lifting_heavy_things | ONE-AND-A-HALF X BODYWEIGHT DEADLIFT

ONE-AND-A-HALF X BODYWEIGHT DEADLIFT

I AM SO VERY, VERY SMUG.

(And then I stuck an extra 2.5kg on the bar, took a five-minute rest, and did it again, just in case I'd got the 18kg bar that lurks around the free weights room to confuse people. So that was absolutely, definitely, beyond doubt 150% of my bodyweight.)

I've been working towards this for ages, and really really wanted it.

Interestingly, I haven't done barbell lifts for over a month, but I've been working really hard on unilateral stuff like one-legged squats at home (trying to see if it'd help me break through my perpetual squat plateau, among other things), so I'm wondering if that has had a knock-on effect.

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WOOOOOOOOT.

HOT DAMN.

This is *great*!! Go you!

Because I hadn't done barbell lifts for a while, I really wasn't planning on testing my one-rep max -- I'd been stuck tantalizingly at about 140% for a while, but figured I probably wouldn't even make that today.

I felt rusty to begin with, but then I kept adding weight, and my back felt fine, and then I kept adding a bit more weight, doing a rep, taking a break ... and watching the weight go up and up and up and thinking holy shit this might be the day it finally happens. The suspense!

And then it did happen, and it happened with decent form and no back strains and felt really really good, and I was full of glee.