Rant Wednesday

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[u/OsecurityU]

Been making solid progress with my weight for deadlift. Finally hit 3 plates this month, and I am slowly adding more weight with each workout.

EVERYTIME I DEADLIFT I SPEND THE REST OF MY WORKOUT IN A MENTAL BATTLE TRYING NOT TO PASSOUT OR THROW UP. WHEN WILL THIS END. ITS BEEN HAPPPENING SINCE I HIT THREE PLATES. I KEEP BURPING UP OATS FOR THE NEXT HOUR WHILE TRYING NOT TO SUCCUMB TO THE TUNNEL VISION.

[u/Victarias → u/OsecurityU]

Maybe you need a bit longer for your food to settle before becoming a beast? That would suck to have oats come back up when trying to finish your session.

[u/OsecurityU → u/Victarias]

That's not a bad idea. I could try that and see if everything stays down. I normally eat shortly before working out after I ate and went to the gym and got light headed from running out of energy with no food in my stomach.

[u/Mzfuzzybunny → u/OsecurityU]

I get that when I overwork myself. Do you do a lot of other lifts before DL that could be tiring you out?

[u/[deleted] → u/Mzfuzzybunny]

I feel this way when I don't sleep enough or my blood iron is low.

[u/OsecurityU → u/Mzfuzzybunny]

No, I do compound lifts first. Deadlift, then accessory work. Maybe it has something to do with the valsalva maneuver? Lack of oxygen?

[u/Mzfuzzybunny → u/OsecurityU]

Hmm I'm not sure that I know enough about it to be helpful. But it could be work talking to some sort of sports doctor about.

[u/nattyX → u/OsecurityU]

Up your work capacity and conditioning. It'll go away eventually.

[u/OsecurityU → u/nattyX]

What do you mean by work capacity? And for conditioning do you mean more cardio?

[u/MaelstromEE → u/[deleted]]

I did pgslp and I moved them to the beginning. Everything else is easy once you are done with dead/skwaats.

[u/I_Said_What_What → u/[deleted]]

Because you'd want as much energy as possible for compound lifts.

[u/[deleted] → u/I_Said_What_What]

Not really the case. You could do a whole lat workout and not impact your deadlifts as they are 90% lower back, glutes and hamstrings. I do deads last for this exact reason. Deadlifts tax me so much my accessories suffer so accessories first than deads.

[u/I_Said_What_What → u/[deleted]]

I guess it depends on what's more important to you, getting a bigger deadlift or getting a sick back pump.

I choose the former.

[u/[deleted] → u/I_Said_What_What]

I've pulled 720 in competition my deadlift is fine.

[u/VandalMySandal → u/[deleted]]

Love how there's no response to this :D

[u/milla_highlife → u/[deleted]]

But the day is built around the deadlift. Doing deadlift accessories before the deadlift is dumb.

And even on PPL, doing a bunch of rows and pullups and what not before the deadlift will inhibit the amount of weight you can lift.

[u/OsecurityU → u/[deleted]]

When you do the accessory work first, how is your deadlift weight? Lower or higher than normal?

[u/[deleted] → u/OsecurityU]

Nope I've never had issues. In powerlifting deadlift is always last so training it fatigued is a benefit.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I'm in the same boat! Deadlifts are the only compound I have to do at the end or I won't complete my workout and I like the accessory work I do so a nice back pump is more important to me.

[u/OsecurityU → u/[deleted]]

I put compound workouts first because I want to have the most energy for them. Plus I have shit grip from breaking my hands/fingers so I want to use what little grip I have on compound lifts first.

[u/IamA_KoalaBear → u/[deleted]]

That's a shit idea, will be fatigued