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[Bill Anders]

Åsali,

Going back to the deadlift warmup progression that we were discussing last week, a recommendation was made to me today that made me realize that I might have steered you wrong. You can read the discussion here.

Hopefully the recovery is going well.

Bill

[Åsali]

So... back on track!!

I have not been active for a while, on this forum. I still have been training, recovering and learning. Best of all, I met a girl!!! And she lifts weights!!
So now I have no excuse to not training, and we have decided to buy some equipment together, wich is kinda nice

I have learned a lot, i tweaked my back after a poor deadlift as you can see in earlier posts, but that is all well now. I had some pain in my SI joints too, wich was terrible. After i had to recover my lifts using the
Starr Rehab protocol, all pain and fatigue went away. The deadlift was offcourse the hardest part, because the muscle I tweaked was related to that movement.

I decided to train back my strength, and it now feels better than ever. I now understand what fatigue is also. I can feel when its sleep, food or just to much lifting that is causing issues. I also been reading the three book several times.
I just cant tell how much thing fell in to place after reading the book about lifting passed 40. This was a reccommendation from Bill Anders, and although im "just 35", it has a lot of good information! READ IT!!

To sum it all up, I feel better than ever! I also decided to just focus on the deadlift, and not the powerclean. I dont have the equipment or friends/coach who wants to train/teach it with me, so I dont rush it.
After i started to just do the deadlift for pulling, my technique and feel for it has been much better too offcourse. I still am a bit behind, just pulling 135kg, but its not heavy yet.

My lifts are now:
Squat: 140kg/309lbs x 5 x 3
Press: 58kg/128lbs x 5 x 3 (well, some of them are singles.... just pressing all i can, keeping it heavy to the end of NLP)
Benchpress: 98kg/216lbs x 5 x 3 (well, some of them are singles.... just pressing all i can, keeping it heavy to the end of NLP)
Deadlift: 135kg/297lbs x 5 x 1 (I am focusing to deadlift more often, since this is artificially light after my back tweak.... I have more to give here)

I am soon to be ending my NLP, although I think the deadlift have some more weeks to go, maybe the Squat too... I dont know. The recovery is the issue. I need to have a 1 on, 2 off progression,
keeping the light session every other workout. The deadlift is heavy each time, and then I adjust the recovery if I need to.


Will keep posting on this forum, and I am happy for everyone who wants to read it

[Bill Anders]

Great news all around, Åsali! I'm looking forward to your new gains, done with more experience and planning than previous, and with the help of a lifting partner.