I'm making a concerted effort to use bands for warmups now a days to actually get some rehab/prehab going so I started with 3 sets of 20 banded good mornings. Moved right in to my deadlift warmups. It looked like this 5x155, 5x185, 3x225. Since you know I am following 5/3/1 this is week 3 of cycle 2. the first work set was 5x280, the next set was 3x315 and my top set was 1 or more of 355. I got a PR set of 9! Pretty stoked about that. I checked my 1RM estimate and it shows me at about 455. i know those things aren't that accurate it is usually 10 pounds off in one direction or the other but it is good to know considering my max was stalled for the longest. After the deads, I moved to power cleans for 5 sets of 3. Now bear with me. My linear progression topped out at 215. Now this frusterates me becuase during Outlaw I was routinely power cleaning around 235, but not for that volume. The last time I power cleaned it wa first thing in the morning and my timing was off and Like I said I could not complete all 5 sets at 215 without a miss so I decided to reset my power clean. So I took 20 off the bar and hit 195 for 5 sets of 3 and will try to nudge it up. Waht do you think about that Scott?
After that I did 3 sets of 25 abwheel (evil wheel) roll outs and called it a night. Help me out on the cleans, I am perplexed because my pulls are sky rocketing etc....
I think resetting the weight is a good idea. I think with more technical lifts, even if the strength is there, technique can change as the weight goes up, one little weakness is multiplied at a higher weight. I would throw the light weight around and really focus on technique.
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