Deadlift on the NLP

[teddyd]

The TDLP (my version of the SSLP):

@teddyd

Day 1 Squat 3 sets x 5 reps
Bench 3x5
Barbell rows (pendlay style) 3x8

Day 2 Deadlift 3x5
Press 3x5
Chin Ups (palms toward you) 3x whatever reps you can do

Training frequency and volume is equal across all movements. I will note that I did 1x5 for deadlifts when I did my version as I didn’t know any better. Now having trained BBM style for a bit, I can tell you that deadlifts are not as taxing as SS would lead you to believe, especially when paired with a substantially less taxing movement as presses. I left 5 minutes between working sets to eek out as much weight as possible, but no longer (none of this 7 minutes or 10 minutes crap).

The above is taken from a previous post I made.https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/fo…3511#post23511 (includes a bit of a rant about SSLP)

The deadlift in The Bridge and BBM Hypertrophy 3 Day v2 is treated the same as the other competition lifts (squat, press, bench press), so I don’t really see a need to treat it differently in the TDLP. I haven’t seen other programs (I have The Bridge v2, but I haven’t read it yet nor run it), but from the logs I see, all competition lifts are treated the same (or very similarly).

You could change the TDLP as noted above for deadlift as per @PWard 's suggestion above, which is what I suggest with a 10% back off for the second and third sets. The difference over the 8 to 12 weeks of the TDLP (or SSLP) is probably negligible.