CONGRATS
OK - Here I go - this is my first post here but this seemed like the perfect thread for me. I have been doing dead lifts for about 3 years and last week I pulled 495 for the first time. I am somewhat ashamed to say I use straps when I get up into the heavier weights but my grip gives out before the rest of me. I am working on using straps less but for now it is the only way for me to get into the heavier weights.
Anyway, I doubt I will be winning any races to 600 lbs but I am eager to work my way there! It is a bit tough for me as I work out on my own and only have 1 friend that is really into lifting. A bit anti-climatic when you reach a PR and there is nobody to tell about it!
I just made my first 600 earlier. I wish I had a camera.
585x2
595x1
605x1
[quote]shawnhavoc wrote:
2274 wrote:
I’ll be attempting my first 600 2 days from now. Wish me luck.
Good luck dude, what is your current PR?[/quote]
It WAS 585.
[quote]2274 wrote:
shawnhavoc wrote:
2274 wrote:
I’ll be attempting my first 600 2 days from now. Wish me luck.
Good luck dude, what is your current PR?
It WAS 585.[/quote]
Great job!
[quote]2274 wrote:
I just made my first 600 earlier. I wish I had a camera.
585x2
595x1
605x1[/quote]
Congrats man!
sick dude… now start a race to 700
hey, an update and also some questions, trying to get some advice. I had a little minor competition (tactical strength challenge, involved max deadlift) and while I keep smoking 545 (pulled it like 4 times now) I cant seem to go higher, tried 570, never left ground. Anyhow, the past couple months I have been screwing around with an elitefts training cycle or just doing my own thing(also switched over to sumo, still pulling 545ish), and well… it hasn’t been working. I’m switching back to the coan/phillipi deadlift routine that took me from 465-545 in the first place (in ten weeks no less). Question is… I’m doing sumo now where I did conventional before… should I change the program at all? Does sumo work for that? Should the assistance lifts be the same you think? Anyone have experience with that program? Any help is appreciated, thanks.
[quote]2274 wrote:
I just made my first 600 earlier. I wish I had a camera.
585x2
595x1
605x1[/quote]
That is great! What a feeling it must have been! I have never even seen 600 on the bar in the gym. Must have looked impressive.
[quote]hareboll wrote:
hey, an update and also some questions, trying to get some advice. I had a little minor competition (tactical strength challenge, involved max deadlift) and while I keep smoking 545 (pulled it like 4 times now) I cant seem to go higher, tried 570, never left ground. Anyhow, the past couple months I have been screwing around with an elitefts training cycle or just doing my own thing(also switched over to sumo, still pulling 545ish), and well… it hasn’t been working. I’m switching back to the coan/phillipi deadlift routine that took me from 465-545 in the first place (in ten weeks no less). Question is… I’m doing sumo now where I did conventional before… should I change the program at all? Does sumo work for that? Should the assistance lifts be the same you think? Anyone have experience with that program? Any help is appreciated, thanks. [/quote]
Coan?
I’m gonna run it sumo and keep the same assistance work.
On my squat day I’ll be doing wide stance box squats and 10-20 rep oly squats afterwards.
i think that’ll cover all the bases!
[quote]hareboll wrote:
I’m switching back to the coan/phillipi deadlift routine that took me from 465-545 in the first place (in ten weeks no less). [/quote]
What weight did you use to calculate all of your percentages for the routine? I think it originally took Phillipi from 505 to 540. My previous PR was 550, and I am shooting for 585 by the end, which is what my percentages are based off of (585). I’m heading into week 6.
I’m just wondering because 80 lbs is quite an improvement. Was your goal closer to 500 and you just happened to get a lot stronger than you expected? Did you have to change your goal weight half way through as you progressed?
[quote]tedro wrote:
hareboll wrote:
I’m switching back to the coan/phillipi deadlift routine that took me from 465-545 in the first place (in ten weeks no less).
What weight did you use to calculate all of your percentages for the routine? I think it originally took Phillipi from 505 to 540. My previous PR was 550, and I am shooting for 585 by the end, which is what my percentages are based off of (585). I’m heading into week 6.
I’m just wondering because 80 lbs is quite an improvement. Was your goal closer to 500 and you just happened to get a lot stronger than you expected? Did you have to change your goal weight half way through as you progressed?[/quote]
Yea, good question… I just plugged in 520 or 525 or something and 545 just happened accidentally come meet day… just got amped up or something. And what you are doing now is pretty much EXACTLY what I just plugged into it, from 545-585 is the goal for me. I have had a couple close calls at 560 already and I feel that if I could have broken 570 of the floor at my last meet I might have had it (where my weakness seems to be for sumo), but I just figured I’d start back down at 545 which I know I can get, it’ll be playing it smart.
