound like a good idea for me you think?
Man of few words and big sumo… Nice
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It certainly won’t hurt. Dan Green also said that sumo block pulls 4 inches off the floor help his sumo dl off the floor, I had decent results with those in the past.
What are you planning to cut out and replace with block pulls?
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I see your other post here:
If you pull sumo then I don’t really see the point of doing conventional block pulls unless you just want to pull conventional and lack mobility to set up properly off the floor. I’m not sure how relevant knee and hip angles are since you are going to use a different stance, and SLDL or RDL would probably accomplish the same thing.
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