This is probably a factor, as it gets heavy your brain reacts differently.
I’m not sure what to say to that.
Best I can offer is stop thinking about the weight. It’s going to feel different every day anyway depending on fatigue levels, so how it feels is meaningless.
Focus on executing technique and moving as fast as you can.
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@simo74 I struggle with this myself stil but what I’ve been told is that heavy weights gonna feel heavy so accept it and execute. The important thing is being able to back yourself that you’ll get it anyways.
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It’s more than important. It is essential
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Right hole everytime. Also blows a sizeable hole in the bank account everytime but money is for spending
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Hell of a pr brah. Next stop 270
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See Romero vid above. I believe
Where the hell did this 260kg pull come from? You made some awesome progress, I haven’t been following your log lately but all I remembered is that you were close to 500lbs, blew out your back, and then started back light. Congratulations.
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Full disclosure 260kg or whatever I hit over the next month or two or lockdown is inflated numbers. I’m pushing the weight distribution out really far towards the ends to get a maximum cheating variation I’ve dubbed meme deadlifts. My pull on calibrated plates would be a solid 10-15kg behind but is still solid progress.
I think recovering better on average has been the driving factor guided by the Sheiko Gold AI app. I’ve slacked a lot recently with life things getting in the way and there’s still much to be desired in terms of staying on plan/disciplined like not sending it for a random max like today lol but I know what I need to do or at least the things in the process that need to be done and results will follow.
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It’s still good, one way or another you are well ahead of your pre-injury numbers. And you got me motivated to deadlift today, I’m still trying to bounce back from this last month of bullshit.
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Mate gains and performance ain’t linear or predictable at the best of times nevermind going thru all the shit you have. I reckon give it time and don’t be too hard on yourself physically or like mentally/emotionally/spiritually (lol) and before you know it things will be back to business as normal
They say that when you become satisfied/comfortable with your level of strength/ability is when you stop making progress, so I figure the more dissatisfied I am the sooner I will be ahead of where I was before. Or something like that.
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Mentality. Treat 135 like your max and your max like 135. Easier said than done, but it’s all in your head - in the setup, at least. During the rep you may of course fail, but everything else is in your head. IMO.
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*fails one plate. Hits max for 10 as warm up
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Being satisfied with you’re overall strength and progress is different to being satisfied with short term readiness to go big.
Depends how you respond to stress it can be counterproductive like stressing about getting enough sleep ironically prevent u from getting enough sleep. Not a direct relationship like that but I imagine we wanna minimise non training related stress to make more room for training big tru?
The 250 looked easy. If you would pull the slack out of those bumpers you’d be very close to 270 now if not be able to beat it
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I’ve been meaning to try out the tweaks but defaulted to old habits. Next sesh
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Not feeling mega beat up this morning surprisingly. Hit PB incline bench and some chin ups after deads to bit tight all over but at least my erectors ain’t completely fried. Only lost positioning on the top single to be fair.
Did develop a small blood blister from all the hooking though so that’ll take some time to heal. Luckily straps is pretty close to hookgrip so won’t lose much there. Need to little grip strength to hook because is more technique and thumb skin tolerance than anything
Not sure if it is the camera angle but your fingers look really long in that pic #ET !!
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