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Today I had one goal in mind, to lock out as much weights as possible in the deadlift position. Obviously it was a pretty simple workout, I elevated the bar to rest at my knees and kept adding weight until I couldn't lift any more. Pulling heavy weights will make you big and strong, period.

If you are going to have a thick and powerful look you need to handle really heavy weights. Any variation of the deadlift will create this effect, so make it fun by rotating them. Deadlift from the floor, standing on a low box, with the bar elevated, with a trap bar, with chains or bands, use a sumo stance, just try anything you can think of!

Here is the workout I did today:

• Rack Pulls
• I actually used boxes to elevate the bar, but a squat rack is ideal for this
• worked up to a max single
• added wrist straps, increased the weight and worked up to a heavier max single
• I ended banging out my target max for a triple instead of a single, bouncing the second two reps a little
• dropped the weight by 100lbs for 1 x 6
• 40kg kettlebell swings
• 3 x 20
• TRX Ab Fall Outs
• 3 x 5 
• each rep was done for a max hold

So I had a good hard workout. But since I train at Remington's, a hardcore gym in Calgary, and I train with the most hardcore lifter's in the city, Independent Powerlifting, there is always some crazy training going on around me. Check out the video below of Brian Johnston squatting over 900lbs. Brian hit this right after I finished deadlifting.

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