Deadlift Accessory Night

We're wrapping up week 5 of our focused deadlift accessory work.. for the last 5 weeks we've been following an intense deadlift building cycle based around champion deadlifter George Leeman's recommended training. If you go back a few posts, you can see the details of the cycle.

One of the core training lifts is squatting with the Safety Squat bar using a conventional DL stance off a slightly high box for high reps. (10 reps)

The two key parts to this lift are:

a- using the safety squat bar which really wants to pitch you forward, forcing you to tighten your core and stay back/upright

b- using the conventional DL stance

We've found this to really work the lockout hard.. make sure you sit back on the box, and don't "Squat down" to it.. makes the lift much harder.

Here's a quick video of our training session where we work up to 375lbs x 10 reps on this lift:




Safety Squat bar squats w/Conv DL stance off high box-
175x10
265x10
315x10
335x10

Romanian deadlifts no lockout-
135x10
225x10
335x10
405x10

Shrugs-
225x10
315x10
405x10
405x10
405x10

GHRs-
120 reps

Sled pulls-
145
190
235

Friday night Deadlift Accessories 5/1/15

We had a great turnout tonight of lifters! Actually ran two deadlift platforms, one for the guys, one for the gals... everyone put up some nice PRs.

Tonight's main lift was Week 4 of our deadlift accessory work, pulling off a 3.5" block. We will go back to Safety Squat bar squats w/deadlift stance next week off a box, then come back for Week 6 with heavier pulls off of 7" blocks.

Accessory work was Yates rows, T-bar rows, and GHRs.

Fri 5/1/15 - Week 4 Deadlift Accessory work
Block pulls off 3.5" block-
135x3
225x3
315x3
405x5
455x5
500x5

Yates Rows-
135x15
225x15
315x15

T-bar Rows-
100x15
145x15
200x15

GHRs-
100 Reps