Dan Anderson
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A liitle background: In October I began my first consistent and serious go at barbell training. I have been running 5/3/1. I have made very good gains in all of my lifts, but my deadlift seems to be coming along the slowest. For those of you familar with 531, i have not had to reset my numbers since starting, which has been fun. About 10 weeks into the program I pulled 500. This was not a true max but was close. Now, roughly 36 weeks later, I cant say I feel a whole lot stronger in my DL, despite training with weights that are a decent amount heavier than I was 36 weeks ago. Im stronger for sure, just not quite were I thought I would be. If I had to give a very realistic guess I would say that I can pull 520-530. A few thoughts:
1. Maybe I have/had more room to improve on my other 3 lifts.
2. I know I still have not found my perfect groove in the DL .
3. Pulled 500 working off of a training max of 380. Now training max (this is the number I currently
base my % off of) is 490. This makes me wonder if it might be time to cycle back down despite the fact I can still hit all of my required reps somewhat easily. I was training lighter a while back and I still got stronger.
3. Gains are just slow.
Thoughts? I know there is not a specific question asked.
1. Maybe I have/had more room to improve on my other 3 lifts.
2. I know I still have not found my perfect groove in the DL .
3. Pulled 500 working off of a training max of 380. Now training max (this is the number I currently
base my % off of) is 490. This makes me wonder if it might be time to cycle back down despite the fact I can still hit all of my required reps somewhat easily. I was training lighter a while back and I still got stronger.
3. Gains are just slow.
Thoughts? I know there is not a specific question asked.