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This has been in the back of my mind a lot, especially on Deadlift. I haven’t hit my ceiling there, but every time the weights get a bit more heavy the fact that I’m 46 and need to be more cautious creeps in. I’m almost to the point of cutting DL from my routine, but I’d like to get to four plates first. Maybe.

I’m 44 and not giving up (hopefully) until I’m at least 50 on my quest to deadlift 500. Heaviest I’ve done to date is a set of 5 at 390. It was murder, though.

I’m a bad deadlifter, and I also attribute it to long torso, plus short arms. Or whatever reason I can never seem to extend my back at the start of a heavy deadlift.
But I keep dropping weight trying to get it right.

Squatted 365 for 3 worksets of 2 reps today. Made my inflamed patellar tendon feel better.

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Posted by HVAU

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Posted on 5/18/24 at 11:10 am to Earnest_P

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I’m a bad deadlifter, and I also attribute it to long torso, plus short arms. Or whatever reason I can never seem to extend my back at the start of a heavy deadlift. But I keep dropping weight trying to get it right.

The long torso is just weird for DL. When I get my back in shoulders in the right position my posterior is too low, which caused a hamstring injury in late fall. When my posterior chain is in a good position the bar swings away from my legs and my back takes too much of the load.

I want to mess with sumo to see if it’s better for my body, but that’s a whole new set of technical data to process.

I’m with you though. 50 seems like a good jumping off point, unless I end up injuring my back.

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