Conventional Deadlift vs Sumo Deadlift
After the power meet and pulling 440 (even though I got red-lighted) my lower back was pretty sore. Not hurt sore, but max-effort, on-the-edge-of-being-strained muscles sore. I’ve had this before when dead lifting really heavy (for me) weight.
The downside is that it takes a week or so to recover, and in the mean time my lower [...]
Powerlift Results and Meet Observations
Suffice to say that I didn’t win anything. I would have liked to do better, i.e. move more weight, but it is what it is. I’ll offer my lifts before I go into my more esoteric observations about the meet.
Squat
300 – good
325 – good
345 – good
Nothing unexpected here. I might have been able to hit [...]
Train Like a Powerlifter
Semi-rant warning, which I suppose can just be summed up as if you’re going to lift weights, lift them the right way.
The lynchpin here is right way, since everyone has their own idea of what that means. From what I see in the gym, it means not going all the way down on squats or [...]
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