I had a frustrating deadlift day yesterday. I\u2019m sure everyone who has deadlifted has had a workout where the weight just seems extra heavy and doesn\u2019t want to seem to move off the floor. What I thought would be an easy top set of 3 reps was a struggle for 1 rep. <\/p>\n
Immediately after my set I began to blame being tired and my busy schedule and a million other things. I was frustrated. I had a restful weekend and had felt very motivated to deadlift that day. So, what went wrong?<\/p>\n
I began to analyze why I had such a lousy deadlift day. I was rested and ate well so those were not the reasons. I thought about my technique and although I am always working on improving my technique I didn\u2019t think that this was the culprit. I then went back and looked at my log books to see what I had been doing at times when my deadlift was at its highest and although my assistance exercises changed quite a bit I noticed that in most cases I had been doing heavy Romanian deadlifts building as my deadlift went up. <\/p>\n
One week I would do sets 4-5 of 10 and stay with 10\u2019s for consecutive weeks until the 10th rep on my lest set got very hard. This was usually 2-3 weeks. Then I would move to 8\u2019s and use the same progression. I would do this with 6\u2019s and 4\u2019s too. Since I am not competitively powerlifting I don\u2019t schedule this out but go by feel. When my Romanian Deadlift started to peak out my deadlift would too. Then I would take a break from deadlifting for a few weeks and repeat this sequence. <\/p>\n
In recent months I had gotten away from doing Romanian deadlifts. I added in other auxiliaries and I didn\u2019t think much of it. Everyone knows you can only progress so long with the same exercises and workout plan before you stall out and I guess I was looking to change things up. In this case I think it would have been better served changing the rep and set scheme, do pauses, add chains or some other technique to keep progressing. <\/p>\n
I will be adding back Romanian deadlifts back into my sumo deadlift routine next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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