Rygor the Swoleman
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I hit 405 x 10 on the AMRAP set at the end of my 5-3-1 deadlift day (it's my 5's week). Pretty happy with that.
The 2024 Deadlift Big Plates for Reps Challenge
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Hung
Level 8 Valued Member
Note: 3-inch sumo deadlift
Philippe Geoffrion
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metaldrummer
Level 6 Valued Member
Only counts with reverse bands iirc.
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Hung
Level 8 Valued Member
Your pulling strength is still there after all the calisthenics. That's great!
Philippe Geoffrion
Level 7 Valued Member
Indeed! But I needed some time to groove the deadlift to realize it!
metaldrummer
Level 6 Valued Member
I got 315 x 2 poverty dead after I failed 355 today. 
Boris Bachmann
Level 8 Valued Member
I did some snatch grip axle deadlifts 135lb x 10 for four or five sets the other day. Hands, forearms, and upper back were feeling it for a couple days - definitely need to do more deadlifts!
He's saying he has a poverty deadlift, or an abnormally low deadlift relative to the rest of his abilities. You see that common in powerlifting - e.g. a poverty bench for someone who benches 225lbs but squats and pulls 400+.
OK. I don't understand the pejorative. Where is it written that one must be equally talented at or equally interested in improving all three lifts?
-S-
Boris Bachmann
Level 8 Valued Member
I agree but, you know, internet culture... Might as well be screaming at the moon.
We’re in agreement. I was explaining the term. I think it comes from a self esteem issue, so joking about a “poverty” lift takes the sting out a little when someone else goes “woah you only (lift) X lbs?! I thought you were strong!”
metaldrummer
Level 6 Valued Member
It was just a joke
Hung
Level 8 Valued Member
Time to go s.u.m.oI got 315 x 2 poverty dead after I failed 355 today.
metaldrummer
Level 6 Valued Member
Nah, in reality my lifts are still improving. Just chipping.
Antti
Level 10 Valued Member
As an interesting aside, I was recently listening to the Dave Tate podcast with Jennifer Thompson as a guest. For anyone uninitiated Thompson is one of the greatest powerlifters of the day, and is especially good in the bench press. In any case, they talked shortly about the deadlift and Thompson mentioned she's seeing less and less sumo deadlifting. They wondered what it was about, if the negative talk on social media influenced it, and so on.
Personally, I think things like deadlift style popularity just swing like a pendulum. I'd also recommend every aspiring powerlifter to get proficient in both conventional and sumo and practice both regularly.
Philippe Geoffrion
Level 7 Valued Member
I’ve also found if a deadlift style goes stale, it’s helpful to train the other for a while. I’m more natural at conventional and my sumo stance is just outside my grip width.
Sometimes after long bouts of conventional, my sumo is improved more than conventional and vise versa. My heaviest lift between both styles are within 10 lbs of each other .
Sometimes after long bouts of conventional, my sumo is improved more than conventional and vise versa. My heaviest lift between both styles are within 10 lbs of each other .
metaldrummer
Level 6 Valued Member
I tried sumo once and I started eating lots of rice and throwing salt around everywhere I went. Never again.