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Originally Posted by TooCuriousso1
Given the fact that your SQ is doing well that makes me think time of day and meals isn't what's causing it. Although for me I wasn't fond of training first thing/fasted.
Well with a full belly, I can use the extra weight as leverage in the deadlift. For squats, I still need to squat that extra weight up.
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Originally Posted by TooCuriousso1
Reading through your log it looks like DL days are accompanied with just some lighter volume SQ, not on the PR days. They also came the following day after hitting heavy SQ and BN PRs. You might switch the order of days next week (DL day before heavy SQ/BN day) and see what happens.
Pretty good idea. I'm such a stickler for my routines that this will probably be a last resort, but it would be interesting to see what happens.
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Originally Posted by Aidan
Deficits>block pulls, iyam.
The more I think about it, the more I think the block pulls are the issue. Usually it's tough to tell what assistance exercises work and which ones don't when I switch them up every month. If I happen to be getting stronger with block pulls, is that because the block pulls are working or is it just carryover from the last month where I did deficits instead? Considering I took 2-3 weeks off before this cycle, I think it lends more credence to the block pulls being a problem. I'm going to switch to pause deadlifts.