Deadlifts - leg day or back?

MichaelK1007 · February 2018

I believe deadlifts are one of the best excercises you can do but I find most people either don’t do them right or don’t do them at all. How often do you deadlift and if so do you do them on leg day or back or neither? Also feel free to share your PR.

Currently I am deadlifting on back day once and week and my PR is 500 and done at 190lbs.

marissafit06 · February 2018

I do them on Back

Okiludy · February 2018

My split is upper lower and I do them on lower.

steyrboy · February 2018

I follow the Stronglifts 5x5 regimen so there are 3x deadlifts every 2 weeks. I don't think they can be categorized into upper/lower or leg/back days as they are full-body lifts.

My PR is 415 @240lbs (~20% BFP so its not all muscle).

jw1jones323 · February 2018

I do them on back day, then 3 days later do legs. My PR is 585 at 230

tess5036 · February 2018

I do them on leg day, but I am only a beginner

Wheelhouse15 · February 2018

I put them on lower body days.

Mycophilia · February 2018

I find that deadlifts stimulate & fatigue my hamstrings/glutes way more than my erectors/traps, therefore I do my deadlifting on leg days.

Davidsdottir · February 2018

My split is actually legs and back 2x a week; chest, shoulders, and arms 2x a week; and glutes alone 1x a week. I do conventional one day, sumo one day, and RDL one day.

emelym1993 · February 2018

Just depends. Leg days I do heavy Sumo Deadlifts & mix in hip thrust& RDLs (lighter/High Rep) etc. && Back days, If Im feeling up for it ill do conventionals. I deadlift at most 2-3xx a week. But If Im on prep, I dont deadlift on my back day just on leg days.

Chino50ae · February 2018

It's a back exercise

cwolfman13 · February 2018

Chino50ae wrote: »

It's a back exercise

They're both...they develop muscles across the entire posterior chain, including your hamstrings and glutes.

ninerbuff · February 2018

I do hamstrings alone, so I do them together on this day.

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h1udd · February 2018

I do an A and B full body workout 3 times a week alternating A and B ... squats are in A and deadlift in B ... I wouldn’t want to squat heavy and deadlift heavy on the same day .. both of them totally wipe my out and stress the muscles hard ... I think I would injur myself trying to push the floor away from the bar after doing 5x5 on squats

cwolfman13 · February 2018

I do an A/B 2x per week full body program. I do deadlifts in workout B.

sgt1372 · February 2018

I do full body workouts 4x a week.

Do DL& SQT 2x's week on alternate days and do 2 other upper body compound lifts/exercises on those days.

My DL 1RM is 400 @ 158# & 67 years of age.

hulkbuster2503 · February 2018

I do two types of deadlift. Basic and sumo deadlift. Basic deadlift on back day and sumo deadlift on leg day.

bbell1985 · February 2018

I do them on deadlift days. Twice per week. Saturday I do them heavy alongside Squat and bench, and then I do them again on Wednesday with bench and either an upper or lower hypertrophy day.

I think my PR is 290 or 295. It better be 315 soon.

its_me_april · February 2018

I do them on one of my leg days. I do romanian deadlifts pretty much exclusively now and really target my glutes and hams. I would just feel odd doing them for one of my upper body days. I don't want to share my PR because it's embarrassing. lol

bioklutz · February 2018

Right now I am doing deadlifts on Back, Biceps, Butt & ABS day. Then I do RDL on Legs, Butt & ABS day.

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RC4655 · February 2018

I do them once a week and my assistance work on that day is back, delta and biceps. My best official competition deadlift was 620, I have deadlifted 700 in the gym.

Chieflrg · February 2018

It does matter what you consider them as long as your programming is good.

Personally I only train them twice a week and I suck at them. I'm guessing I'll only pull 500-510lbs because I just switched to sumo a couple months ago and my body is going through a flare up.

ritzvin · February 2018

mkgoodson1007 wrote: »

I believe deadlifts are one of the best excercises you can do but I find most people either don’t do them right or don’t do them at all. How often do you deadlift and if so do you do them on leg day or back or neither? Also feel free to share your PR.

Currently I am deadlifting on back day once and week and my PR is 500 and done at 190lbs.

Full body, so:
Every other session (alternating with squats) along with overhead press and lat pulldowns (alternating with bench press & rows).

(ETA: so it counts as a leg for my programming template purposes)

RC4655 · February 2018

If your ultimate goal is a big deadlift, I have found less is more. Right now I am hypertrophy training because it is off season and I want to add muscle. But during meet prep training, when I want to pull a big deadlift at a competition, I do very few reps, and I do them fairly heavy but not too heavy. For example, when I hit 620 in competition, I never pulled more than 420 in training leading up to that meet, and I did not do any deadlifts 3 weeks prior to my competition. Rest and not overtraining are key to a big deadlift.