LiE's Diet and Training Thread

Pre-workout shakes ready to go. Love the green colour of xtend apple.

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Good shoulder workout!
Got a new PB for Military Press 62.5 x 11 :) should be interesting testing my 1RM next week for this.
Today I had super amounts of energy, the only thing that's changed is xtend instead of purple wraath, if it carries on this way I'll be very happy.
 
Interesting session tonight. It was deadlifts.

I decided I wanted to tighten up my form, which was a good and bad thing. Good because I'm happier with how it looks, bad because it messed up my final all out set. I was over thinking it and in the end I only got 7. I don't think I've quite got used to the new form in the short time I've used it today, because on the last set I was struggling to get the glutes to fire properly.

Anyway, the good news is the form is looking better. After I had done my 175 x 7, I asked someone to film a quick 150 x 3 so I could see how it looks. Still fighting my head position (I'll keep working on it ice), it really does want to come up! Last rep I did a slow RDL to return the weight to show how I do it, a lot of people seem to go round the knees for some reason.

Here's the video. (recorded in lovely 720p :p)


one last thing, the belt for deadlift I'm still not sure about. I can't seem to get it right and it feels like it's getting in the way a lot of the time.

p.s I hate you hex plates!
 
Just to expand on the above.

In the last all out set because I was overthinking I wasn't able to get my glutes on properly, which meant the rest of my legs fatigued quickly. Once I've spent more time getting used to the form then I'll no doubt correct this.

On the form check video everything was fine, glutes were on properly.
 
Form check video looks really good apart from the head position. Probably related, but there seems to be a slight movement in your mid back on the 1st and 3rd reps.

170kgx7 is nothing shabby mate, although I can understand you wanting more. Definitely put it down to changing your form.
 
Thanks. I think the head position is something I've properly done since the start so it's a tough habit to break.

I'm finding it hard to really make use of the belt, any tips?
 
I find belts harder to utilise with deadlifts too. It's easy in squats to push your abs into the belt when standing. But when leaning over and setting up to pull, you can't build as much pressure. My advice is to get it a notch tighter if you can. I can't get enough pressure when crouching with bent knees, but if I bend over with straight legs I can usually get a bit more. So I do that, take a breath and squeeze abs into the belt, then get into position quickly to pull. But you have to know exactly what your position is going to be like because you haven't got enough air time to starting messing about. That's me anyway. But don't get too distracted by the belt, it won't help as much in pulls as it does for squats anyway. Just strap up, and get pulling. Most of your focus should be on speed off the floor.
 
Conversely to what SMed wrote, I actually find my belt to slightly too tight for deads sometimes.

Try doing the setup that Kelly Starret talks about and that I've posted somewhere. Also, having similar issues when I started deadlifting with a good belt, I found simply playing with it's position around your abdomen.

When you say you're having difficulty, what do you mean? Is it a pressure thing like SMed is talking about, or something else?
 
Pressure seems to be an issue, also placement. When I go down to grab the bar it seems to move and dig into my lower ribs. Perhaps it's too loose.
 
How are you tightening your belt? Use the upright of the power cage or something similar to hold the end of the belt firmly in place, then pull and turn away from the cage so that it tightens the belt, then push the prong in.
 
Sounds good, I'll see how I get on. Next week is 1RM time, so should be interesting.
 
Lever belt f.t.w ;)

While trying out a mates double prong belt I got stuck by tightening it with a power cage :o I didn't intend on getting a lever belt, but Mr Pullum Sports gave me a discount. I like the convenience of it now so I'll probably get it replaced if it breaks. When I make weight I think I'll be on the last set of holes though...
 
Yeah, doing it that way should be able to get the belt so tight your hearing goes out on a big lift. Mine always does, twice. It goes out during the lift, and then like 30 seconds after the pull again for about 30 seconds.
 
icecold said:
Lever belt f.t.w ;)

While trying out a mates double prong belt I got stuck by tightening it with a power cage :o I didn't intend on getting a lever belt, but Mr Pullum Sports gave me a discount. I like the convenience of it now so I'll probably get it replaced if it breaks. When I make weight I think I'll be on the last set of holes though...
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I tried a lever belt once, but it wasn't leather - some weird hard foam thing that was a little soft. I couldn't seem to get it as tight as my single prong for some reason. I don't know if it was the material or what. I've got a single prong Zulu glove that is great, but they don't make the single prong anymore. They've got some weird pronged-lever hybrid thing that I didn't like either.

I think you can buy replacement levers mechanisms?
 
I have 3 holes left when doing deadlift and squat. It's not that tight but never used a belt before. 2 holes left feels very tight.
 
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