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Last week’s attempt at high volume swinging (as inspired by reading Tracy Reifkind’s blog about her upcoming DVD) has somehow translated to a PR in my deadlift!

In January I set my all time PR in deadlift at 365. Felt amazing as it was only a year ago that I was stuck at 315.

A month passed, then another, then my new max went DOWN to 355. Might have been a bad week, could have been from all the running I was doing in prep for the 50 miler, who knows. I was pretty sure it was the lack of a regular lifting pattern, but now, after this last week… I am beginning to wonder.

So Monday I started with a lofty goal of getting to 1000 swings with the 24kg. Didn’t get there. I got to 300. The next day, 200, and the next 100. I took a day off. Day 5 I did 325. To me, that is high volume swinging. I know it’s not as much as it could be, but hey. It’s a start.

That wasn’t the only thing I was doing, but it was a unique thing for me because I was peppering the swings throughout the day. I called it “24 hours of swings”. Basically whatever I could get in during the day, I did. If form degraded even slightly, I stopped.

This week I was intending on starting it again, but decided to check out my lifts.

On the deadlift… I warmed up with 135. Then proceeded to add weight until I could add no more.

Took out the calculator.

375. That’s 20# over what I was originally stuck at and 10# over my initial PR in January!

There may be something to the high volume swinging.