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After close to a year of injuries, rehab, recovery, and retraining, I've finally managed to get my deadlift back over 500 lbs.
My calves, transverse abdominal, lower back, and traps are killing me. My shin and right hand look like I spent the night in a muay thai hand job battle because of the bar knurling. It took me three tries to get out of bed.
Nonetheless, I did it and I'm pretty happy with the number. It's not my personal best ever, but maybe I'll get back there one day. In the meantime, I'll move on to building up my squat numbers again. Hopefully that will build up my core enough to keep the deadlift from being so unpleasant.
Woah, nice!
My PR is 105x5, or 231.5x5 in pounds. Which, according to internet magic, means my 1RM is 260 pounds.
Too lazy to go look up the methodology, but for what it's worth, normally your deadlift one-rep max is beyond what those internet calculators estimate it to be. They tend to be more accurate for squat and bench. Be prepared to not be able to move the next day, though, if you do a true one-rep max on deadlift. Bonus points if your nose starts bleeding and you pass out cold.
Edit: Well, my curiosity overcame my laziness. I'm pretty sure that this is the paper, for anyone interested. Assuming you use the Symmetric Strength Wathan calculator.
Thankfully, my nose hasn't bled once since the surgery, whereas before it did so more often than a woman. I'm not hunting for 1RMs, though, deadlift is taxing enough as it is that I have to choose if I'm doing it first and then take it easy for the rest of the session, or I'm doing it after other heavy compound movements and treat it as skillwork.
My primary goals for the rest of the year are fixing my shoulder and getting back into squats. I should be squatting ~85kgx5 given my bench press and my deadlift, but I doubt I will even be able to squat what I bench. The gym is getting a new pendulum squat machine soon, maybe I'll use it for a while instead of the rack.
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