Close Grip Bench-330x3, Good reintroduction to heavy lifting.

One way to train for a max reps deadlift event, is top set training. Each week you hit a heavy top set of deadlifts (rpe 8-9), followed by 1-2 back off speed sets. On a secondary deadlift day during the week, you hit banded deads, or paused deads or heavy RDL. This is a great way to train if you can already hit your competition weight for 5-7 reps, and you’re looking to increase to 10+. One benefit of this method, is it’s not a lot of time or lower back volume spent on the deadlift, so you can spend that time and energy on other taxing events such as stones and yoke. If you’re struggling to hit your competition deadlift weights for 1-3 reps, I’d recommend a linear approach with 4-6 sets each week in the 3-6 rep range. Your standard deadlift training. Here’s 205kg for 7. 5 weeks ago I hit 205kg for 6, so we’re just slowly adding a rep every month or so.

Didn’t quite hit my goal of eight reps, but I’m not disappointed. Strength and fitness was there, the stone was hurting when it touched my ear, so much that my body started to move a lot slower at the top portion of the lift. I didn’t need to do any reps in order to win the comp, so my motivation was really relying on a personal goal that I had set. Anyway, I managed to take first place in the under 90s at yesterday’s Comp! I’ll be making more videos on how to train for future competitions, would anyone be interested in a stone to shoulder tutorial video?

Do I have what it takes to hit 8 in 60 seconds on comp day!? 🤞

Which means 3 full days of rest, no training. Anyone else competing at Battle In The Bay? I’ll be making my next video next week, how I’d train for round 3 of the Victorian strongman series. I’ve begun using a new idea/model for training which I’ll also share with you all 💪🏼