Learnt three things today and beat my last deadlift PR by 10kg!
I have learnt three things today:
1. Not deadlifting heavy every training session CAN lead to good gains, as long as you keep working on some assistance lifts (i.e. pullthroughs, glute-ham raises). I beat my last deadlift (22 days ago @ 120kg) by 10kg (130kg). Twice (Just to be sure). Could have gone a little heavier but I felt that my technique was starting to fail
2. For a short guy (5'6") I seem to be able to deadlift heavier sumo-style. I wonder why? Anyone have any explainations?
3. It's funny how people in my gym associate front squating and deadlifting (particularly with more than one 20kg plate on each side) with powerlifting. I find it funny that people call me a "powerlifter" in my gym, as I am one of the few who actually deadlift there. I laugh to myself everytime I hear that cuz I am nowhere near qualified to be called that.
1) Yep, also try cleans and heavy SLDLs. I find that I can only go really heavy on the DL once every 2 weeks or so. Workouts in between I do things like you suggested plus what I mentioned above.
2) Everyone has natural strengths. Sumo is probably working towards yours.
3) Nothing wrong with being called a power lifter And like RL said, DLing twice your BW would make me classify you as such.
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Congrats on the PR. And you don't have to be an elite record holder to call yourself a power lifter. If you lift for increasing relative strength, you're a powerlifter.
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Congrats on the PR. And you don't have to be an elite record holder to call yourself a power lifter. If you lift for increasing relative strength, you're a powerlifter.
I don't agree on this one. You're not a football player if you don't play football games. Then you're just someone who plays football. Same goes for powerlifting, imo.
Hey, if folks want to call you a powerlifter for doing squats and deadlifts, enjoy the compliment (as Lisa said). Maybe they'll eventually figure out that all those curls aren't getting them anywhere.
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Learnt three things today and beat my last deadlift PR by 10kg!
And like RL said, DLing twice your BW would make me classify you as such.
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