190Kg (418 lbs) Deadlift PR

[blut wump]

Those of you who have been following along and also have good memory might recall that I hit 185Kg for a PR single back in July '05, even before hurting my back in the Korte. Injury after injury has kept me from repeating the lift despite my best wishes and a few close approaches.

I started deadlifting again at the end of November after deciding that my knee was adequate to the job and have been progressing nicely since then with minor PRs for reps. Last week was 180Kgx3x3 (396 lbs) without much grief, done double-overhand except for the final rep of the third set.

I finally hit a PR today at 190Kg (418 lbs) after 18 months.

The first rep went well but the descent on the second rep was more of a semi-controlled drop after I passed the knees so I switched to mixed grip for the third rep and for the next two sets.

Here's a vid of the final set. The last rep was a poorly-executed back-wrecker but I think I'll survive.

http://media.putfile.com/190Kg-x-3

Apologies for the low quality; my camera seems to be fussy about how little light it'll tolerate. Apologies also for the screaming; I'm a noisy lifter.

Lift done raw but with chalk.

190Kg x 2 - double-overhand PR
190Kg x 3 x 3 PR

 

[SgtSlaughter]

Nice pulling, i think..

... my connection is choppy, so i saw u standing there intimidating the bar... then it skipped to the top of the pull upright with the bar, lol. PR is a PR, great job!

 

[blut wump]

lol. I think the bar was worried. It had adopted its usual passive-aggressive stance.

 

[petpre61]

good job wump. no chicken shit

 

[mm107]

nice lift bro, i cant check the vid since im at work and i need a plugin to view on putfile...

but nice pull bro!

Also, do you pull sumo or conventional

 

[blut wump]

Thanks.

I pull conventional, I've tried sumo a few times for the odd session or two but it doesn't feel natural to me so I've never tried to persevere with it. No offence to anyone who uses sumo but it always seems kind of perverse to me and not a real deadlift. Not the sort of thing Franco would be caught doing.

 

[The Shadow]

Nice job.

What is your weight right now?

 

[blut wump]

I weighed 124.2Kg at the start of the week - 273 pounds at just under 6'2". It fluctuates between about 265 and 280. I like to think I'm about 20% BF but it might be worse than that.

 

[HaZaRDouZ]

nice job

 

[enigma4dub]

good job blut. grip looked really strong.