October 30th 2025 - Deadlift up to 293 for 1 and for a "double"; small PR, edited video!

 30.10.2025

About to have my first coffee today. Please pray for me.

Well, it's going well so far. I didn't sleep much. Received some purchases I made. A big ol' pocket shovel, really tough one. A nice pair of overalls, some "fleece" underwear - really nice too. A pair of waist bags, a more dubious purchase.

I felt real mediocre yesterday, but as you might have read I got better. I wanted to write but I decided to leave it for today. Let's work on that.

Alright so far. I'm having a 30/345, and you know, I forgot to tell you what coffee. Arabica, full arabica medium roast. Didn't finish my robusta I had - again I have a "stash" of something horrible, heh. Jardin Caffe Classico is the one I got now. It's good, almost 7/10 in my subjective opinion, given it's conventional brew. It says it's 90% arabica, well that's disturbing. That explains some things.

Writing something, it's bursting out even without me following through with my routine of reading! That's good. I've been preparing it, in my mind and my notes.

Read some after all and went to deadlift right away.

Workout

20 for 20

70 for 20

120 for 8

160 for 5

203 for 5 - really nice. First two reps were just 4 finger hook lifts but I managed them full! Then I used my thumb to clamp up the index finger. +3 kg PR 😁

233 for 2 - switching mixed grip; but before that I managed to get it off the floor with thumb-clamped OHG 😮

253 for 2 again mixed

263 for 2 - first rep fingertipped mixed grip, not using my calluses; that was pretty painful for left hand, it's bleeding sweat now. Second rep straps. Feels good! Warmup happened really smooth today.

273 for 2 nice

283 for 2 nice, first rep mixed, pulls my left hand - the underhand grip - pretty hard, near painful. Glad I could do one! Then one nice rep with straps.

293 for 1 - nice, I love how I managed to do that. You know, I had an idea for doing this for 2 and then 298 for 2. I've done this one for just one rep; I fiddled with the camera very long, trying to figure out how to turn on sound, manual left upstairs, got my feet cold (literally), so I threw it all down, let it record without sound - cause, frankly, it's close to midnight and it's been ages since I've been screaming on lifts like DL, the thud is nice sure, but otherwise I wanna go ahead and try 293 for a double as well. It's about to be 31st lol, took my time otherwise it's not bad. I slowed down after 253, very much slowed heh.

293 for 2 and I walked back and racked the bar - small PR +1 rep 😃 And I think I got closer than ever to knocking myself out; I stopped hearing the music and I shook as I stood leaning on the bar. Extreme stuff!

I straight up made a video 😮



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