My conventional has direct carryover to my sumo. I train conventional 80% of the time and then work in sumo here and there (other than the last few months while I was prepping/peaking for my first PL meet when I did a lot more sumo). Sumo seems to really beat up my hips, so I can’t do much volume with that lift unfortunately. Managed to pull 672lbs sumo at my competition a couple weeks ago and my conventional PR sits at 605lbs at the moment (although haven’t tested it in the better part of a year).
How do your hips feel with sumo? Do you have to do much mobility/rehab work to stay healthy?
Hips have never been a problem. Kind of wondering if conventional will help my squat cause i fold over which will then help my sumo. Candito mentioned it might not help directly because I pull with a fairly vertical back
Squatted today one of my better days thought I was tired and my back was beat up. I think I just pushed myself harder. Very close to a rep pr but with no spotter decided against it.
135x5, 225x5, 315x3, 405x1, 455x8(tied best) 485x3, 415x7- was going for 8-10 definitely there but my buddy was messing with the clips and the 7th rep came up crooked on the right and I thought the weights were about to slide off so I racked it early. This gym has garbage clips half of them don’t stay in place.
It’s worth trying as long as it doesn’t take away from your squat and sumo dl. However, I would think that doing rep work would probably help more than heavy singles.
Quite a few top sumo pullers (Dan Green, Chris Duffin, Cailer Woolam etc) seem to train their conventional quite a bit, so I expect there is a decent benefit to it.
If pulling from the floor troubles your back RDL may be a good alternative if you don’t already do them.
Surprisingly my back hasn’t been sore the last two times pulling conventional. Possibly cause I’m pulling 150lbs more sumo. But I was a bit shocked. I remembering it really killing my back
Had a pretty good squat session today with a kid I met a few days ago. The other day I was hitting a single at 550 and he was in the next rack over doing 405x15. Got to talking and we squatted today. I came very close to an all time pr. Best ever is 475x7 I did 470x7 and really thought about an 8th. I’ve been pushing harder on my squat and it seems to be progressing. Also would like to add the conventionals I did definitely helped me figure out bracing which is helping for squat.
Squat
135x5, 225x5, 315x3, 405x1, 470x7, 415x10- paused the 10th rep and almost made a mistake cause it barely moved at first when I went to push. Then slowly got it.
Pullups 3 sets of 15
Leg curls, got to talking and never did the extensions
Didn’t go too crazy today. Did tie my best yellow Slingshot bench with the black one today and there’s definitely some room to improve there. Possibly 460-470 I could see on a good day with some practice with the black sling.
Bench (warm up for Slingshot)
135x5, 185x5, 225x5, 275x5
Black Slingshot
315x3, 345x3, 375x3, 405x1, 435x1, 315x11
Pulled a nice rep pr today and fairly smooth. Second reps lock out was quick and down but good enough for the gym. Also hit some good sets on high bar Squat for just getting back into it. Also the fact that I squatted just shy of a rep pr two days ago with a decent back off set means I should be good for more. This is the 3rd week switching to pulls one a week
I haven’t had much free time to update. I’ve still been hitting it daily. I may lose track of my lifting here but you can still see me on Instagram. Linked all over the thread. I’ll also still be around the forum seeing what’s new. Anyone interested make sure you follow. I believe I will be attempting a deadlift single around 785 in a week.