Sunday was a deadlift day at Apollon. I've had a lot of deadlift days in a row, due to training alone on Easter, But it looks like this was a good thing. My deadlift felt the strongest it's been in years, maybe ever.
Check it:
The exercise for the day was a max effort deadlift with 3 chains. The most I've pulled this cycle (really this year) has been 565, so I would have been happy to pull anything over 500 with the chains added on.
Here's how it went:
Warmed up with some stretching (external hip rotators) and started with 145 plus chain. (the bar weight is 135, but the collars were 5 lbs each)
235 x 1
325 x 1
Added a new suit/brief combo I wanted to try out. Jack briefs with a loose Ace suit. The legs on the Ace are cut to help me drive my knees out.
415 x 1 - shit, that was easy.
505 x 1 - didn't feel any harder than 405
555 x 1 - Yep, still easy
595 x 1 - shockingly easy considering it's the heaviest I've pulled in a long time.
630 miss - got it all the way to the top, than lost my grip on it right as I was getting my hips through. Tried it again and tore a couple of calluses off at the same spot.
I was pissed at myself for losing my grip, but shit, 620 is my all-time meet pr, and I damn near got 630 with an additional 3 sets of chain! Not only that, but my back has been the big issue for the last couple of years, and it felt totally fine, it was my hands that gave out. I was also happy that my new gear set-up was such a success. The Ace/Jack combo gave me unreal pop off the floor.
Finished with 4 sets of 12 glute-ham raises, 4 sets of incline sit-ups and 4 sets of cable pulldown abs.
Best deadlift session in a LONG time.