Deadlift stall

Training Q&A [Moderated]
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Hey Docs, hope you’re doing well.
I had been progressing well on Block 3 of the beginner template until day 3 of week 5 (today) where strangely after I got done with my Top set of 135 kg single, I moved on to my back-off set of 120 kg x 5. For some reason, I could only do one rep for the 120 kg set and I experienced some sort of muscular/technical failure. I then proceeded to take 120kg as my max and then did back off sets of 90 kg x 3 sets of 5 instead of 110 kg x 3 sets of 5 originally. How do I proceed further doc, should I try the same set of weights or should I go down next week?

Thank you for the amazing work you put out and your time.

Kind regards,
Kirill

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I would just do the next week as planned. Not sure what happened at 120, as 135 looked fine from here. It’s not a great angle to comment on form, but I would train normally next week.

As far as weight selection goes, I don’t think you can plan the loads ahead of time outside of bracketing your expectations. For example. it is highly likely you’ll be between within +5% and -5% from your previous week’s performance, but you won’t know whether you’re up or down until you get in the gym and start lifting. Adjust the weight as necessary to meet the RPE goals for the day.

-Jordan

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Thank you Dr Feigenbaum.

Kind regards,
Kirill