Can you deadlift every day

Around Thanksgiving this year, my back was more sore than normal mainly due to sitting more at my day job and then coming home and sitting while typing up blog posts. Around that time I saw an interview with Cory when he was about a year into squatting everyday and he had mentioned his lower back has never been stronger and the rest of his lifts have increased due to the extra release of hormones.

This made me ask… can I take his blueprint and apply it to the deadlift? I would use the squat, but the bad taste of herniating my disc while squatting is still in my mouth. The deadlift is a total body exercise like the squat.

Deadlifting emphasizes the hamstrings, glutes, hip flexors and lower back. These are all the muscles of the posterior chain and all the muscles that I apparently lacked. Everyday I would do a deadlift variation doing no more than 5 reps per set and no more than 10 sets.

I have a gym partner and we can bang out all of our sets in a half hour max. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. This is what the sheep does with the shepherd. I am actively working on becoming more like a thinking man and less like a sheep. Questioning the conventional wisdom of overtraining, of deadlifting after back surgery or that the deadlift is a dangerous exercise was all things I squashed in these last days.

Take Home Point : Question everything people tell you as truth, including myself, rely on experimentation. What works for me, might not work for you. Talking about conventional wisdom, the whole overtraining thing is a joke.

I whole heartedly agree that you need rest to recover. But too many of us, me included, rest too much. It took me 6 straight weeks of deadlifting to need a rest. I am not Superman, nor am I that genetically different than all of you. I just questioned conventional think and experimented for myself. Proper nutrition and quality sleep do wonders. When your body aches or when your lifts go down, take a break.

Otherwise, start lifting Sally. Take Home Point: Overtraining is hard to do. Grow a pair, zip them up and push yourself. After 3 weeks all my lifts had gone up a ridiculous amount.

Since the legs are a large proportion, for most people, of their muscle mass, working them releases large amounts of growth hormone into the system which increases muscle and in turn increases strength. It took 21 days for me increase my bench 40lbs. Accessorize to Save Your Back What do ab rollouts and planks have to do with increasing your deadlift max?

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Follow us Facebook Twitter Youtube Pinterest. More news. In other words, you may be able to get a bigger deadlift by following a lower frequency training program. However, if you do deadlift every day, you want to make sure you are properly programming your volume and intensity, and focusing on different areas of the deadlift every session.

If you want to deadlift every day, it is possible but it is more about the overall volume and intensity of your training sessions. Read on to find out more about how you can deadlift every day, and get your deadlift stronger. Although this is true to an extent, simply deadlifting every day may not always be beneficial, and in some cases can be detrimental. The human body cares more about the overall volume and intensity of your workload, rather than how many times you choose to deadlift in a week.

The intensity refers to how hard the set is relative to your max, often referred to as a percentage of your 1 rep max. There are multiple ways you can structure this amount of volume. You could do all 3 sets of 10 reps one training session per week.

You could also do 1 set of 10 reps across three training sessions per week. In either scenario, the volume is the same. To achieve adaptation, you want to achieve what is called a minimal effective dose. This dose is the amount of work you have to do to promote some type of adaptation to get stronger. This varies for everyone, but you essentially want to do enough to get stronger, but not too much where you cannot recover. The best way to do this is to experiment through trial and error using the principles of progressive overload.

If you are a beginner, start with a couple of sessions, and adjust only the reps or the weight. As you progress, you can adjust accordingly by adding or reducing weight. A good thing to keep in mind is that your strength levels will vary day to day depending on a wide variety of factors such as your sleep or nutrition. In general, the overall trend of your strength over a long period of time months should be going up.

The type of deadlift sumo or conventional can also influence the amount of volume you will be able to handle and recover from.