The Golden One - Marcus Follin - The Golden One, Admired By All – Training Update March 2024. Deadlifts and Overhead Press
Aired: 2024-03-26
Duration: 07:06


=== Three Reps at 240 (07:06) ===

[00:00:00]  We're back the greatest training update video of all time.
[00:00:05]  Well, okay, perhaps it will be somewhat entertaining and informative at least.
[00:00:11]  So we are in the Temple of Iron.
[00:00:13]  You see me there.
[00:00:14]  What a specimen.
[00:00:16]  What an ice giant from Hyperborea blessed by the Norse gods.
[00:00:21]  So anyway, I'm attempting here three repetitions at 240, 240 kilos.
[00:00:27]  And we'll see if I can manage such a great feat of strength.
[00:00:32]  So first repetition goes there.
[00:00:34]  Boom.
[00:00:34]  Nice.
[00:00:35]  Then we're loading up, trying to visualize using psycho-magical techniques to get the repetition up.
[00:00:43]  So loading up there and rolling it towards me and exploding up.
[00:00:49]  A bit shakiness there, but still okay.
[00:00:53]  So now we're attempting the third and final repetition.
[00:00:57]  So let's go champs.
[00:01:00]  And there we do not go.
[00:01:04]  So I let it go.
[00:01:05]  I felt that my technique would have broken down completely.
[00:01:08]  So I let it go rather than to risk injury.
[00:01:11]  Now how to redeem this?
[00:01:12]  You might ask.
[00:01:13]  Yes, we'll get into it in just a bit.
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[00:02:21]  And now let's get back to the session at hand.
[00:02:24]  So there you see, I'm asking my adoring fan Victor to zoom in to the Hammer of Thor because I use it when I deadlift for some extra powers.
[00:02:33]  So now I thought to redeem myself, redeem my failure.
[00:02:37]  So as you saw, the last set I failed.
[00:02:40]  I didn't do the three repetitions I set out to do, so I'll do it some other time.
[00:02:45]  So now I actually set a personal best.
[00:02:47]  So eight repetitions at 190 kilos.
[00:02:51]  So I thought to just rep it out a bit.
[00:02:53]  Usually I don't go so high.
[00:02:56]  I don't do so many repetitions on the deadlift in case the form breaks down.
[00:03:00]  But the weight here is actually quite light compared to what I was attempting.
[00:03:05]  So I thought I need to redeem myself somehow.
[00:03:08]  So I decided, let's go, champ.
[00:03:10]  Let's go, champs, let's try to do this.
[00:03:12]  Let's try to get some sort of good workout indeed.
[00:03:15]  And I actually got DOMS from this.
[00:03:17]  It's not often I get DOMs anymore, but I got from this particular session.
[00:03:21]  So yeah, I just thought to get in some extra work there.
[00:03:24]  And then next Saturday I will try to do two by two on 240.
[00:03:32]  So two repetitions, two sets.
[00:03:35]  So and then maybe the week after that I will attempt again to do three repetitions at 240 kilos.
[00:03:42]  So that is the plan.
[00:03:43]  I will keep you all updated.
[00:03:44]  I suppose you all follow me on the other social media platforms and of course I post YouTube shorts now as well.
[00:03:51]  So here we see a bonus clip of me doing some deadlifts.
[00:03:54]  You can observe my technique there.
[00:03:56]  Try to push down the very earth itself.
[00:04:00]  So that is the start of the movement and then I start pulling, so I actually push.
[00:04:04]  First I push down with my legs into the earth and then I start pulling up and then I try to push my hip forward as well.
[00:04:12]  Mid movement.
[00:04:14]  So great stuff, good old deadlifts.
[00:04:17]  I will keep you all updated.
[00:04:19]  See how far we get before the summer cut begins.
[00:04:23]  Now, moving on to the next exercise.
[00:04:25]  We have some overhead presser, military press, and I do three repetitions at 90 kilos.
[00:04:32]  Now my goal is to get 100 kilo in a somewhat strict press.
[00:04:37]  So overhead press.
[00:04:38]  So I try to not use any momentum with the legs there.
[00:04:41]  So I try to do it using the power of the shoulders.
[00:04:45]  Praise, build to Atlas.
[00:04:47]  So first set, I did three repetitions.
[00:04:50]  Was a bit hard on the third one, but I decided to get some more volume.
[00:04:55]  So I did some more sets, but only two repetitions.
[00:04:58]  You see there, one repetition and then down again and then explode a bit of a grind.
[00:05:03]  But such is the case when you don't use any momentum of the legs.
[00:05:10]  So here we go.
[00:05:11]  Third set, will I do it?
[00:05:14]  I look juicy, at least if I may be so bold to say so myself always important to comment on.
[00:05:21]  So boom, explode up, and then down and explode up.
[00:05:26]  I try to be as explosive as possible.
[00:05:29]  So nice, two nice, clean repetitions.
[00:05:33]  Then I lowered the weight to 80 and this is perhaps a bit of an unflattering angle, but I wanted to fill myself in this way so I can keep a look on my on my own technique always good to film yourself so you can see how you are performing.
[00:05:47]  So here we do, six repetitions at 80, which is quite good.
[00:05:51]  This is definitely not something I could do this time last year.
[00:05:55]  So yeah, a bit of a grind there.
[00:05:57]  But again, such is life, sometimes you have to grind.
[00:06:02]  And here we go again.
[00:06:03]  Five repetitions, different angle, perhaps nicer to see in this angle, I don't know.
[00:06:09]  But yeah, I tried to push up there.
[00:06:11]  I tried to look through the window, as they say, and that's when I push forward, push my head forward in the window created by my arms and the bar.
[00:06:20]  So again, trying to just explode there.
[00:06:22]  A bit of a grind and then there we have it.
[00:06:26]  So yeah, that is basically my training update.
[00:06:28]  Update: The goal here is to get to 100 kilo.
[00:06:33]  That is also my body weight, so that would be a good, respectable weight to get up in the overhead press.
[00:06:40]  So, yeah, good stuff.
[00:06:41]  Good stuff indeed.
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