dougcentral
New Member
Haven’t done any powerlifting since January, but I’ve been easing back into heavy pressing with much lighter weights and building up slowly from here. Did 305 lbs on incline for a set of 5 with 1 RIR today. Nothing impressive but want to make sure I don’t aggravate my left pec cause I had a minor injury back in the winter. My best on incline was 440 for a double, so working my way back up. I’ve been doing very light weight with very high reps (15-60) with very slow eccentrics for months on end now. I’m excited to get back to deadlifting as well. Pulled 700 lbs last summer Beltless in competition and looking to hit 750 within the next year. Doing very heavy banded back extensions with very slow eccentrics and heavy sets of 5 stiff legged deadlifts with very slow eccentrics is what got me to 700. I did 505 lbs for 5 reps with the stiff legged slow eccentric and 2 months later pulled 700 without a belt conventional. It translates like crazy.
