I miss deadlifting. 🙂

It’s either been no deadlifting, or some variant like stiff-legs or sumo or deficits. It’s been ages since I truly did conventional deadlifts. And it feels good.

Today was very light, as to be expected from week 1 of the cycle. In fact, shrugs were silly…. 135 was so light, I got to 30 and just stopped because it was ridiculous. 🙂

But otherwise, just felt good. Kept a double overhand grip the whole time; I won’t go mixed until I need to. Worked on being explosive and really getting my hips to push-/follow-through at the end.

Feels good.

For my notes, BB curls are with a straight bar and a wide grip. Not excessively wide, but basically if I hold my arms (with no bar) down at my sides with my hands fully supinated, where do they rest, that width apart… grab the bar there. Before I was doing EZ-bar curls with my hands on the “inner” camber, so I figured for a few weeks let’s go straight bar and wider, giving more supination.

And in weight-news, yesterday weighed in at 221 (down 2 since Sunday). Too early to really tell, but so far that’s the preferred trend. 🙂

Strong-15 Short Cycle, from LRB365

• Deadlift (goal: 405)
  • 160 x 5
  • 200 x 4
  • 245 x 3
  • 285 x 2
  • 305 x 1
  • 315 x 1
  • 335 x 1
  • 245 x 3 (backoff)
  • 245 x 3 (backoff)
  • 245 x 3 (backoff)
• Stiff-Legged Deadlift
  • 255 x 9
• BB Shrugs
  • 255 x 7
  • 135 x 30 (stopped, got silly)
• Chin-ups
  • BW x 5
  • BW x 5
  • BW x 3
• BB Curls
  • 60 x 10
  • 60 x 8