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5751

I do RDL’s and conventional deads differently. For RDL’s I barely bend my knees and basically lock that position during the whole movement. I hinge at the hip (duh) but my knees don’t move.

During a deadlift I move at the knee and hip. Mark is doing a deadlift (moving at the knee and hip), but he stops an inch or so above the floor. Everything would look the same as if you froze a video of his pull just after he started. The hips and knees are in different angles than they would be during an RDL.

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5752

I’d like to see a video of the two and see if you could tell the difference!

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5753

yea i’ve seen @MarkKo’s RDLish-Deadlift on IG, I remember it looking different than an RDL. He literally deadlifts it, then lowers it with knee bend, not just pushing hips back etc, but doesn’t let it touch the floor. Looks brutal lmao.

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5754

Yall screwing with me.

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5755

Woke at 237.8 lbs, but watery but not particularly bloated.

@IronOne when I do an RDL I’ll stop not far past my knees and my whole focus is on pushing my hips back. For DL without touching the floor all I do is pull normally, except I don’t let the bar settle on the floor and come back up when I’m an inch or less off the floor.

5756

Also, weight increase check time.

Average weight at the end of July was 237.6 lbs. Which is an increase of four pounds since the end of June, or a pound a week across July.

So far, still so good.

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5757

Teach me the magic in of this 0.5kg a week. I need at least that rate of gain to hit 100 !!!

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5758

Eating and monitoring.

I’d suggest spending a week weighing yourself on waking every morning. Take an average of those seven days. Three weeks later start that process again. During the interim period try to keep an eye on what you eat, on average. Ideally you’ll track your daily intake, but I know that isn’t for everyone. Simply being aware of ballpark quantities would be enough, along the lines of bowl of X for breakfast, etc.

That’ll give you a baseline. If your average weight doesn’t really increase (so nothing over a 0.5 kg difference over the month), spend another month adding 25% more to each meal and see where that leaves you. Keep going until you hit that half a kilo a week average gain.

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5759

Thanks Mark that actually makes good sense. As I’ve said before I am not a big tracker of food (I know that’s probably holding me back). But weighing on waking and logging meals in general is deff doable. I have added a second meal at work for the last 2 weeks so am going to see what impact this has and slowly add if required. I was already thinking yesterday afternoon ‘not more food!’. It has been a long time since I tried to add weight in earnest and have forgotten how to eat. The next 5 months are going to be interesting.

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5760

All those reps. Looks like death

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5761

It’s fucked

5762

Ten-second rest callisthenics day :face_vomiting:

Today’s training

Greg, of course, mandates that we try to complete the rep totals in fewer sets than last week. Bastard.

Band work

Push-ups
50 total reps: 26, 8, 7, 4, 5
Last week six sets, this week five

Diamond push-ups
25 total reps: 13, 7, 5
Last week six sets, this week five

Dips
50 total reps:
Got to 32 then had to rest (last week 27)
Finished the remaining 18 in 8, 4, 3x2

Bench dips
50 total reps: 21, 12, 11, 10
Last week five sets, this week four

Pull-ups
Figured I’d shoot for three rounds at over 10 reps a round so I’m still better than last week

Round 1
Wide overhand 4, 2x1
Wide neutral 4x1
Close neutral 4x1
Total 14

Round 2
Wide overhand 2, 4x1
Wide neutral 3x1
Close neutral 3x1
Total 12

Round 3
Wide overhand 3
Wide neutral 3
Close neutral 3

Last week was 10, 10, 15 so I’ll count 14, 12, 9 as improvement

Air squats
80 total reps: 80
Last week two sets, this week one

Lying leg raises
50 total reps: 20, 3x10
Last week six sets, this week five

Definitely nowhere near as horrible as last week. I guess I’m getting used to this.

All up an hour and a half.

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5763

Still sounds pretty damn horrible :laughing:

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5764

That sounds like torture but weirdly I almost want to try it !!

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5765

Go ahead @simo74 but I take no responsibility for spewing, crying or death.

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5766

Lol I might wait till my next deload. Only a few weeks to go.

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5767

And you might want you school money back :slight_smile:
dreadful workout, don’t look fun at all.
Might even try it out one day, seems like fun, not.

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5768

Woke at 235.8 lbs, for no reason I can think of. Dehydration? Maybe. Definitely not bloated.

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5769

Woke at 238 lbs, looking the same as yesterday. So yesterday was almost certainly dehydration.

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5770

Woke at 239.6 lbs, looking watery and a bit bloated. I’m going with salt this time.

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