dude, the old school tunes r legit, and, touch n go on that deadlift! BOOM!

Kevin, I was curious what juicer you as well, we use a Breville and we love it but are thinking about getting a nicer Champion one to see if it does a little better job. Do you usually eat anything with your juice? Just wondering, we often juice in the morning which is awesome for our kids and perfect for me as I am just getting back from training and I love having juice right after a workout.

@zach what do you think about Athletic greens vs juicing, I haven t tried Athletic Greens because we juice

You’re a Rare Breed, they said many of the strongest men from the Golden Era worked physical / manual labor: chuck sipes, john grimek, arnold and franco

on the flip side, those high rep DLs that you do, Dr McGill said back injuries are often due to muscular endurance issues of the low back

Interesting that with all your work you can still go heavy, then again, I am NOT surprised, your body has been built to withstand such work

Awesome post, bro, thnx!

I’ve begun doing this myself and gotta be careful recommending what I do works for others, NOT the case always

HUGE point regarding subbin deads for squats in reply to a comment

Jim Wendler pointed out that years ago people had BIGGER squats than their DL, now MANY have BIG DLs and they squat 50-75% of their DL, if that

Do NOT neglect squats

I haven’t done them in a looooong time, but if they work for you keep at em’

I did these a year ago and Istvan Javorek told me to explode upward and finish w/ a shrug when doing RDLs

Depends on your goals!

1) Like Zach said – a heavy single every 6 weeks but not a max single. I often do conventional/sumo/rack pull/conventional off 4″ box (alternate every week) 6 x 1 @ 65-70% 1RM explosively after Squats on DE day. If you are squatting heavy (ME day) at least once/week with wide stance, you probably can get away with max effort DL’ing once every few weeks, as long as you do some maintenance work. According to Louie’s articles, alot of the Westside crew doesnt do a ME DL day – but typically uses some high-rep rack pulls or speed work or if they do, they rotate the DL in and out as exercise of choice on ME (they seem to prefer GM variants over the DL for ME exercise). But WRT the DL vs squat, it leads me to point #2 –

2) Its not necessarily a “leg” movement – keep your hips high and dont turn the DL into some bastardized version of a squat.

3) Always remember to keep shoulder blades directly ABOVE or slightly IN FRONT, not behind the bar.

4) Dont neglect your grip. Ross (above) touched upon this already and he did a good job of addressing it. Although I disagree about using the double overhand grip for the lighter sets and then switching back to alternate for heavier sets…..Ed Coan said the DL is the most technical of all the lifts and changing grips within the workout may not be a good idea – i use a double overhand grip for all my sessions where my effort is at less than 90% 1RM. Anytime I plan on hitting a ME or one heavy single type day, I use the alternate grip for that whole workout. But like Zach said – that is what works for ME and it may not work for YOU.

Just my $0.02.