Deadlift Progress And Improvement Thread

[Birds]

That's one strong Nanna!

Wonder what brand of protein she uses?

[markos]

lol

[Birds]

Bit of a setback in training after my holiday in Perth and two subsequent colds. Earlier this week I pulled:

90kg x 10

110kg x 10

140kg x 6

160kg x 2

90kg x 10

110kg x 10

140kg x 8

160kg x 3

170kg x 1

Great session tonight. Most reps I've ever pulled on 140 and I was happy about 160 for reps afterwards, followed by a 170 single. Need to work out where to go from here - likely switch the 140 for 150 and either try 4 reps of 160 or a 175 single. Either way, I'm inching towards that 200, which would be great to pull after all my working sets.

At a guess, I'd say the volume training of 120kg for 15 and 12 reps during the deadlift competition last Thursday helped me out here. Never hurts to mix things up.

[No Crust Racing]

Nice work Birds!

[Birds]

Thanks Dan

[Birds]

Taught my mother deadlifts last Thursday. Says to me today that for the first time in years she hasn't had back pain. Don't see how things can act that quickly, but I digress...the healing powers of deadlifts!

[No Crust Racing]

I'd believe it, my back has never felt better since starting deads with decent form.

[bozodos]

did 50x60kg today, left me red faced and breathless!

[L33SH]

did 50x60kg today, left me red faced and breathless!

Wow well done! 10 at 60kg is enough for me lol

[bozodos]

yeah it was part of this workout dubbed '300', basically lots of DL, pushups, pullups and squat presses (with some ab exercises and shoulder db presses thrown in too).

[Birds]

90kg x 10

110kg x 10

140kg x 8

160kg x 3

170kg x 1

90kg x 10

120kg x 10

150kg x 5

170kg x 1

Argh! Back so sore from about 10 sets of squats yesterday. Felt it straight away on the warmup, but I persisted nonetheless. Form probably suffered for it...oh well!

So I have spaced out my warm up and working sets, keeping them 30kg apart. Swapped 110 for 120 and 140 for 150. Really gonna miss the 140s, but it was time to get some more weight into the working sets. Gonna stick with these weights for a little while; focus on getting the 150s up to around 7-8 reps and the 1RM up to 175. The 1RM calculators reckon I'll need 10 reps of 150kg before I pull a 200 single.

[No Crust Racing]

Awesome stuff, not quite double me yet but almost lol

[Birds]

Cheers Dan! 160 is double me, but 200 will be 2.5 x me hence a major benchmark. 240 isn't even on the cards for me, but it would be incredible to be able to say you can deadlift 3 times your own bodyweight!!!

Are you doing any 1RM training?

[No Crust Racing]

Nah I mean doing almost over double what I DL, and at less weight

No 1RM training, I have to take it pretty slowly on the ankle.

[Birds]

Oh I see...yeah don't worry about that, DL moves up super quick!

[Birds]

90kg x 10

120kg x 10

150kg x 5

170kg x 1

90kg x 10

120kg x 10

150kg x 5

175kg x 1

Weirdest thing tonight: 90kg and 120kg felt heavier than they normally do...must be mental. Anyway, I got out a 175kg single, which I was happy about. Would be happy to repeat that next session, with an increase in the 150kg reps...maybe 6 or 7...before I go for a 180kg 1RM.

[Birds]

90kg x 10

120kg x 10

150kg x 5

175kg x 1

Weirdest thing tonight: 90kg and 120kg felt heavier than they normally do...must be mental. Anyway, I got out a 175kg single, which I was happy about. Would be happy to repeat that next session, with an increase in the 150kg reps...maybe 6 or 7...before I go for a 180kg 1RM.

90kg x 10

120kg x 10

150kg x 5

180kg x 1

Kind of went against my word and pulled 180...fark it was a struggle, though. Back to the strongest I've been on this lift! Come at me 200!

[L33SH]

grats

[Birds]

90kg x 10

120kg x 10

150kg x 5

180kg x 1

Kind of went against my word and pulled 180...fark it was a struggle, though. Back to the strongest I've been on this lift! Come at me 200!

90 x 10

120 x 10

150 x 5

180 x 1

Not much difference in this one. Only wanted a repeat of 180; would rather get that weight be consistent and in good form before stepping up again. Tried chalkless grip on 150...bloody killed my calluses and it started slipping on the 5th rep, so I stopped. Need to try and get 6 or 7 of them next time, maybe with chalk.

[Birds]

90 x 10

120 x 10

150 x 5

180 x 1

Not much difference in this one. Only wanted a repeat of 180; would rather get that weight be consistent and in good form before stepping up again. Tried chalkless grip on 150...bloody killed my calluses and it started slipping on the 5th rep, so I stopped. Need to try and get 6 or 7 of them next time, maybe with chalk.

90kg x 10

120kg x 10

150kg x 5

185kg x 1

Well I was going to push out 6 of 150kg...I had

It in me...but I though f**k it, if I'm feeling this good I'll save the energy for my single and attempt 185kg. Hooray! 15kg off the dream. Mate doesn't reckon I was, but I'm worried whether I'm hitching or not, so I may have to film myself and check my form. I think I'm just paranoid, cause I can't as such feel the bar on my leg...it just seems to pause for a bit as I try to lock out the weight.