Phil12
Level 8 Valued Member
I completed my second run of the daily dose program this week.
The main goal of this run was to put in a lot of reps with the conventional DL which I'd never felt comfortable doing. I started with a max sumo DL of 390 and knocked 20 pounds off of it for a working weight of 280. In retrospect I probably could have gone heavier but the main goal was improving on form.
I ended pulling 410 which I am pretty happy with; I finally broke the 400 barrier and got back to a 2x bodyweight deadlift (previous was a very ugly 370 sumo at a bw of 180). More importantly my conventional DL form went from to feeling very comfortable and natural. An excellent video from Pavel M. in the barbell forum, a frontpage article from Brett Jones on getting into the deadlifting position and some advice from the helpful folks on the forum resulted in some pretty instantaneous improvements as I incorporated what I learned from them.
Overall I feel like the daily dose is brilliant and probably the ideal program for someone who is coming to DLing from kettlebells or for someone who just wants to add some weight to it while improving on their technique. The frequency and low time commitment makes it easy to video, critique and practice the adjustments and the heavier days sprinkled throughout are a good test of how these adjustments are working. I would love to see a similar template applied to other lifts as discussed in the comments.
The main goal of this run was to put in a lot of reps with the conventional DL which I'd never felt comfortable doing. I started with a max sumo DL of 390 and knocked 20 pounds off of it for a working weight of 280. In retrospect I probably could have gone heavier but the main goal was improving on form.
I ended pulling 410 which I am pretty happy with; I finally broke the 400 barrier and got back to a 2x bodyweight deadlift (previous was a very ugly 370 sumo at a bw of 180). More importantly my conventional DL form went from to feeling very comfortable and natural. An excellent video from Pavel M. in the barbell forum, a frontpage article from Brett Jones on getting into the deadlifting position and some advice from the helpful folks on the forum resulted in some pretty instantaneous improvements as I incorporated what I learned from them.
Overall I feel like the daily dose is brilliant and probably the ideal program for someone who is coming to DLing from kettlebells or for someone who just wants to add some weight to it while improving on their technique. The frequency and low time commitment makes it easy to video, critique and practice the adjustments and the heavier days sprinkled throughout are a good test of how these adjustments are working. I would love to see a similar template applied to other lifts as discussed in the comments.
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