Is there any way to improve your lower back/lumbar resistance to fatigue (besides drugs and adapting to higher volumes over time)? I’d say I can benefit from 9 sets of squats, 20 sets of bench but only 3 sets of deadlifts a week. I can recover from 12+, 25+ and 4-6 sets of squats/bench/deadlift respectively a week but it’s not productive. If I do more than 3 sets of pulls a week, I get cumulative low back fatigue and it ends up ruining the rest of my lifts.
I just don’t get it, I’ve been training properly for 6 years now. I compete in the IPF in the 66kg weightclass and I pull with a flatback sumo stance which should allow me to pull with higher volumes yet I can’t handle it…why?
How heavy are the 3 sets?
I start with an @6, then @7 and top set is @8. Today I pulled 525x4 @7.5 for my top set.
Yeah, this is unusual. What does the rest of your programming look like? 9 sets of squats and 3 sets of pulls is not very much work, particularly for a light weight lifter.
I just do the main lifts in the 4-6 rep range right now, between @6-@8. I can actually do 12 sets of squats without trouble but it’s the pulls that really wreck me.
Yeah, I don’t really have a good explanation for this. As you said in the original post, it will likely just be a matter of adapting to more volume over time. You could start by pulling a back-off set or two at a significant offset from your top workset (like 10-15% off).
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