The 5x10 for deadlifts in 531 is very exhausting especially when it gets to week 3 where it is 70% of your TM. Is it fine to do FSL 5x5 instead of 5x10 just for deadlifts?
You need to reread his book. The only place where 5 x 10 at 70 percent is done is the BBB 3 Month challenge. If you are doing a “challenge” I would expect it to be “challenging”. Additionally, that’s not “week” 3, that’s month 3 after you have already accumulated volume from 2 prior months of 50 and 60 percent.
Buy his book. Jim’s a good dude and I am sure would appreciate the support.
I just read the part again he recommends 60%, 50%, 70% for beginners and intermediates and for more advanced lifters 50%, 40%, 60% for the Forever BBB. But for original 531 he recommends 40-60% Written in the 531 Forever book.
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If you have the book in front of you, I am at work and mine is at the house, than I am wrong. I have never done BBB at 70 percent, except for the BBB 3 month challenge.
I will say that I have always picked a percentage for my BBB sets and stayed with that percentage the entire 4 week cycle. If I chose 50 percent of my TM, all three weeks I would keep them at 50 percent.
I know the 5 x 10 dead lifts are soul suckers though. I will reread the book myself when I get to the house tonight but 70 percent of your TM for 50 reps will definitely kick your butt.
I think I will just do deadlifts at 50% but the other lifts in the scheme of 60 50 70 because he wrote that for a lot of lifters they use lower percentages for squats and especially deadlifts and still get great results.
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What have you been doing for conditioning?
Barely any
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I believe we have identified why these deadlifts are so exhausting for you.
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in the book he recommends 3-5 times a week of conditioning. so would running a few kilometres 3-5 times a week before enough conditioning
It will certainly be better than your current approach of NO conditioning. But since you have the book, you can read up on his recommendations for conditioning (of which, running a few kilometers isn’t really anything he pushes as far as running goes).
For the sake of deadlifts in particular, I don’t find running has great carryover. Running hills would be a better approach, if running is the desired approach. However, dragging a sled would have MUCH better carryover. I’d say some bodyweight circuit exercises would be a better approach as well. If swimming was an option, I’d try that. Or even just running through water. And regular walking would be included as well, sometimes with a weight vest.