Back in the day (you know you're old when you say that), I had a "PR" for every max effort movement.
(I used "PR" in quotes because honestly, I think it's silly when people post "hit a PR today!!" and the next week "PR'ed my whatever lift!" These were my indicator numbers of where I was at certain times in my training.)
Evidence is below... and this is just from 2013-2015. This isn't even my training logs from earlier years!
Ask me what my indicators are now..... I got nothing. I haven't kept track of my variations since then. Mostly because I got out of the habit of logging during my bodybuilding phases and just never got back into it.
The reason I mention this is because I do think it's important to know what your lifts are (not your competition lifts, your variation gym lifts). That way you can see what's progressing and what's not. You can see if certain ones are going up, and how that is translating to your progress as a whole. (This is a whole other discussion for another day).
So yes, I'm telling you to keep track of your variation lifts and I haven't even done it in 3 years.... shame on me.
Which is how I lured you in with my catchy title "PR clickbait."
Over the past two years I've struggled with my deadlift. Various nagging things hindered me from not only making progress, but sometimes just deadlifting at all.
And finally over the last couple months I've been finally feeling decent again. This 340 plus a bunch of chains...
Is it really a "PR"? I don't know. But I know it's more than I've pulled sumo in the last 3 years. Even without the chains. So that's telling me that things are moving in the right direction. Strength-wise, positioning-wise, mentality-wise.
Do you keep track of your variation lifts?
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