Deadlifts

Chipper Jones78 · May 14, 2009

Do you guys do them on back day or leg day?

Chip

thebrick · May 14, 2009

I like them on back day, as far away from leg day as possible

Iceman1800 · May 14, 2009

I train them on deadlift day

I love to deadlift so everything else is secondary

Snuka · May 14, 2009

thebrick said:
I like them on back day, as far away from leg day as possible

Exactly. I can not imagine going balls to the wall on squats and then have to dead lift afterwards. Some stiff legged dead lifts are fine but I dont go heavy on those.

Stewie Griffon · May 14, 2009

i deadlift as far away as possible from leg day. sometimes, like someone else said, i do them by themselves. i find it a bit difficult to do heavy deads and heavy bent rows all on back day. depends on my energy levels on back day.

Chipper Jones78 · May 14, 2009

Thanks for the reply guys.

triathloncoach · May 14, 2009

I do 5 sets of power cleans and 5 sets of dead lifts. Love it. That is my back workout other than 2 sets of chin ups as a warm up before each workout.

But I'm certainly not a power lifter or BB. I just am.

Chipper Jones78 · May 14, 2009

Do you folks think it's enough rest to do:

LEGS ON TUES

WED REST

BACK ON THURS (WHICH INCLUDES DEADLIFTS)

Is one day rest enough?

gridlock · May 14, 2009

Chipper Jones78 said:
Do you folks think it's enough rest to do:

LEGS ON TUES

WED REST

BACK ON THURS (WHICH INCLUDES DEADLIFTS)

Is one day rest enough?

I'd say it depends how hard you hit them and rep ranges and weights. if you feel you can do it then go for it. If you feel you cant go into back and give it your all, then move it around.

go with what your body tells you bro

Shelby · May 14, 2009

I deadlift on back day, and squat on leg day.

But I don't deadlift every back day, and I don't squat every leg day.

I squat one week, deadlift the next, then squat the following week, deadlift the week after, etc.

i.e. squat on week 1,3,5,7......
deadlift on week 2,4,6,8........

tatteredxangelx · May 14, 2009

bump shelby. Alt weeks. Dont overtrain the CNS

Chipper Jones78 · May 14, 2009

gridlock1983 said:
I'd say it depends how hard you hit them and rep ranges and weights. if you feel you can do it then go for it. If you feel you cant go into back and give it your all, then move it around.

go with what your body tells you bro

Thanks gridlock

Chipper Jones78 · May 14, 2009

Shelby said:
I deadlift on back day, and squat on leg day.

But I don't deadlift every back day, and I don't squat every leg day.

I squat one week, deadlift the next, then squat the following week, deadlift the week after, etc.

i.e. squat on week 1,3,5,7......
deadlift on week 2,4,6,8........

Thanks Shelby - this makes sense.

I always try to do "too much" going to give the above a go

Cheers
Chip

bench529 · May 15, 2009

I have squated and deadlifted on the same day. Go heavy on the deads every other week. On the light days I will do partials or go off of a block. I also bench on the same day. It is usually on saturday. Been doing it for years.

jmcbride · May 15, 2009

Same here with the rotation.....

Shelby said:
I deadlift on back day, and squat on leg day.

But I don't deadlift every back day, and I don't squat every leg day.

I squat one week, deadlift the next, then squat the following week, deadlift the week after, etc.

i.e. squat on week 1,3,5,7......
deadlift on week 2,4,6,8........

ridge11 · May 15, 2009

I alternate when I do deads. I do barbell deads with back. Straight leg smith deads with legs. But only do one or the other each week.

fbxdan · May 15, 2009

I do them on back day. It's the only exercise that makes my entire back sore.

AZBodyZone · May 15, 2009

Shelby said:
I deadlift on back day, and squat on leg day.

But I don't deadlift every back day, and I don't squat every leg day.

I squat one week, deadlift the next, then squat the following week, deadlift the week after, etc.

i.e. squat on week 1,3,5,7......
deadlift on week 2,4,6,8........

I pretty much use that same rule, however if i free squat week 1, on week 2 when i do my deads i substitute free squats with either 3 sets on the leverage squat or perhaps 3 sets of reverse hack squats light weight but extremely controlled reps and about a 5 second negative