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Depends on where you are, usually when you just starting out - or not using really heavy weights, you can do more than one muscle group in a day. I struggle, deadlifts wipe me out, I'm exhausted for the day, and for some reason, squat days kill me for the session, I'm literally wanting to throw up after sets.

At the moment I'm also cycling to work for cardio... which was painfull in the first week.

Cycle to Gym (15km) - Gym - Cycle to work (15km) - Cycle home (20km)... friends leaving the gym wanted to give me a lift on some-days (deadlifts)... but I'm finally used to it, and now I'm just trying to beat my previous days time.
 
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xrapidx said:
Cycle to Gym (15km) - Gym - Cycle to work (15km) - Cycle home (20km)... friends leaving the gym wanted to give me a lift on some-days (deadlifts)... but I'm finally used to it, and now I'm just trying to beat my previous days time.
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xrapidx said:
Depends on where you are, usually when you just starting out - or not using really heavy weights, you can do more than one muscle group in a day. I struggle, deadlifts wipe me out, I'm exhausted for the day, and for some reason, squat days kill me for the session, I'm literally wanting to throw up after sets.

At the moment I'm also cycling to work for cardio... which was painfull in the first week.

Cycle to Gym (15km) - Gym - Cycle to work (15km) - Cycle home (20km)... friends leaving the gym wanted to give me a lift on some-days (deadlifts)... but I'm finally used to it, and now I'm just trying to beat my previous days time.
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Well yeah I am a beginner:D I will be doing body weight workouts when I go to. Mauritius because obviously I can't take my dumbbells with
 
On the deadlift. That stronglifts guide is definitely for beginners, as you go higher with weight your technique will grow. Now ofcoarse I am no expert, just do a lot of reading and listening to recorded voice calls and look at videos. One thing I remember, depending on the program, the suggestion was to use overhand grip on your lower weight sets, ie. your warm-up sets, to still force your forearms to get get stronger.

So lets say you going to do 4 warm up sets, and 2 work sets (just a random example), on the 4 warm up sets, of lets say 80-100-120-140 you can use overhand grip, then switch over to alternate hand grip when you do 160-180.

Overhand grip forces you to become stronger with grip, but it definitely is not enough once you go very high with weight. At least that is what I remember from the video.

Personally, I am still only at 90kg with Deadlifts, though I am hoping to get that closer to 140-150 later this year. Take into account, I only started deadlifts last year October, had many injuries from bad technique (hey everyone needs to learn, 50% mistakes are sadly my way of getting there), and this year I mostly focused on upperbody and only keeping legs where I was with them.
 
Yeh... thats basically what I do - I use overhand until I know I won't be able to complete the set.

When it comes to bad technique, it really helps to have someone there that can scream at you when things start going wrong... sometimes you can't see or feel it yourself until its to late.
 
Tried the overhand grip on the dead lift and find the bar comes very close to my body so less control on bringing the bar up.

So sticking with alternate grip, I went up from 100kg to 120kg this week, think I can go heavier but my grip fails, I use cycling gloves at present, think I need to switch to those softer neoprene gloves as I used to strip of neoprene and that's what got me up to 120kg.

I only started dead-lifting 3 weeks back so still learning, wish I had started ages ago as I feel it all over after a session.
 
How 'bout no gloves at all. Gloves are almost universally omitted by advanced deadlifters.
 
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Tried the overhand grip on the dead lift and find the bar comes very close to my body so less control on bringing the bar up.

So sticking with alternate grip, I went up from 100kg to 120kg this week, think I can go heavier but my grip fails, I use cycling gloves at present, think I need to switch to those softer neoprene gloves as I used to strip of neoprene and that's what got me up to 120kg.

I only started dead-lifting 3 weeks back so still learning, wish I had started ages ago as I feel it all over after a session.
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If you do not use the alternate grip, the bar will roll in your hands at heavier weights and cause you to lose grip.
 
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/160419284284?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649

These are the gloves I'm looking at getting as the wife is not too impressed with callouses on my hands :)
A neoprene strip I used made the bar feel apart of my body if you know what I mean and didn't leave marks on my hands.

