Deadlifts near wipe me out
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Hi all,
My mid-week workout generally starts with deads. I'm currently having a crack at reverse pyramid training, with reps of 6, 8 and 10 as the weight reduces.
Although I can manage the weight (just about), the effort doing this almost wipes me out for the rest of my workout. Almost feel as if I can't quite compose myself afterwards, which I suspect is my central nervous system struggling.
Is this normal and is there anything i could do to improve things?
Many thanks
My mid-week workout generally starts with deads. I'm currently having a crack at reverse pyramid training, with reps of 6, 8 and 10 as the weight reduces.
Although I can manage the weight (just about), the effort doing this almost wipes me out for the rest of my workout. Almost feel as if I can't quite compose myself afterwards, which I suspect is my central nervous system struggling.
Is this normal and is there anything i could do to improve things?
Many thanks
That's why it's generally seen that deadlifts should be done last as it's the most taxing on your body. I have always done deadlifts last, the effort I put in means I feel too exhausted to do anything else. (although sometimes i might do some low intensity cardio on the elliptical machines),
Sudden changes in blood pressure will make you feel very funny both at the time of the exercise and for a while afterwards.
Interesting article about blood pressure and ventricular performance. Apparently if you do enough dead-lifts you get left ventricular hypertrophy. In other words your heart isn't muscly enough to cope with the changes in pressure
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/01.CIR...
Interesting article about blood pressure and ventricular performance. Apparently if you do enough dead-lifts you get left ventricular hypertrophy. In other words your heart isn't muscly enough to cope with the changes in pressure
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/01.CIR...
Deadlifts are pretty much the most neurologically taxing 'lift/exercise' you can do.
I used to dedicate a gym session to it alone when going heavy.
Warm up sets would for example be, 100kg 10 reps. then drop the reps down 1 until I would get to about 200+kg and do a single, perhaps a double, and do that for maybe 3-4 singles.
I'd then drop the weight by perhaps 50% and do some speed lifts for about 5 reps.
Deadlifts should not really be done for a lot of reps when going heavy due to the stress involved.
I used to dedicate a gym session to it alone when going heavy.
Warm up sets would for example be, 100kg 10 reps. then drop the reps down 1 until I would get to about 200+kg and do a single, perhaps a double, and do that for maybe 3-4 singles.
I'd then drop the weight by perhaps 50% and do some speed lifts for about 5 reps.
Deadlifts should not really be done for a lot of reps when going heavy due to the stress involved.
i agree with knk, do the deadlifts first, as you might any compound lift
wiping yourself out could be of concern if you do it all the time. how did you decide on this level of intensity? i've heard the saying, 'stimulate, don't annihilate' and this is especially true for DLs imho. perhaps just don't work at the same intensity all the time
wiping yourself out could be of concern if you do it all the time. how did you decide on this level of intensity? i've heard the saying, 'stimulate, don't annihilate' and this is especially true for DLs imho. perhaps just don't work at the same intensity all the time
garfylarfy said:
how did you decide on this level of intensity? i've heard the saying, 'stimulate, don't annihilate' and this is especially true for DLs imho. perhaps just don't work at the same intensity all the time
I'm giving reverse pyramid training a try. Started a few weeks ago at 120kg for 6 reps then 10% reduction for 8 and a further 10% reduction for 10. As I could do it, I just kept adding weight. I'm now around 135kg for the heaviest set. I appreciate it's not that heavy, although BW is 70kg, perhaps just under, so quite a taxing weight for me. Perhaps I'm just asking too much of myself and need to either suck it up or work in better coping mechanisms I.e. longer rest periods, reduce reps etc.
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