Nope. I strongly disagree, especially if you do touch and go deads. I used to regularly do mid-high 300lb pulls for 15-20 reps only to be amazed when 400lb wouldn’t budge once.
Coming from someone who also used to pull touch and go, I don’t think touch and go deads can be factored into my statement. I once pulled 310 x 12 touch and go, and 355 x 3 was a grinder for me. I can say that back then, I could have not pulled 310 x 12 with a full stop between each rep. It’s a widely known fact that working weights for touch and go pulls are much closer to your actual max than are your weights for the same amount of dead stop pulls. I, personally, don’t believe that someone only capable of pulling 400 is capable of pulling 300 pounds for 15 dead-stop reps in any sort of reasonable amount of time for a deadlift set (1:00, 1:15).
You may be right, I never tried. And as we speak, I’m far too weak to try and find out. Ask me again next year and I’ll let you know.
I’ll race you there.
Last guy I raced to 400lbs is now closing in on 700lbs. This could work well for you.
Who is this guy, and can I ask him a few programming questions?
@ActivitiesGuy and his approach is pretty well documented in his log on here.
You guys are making me feel SO weak! Lol
Oh, yeah! He’s the guy that can pull 600 pounds off the floor on any given day. Strong guy, and an innovative approach.
You still squat more than me.
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@samul Your deadlift is pretty good proportional to your BW. Besides, you are only moving up in strength right now.
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Thank you.
Anyway I was kinda joking around, I’ve come to the realization that I shouldn’t put myself down for being weak, because right now I’m doing ALL I need to be doing to get stronger.
So I’m just looking forward to putting the work in and getting stronger.
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You’re going places @samul, no need to worry about this stuff.
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Eat more if you wanna get a whole bunch stronger. Remember, food (think steak) and sleep are just about as anabolic as steroids at this stage in the game.
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Deadlift
85.4 kg x 3
97.6 kg x 3
109.8 kg x 13
85.4 kg x 5 x 5
After this I didn’t really feel like doing much. I did two sets of db rdl but my right trap was hurting and since I didn’t fancy risking an injury for rdls I stopped after that and did a set of back raises. Nothing too hard really, but sometimes less is more. All of this supersetted with weighted sit ups just because.
I’m happy with my pr set though, and main work is what counts.
Here’s one of my FSL sets. Form should really be locked in. Looked good to me.
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Looks good enough to me.
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The weight on the bar is too light to see anything, dude. I’m sure your form is good, but post a PR deadlift set when you get a chance.
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Fair point. I wanted to film today’s pr set but I actually decided to wait until next week, so I’ll actually record my heaviest set for this cycle.
Stay tuned until next Tuesday 
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Will do man. Hoping for some more PRs over here.
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So since I’ve had to lay eggs off of my diet due to gut issues I’d been eating pretty much random stuff for breakfast for a few days, until yesterday I decided to sit down and write a new eating plan formally because I didn’t know how much I was eating anymore.
@Voxel since you’re knowledgeable on diet, how does this plan look to you?
I’m talking mainly from a nutritional standpoint, as in do I have my bases covered. I didn’t list veggies but I have 2-3 servings at lunch and at dinner. I rotate through them everyday, but it’s usually broccoli at dinner and tomatoes, peppers, or zucchini at lunch.
I train between snack two and dinner.