I definitely don't see myself as advanced. More that I have a better build for deadlift and gains seem to come much easier for it than the other lifts. Most things I have tried with the deadlift have worked to some extent but for me, more deadlifting has been better than less.
I tried squatting every day and surprisingly didn't take long to adapt and got some ok early gains then stalled out pretty quickly. My plans are to go back to more volume twice a week squatting for a while.
Bench, well nothing fucking works well for my shitty bench, so take no notice of any of my bench advise. Lol. I am going back to overhead once and bench twice a week with lots of volume like what the others have said.
When deadlifting 3x as week, what sort of volume / intensity were you using?
Did you have a high volume day, light day and high intensity day, sort of like 5x5 for squats?
Na, nothing fancy just 1 set of 5 alternating deadlifts with rack pulls. Started off fairly easy adding 5kg each time. Not long and I was doing 5 reps with over my old 1 rep max. Then did a few 1RMs to see we're I was at. Could have rode out the progress for longer but holidays got in the way.
Planning on giving it another run in the new year and see what happens.
i used tto use this routine 3 times per week:
squat 5 x 5
bench 5 x 5
dead 5 x 5
mp 5 x 5
"any chosen lift" 5 x 5
my numbers went from:
squat 75kg > 125kg
bench 67.5kg > 102.5kg
dead 100kg > 185kg
overhead 45kg > 80kg
i did this 2 years ago at PTC when i was a beginner (still am lol) but i also took my weight from 75kg to 85kg in about 8 months. i dont think this sort of volume is a problem for people lifting similar weights and making gains like i did but once you hit serious numbers and gains come at a much slower pace i'd be rethinking my course of action.
high weight/volume DL >> your discs.. you can't grow them back. is probably no big problem while you are still so young though
your comparing two complete lifts... the load is distributed differently, and you lift it completely different.I'm fairly confident that if you can squat a max everyday without spine damage you can deadlift a few times a week without spine damage
Thanks, seems fairly simple. I'm thinking about doing deficit deadlifts on my speed day and focusing on pulling heavy from the floor on the heavy day
I've seen a few people now that have had awesome gains with higher-volume deadlifts (despite what rippetoad saying about you HAVING to do them for 1x5). I have no idea how I would respond to high volume deadlifts though. Worth a try though, if I start getting burned out with heavy deadlifts I could always swap them out for 5x5x70% and work up 5kg a week or something, see how that goes. Thanks for the help
I'm fairly confident that if you can squat a max everyday without spine damage you can deadlift a few times a week without spine damage
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