He straight up grabbed out for the rack support, it was like a full foot away from where his hand was. Good effort.
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Serious question though…how do you prevent this from happening?
Don’t deadlift.
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I was gonna tell @whang to watch @reed deadlift. Dude squats 800, but when he’s pulling mid-600 he finishes the lift, and then slowly passes out like a super jacked baby to the soothing aura of white lights. Everyone’s body has a different way of handling max effort. Few people put themselves through an actual ‘max’ effort.
Actually, he could just watch you walk forbackwards after your deadlift set, too. Or the atlas stone spasm.
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That was still pretty nuts. Total out of body experience.
Decisions were made, my second head won. ill be missing Saturday training session with my club as ill be in Montreal Friday hoping to get that extra cardio in… god bless French women.
Sunday tho, is for the boys.
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I did ask if half of your love trisquare were guys. Confirmed.
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I like this guy.
Sometimes she goes, sometimes she doesn’t go. That’s the frickin way she goes.
Lol. I may have missed that atlas stone spasm you and @T3hPwnisher are talking about.
Is it also a matter of slowly getting used to heavier and heavier weights very gradually so your body gets used to it?
This was my best post deadlift moonwalk
And this was the fish dance done on the stone (my camera died that day, so video quality sucks)
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I’m going to school all you troglodytes on RPE 10 
RPE 10 doesn’t mean max effort. It means you couldn’t do another rep. A good example is someone with a true 200kg max squat. You would expect this lifter to do 185kg for a double but you wouldn’t expect 195kg for a double. It would be a challenging but do-able single. The 195kg still counts as RPE 10.
RPE also assumes a base level of form is maintained. So a deadlift where you can’t maintain your form to a reasonable level has already gone past RPE 10.
All that said, I have never seen an RPE program that asks for a RPE 10, so there isn’t much benefit in debating whether RPE 10 is really RPE 10.
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I literally have no idea what this means 
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Do deadlift, just not for high reps 
Haha The quoting went wrong. If you go back far enough, there’s a post about how I can’t for the life of me work out where the hell you put the liquid/powder in the washing machine.
Lol makes more sense but I still have no idea about the mysteries of washing clothes !!
You can’t go past RPE 10 though, that’s the ceiling (Unless you’re using the borg scale)
Also, a rep max set could easily be RPE 8 rather than 10. Say you hit a 5 RM. It was hard, the last 2 reps were grinders with some form breakdown. But after 2 mins you feel okay. Compare that to your 15 RM where you had to lie on the floor for 5 minutes and felt like you were going to throw up, maybe your controls got switched around too like with @T3hPwnisher
Both were a rep max. One was clearly harder than the other and took a bigger toll mentally and physically. How can they be the same RPE then?
That’s why I think making RPE synonymous with reps in reserve is a poor application of the concept.
But my definition of RPE is a subjective assessment based on effort so I can’t really tell anyone they’re wrong. What was I ranting about again?
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Sorry, poor wording. “… then RPE isn’t applicable” was more appropriate.
Also, a rep max set could easily be RPE 8 rather than 10. Say you hit a 5 RM. It was hard, the last 2 reps were grinders with some form breakdown. But after 2 mins you feel okay. Compare that to your 15 RM where you had to lie on the floor for 5 minutes and felt like you were going to throw up, maybe your controls got switched around too like with @T3hPwnisher
Both were a rep max. One was clearly harder than the other and took a bigger toll mentally and physically. How can they be the same RPE then?
That’s not what it’s trying to measure. It’s measuring this:
That’s why I think making RPE synonymous with reps in reserve is a poor application of the concept.
But my definition of RPE is a subjective assessment based on effort so I can’t really tell anyone they’re wrong. What was I ranting about again?
You prefer a different name and youve already found one
I will be starting a John Meadows program where all working sets are RPE 9+
His scale:
9: 1 rep in the tank
10: failure with good form
11: failure with good form then with loose form
12: failure with good form then intensity techniques to go beyond
Needless to say I’m really looking forwards to full RPE 10 leg sessions…
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