Need some deadlift advice, please

[slobberknocker]

I know a bunch of lifters here don't DL every week, so that got me thinking.

1. How often do you deadlift?

2. What exercises do you do in place of deadlifts?

3. Are you still able to progress on deadlifts without doing them every week?


I'm thinking of just deadlifting once every 4 weeks. The other 3 weeks, I would do heavy good mornings instead of deadlifts. I'd also be doing heavy rows on those days.

How does that idea sound?

 

[slinky]

I know a bunch of lifters here don't DL every week, so that got me thinking.

1. How often do you deadlift?

2. What exercises do you do in place of deadlifts?

3. Are you still able to progress on deadlifts without doing them every week?


I'm thinking of just deadlifting once every 4 weeks. The other 3 weeks, I would do heavy good mornings instead of deadlifts. I'd also be doing heavy rows on those days.

How does that idea sound?

1)The last time I dead was on June 28 for my strongwoman contest. (I won the contest and the event) The next time I perform deads will be this Friday, just to see where I'm at.

2)We train, like WSB (of course): where we train all the assistant movers to the the dead as well as perform pull ups and will be adding rows to the mix.

3)YES

And I think you're on the right track! But, don't forget the other excercises that emphasize hams/glutes like reverse hypers and glute-ham raises.

 

[Liftbig]

i deadlift heavy about once a month for max effort day. i pull for speed on DE squat day, but thats fairly light.
the last time i pulled on max effort day i got a 40 lb pr, on reverse band. so id say i am able to progress without pulling very often.

 

[Tiervexx]

Same her as the others, I don’t dead often but when I do it still goes up.

If your squat and your row goes up the dead will fallow.

 

[IronLion]

once you know technique i don't think that they need to be done all that often.

I have only deadlifted like 10-15 times in my life...lol but I did a ton of olympic lifting in college so the first time I tried heavy deads i worked up to 6...I think that it goes up faster by working hard on weak spots than by just doing it constantly....jmo

 

[Scotsman]

I rotate through deads, straight leg deads, rack pulls, and no heavy pulling for a week.

Cheers,
Scotsman

 

[The mann]

i broke the state record by not deadlifting at all,replaced it with GM's,rev-hypers,back extensions,GHR,many different sled pulls.we train westside and love it.
Slinky, very good answer.....