An excellent exercise to cure unattractiveness is the deadlift. It will give you a tremendous butt, hamstrings and back, just like me or Madonna. The politically correct would say that it is a dangerous exercise that should, if it must, be done only under expert supervision. The politically correct are very unattractive people.
Last post I talked about the goal of 10 reps with 183 kg in the regular deadlift – so this is where I am at currently…
My previous max for 10 reps was 163 kg, my previous max for 5 reps was 173 kg;
For this particular cycle I started at 143 kg and the next week did 153 kg for 12 reps, then the following week I did 165½ kg for 12 reps;
Then the following week (last week) I did 175½ kg for 10 reps, which is a 12½ kg gain on my previous max, then this week I did 183 kg for 6 reps which is 1 rep and 10 kg more than my previous;
My actual plan this week was to get 183 kg for 10 reps, but I could feel that on the warm-up weight of 163 kg I wasn’t explosive like the previous week, the 163 kg felt underloaded last week whereas this week it was sluggish.
I had difficulty getting on my belt… and from the video I can see why, the towel must have got caught and so got squint. The towel pinched at my right hip and my torso didn’t feel pressurised.
I could feel from the first 3 reps with 183 kg that it wasn’t going to be 10 reps, so I stopped at 6. I could have got 1 or 2 more but didn’t want to bust my back doing so. Thus you can see I pause for a while on completing the last rep as I decided to save the effort for next week.
I was a bit unfocussed for the following lifts getting the breathing not quite right with the hook grip, then not grabbing quickly with the regular pull (I was thinking of how to do the grip as I bent down, I should have thought beforehand).
Still… I’m about 12½ kg ahead of my previousl PBs for 10 and 6 reps. I definitely felt I had the potential for 10 reps, just not on that day – I wasn’t puffing at all afterwards.