4/20/23
This is becoming a once every week or two type thing for me :
I setup the barbell loaded to 405lbs, and pull it.
So far from actually training the deadlift 405lbs feels pretty heavy, me being mostly unused to heavy full body strain as i haven’t trained that sort of stimuli, while going there at work is somewhat infrequent and often in a different movement pattern ie a piano is a deadlift and carry type thing, whereas a giant mattress often sees me driving into it like a tackle sled as we take it upstairs.
Ten days or two weeks back I pulled a cold single at 405lbs.
Yesterday I doubled it without warming up.
9×405 is my PR at that weight, actually done no warmup, but already sweating from driving to the gym itself…fall 2018, I was in cali, with my body used to new england fall – therefore it felt like summer to me, and I was warm without warmups (not that I need them anyway).
Recently I’d written of only pulling double overhand.
All the bicep curling I’ve done lately has made mix grip feel fine for me again – I like this, and do intend to keep plugging away on an infrequent set with 405 for “what can I get with some still in the tank “, plus holding the last rep for a bit of grip work.
(if people do holds doh for grip work – why not holds with mixed grip – it’s still holding and working the hands)
A little bit of underhand “yates” rows would balance the stimulus should I feel the need.
The olys are my overhand stimulus.
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It’s pretty cool how solid a 185lb clean and press is now, a year and a half into the movement around that weight as most stimulus, and it seems that a 405lb deadlift is my “baked in” walk around strength level.
My training philosophy is aimed that direction ; to never peak, but to get stronger with what I can always do – I haven’t much looked for higher low rep maxes, but to get a certain weight to 10, even 15 reps, occasionally higher, then add some weight, and get back up to those reps.
First you see a reps PR banging them out with loose form, then the reps start getting more strictly done, then the amrap #s start coming around with strict form and/or pauses.
You can just build a base of strength forever and be good.
How long to go from 1×405 mixed grip to 20×500 doh?
Doesn’t matter. The journey is what matters, stroll, enjoy the scenery – it ain’t a sprint.
Besides…the start is already “good enough”, you’re just casually getting even better.
There is no program. What exactly I do is on a whim. I try not to do the exact same session on paper twice in a row.
I like lifting weights – therefore I do. Therefore I lift anywhere from most days to every day.
For me it’s sustainable, and frankly I feel that a bunch of short lifts (5-10 sessions weekly, five to forty five minutes each) with the focus on back, legs, and shoulders – the pc&p the easiest answer, even done exclusively would work well for a whole lot who don’t take this approach.
Dude, baseline forever.
-J