Decided to start the week with back as I've been doing chest on Mondays for a while.
Once I got in the gym, deadlifts started calling my name. Not sure why ... it just seemed like a deadlifting day. Moreover, it seemed like a heavy deadlifting day -- heavy in the sense that I really wanted to push myself for maximum weight.
Started with some 100lb cable pullthroughs, slowly, to warmup and stretch those hams.
135 x 10
225 x 10
315 x 3
Grip started giving me some problems about here. I tried the next without straps; but ended up strapping up.
365 x 1 (easy)
405 x 1 (easy -- this is tying my PR ... I should have done a second to break my PR)
455 x 0 (loaded it up, give it the ol' college try, but didn't get it off the ground)
Followed it up with 3 sets of 8 reps each, super-setting close, medium, and wide grip barbell bent-over rows @ 135.
I was just out of juice by the end here. Felt good about my 455 attempt. Gonna work 405s in more often (since this was only my second time pulling it). Need to do some real grip work, too, so I can pull it unassisted.
Good lifting to all today.
