| 1st Ever Deadlift Session
Yo folks
I've been weight training for the last 5 years, but (and I know I'll get friendly abuse for this) have never done a proper deadlift session until now. The story behind this is that basically in the last 3 months I've lost about 28lbs of blubber and am finally back to the stage of being able to do pullups, instead of just sitting on the lat pulldown churning out sets and not improving as much as I could be.
Anyway now that I'm back to pullups I decided to work other compound movements into the routine, and so finally I attempted some deadlifts. I dont really know why its taken me this long to incorporate them into my routine, and unfortunately I'm faced witht he realisation that I could have used the last few years training a lot more effectively. Anyway I know I dont need to tell you guys this, but MAN those things are awesome. I could really feel it working my back, glutes and core, and I felt awesome afterwards like I'd really given my body a challenge. Because I was cautious of never having deadlifted I kept the weight low and worked my way up to 100kg over 5 sets of 5. Once I feel my lower back has acclimatised to this new stress I will start to up the weight and test things out, and hopefully get my name in a decent place on the deadlift chart.
Just thought I'd share this little anecdote. Deadlifts will now be a very firm feature in my weekly routine.
Cheers
Xav  | 
