ME Lower Body

Lower body warm-up

ME Deadlifts:
1x5 135lbs
1x3 185lbs
1x3 225lbs
1x1 275lbs
1x1 295lbs (false-grip started here)
1x1 305lbs
5x1 325lbs

Unilateral:
3x10 165lbs reverse lunges, each leg

Posterior chain:
1x1 195lbs Good morning
1x5 185lbs Good morning
1x7 165lbs Good morning

Weighted abs:
2x4 115lbs Suitcase DLs, each side
2x4 T-bar+90lbs Landmine rotations
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Okay, I didn't check the accessory loads that I did last week, so for some reason, I thought I had done 185lbs for each. I "deloaded" to 165 for the reverse lunges and did sets of 10. This was relatively easy and I had no clue this was a full 30lbs heavier than last time, not to mention with two extra reps. Props to me? But the Good mornings... LoL. Okay, that was really stupid. My abs were completely fried during these and I kept going down in weight and up in reps, but I was pretty dead by the third set. So utter failure there. And since my abs were fried, the weighted abs didn't really do much for me and I had to make it quite short.

HOWEVER... I'm super happy about pulling 325 today. The grip training this microcycle has helped out immensely, and adding in the inclusion of using the false grip has led to a completely unprecedented PR. Twenty pounds over three weeks, and if I include what my PR was at the end of the last deadlift microcycle, then that's actually a forty pound increase. My technique has cleaned up so much that I'm super confident with this lift, now. I know I'll forget all about it, though, by the time the next DL micro comes around. However, 325lbs at 153lbs is quite a bit over twice my bodyweight. I think I'm well on my way and should be able to get 385/400 by the time I go to my first meet.