PRed deadlift at 385. Didn’t deadlift for 2 months. PRed at 405. Did maybe 5 sets total over the next 4 months and lost 10 pounds. PRed at 425. Can this continue?
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Do I even need to deadlift?
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For many people deadlifts are a better demonstration of strength than a builder of strength. But eventually you’ll likely plateau and technique will become more important.
What’s your body weight now?
What’s your body weight now?
I weigh myself at the gym with clothes but I’d estimate 185-186 based on weighing in at 190 that way 2 hours ago.
That’s a decent lift for that body weight. If you don’t like deadlifts and you’re still getting stronger, I’d only train them sparingly and not regularly. If you’re not powerlifting, and your training is making you stronger why change up?
That’s my thinking. What I am thinking now, come to think of it, is that I’ve been doing postural work in all of this time and that is what I can attribute my increase in pull strength to.
I might do light deadlifts for some hamstring volume, since I need some more of that, but even for that LBBSquats seem superior since I’d essentially be using around the same weight anyway.
I might do light deadlifts for some hamstring volume, since I need some more of that, but even for that LBBSquats seem superior since I’d essentially be using around the same weight anyway.
Deadlifts were essential for building my back. I saw drastic improvement when they were a weekly inclusion in my program. Conventional I mean. Sometimes just rack pulls. But they work.
Do a few sets of 4-6rep DLs with one back day a week and tell me they don’t add mass.
Do a few sets of 4-6rep DLs with one back day a week and tell me they don’t add mass.
There is no reason to be alive if you can't do deadlift.
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No, not in bodybuilding. There are many ways to develop muscles, doing the huge compound lifts is always preferable but there are always workarounds.
Btcowboy
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I kind of moved away from deadlifts for some reason last year. I started to miss them and am now back to doing deadlifts. Love em
Whenever I program them regularly they just take so much from me. They fell out of favor with me when I was doing them 3 times/2weeks on Starting strength. I might do something like once every 2 weeks with a 5/3/1 scheme.
Try them offset with squats. If you squat on leg day, don’t deadlift that week. But next week move to Leg Press or something else and deadlift on back day.
I’ve used it this way and it’s always felt great.
I’ve used it this way and it’s always felt great.
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Do you need to? No. Should you? Absolutely.
As an overall back builder, there's not a single more effective movement out there. Sure, you can train around not deadlifting with heavy rows, farmer carries, weighted hyperextentions and all that jazz, but why do all of the extra movements when you can just pull heavy weight from the floor?
As an overall back builder, there's not a single more effective movement out there. Sure, you can train around not deadlifting with heavy rows, farmer carries, weighted hyperextentions and all that jazz, but why do all of the extra movements when you can just pull heavy weight from the floor?
I am in my 40s and have been doing what you mentioned. One week is deadlift focused next week is squat focused. Works very well and you don’t feel like you’ve been hit by a freight train lol
My current program is U/L/FB
@cfreetenor were you doing squats during those periods of not deadlifting? And were your squats getting heavier? Squats will build deadlift strength but deadlifts don't build squat strength. So if you were gaining squat strength during that time, it's why your dead increased without doing the exercise...
