I competed in the XPC Meet at the Arnold in March, shortly after that I got a new job which took a lot of time away from training, then I had a bulging disk (primarily as a result of not training).

I went to a gym about half hour or so from mine that was having a "Deadlift Party", free and open to the public. My training partner and I decided to go. I thought I did terrible and apparently wasn't a good deadlifter anymore, but I actually did pretty well. I was pretty focused on just pulling and trying to block everyone else out I wasn't really paying that much attention to the weights and I thought my last pull was 635 - I was upset with how heavy it felt- it turns out I'm dumb and it was 725.

135x2
225x2
315x1
405x1
495x1
545x1
585x1
635x1
675x1
725x1

I was pretty disappointed at first, then when I realized how much it was I was pretty happy.

Accessory work
Straight leg deadlift
315x5 x4 sets (these left me so sore)

Seated rows 3x30

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