[quote]beefcakemdphd wrote:
Your deadlift is not abnormal compared to your squat. Are you comparing contest lifts? Are you wearing gear?
beef[/quote]
No gear. I’ve known raw lifters who squatted way more than they deadlifted, and others who deadlifted way more.
Again, I like to squat and want it to go up, I just think that focusing on the deadlift for a time will actually help me break through 500 in the squat as well.
So today I worked out in the highschool weight room I used the rubber bumper plates for eccentric only deads-just dropping the weight after the rep and quickly setting up and pulling again. Two things I noticed: I can pull a helluva lot more weight for reps and faster if I don’t have to control the lowering.
I wonder if the reason people seem to get overtrained deadlifting the the lowering part-especially considering that its hard to keep the same position on the way down. I know Vince Anello tried to do the negative portion very slow and thought that was important for strength.
Second-its a lot easier to lift hard with a bunch of highschool football players who you may have in class watching and wondering what your gonna do. It’s funny how the football strength coach totally revamps his strength training program every year. Last year it was super high box squat-like I say a 150 pound kid do 585 for about about 8 inches.
Now he says he squatted 585. Granted it’s impressive for a 150 pound kid to WALK OUT with 585. This year it looks like its back to cleans and squats (OK) and somebody discovered floor presses. Now there all doing floor presses. And this years BIG focus-they all have to run 2 miles at the beginning and end of each summer workout. Sounds like a great way to not get kids to show up and get strong.
Anyway for today
Concentric only deadlifts (hard but not max-just smooth and as fast as possible) 255 x 5, 305 x 5, 315 x 5, 325 x 4, 335 x 3, 345 x 3, 355 x 2, 365 x 3 x 1. Again dropping the weight and resetting quickly at the bottom.
DUMBELL decline presses pair of 100s 1 x 9.
In 30 minutes
So what do people think? If I can pull 315 for as many reps and sets and faster than 225 (when I cut out the negative), should I not do that?
Thats prety interesting. I was wondering about that myself. I noticed that my 1 rep lift is higher when I lift where I can just drop it.
Mertdawg
are you competing?
beef
[quote]beefcakemdphd wrote:
Mertdawg
are you competing?
beef[/quote]
No, haven’t yet.
Today I did a restoration type workout. First I did RDLs with the bar and a pair of doubled #3 bands broken down into short sets for 100 total reps, followed by 25 minutes of various hip, ham, quad and back stretches.