Nice squats!
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Great job on those squats! I might need to start doing 45 minute warmups…
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4/11/2024
Lab called TSH is now 4.4 and T4 1.0 something. (In normal range)
DL
135,225,315 x 5
405,455,495 x 1
525 x 0 just a couple inches off the ground
525 x 0 (this is a consequence of my training) The hip pain that scared me is gone. I tried to remember the last time I missed a deadlift. 2018 I went for a PR at a meet and it stalled out just below the knee. Then I remembered my first day in the gym after treatments. I kept trying to deadlift 315 and couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t going up. Need to get more volume in.
RDL
315 x 5 x 3 sets
Chest supported rows
130 x 8 x 3 sets
130 x 4
Lat pull-down
265 x 8 x 3
Seated leg curls
135 x 12 x 2
Rear delt machine
150 x 10 x 2
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You will get that pull. Glad your labs are normal.
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Still some respectable pulling in that sessions. Good to hear labs are in normal range. 
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Thank you
Thanks, I was on a roll with the last squat and bench days, it didn’t carry over to deadlift day.
Maybe it’s just me but seems like I can never get all three power lifts to increase at the same time. Usually one or two will increase and I am lucky to maintain on the third.
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You animal. I’m jealous.
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My youngest daughter just called and said she herniated a disc during her ROTC morning PT. It necessitated a trip to the Emergency Room. She was doing a trap bar deadlift. It happened while setting down her 2nd rep with 200lbs. She has been doing PT on a regular basis since she left for Basic Training 3 1/2 yrs ago. I don’t do trap bar deadlifts. Aren’t trap bar deadlifts supposed to be safer than conventional deadlifts?
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best wishes for your daughter.
I thought so as well.
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Sorry to hear this about your daughter. Hopefully
she will be on the mend soon.
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That has always been my understanding and belief as well.
I did see a case made once by Mark Rippetoe claiming trap bar was more dangerous but I forget the specifics. At the time I seen this (can’t recall if it was a video or an article) I figured Mark was trying desperately to influence the conversation with his own dogma around barbell lifts.
To be clear, I like and use both types of deadlift and find the trap bar is typically less taxing and easier to do. But I also have always gotten injured doing things I think are easy and I let my guard down a bit more than when I go for a 1RM on something.
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It has always been my take that the trap bar is much less dangerous as the weight is more centered around your body than out in front of you. When you put the weight down it is more straight up and down movement verses a hinge and the weight moves slightly forward. I suppose you could have this same amount of forward movement in some cases.
It should, in theory though, be much safer.
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I’m guessing form breakdown and/or she was in a high-stress state. Sometimes exercises you’re comfortable with can hurt you simply because you’ve reached a local maximum in your life stressors.
But I’m not a doctor, psychologist or even a personal trainer, and I don’t know her, so…maybe just a fluke occurrence.
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I’m sorry about your daughter. Is she going to be out of commission for long?
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Thank you. I’m not sure, she is hurting now. I asked her if she wanted to come home and she said she doesn’t want to sit in a car for 2 hours.
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Wow that’s tough… I hope she feels better soon. 
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Best wishes to your daughter. I don’t do trap bars either.
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I hear they are safer. I wish her a speedy recovery.
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