As for the rest of the week I was on ws4sb but I dropped any heavy squatting, come squat days I would never venture above 285 raw rock bottom when my max that way was 345, ended up hitting 374 in meet, just felt my body would get worked too hard over by crazy coan routine and heavy squatting. What about you (hanley and tedro) what are you guys doing rest of week? Hanley mentioned his squatting but what about total program?
you know what, forget my last message, I realized that if I actually looked through the thread i would find what you were doing rest of week
[quote]hareboll wrote:
Yea, good question… I just plugged in 520 or 525 or something and 545 just happened accidentally come meet day… just got amped up or something. And what you are doing now is pretty much EXACTLY what I just plugged into it, from 545-585 is the goal for me. I have had a couple close calls at 560 already and I feel that if I could have broken 570 of the floor at my last meet I might have had it (where my weakness seems to be for sumo), but I just figured I’d start back down at 545 which I know I can get, it’ll be playing it smart.
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That is kind of what I am hoping will happen with me. The last two weeks are just single pulls. I already know I respond very well to single work, so I will continue with some single work for just a couple weeks after the Coan routine, and I think that just may be enough to take me from 585-600, if I’m not there already, assuming I do hit 585 at the end. So far I don’t see why I won’t.
How long ago was it that you did the routine?
[quote]tedro wrote:
hareboll wrote:
Yea, good question… I just plugged in 520 or 525 or something and 545 just happened accidentally come meet day… just got amped up or something. And what you are doing now is pretty much EXACTLY what I just plugged into it, from 545-585 is the goal for me. I have had a couple close calls at 560 already and I feel that if I could have broken 570 of the floor at my last meet I might have had it (where my weakness seems to be for sumo), but I just figured I’d start back down at 545 which I know I can get, it’ll be playing it smart.
That is kind of what I am hoping will happen with me. The last two weeks are just single pulls. I already know I respond very well to single work, so I will continue with some single work for just a couple weeks after the Coan routine, and I think that just may be enough to take me from 585-600, if I’m not there already, assuming I do hit 585 at the end. So far I don’t see why I won’t.
How long ago was it that you did the routine?[/quote]
um, the 545 was pulled on december 8th, 2007. And I think that was actually like “week 12” of the coan program, in other words, i think I took a week break in the middle somewhere and I think I took a week off before the contest at the end. Like I said, right after that I got on the elitefts beginner training cycle and finished that up, aiming for a meet on march 22nd, hoping to get 585 there.
I didnt like that cycle though as there were no “written down numbers” planned anywhere in it, in other words I liked the coan routine where it would say, today you are hitting 525x2 or whatever, in the elite cycle it was just like: go hard. and you never even deadlifted heavy the whole time, it was all other max exercises. at the meet, i bombed, missing 560 right at the knees twice conventional.
After that I switched to sumo, got back to pulling 545 again (took about a month and sumo feels freaking strong!) and missed a 570 attempt at the ground, that contest was last week and now I am starting over, getting back with what works.
Progress update–I started doing heavy squats again in an attempt to bring up my deadlift strength. On Monday I worked up to 455 for a single and 405 for triples and doubles. My strength is pretty good but I need bring up my work capacity so I can increase my volume.
I will be deadlifting today. I missed 2 workouts last week including my deadlift workout due to travel so I should be pretty fresh for pulling. I plan on working up to 545 for singles and maybe a double if I can. That’s the plan anyway, I will update with actual results.
I missed my 600 a month and a half ago and plan on trying memorial day weekend. I want to wait until my son is here again. He missed my last three prs and I know he would like to see 600.
I did a sumo pr of 530 two weeks ago and a 500 from a 4" platform pretty easy, so I’m pretty confident.
BTW, I don’t pull sumo, just train that way to build up the hips at certain times. My best is 570 in january and I missed 600 close at the end of march.
Hey Guys,
My pull is now an official 550lb at 197.4lb as of this weekend. Sorry, but the video is a full meet one, so the deadlift is at the end.
I tried for 555lb in the warmup room after my last attempt. I got it an inch or two from lockout and couldn’t get the damn thing.
I was going to take rack pulls out of my training because I have never in my life missed a lift higher than knee height, but I think that it told me that they should stay in there.
I’m hoping for 570-575 in August.
[quote]Matt McG wrote:
Hey Guys,
My pull is now an official 550lb at 197.4lb as of this weekend. Sorry, but the video is a full meet one, so the deadlift is at the end.
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Great Work! Congrats on the PRs. I see your a fan of the “Cressey Salute”. 