After feeling it from last night’s rack pulls, (the first time doing them), I find this great article by Ben Tatar on the deadlift. At my gym, Scott P. said once I get to 400# I can “take the skirt off”. Now that the skirt is off, this article will help get me to “monster” status!

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  1. Rack PullsLast night, for the first time, I added some rack pulls to the workload. Probably my favorite lift is the deadlift and so whatever complementary exercises I can do to pull more, I am interested. I found this to be instructional and helpful to me:   Tip #5:  Use the...
  2. The Clean and Push PressIn my previous post, Rack Pulls, I provided some instruction tips from Beyond Strong. In that same training session last night, preceding the rack pulls, I also did squat cleans and push presses and found these great reasons for doing the clean and push press. He gives the benefits of...
  3. How To Quickly Add 15 lbs of Muscle Mass…Guaranteed!This is a good one from Eric Cressey who, like me, loves deadlifts. In an untrained lifter, deadlifts are a guaranteed 15 pounds of muscle mass. Think about it: you’re using your entire upper back, glutes, hamstrings, core musculature, and forearms. If you haven’t done anything with these muscles before,...
  4. Pull-A-PaloozaMarty Gallagher's Purposefully Primitive Fitness published an excellent article title "The Purposeful Primitive Progressive Pulls" and from that article came a "raw and retro" workout that I did today. It is all about the pulling and I did the week one workout of six, hence the name "progressive". The lifts...
  5. Rep Max CalculatorScott 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...
  6. Prelude to a Max Effort LiftThe Crossfit Total is the total of 3-1 reps max efforts in Back Squat, Shoulder Press and Deadlift. The idea is to get that max with as few reps as possible to conserve your resources and not "run out of juice". What is the best way to achieve that and...
  7. The Power CleanLast night Jon Curry and I trained with power cleans and squat cleans. I went more with the former. Many lifters and strength coaches consider the power clean one of the top three most beneficial compound lifts with the deadlift and the squat. For that reason, athletes at all levels...