- an injury. For continuous reps, only go down to a point an inch or so above
the platform. is helps prevent possible torque and jarring. But as the cycle
progressed, fewer of the reps were done touch and go. I gradually moved
into a rest-pause style.. I always deadlifted with a pronated grip. I had found that a mixed grip (one
hand supinated, and one pronated) exposes me to an increased risk of injury
because of the torque produced. To hold onto the bar, and free myself from
concern over losing my grip, I had to have grip support. I used metal hooks
fixed onto adjustable wrist straps. By using these there was no way the bar
could fall from my hands. But had I never used any assistance other than
chalk, had I added poundage at a slower rate to give my grip a chance to
adapt, and had I added some thick-bar holds for extra grip work, I could
probably have managed without the crutch of the hooks.. I usually deadlifted once each week. ere were two occasions, not late in
the cycle, where I had to deadlift on the sixth day rather than the usual
seventh day. Especially in the late stages of the cycle I sometimes took more
than a week between deadlift workouts, to guarantee full recovery.. Each deadlift workout consisted of warmup sets—one to begin with, and
three once the poundages became heavy—followed by a single work set of
reps. After a few minutes rest I would do reps with pounds in the stiff-
legged deadlift while standing on a platform for a full range of movement.
is remained at pounds throughout the cycle. e only workout I did
not do it was when I did the reps with . en I did not want to do
anything but collapse, pull myself together, pick myself up, and go home.. Until I reached pounds ( kilos), I added kilos ( pounds) to the
bar each week. I did × on January . At this stage I think I
was doing of the reps continuously and the remaining five in rest-pause
style—do a rep, pause for a few breaths, do another rep, pause for a few
breaths, etc. Once I had started a set of deadlifts, and was strapped in, my
hands never left the bar until all the target reps were done.Workout schedule
. During this deadlift-dominated cycle the other exercises were secondary
and I would not have hesitated to drop anything that got in the way of focus
on the deadlift. I would have dropped to one-exercise-per-week schedule