For whatever it's worth, I haven't had a back injury since I stopped doing heavy deadlifts.... even when I was hitting 325x5 on squats
Gonna see how the newbies do at my gym. Might switch to home workouts for a month or two
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For whatever it's worth, I haven't had a back injury since I stopped doing heavy deadlifts.... even when I was hitting 325x5 on squats
Gonna see how the newbies do at my gym. Might switch to home workouts for a month or two
It's high reps that are the problem. Form is guaranteed to go out the window especially with deadlifts because they exhaust your whole entire bodyFor whatever it's worth, I haven't had a back injury since I stopped doing heavy deadlifts.... even when I was hitting 325x5 on squats
Gonna see how the newbies do at my gym. Might switch to home workouts for a month or two
Take it from the old man, it ain't worth it.
Yeah like flex lewis said unless you're getting paid for this shyt, don't risk your health over it. Or some shyt like that. It was on the dolce podcast
Mayne I was getting killed off of 5 rep sets. They were for like 380-400 though. I could safely do em for like 50-100lbs less but that shyt was boring to me
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Mayne I was getting killed off of 5 rep sets. They were for like 380-400 though. I could safely do em for like 50-100lbs less but that shyt was boring to me
I aint even a fan of 5 rep sets for deadlifts unless its a SINGLE set and done. Still too high. Hex bar I'll go 5, but straight bar I do almost exclusively singles. If I wanted to start a real program of progression, you might catch me pulling out triples but thats it
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Speaking of hex bar deadlifts, I did them using the lower handles on the hex bar for the first time yesterday. 3 X 5.
Much harder than using the high handles for obvious reasons. I think I'm gonna use the low bars from now on except when I wanna test my max on the high handles (which is more of a partial squat than anything)
Much harder than using the high handles for obvious reasons. I think I'm gonna use the low bars from now on except when I wanna test my max on the high handles (which is more of a partial squat than anything)
Yep I've got low handles. honestly that shyt isn't much more comfy than a straight bar but the advantage is that it brings the quads into the picture big time
Yea, volume heavy deads is tricky as fukk. I remember after like 2-3 years off, I worked my way up singles to a ~450 pull. I think I will keep my heavy deadlift volume to like 1-2 workouts a year
Speaking of hex bars, I havent used mine in months. Time to take the L and sell
Yuuuup. If it's 1-3 reps I could likely pull every 72hrs for a few weeks even if I went heavy.
That 5 reps and up shyt on deadlifts just seems unnessesary unless ur training for a meet or something, even if you reset after each rep things get ugly quick. .. It just messes you up and effects all your other lifts
Yep every damn thing has been irritating my back since last Saturday
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The rain scared everyone away from the gym today. That thang was empty, like literally. 
Had a mean chest workout and didn't have to wait for any equipment.
Had a mean chest workout and didn't have to wait for any equipment.
Tore shyt up this weekend. Thank you based surplus calories 
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