07/07 Shanker 5 sets method Lower 2

Lifted with Dave today...
Everyone knows the Coan-Phillipi Deadlift program (if you don't, google it), I'd like to introduce everyone to the revolutionary Pavone-Raman Deadlift program. It's easy,basically linear progression, but you deadlift once every 3 months and set a 50lb PR for reps every time.

For those of us with more standard development tendencies, we do as follows...

Deadlift (beltless)
135x10
225x10
315x6
365x4 (felt like nothing)

405x3 (felt harder than it should have been)

425x3
425x3
425x3
425x2 F
(these were quite difficult, and I'm not entirely sure why. Limiting factor appears to be keeping lower back tight. I'm so used to ripping deads up fast thanks to wearing a belt. It's kind of like what they teach you in little league batting practice, tense muscles are slow, relaxed muscles are fast. My theory is that wearing a belt allows me to keep certain core muscles loose and thus fast, while lifting beltless requires everything to be tight and flexed, which is forcing me to sacrifice speed. In an effort to speed things up I am not staying as tense as I need to stay and my hips are popping up and I'm experiencing some rounding, especially on the last set. Also wasn't completely there mentally. NOT owing to Dave being there, it was just one of those days.)

Pause Squats (beltless)
45x10
135x5
185x5
225x5

260x3
260x3
260x3
260x3
260x3

GM
95x12

Dead after this, so called it quits.