3-15-14 – Deadlift: “my little deadlift monster”

That’s what my husband called me after today’s AMAP session. I’m really happy about my progress from the last training cycle to this one, which is only three weeks! Deadlifts today went really well. I was feeling a little tightness in my hips throughout but not enough to bother me or screw up any of my lifts. I wore a belt from 130 on up and did awesome on my AMAP set! I had 150 this time, and pulled it for 12 reps! I definitely had more in the tank but the bar was ripping my hands so bad I had to stop! Like I thought for sure if I continued that the bar would take part of my skin with it when I let go. GGRRRRR!!! I was so mad!! So Mike had me do some heavy rack pulls afterwards to get some more heavy work in. I seriously felt like I had at least 5 more reps in me!! It’s okay though. More progress for the next cycle.

My progress across all three lifts from 3 weeks ago to now resulted in the following:
Squat: from 90 lbs for 20 reps to 115 lbs for 17 reps
Bench: from 80 lbs for 7 reps to 85 lbs for 11 reps
Deadlift: from 140 lbs for 15 reps to 150 for 12 reps