Today's substitute for 531 DL aka "random squat day":
Speed olympic squat
3 x 40, 50, 60, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90
Olympic front squat
1 x 90, 95, 100, 105 - pretty easy PB, just started doing front squats recently
Olympic squat
2 x 110
1 x 120
1 x 130
5 x hanging leg raise
I consider it a kind of semi-deload, focusing on speed, quality reps and working up to couple of somewhat heavy singles - which feel great since on 531 I don't get to do this normally, not yet anyway.
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Good point, I was being a bit dramatic, of course I
can do DLs without repping out all the way. But I don't enjoy doing that, nor does it work well for me, from past experience.
ive had a member whom took 6 months off deadlifting due to a lower back injury on the field. His previous best was 140kg.
He was still bringing up his squats in the mean time. High touch and go to box squats.
Last week he pulled 182kg.
Go figure
Similar story here. After I did my L4/L5 last year (from warming up on DLs lol), I did not touch DLs for about 6 months, but slowly built my squat back up to ~100kg oly style for reps without discomfort.
Then pulled 170kg first go, few weeks later 180 (my previous PB), then 190 a couple of months after that. When I regularly do DLs for reps, even if not maxing out, I seem to get no where. The less DL and more squatting I do, the more my DL advances