So, my deadlift has been stalling lately. I actually tried taking it off and substituting in deficit deads and it didnt work quite as I expected. The reason for this was obviously because I was weak off the ground. Anything I can lift mid shin, I can usually lock it out.
Anyways, like I said, my deadlift is stalling and I never took it off except for when I did rack deads, in which my pull actually went up alot.
Now, I’m thinking of putting trap bar deadlifts and doing them instead. What do you guys think? Is it a good idea to take conventional deadlifting off for a couple of months?
what’s your programming like? have you attempted max-outs regularly or stick to rep schemes? could be your form too… could be anything, even your shoes!!! and if you don’t wear shoes, could be your feet. my feet is flat 
anyways, trap bar deadlifts did not have a carryover for me but people like joe defranco might say otherwise. technically deficit deads are supposed to be the sole attribution to pulling with more power off the ground but height and flexibility is an issue. i would not abandon conventional for a whole month; two weeks is good. the other route is to practice sumo deadlift… this is the route i took when i not only begun to stall but GOT WEAKER on the freakin conventional deadlift. sumo deadlifts made me realize what a weak hip i had so i started doing barbell hip thrusts (Barbell Hip Thrust - YouTube). i practiced sumo variations and did those hip thrusts for a month and returned to make a 25 lb PR on convention dlifts. i’m not sure if it was the sumo or the hip thrusts but it wouldn’t hurt to do both. wouldn’t hurt to work on deficits either. whatever you’re weak at, that should give you more incentive to improve.
[quote]B.L.U. Ninja wrote:
So, my deadlift has been stalling lately. I actually tried taking it off and substituting in deficit deads and it didnt work quite as I expected. The reason for this was obviously because I was weak off the ground. Anything I can lift mid shin, I can usually lock it out.
Anyways, like I said, my deadlift is stalling and I never took it off except for when I did rack deads, in which my pull actually went up alot.
Now, I’m thinking of putting trap bar deadlifts and doing them instead. What do you guys think? Is it a good idea to take conventional deadlifting off for a couple of months?[/quote]
What does your training week looks like ? Do you squat and deadlift in the same week ? Strength stalling could also mean it’s time to bump up calories.
There could be one or a combination of about 10 billion different factors why you have stalled. Why are you picking these new variations? If you’re weak off the floor, neither will help you. If your form sucks, neither will help you. The only exercises that reall help off the floor are speed pulls and pulls from an elevated surface(like a plate or 2). Thats about it. Again, no amount of variation is going to help if you dont have decent form.
It’s good when stuff like this happens because now you have to really think about what your weakness is and why it is a weakness. It makes the defference between the gelled haired meatheads at the gym and peoples whos weights actually improve.
[quote]StormTheBeach wrote:
There could be one or a combination of about 10 billion different factors why you have stalled. Why are you picking these new variations? If you’re weak off the floor, neither will help you. If your form sucks, neither will help you. The only exercises that reall help off the floor are speed pulls and pulls from an elevated surface(like a plate or 2). Thats about it. Again, no amount of variation is going to help if you dont have decent form.
It’s good when stuff like this happens because now you have to really think about what your weakness is and why it is a weakness. It makes the defference between the gelled haired meatheads at the gym and peoples whos weights actually improve.[/quote]
I think my form is good. I’ve asked a few legit lifters at my gym and they said my form is spot on. And yes, it’s good that I actually evaluated what was wrong with my pull and figured out that I am weak on the bottom part of the lift. Like I said, if I can get it near my knees, I usually lock it out, no problem. This may be due to my putting rack pulls in for a few weeks, where my deadlift rocketed up.
So given that, I would try speed pulls. Looking back, when I was doing deficit deads from 2 plates, I didn’t have a very good form. It was decent but it was a bit sloppy and I wasn’t tight. I’m probably gonna give speed pulls a try because I never really got the gist of pulling from a deficit.
[quote]StompingHorse wrote:
[quote]B.L.U. Ninja wrote:
So, my deadlift has been stalling lately. I actually tried taking it off and substituting in deficit deads and it didnt work quite as I expected. The reason for this was obviously because I was weak off the ground. Anything I can lift mid shin, I can usually lock it out.
Anyways, like I said, my deadlift is stalling and I never took it off except for when I did rack deads, in which my pull actually went up alot.
Now, I’m thinking of putting trap bar deadlifts and doing them instead. What do you guys think? Is it a good idea to take conventional deadlifting off for a couple of months?[/quote]
What does your training week looks like ? Do you squat and deadlift in the same week ? Strength stalling could also mean it’s time to bump up calories.
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Right now, I’m squatting monday and pulling saturday. I’ve always liked pulling on saturdays because that’s when I do my sprints as well.
As for bumping up calories, I’m actually trying to cut a bit right now. I was really sick for a week and just getting back into it. My conditioning is horrible, that’s why I decided not to zero in on trying to have my main lifts go up. I’m just looking to beat my log book every week and as long as I’m adding 5-10lbs a week for about 12 weeks (when I end my cut), I’ll be stoked.
[quote]B.L.U. Ninja wrote:
[quote]StompingHorse wrote:
[quote]B.L.U. Ninja wrote:
So, my deadlift has been stalling lately. I actually tried taking it off and substituting in deficit deads and it didnt work quite as I expected. The reason for this was obviously because I was weak off the ground. Anything I can lift mid shin, I can usually lock it out.
Anyways, like I said, my deadlift is stalling and I never took it off except for when I did rack deads, in which my pull actually went up alot.
Now, I’m thinking of putting trap bar deadlifts and doing them instead. What do you guys think? Is it a good idea to take conventional deadlifting off for a couple of months?[/quote]
What does your training week looks like ? Do you squat and deadlift in the same week ? Strength stalling could also mean it’s time to bump up calories.
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Right now, I’m squatting monday and pulling saturday. I’ve always liked pulling on saturdays because that’s when I do my sprints as well.
As for bumping up calories, I’m actually trying to cut a bit right now. I was really sick for a week and just getting back into it. My conditioning is horrible, that’s why I decided not to zero in on trying to have my main lifts go up. I’m just looking to beat my log book every week and as long as I’m adding 5-10lbs a week for about 12 weeks (when I end my cut), I’ll be stoked.[/quote]
I don’t know how you plan your load (%1RM if you always work up to heavy singles that’s normal to stall). Also, while dieting/Cutting most are happy to just maintain strength levels.
Like Storm said, can be a million reasons.
Maybe your burned out. Possibly time for a deload
[quote]brauny96 wrote:
Maybe your burned out. Possibly time for a deload[/quote]
I was actually really sick for about a week so didn’t really do any lifting. Maybe that counts as a deload? Whenever I took deloads, they were always away from the gym and not just lowering percentages.
I’ll pull this saturday so I’m gonna see where I’m at.