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@DFP
200 is great, just saying your beard makes you look even stronger. Like Eddy Hall!
I also have had a habit of looking demented/like dying/sparta when lifting, people used to always run and spot me or ask if I was ok because I used to mash out ugly overly heavy lifts with my eyeballs bulging.
I can only pull about 160 right now, but I have to be extremely strict on technique as my spine cant take it anymore. So I do them more like a clean pull. I find that lifting within self imposed restrictions of extremely good technique (therefore lower intensity) allows for both a greater training effect and faster recovery, you can train more often and get moar gainz.
I can show you a dead easy method of getting that maximal hitched 200 to be a perfect form 5 reps in just a few weeks. But the key will be lower intensity, shit loads of volume but holding well back from maximal intensity or failure.
If I knuckle down and do the same thing, I could probably get 5x200 but more like by the end of the year, with consistent work, problem is my training is not at all consistent right now!