Can’t imagine how you’d rack the E-Z curl though 
Edit!! Yeah I think you have an older video of that lol. I just remembered now haha
Oh, it’s easy. Holding it In the carets (also called a circumflex! Ha!) allows you to rest the centerline of the bar on chest and shoulders without having to bend the wrists back so hard.
Like this:
Which, now that we’re thinking about it, maybe I should do.
Also edit: 
yeah, I do.
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those look easier on the wrists and shoulders! you found a hack lol
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So @emperorhirohito piqued my curiosity.
I knowiknow, ghetto plates… Poverty curling-started with 50, 70, 90, 110 (fail), backed down to 100, and the bar weighs like 10 lbs. or something.
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#ghettoplates FTW!
My set is similar to yours, @SkyzykS. I have standard/spinlock plates, a long bar, an EZ bar, and the inexpensive Wal-Mart dumbbell set. Around 20 years ago, when I was hauling dead pyracantha to a local landfill, a man there was going to dump the weights and bars. I gladly took them and have used them ever since.
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Yeah! I’m not alone!
Its not like they get all used up or anything. I had a lot of weight and some decent equipment for a long time, then about 8 years ago got rid of it to make room for the kiddo. Oh well. 
I like them though. It’s as much as I need. If I want to max out or anything I have a few people I can call.
I was thinking after my last deads session of just moving the weight faster and faster then testing max in about 6 mos. or so to see how that style of lifting translates to max. It would be funny to squat or pull like 400+ just using like 250 lbs in training. I don’t think that would happen without some ramping, but it should be fun just to mess with.
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Right?! They have different shapes, cutouts (or not) and a bit of surface patina/rust, but they’re still cylindrical steel that makes muscles stronger. Better’n logs, rocks, and small livestock! Haha
I’ve thought the same thing. I have four mismatched 25-pound plates, so all my deadlifting at home is from a deficit. I’ve wondered if I deadlifted consistently for several months (your half-year mark is good), incorporating different factors like speed, time, and volume, what my max would become.
My bar weighs 15 pounds and reliably holds 260, but I’m not comfortable loading it any heavier. Maybe we should set a time frame and run a ghetto-plate experiment. I’d do squats too, but my injury history currently precludes them.
Let’s give it a shot! Granted, my state and what I’m capable of is is subject to change (virtually guaranteed at this point) extremely fast, with no warning at all.
Since today was just upper and not very much, I can test my deadlift max some time this week, maybe Saturday.
I’ll just do front squats as usual, because I have to clean them to do anyways, so they aren’t going anywhere fast, and haven’t been able to back squat to any great extent since an injury some years ago (dislocated at L4-L5).
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Sounds like a plan! No worries about things changing; do what to need to when necessary, and we’ll work with whatever changes are needed.
I’m working out at a planet fitness, so I might add heavy rack pulls on the Smith machine at times. Some weeks, those and walking are the only exercises I want to do. I’ll see if my brother can take me as a guest to his gym so I can test my current max with olympic weights. Tag me here, and I’ll do so for you, when we’ve tested maxes, and we can set any further conditions, like number of months until re-testing.
Will do. My staples have been front squats, goblets, deads, triple extensions, and power cleans in no particular order along with lots of airdyne for steady state cardio.
But even more randomly-I’ll probably be picking back up with my buddy doing some tree stuff-so my activity level and repertoire can be all over the boards.
So I’m good with whether you want to throw the kitchen sink at it or stick to some staples, like the comfort food lifts, I’m good with what ever goes. 
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Ride tonight- 10.6 miles. Actually about 13 counting warmup. Didn’t keep track of time, but listened to about 10 songs.
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Sounds like a plan! Me doing Smith deadlifts is somewhat off-script insofar as strictly testing 1RM-building effectiveness of light deficit deadlifts. If you’re cool with that addition though, I appreciate it, and it’s game on! We can define this experiment more broadly as “can we increase our deadlift max without doing heavy conventional deadlifts?”
How long shall we plan to run the trial before re-testing? We can always change it as need arises.
Let’s say 8 weeks for the first data point. That should be enough to show difference initially, then maybe 4-6 week intervals to track progression or lack thereof. At that interval it wouldn’t have a training effect and likely wouldn’t mess with a planned session either.
At least for me, I’d expect to see an initial pop in the training effect simply due to having a low max at from the start. At least I’m assuming it is at this point. I’d be flabbergasted if it wasn’t.
This looks like an actual diet/training log.
Well done, @SkyzykS
Mind if I stick around?
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Thanks!
You are a welcomed presence here.
I started logging for the transformation challenge last year and I guess just kept it rolling.
Had a bit of a scare a while back (June 2019), but it also kind of served as a reset, so it’s not all bad.
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Tonight was family movie and pizza night. I haven’t had any pizza since the last time I had some, so this was very very good. Crispy in all the right places, tangy, spicy, and cheesy cheese.
I love my little pizza shop down the road.
And my family or whatever too.
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This is as close to any cardio as I got today;
But I did do a bunch of monkeying around in/under welding up some stuff on my buddies one truck and some other equipment.
Then started into a lifting session once home.
Curls 60 lbs 4 sets of 6
Barbell ohp: 90 lbs. 5 sets of 6
The rest got interrupted when the kids (mine & next door) went bonkers because they got done with school and we all had too much fun playing because it was beautiful outside.
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Ugh. Kinda been hiding from this. I haven’t had much lifting stuff to log. Bunch of other stuff but that isn’t really lifting then is it?
Lots of fixing, fitting, and welding a bunch of stuff before the full outdoor season begins and we go out and break it all over again!
One thing I meant to get back to- @TriednTrue I contacted a buddy of mine to go to his place and max out. Now, he’s not just any old buddy, but has all kinds of MD, training, and sports medicine initials after his name, and he said maxing like I had planned to was not a great idea at all, and that an estimate based on reps would be wiser.
So that’s where my ghetto plan stands. Sorry about the foot dragging on that.
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Thanks for tagging me, I’ve been dragging my feet too. No worries at all about it being medically unwise to test your 1RM. Did your friend suggest a safe rep range? @T3hPwnisher recently said somewhere he doesn’t really train or test for 1RMs; he’s as good an example as any that rep-range training will, indeed, improve limit strength.
I’ve decided to shift training focus, too. The friend I hiked with wants to climb some Colorado 14ers with me this summer. I’ve wanted to climb more, adding to my grand total of one , so I reckon the time is now. I’m going to keep deadlifts in some form, but I haven’t decided any workout parameters yet, other than “more cardio.”
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Tonight-
Warmup
10:30 on airdyne to get 3 miles.
RDL and barbell rows superset.
2x 90 lbs. 6 reps RDL, 12 reps rows
2x 140 lbs. 3 RDL, 6 rows.
2x 165 lbs. 3 RDL, 3 rows.
Then triples on deadlift with 185, 205, and 3x triples with 225.
Notes: I just really needed to get moving. Was kind of disappointed with myself for slacking, and caught myself waiting for “the right time”. I haven’t had a right time in at least 10 years. Just had to do it anyways.
The neighbors dog came over. He’s an 8 month old border collie, aka Fur Missile! I like having a dog around to lift with. Great energy and enthusiasm.
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