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 Today was a good day to deadlift. My last back workout was a proper lil failure. Struggling on weights that should have been easy, but today made up for it in spades. Started off with my pre workout conditioning on lower back, abs and core and I then did pre exhaustion work on leg extensions, leg curls and calf raises. Then the big boys - deadlift. Went up steady with warmups on 70kg and 120kg. Before then starting my first working set on 170kg.  For this working set I did heavy duty style, with eccentric pauses and negative descents. This was way beyond my initial expectations. As a result, I decided to leave the workout on a high, rather than batter myself with volume. So I went up just a little bit, up to 180kg, and did a normal set of reps. I managed a nice and breezy, lemon squeey set of 8 reps. I left it there, not seeing any point in burning more energy than needed. Walking out of the gym with loads of energy to grow, and on a high from my success. Thanks for reading m...

 I'm quite proud of this back workout, I started off with deadlift.... and failed completely to achieve what I wanted. But I'm proud with myself for not giving up. I was hoping to do a few sets of 3reps on 200-220kg, but only just managed the same on 180kg. It may not sound like much, but from my perspective at the time it was terrible.  I tried several times to pull 200kg and it wasn't coming, and to add insult to injury, when I dropped back down to 180kg I only managed a single! Bombing out is always hard to handle. Especially as this has been the story of my deadlift for such a long time now. Only 2 years ago I did 20reps on 200kg in a single set! Perhaps now you can understand why I was upset - especially as I have no real answer, as to why? Yes I'm 30lb lighter than then - but I haven't lost any real strength on any other lift, so why just deadlifts? I walked out, angry and disappointed in myself, feeling like I'd been banging my head on a wall that just wo...

 .... more lat pull downs! Yesterdays back workout, I haven't been able to do as much as normal this last 6weeks or so because I had loads of dental wok (4 teeth out and 2 fillings) but all my treatment is over now so I should be more productive again soon. But as heavier work hurts my mouth (increase in pressure from straining) I decided to just do lat pull downs. This video is a bit on the repetive side but hopefully shows you the kind of work/volume I'm doing atm and the kind of HIT reps I'm doing from Mike Mentzer's teachings.