Scott at straighttothebar featured a neat tool to find out your maximum weights lifted by use of an Excel spreadsheet. This has been a handy thing to have and I keep a copy on Google documents and use it often. Last night, I plugged in the numbers to tell me what my 3RM would be for the deadlift, based on my 1RM and 5RM numbers and the number it gave me was exactly what I lifted during a 5 x 3 session. (It was a PR)! I doubt if I could have lifted another pound more! Go ahead and download the file and try it out for yourself. rep-max-calculator.xls

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