If deadlifting is your thing, and it should be if you lift weights, Christian Thibaudeau has some good information on the subject in “Dissecting the Deadlift“.

Thibaudeau says, “If you select the variation(s) that best suits your needs, it’s one of the fastest ways to get results when it comes to muscular development and fat loss”.

Isn’t that what most of us are after when it is all said and done?

How about that! She lifted over 3x her bodyweight (103#) using the Sumo style; number 6 in the Thibaudeau article.

(Congratulations to Torri Lehman who after deadlifting for only the second time, pulled 200# and made it look easy).

Also known as the “Devil’s Staircase” these famous stairs at 4th and Adelaide in Santa Monica are a well-known outdoor fitness hotspot. The stairs, 189 or them, go from the top of the bluff to the street below.

If you look 2/3 of the way down the page, in the center, you sell what looks like an “equal” sign. That is where the stairs begin. They end at the street below.

On this particular day, it was pretty busy and I had something different in mind…resistance. I have done this before with a 40# weight vest and that that was tough enough. Today, I wanted to do it with a 65# sandbag. Going down the 189 stairs was easy enough, but coming up them was brutal and even more so when you get stuck behind someone going slower than me. There were times I just had to drop the bag at a landing and get my breath.

There are two sets of stairs. The concrete, which I did and the wood which were just a few stairs less.

My first lap was over one shoulder and the second lap over the other. The third was carried on my back. When I got to the top on that last round, I dropped the bag and the sensation of walking was such that my legs and body were not communicating well with each other!

After some recovery, I went into the grassy boulevard on 4th Street and did 8×10 of squat cleans, power cleans, clean and presses and snatches.

I rewarded my efforts by going to the Santa Monica Pier where one of my favorites, The Bonedaddys put on the best show I’ve ever seen from them.

Today is most definitely a recovery day. Writing about this is as close to exercise I will get today.

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