danz NLP log

[danz]

24 Sep:

Squat 105kg x 5 x 3
OHP 57.5kg x 5 x 4
DL 120kg x 5 x 1

Finally back to deadlifts and they are feeling pretty good.
DL 120kg - YouTube

[Mr. Bingley]

nice flat back

[danz]

Thanks! Hopefully I can keep it like that as the weight gets heavier..

[danz]

Sep 26:

Sad day for the Squat.

OHP 66.25kg x 1 x 8

Squat 135kg (300~ lbs) x 4 x 1

I don't think this has to do with food and sleep because I'm eating quite a lot (gaining around 4.5lbs a month steadily) and progressing with other lifts. I assume it's related to either 1 (or both) of those:

1. My right hip flexor has been bothering me for 3+ weeks. One of the cues I got is knees out more, which I did. This may use slightly different muscles that haven't been adapted to this weight.

2. On some previous sets I sometimes had slightly high reps (like the 4th here).

Video: Squat 135kg x 4 - Youtube

I racked, as the 4th was on the verge of failing and I thought I better just rack and not get mentally blocked further (if I fail, which I'm 99% sure I would have) as I'm already having mental difficulties with this weight for some reason.

2nd rep looks like I lifted my chest slightly which made the rep harder. 3rd I lost balance a bit. 4th is slightly high.


BP 90kg x 5 x 1

Chins 10-8-7-5

[Maybach]

I racked, as the 4th was on the verge of failing and I thought I better just rack and not get mentally blocked further (if I fail, which I'm 99% sure I would have) as I'm already having mental difficulties with this weight for some reason.

Last rep is a shade high, but this is the wrong call. The last rep is worth "mental difficulties."

The place to avoid these mental difficulties is programming. Your pulling has gone quite off track. That's why these squats are hard. You can't squat this weight if you can't pull it.

[danz]

Last rep is a shade high, but this is the wrong call. The last rep is worth "mental difficulties."

The place to avoid these mental difficulties is programming. Your pulling has gone quite off track. That's why these squats are hard. You can't squat this weight if you can't pull it.

My 4th rep here looks like my 5th with 132.5kg. You'd think it's better to try and fail with 135?

I seem to get gassed out towards 4th and 5th reps lately. And yes, seems like pulling is a little behind but I've heard of people who Squat more than they DL, isn't it more right to look at the progression per lift? Or you'd say there's a correlation between lifts like Squat and DL?

A note on deadlift programming, I was stuck at 127.5kg due to technique issues, where I seemed to use back more than legs, progressed to that weight with low hips. So Haltings actually helped with teaching me how to use legs more, I believe DL should take off this time around.

Overall I am comforted in that I never had this weight on my back in my life so it's still a great achievement IMO

Thanks!

[danz]

29 Sep:

Squat 115kg x 5 x 4
BP 82.5kg x 5 x 5
Deadlift 122.5kg x 5

Backed off on Squat for a few reasons:
1. Depth is much easier to achieve with knees out, which needs to be practiced.
2. My hip flexor is on fire. Even with knees out not making this as painful as before (I literally could not squat with no weight pain-free), it will take a week+ to probably cool off.
3. Continuing to push the weight up at this point will cause me to default to lift the chest, and letting the knees cave which will make the hip flexor pain worse, as it just happened. 3 days later I feel that pain while walking.. from that single set at 135kg. Not good..

I've also noticed that hip drive is different when I push my knees out as I now need to pull them in AND back. Today on the Squat sets I lifted my chest quite a few times because I'm not used to this, but overall it felt better and depth was really good.

[Maybach]

I seem to get gassed out towards 4th and 5th reps lately. And yes, seems like pulling is a little behind but I've heard of people who Squat more than they DL, isn't it more right to look at the progression per lift? Or you'd say there's a correlation between lifts like Squat and DL?

Unless there's something really wrong with your anthropometry, or you're squatting 700 pounds, your deadlift should be ahead of your squat.

Of course there's a correlation between the deadlift and the squat. There's a correlation between the deadlift and every other lift, ESPECIALLY the squat. If your deadlift falls behind, then so will every other lift. This board is full of people who are "stuck" on the squat and press because they "deloaded their deadlift to work on form"

[danz]

Unless there's something really wrong with your anthropometry, or you're squatting 700 pounds, your deadlift should be ahead of your squat.

Of course there's a correlation between the deadlift and the squat. There's a correlation between the deadlift and every other lift, ESPECIALLY the squat. If your deadlift falls behind, then so will every other lift. This board is full of people who are "stuck" on the squat and press because they "deloaded their deadlift to work on form"

Well I am back to deadlifting and adding weight to it as I seemed to get the form under control. My Squat stalling has to do more with my hip flexor pain I'd say than anything else. I now see that as I push knees out more it doesn't hurt as much and I can hit depth better, so I don't personally think the problem here is as simplistic as just the Deadlift lagging behind, although this may have some to do with it. In any case I'm not stressed about it at this point, I prefer to prevent injury (or further injury in my case) then to just keep adding weight at all costs.

[danz]

1 Oct:

Squat 100kg x 5 x 3
OHP 57.5kg x 5 x 5
Chins 4 x 10