Wed Feb 23, Deadlift 600 miss
Started sumo right away, no conventional tonight. Secretly wanted to go 625 tonight, but wasn't completely committed to it. That's because wanting to do something big begins a few days before with big eating, drinking and sleeping. I knew I didn't do my homework and thought that maybe I could cheat my way up to a big deadlift anyway.
raw deadlift with 135 for many singles, then 225 for about 6 singles trying to find the slingshot feeling with the right balance.
put briefs and suit on
315 x 4 singles
405 x 1
495 x 1 bad form, had to grind it out.
545 x 1 finally good form and it flew up nicely
600 miss above the knee
625 miss two inches off the floor.
Felt my good leg, the left one was giving out. Watched the videos and saw that the first movement off the floor was sideways, to take the weight off my right leg and put it onto my left leg until the left leg finally just gave up. My right quad was good last week, but the heavy squat must have reinjured it and made it weak again. I was happy with the form, because it was better than last week, but still not there. Will keep working on the form and when I get it right I am confident I will lift over 600 soon.
Carmine put on the suit and worked his sumo until he finally got the feeling and the weights flew up. He did a lot of work getting there. Shawna did tons of work too. She had a plan to get to 405 but got stalled in her plan when she had to pull 365 four times until she got it. Then she pulled 385 nicely just couldn't lock out her hips. She pulled so hard her face broke out in red dots all over. Shawna is very determined and inspiring to all of us.