You know sumo doesn’t automatically make you pull more weight, a lot of people pull more conventional. I only switched to sumo because I fucked my back up pulling conventional (I have bad leverages), it took a while to get it up to my old conventional numbers. If these guys don’t train sumo then chances are they would end up pulling less, at least at first.
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I know. But some strongmen might pull MORE sumo and not even know it because they don’t train it. I have the feeling it’d change the game for quite a few competitors.
Now imagine if PL meets use Hummer tires, elephant bars, straps, and allowed hitching. I could probably pull close to 800 without even training for it!
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Is it sad that I’d be all for it?
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I am not happy with today’s workout. I didn’t have time for any accessories, only my deadlift sets. Today was a 5/3/1+ workout. I started the workout with a bunch of sit-ups I was required to do for gym class.
Deadlift:
290lbs x 5
330lbs x 3
370lbs x 4 (1+ AMRAP)
405lbs x 0
I was hoping for 5 reps on the 370lbs set, but felt my low back rounding on the fourth rep so I called it there. I’d say it was RPE 8 or so.
I failed 405 on grip. You can see in the video, I was almost at lockout, I really do think I had the strength to lock it out, but I can’t believe I failed on grip. I’m pretty upset about this. I wasn’t using chalk on my 405 attempt, and the bar I was using has pretty bad knurling, but I’m still pretty upset that my grip failed.
In other news, I was also required to do a bench press AMRAP with 115lbs. My gym teacher was spotting me, so I didn’t want to sandbag it which would be super obvious. I got 41 reps. 11 rep PR since September. Not too bad. That’s the highest number of reps With 75% of bodyweight I’ve ever heard of at my school
It’s no wonder your back rounded since you are doing some sort of back rounding activation before lifting. You should look up some of Stuart McGill’s stuff on why sit ups are bad for your back and give it to your teacher.
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Decent workout today. I tried to keep rest times short
Overhead press:
85lbs x 5
95lbs x 3
105lbs x 10 (1+ AMRAP)
superset 5 rounds
Bench Press (all reps paused): 165lbs x 5
Face Pulls: 40lbs x 20
I’ve been doing bench as a 3x5 after my OHP, but I decided to increase it to a 5x5 from now on.
giant set 3 rounds:
Skullcursher: 20lbs
hammer Curl: 30lbs x 12
lateral raise: 20lbs x 15
Superset 3 rounds:
tricep pushdown (with bar): 55lbs x 15
band pullaparts x 20
Tricep band pushdown burnout set
I’m a bit ashamed to admit it lol, but I didn’t do any back work this workout because I want to do a lot of chinups in gym class tomorrow. I tried to do extra rear delt stuff to make up for it shoulder health wise.
Nothing wrong with that.
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Today is my 17th birthday. In gym class I did 33 (8 rep PR) chin-ups which is technically a school record but my teacher didn’t watch, so it doesn’t go on the record board. I’m still happy with it
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Happy birthday dude, just do 35 next week.
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Damn, that’s a lot of chin-ups.
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The form wasn’t very strict. Maybe I’ll take a vid if I officially break the school record
Not the best training session yesterday. It was a 5/3/1 1+ squat workout.
Squat:
285lbs x 5
320lbs x 3
350lbs x 5 (1+ AMRAP)
365lbs x 1 (Joker set)
I wanted 6-7 on my AMRAP, but this is still a 10lbs 5 rep PR, so I can’t really complain.
Beltless Pause Squat: 3x5@235lbs
Beltless Deadlift: 3x5@290lbs
I noticed when I failed a 405lbs deadlift a few days ago, I hesitated a bit on the setup. This time I tried getting all my brace and air at the top. I tried to move these explosively.
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Squats lookin strong!
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Thanks man!
Good workout today, not the best. My wrist hurt a bit during this workout, which seems odd to me, because this has never happened before. If I were to guess, I had my wrists too bent back, or supporting too much weight on squats yesterday. Maybe I could have benefited from wrist wraps this workout.
Bench press:
140lbs x 5
160lbs x 5
185lbs x 10 or 11 (I lost count) (1+ AMRAP)
My PR with 185lbs is 11 reps, I was hoping to beat this, but I’m not too upset. I should have recorded the workout so it didn’t matter if I lost count lol. Oh well.
Superset 3 rounds:
Close grip bench press: 145lbs x 8
barbell row: 145lbs x 8
Superset 3 rounds:
Overhead press: 75lbs x 5
chinup: 10 reps
the overhead pressing was an absolute joke. I tried to make the chinups slow and controlled.
Superset 3 rounds:
Barbell shrug: 185lbs, 205lbs, 205lbs, 12 reps
Face pull: 40lbs x 20
I tried to make the shrugs strict. I’m using these to work my grip
Superset 3 rounds:
Flat dumbbell bench: 50lbs x 12
Hammer curl 30lbs x 12
dumbbell benching was easy
Superset 3 rounds:
Skullcrusher: 25lbs x 12
dumbbell curl: 25lbs x 15
Superset 3 rounds:
rear delt bent over flys: 10lbs x 15
tricep rope pushdown: 35lbs x 15
On the last set of tricep rope pushdowns, I did a dropset because why not.
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Were they “kipping” chin ups or something like that?
Not quite, I definitely didn’t use insane looking leg swinging, but I did the reps super quickly, and basically felt like for the first 20 or so reps, I was using my lats as elastics that would just fling me upwards. I’ll get a video of me doing them similarly sometime soon.
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You’re just good at them.
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You guys feel free to post significant PRs on my log so I can keep track of your progress and determine when to hop on the tren.
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