403 Pound Deadlift Personal Best - 44 Years Old at 179 Pounds

Please keep in mind I am not a Powerlifter, powerlifting is part of the CrossFit workout program.

Yesterday was Deadlift Day at my CrossFit Langley Workout Gym and the program for the day was 5 sets of Deadlift reps adding weight to a max set of 5 reps, and this is how it worked out:

• Warm up: 5 x 135
• 5 x 225
• 5 x 265
• 5 x 285
• 5 x 313
• 5 x 363
• 1 x 403 (Personal Best for fun)

We did not plan the single rep of 403 pounds, but I felt good doing the 5 reps at 363 pounds and decided to go for it! By the way my workout partner Jeff also hit a Personal Best and got 403 pounds. Looking back at the video, I see I need to keep my back a bit straighter, got a bit lazy this time...

I'm not going to lie, I felt a little not in my back (lower right side) and I am feeling it today but it is just a very small muscle pull and other than a bit of discomfort I'm OK, I may even go to CrossFit tonight ;) 

By the way we finished this strength Deadlift workout with a 13 minute AMRAP (As Many Rounds As Possible) consisting of a rotation of 3 x 185 pound Deadlifts, 10 box step ups, and 5 pushups. I lost count but we did over 20 rounds…

I don't recommend going for Max Deadlift very often (As back injuries are not fun) but it is nice to see what one can do, now that I hit my goal of over 400 pounds I am content to lift sets for strength and may look at trying another Personal Best some time next year.

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Stronger Pull-ups by Adding Additional Weight

OK, let's be honest, not everyone can even do a full strict pull-up, that means arms straight at the bottom and just pull up using only your arm and back strength and no body language or kipping to get to the top. But if you have been practicing and you can do 15 or 20 strict pull-ups then maybe it's time to add some weight and really get strong in the back!

So that's exactly what I'm doing now! I've been adding some weight to my pull-ups every so often, sometimes at my CrossFit Class I will ad 25 pounds as long as we don't have to do too many ;) And at home I have been periodically loading up with my 47.5 pound dumbbell and seeing how many wide and narrow pull-ups I can do in a row. When I started I was only able to do about 3 wide and 5 narrow back to back pull-ups, over a relatively short period of time I am now up to about 16 total back to back pull-ups, so double!

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Fitbit Force Wristband Movement and Sleep Tracker Unboxing

As mentioned earlier, I got my Fitbit Force the other day and so I made an unboxing video to share with everyone since as we all know, opening the box is one of the best parts of getting something new :)

Inside was pretty much what I expected, the Fitbit Force, a charging cable, a Bluetooth dongle and a sheet of paper with a URL on where to download the setup software and instructions.

I do have to say that so far everything is working as expected and the transition from my Fitbit Flex to my Fitbit Force was absolutely seamless, Fitbit made this part super easy actually un-pairing my flex at the same time as I paired my Force and transferring all the days data over to it so nothing was lost.

So far the Altimeter is counting each time I go up my stairs, (9 times today) and I love the OLED screen with its instant stat feedback.

I will be doing a full review in the next week or so once I've had the chance to give it a good thorough testing!

Just Got My Fitbit Force Wristband Fitness Tracker!

Picked up my Fitbit Force today, I will have unboxing video for you very shortly, the setup and replacement of my Fitbit Flex was a breeze! The Fitbit setup software on my iPhone 5s even sent all the days data over to the Fitbit Force so I didn't lose my data for the day! It's cool watching the Force count floors climbed as I go up and down the stairs :)