Physical Culture
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Quick question. My goals right now do not place a high priority on the deadlift. I'm working toward 80 reps with 2x20k in the long cycle. My son is 13, and has an interest in deadlifting. He weighs 130, and pulled 160 with relative ease, so he wants to compete in a powerlifting meet and work up a good deadlift. I've got him on a PTTP progression that may get him over 200 by the meet on November 9. He's progressing well.
He wants me to lift with him in the meet (deadlift only at a push/pull meet). I'm not really into it right now, and don't want to sideline other goals. However, I'm willing to do it to support him. I have not tested my max in quite a while, but can pull an easy 315 any time I choose to without having to ramp up to it, and without any feeling of fatigue and soreness afterward. I could probably pull 315 for a triple, though I have not tested it.
Rather than radically change my programming, I'm thinking of adding an easy 315 for 4-5 singles a day, 4-5 days a week, for the next 6 weeks. This is not light enough to really be called greasing the groove- more like Justa's singles program, but I don't really want to add weight. My long cycle progression will get harder as I go, so I don't want to do the same with the bar.
If I do this, I'll basically make the bar a fixed-weight implement, like a kettlebell, and lift the same weight frequently, but with low volume, over a six week period. Is it reasonable to think that in a big lift like the deadlift, I can get much stronger with this approach? Has anyone tried this approach with the deadlift?
It seems that the more often I pull 315, the easier it will get to pull 315, and the easier that is, the easier it will be to pull heavier weights as well.
He wants me to lift with him in the meet (deadlift only at a push/pull meet). I'm not really into it right now, and don't want to sideline other goals. However, I'm willing to do it to support him. I have not tested my max in quite a while, but can pull an easy 315 any time I choose to without having to ramp up to it, and without any feeling of fatigue and soreness afterward. I could probably pull 315 for a triple, though I have not tested it.
Rather than radically change my programming, I'm thinking of adding an easy 315 for 4-5 singles a day, 4-5 days a week, for the next 6 weeks. This is not light enough to really be called greasing the groove- more like Justa's singles program, but I don't really want to add weight. My long cycle progression will get harder as I go, so I don't want to do the same with the bar.
If I do this, I'll basically make the bar a fixed-weight implement, like a kettlebell, and lift the same weight frequently, but with low volume, over a six week period. Is it reasonable to think that in a big lift like the deadlift, I can get much stronger with this approach? Has anyone tried this approach with the deadlift?
It seems that the more often I pull 315, the easier it will get to pull 315, and the easier that is, the easier it will be to pull heavier weights as well.