I also tried something different this week:
Instead of doing only 4 sets of Incline bench like I usually do with most exercises excluding warmup - with the last set I usually aim for at least 4 - 6 reps and usually complete the last reps with bad form so have added a 5th workable set with 30 second break coming from 4th set - rep to failure.
That and I do a single set of Incline (bar), rest 2min then switch to decline (dumbell), rest 2min then switch back to incline (barbell)

Eina today in a good way.
 
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How 'bout no gloves at all. Gloves are almost universally omitted by advanced deadlifters.
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Gloves are for p.u.s.s.i.e.s :p

They do not make it more easy to grip the bar, because of the thickness, you cannot close your hand properly around the bar as you would without it. I use colophony (pine resin) to prevent my hands from slipping, also keeps them from getting sweaty. Available at pharmacies, pretty cheap.
 
I have to agree - gloves are for pussies - my fiancee wears them... I learnt this about 1½ years ago.

For deadlifts, get yourself chalk...
 
xrapidx said:
I have to agree - gloves are for pussies - my fiancee wears them... I learnt this about 1½ years ago.

For deadlifts, get yourself chalk...
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+1 for chalk

You'll never Deadlift as much with gloves on unless you have humongous hands.
 
You'll never Deadlift as much with gloves on unless you have humongous hands.
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Where do get chalk from?

My hands are large, the bar I use is from the days my dad was young and used to box, proper steel bar but not the same size as an Olympic bar.
I don't use gloves for anything else except the Dead-lift, clean & press and farmer's walk with 45kg dumbells, those 3 exercises make my hands look like I dig trenches alongside the road every day for a living.

I capped out at 100kg when using cycling gloves, using neoprene I was able to go higher as the extra padding although very thin helped, maybe I need to work on a tighter grip, I'll check later on when I get home for tonight's session.
I'm interested in results and not what is deemed being a ***** - sticks and stone's.
 
Cape Union Mart, maybe? - anywhere that'll sell rock climbing equipment... I think mine was from Dischem...

Are you training at home? Try spray ant-perspirant on your hands just before each set of deadlifts.

Oh - and you won't get results using gloves, or straps.
 
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Where do get chalk from?

My hands are large, the bar I use is from the days my dad was young and used to box, proper steel bar but not the same size as an Olympic bar.
I don't use gloves for anything else except the Dead-lift, clean & press and farmer's walk with 45kg dumbells, those 3 exercises make my hands look like I dig trenches alongside the road every day for a living.

I capped out at 100kg when using cycling gloves, using neoprene I was able to go higher as the extra padding although very thin helped, maybe I need to work on a tighter grip, I'll check later on when I get home for tonight's session.
I'm interested in results and not what is deemed being a ***** - sticks and stone's.
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Use an olympic bar. It fits perfectly. Chalk you can get at any supplement store or most pharmacies. I use colophony, I find it works better than chalk and it's half the price. Got mine at M-Kem. In the beginning your hand will develop callouses, but strangely it becomes much less noticeable after a few months. I cannot use gloves anymore, and lifting straps or any strap that ties you to the bar, defeats the point (my opinion).
 
Are you training at home?
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Thinking of joining Virgin Active, closest gym but will only be able to go on weekends.
So I make do at home.

I have a 4 car garage at home with about 1000+kgs of weights, build my own dumbbells each week when I want to increase weight before my next session etc.
I'm a little obsessed I must admit.....
Then I have a trojan gym for pec dec, pull ups and pull downs.

I Mostly use free weights, have 3 bench press benches.
The machine I miss the most is cable cross overs.....I love that machine.

i'll give chalk a try.
 
Hemps said:
Thinking of joining Virgin Active, closest gym but will only be able to go on weekends.
So I make do at home.

I have a 4 car garage at home with about 1000+kgs of weights, build my own dumbbells each week when I want to increase weight before my next session etc.
I'm a little obsessed I must admit.....
Then I have a trojan gym for pec dec, pull ups and pull downs.

I Mostly use free weights, have 3 bench press benches.
The machine I miss the most is cable cross overs.....I love that machine.

i'll give chalk a try.
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For deadlifts, whe weights should also be olympic size. Do you make your barbells as well?
 
Do you make your barbells as well?
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If you mean I add plates to increase the weight then yes.
I would need to buy an Olympic bar and the plates to go with it though, so only drawback.
 
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