Post by chanduthemagician on Jul 14, 2019 23:39:16 GMT
High rep deadlifts are problematic since it's easy to lapse into bad form resulting in busted up weightlifter syndrome .
The potential is surely there, but it's a slow lift and I pay attention and cut things short if I feel fatigue induced form issues. I also know from rehab a long time ago on some MedX equipment that I have a higher than normal percentage of slow twitch fiber in my spinal erectors. This was back in the early 1990's I had a back injury and was getting rehabbed. The MedX stuff was wonderful. The PT put you in the machine and then they basically locked you in making your legs and everything else immobile. Only the movement they wanted to happen could. If the PT would have walked away, you'd be stuck in the machine until someone showed up. Literally no way to get out. It was very Arthur Jones-ish type training. You did the movement has hard as you could for 10 reps. Isokinetic so the speed was constant, but they measured your force output. I was basically as strong on the last rep as the first and could repeat the set after a couple of minutes with the same force output. It was based on that he determined I had a much higher than normal amount of ST fiber in my lumbar/erector area.
We are all different. My deadlift protocol would be wrong for someone with a lot of FT fibers in lumbar/erector region. Fatigue would quickly set in and form would go to hell.
My PB deadlift was 525 at 300lbs. Today I'm 195 - 200 and can pull 315 but I don't do that with any regularity. I usually keep around 185 to 225 and do a few reps in the 275 - 300 range every few weeks. I'm really not concerned with increasing my strength in the movement.
You know where I see real injury potential. The crossfit cleans wherein they do amrap in a given time. That shit is a recipe for injury.