Today's 5 x 5 workout and some fun facts

[blut wump]

Fantastic deads, congrats!
Your Sumo is more of a semi-Sumo so you're better than you thought.

What I'm most amazed at is that you hit these PRs and kept going to do 435 and 405.
I had same thing with my presses straight after: my weights were way down.
500 has to be a real possibility next time around.

 

[Jim Ouini]

Thanks Blut! Appreciate the comments.

I guess the full sumo is 'super-wide' with toes pointed way out? Back angle more upright? Maybe that's why my conventional isn't *too* far off...

After I take a bit of a break I'm going to do Korte 3 x 3...I hope that gets me to 500 although I think he said to project only 15lbs. We shall see.

 

[Guinness5.0]

Just saw your 455 vid- looked easy! I gotta get some vids up. I've been having fun lately with my coworker's video phone. It really is a helpful tool to see things like squat depth, whether you leaned forward or if it was in your head, etc.

Also, one of the very few PLs at my gym came in last night and pulled 495 a couple times. His form was a lot like yours- still sumo but not that crazy, 4-inch ROM kind. Inspirational for sure.

 

[Jim Ouini]

Just saw your 455 vid- looked easy! I gotta get some vids up. I've been having fun lately with my coworker's video phone. It really is a helpful tool to see things like squat depth, whether you leaned forward or if it was in your head, etc.

Also, one of the very few PLs at my gym came in last night and pulled 495 a couple times. His form was a lot like yours- still sumo but not that crazy, 4-inch ROM kind. Inspirational for sure.

Thanks man. It was sloooow going up, at least it felt that way. Rep #3 was nailed to the floor (luckily my camera only has 15s movies so it ran out just in time).

I've been thinking of doing my squat, I'm sure it's nowhere near as deep as I think it is.