Hey,
I’m starting week 6 of Hypertrophy I next week and I’m debating doing a trap-bar deadlift as my second pull variation. I’ll keep the standard deadlift as my pull #1 so this will replace the deficit deadlift that was my pull #2 for weeks 1-5.
Does this seem like an ok substitution assuming I stick to the outlined rep/set/RPE targets? Or would you recommend sticking with the template’s selectable variations?
I know another option is to use the trap-bar deadlift as pull #1 but I’d hate to remove the standard deadlift from my programming for the rest of the template.
(Some training history: 36-year-old male; 6’1" and 230lbs; 19ish years of Arthur Jones/HIT circuit training variations; 1.5 years of T-Nation bro splits; 4 months of SSNLP; 1.5 trips around The Bridge before Covid then another month of Bridge-inspired autoprogramming after the gyms here reopened before starting Hypertrophy)
Thanks for taking the time. This my first time posting here but I’ve been diving deep into your content for the last 8 or 9 months and I appreciate all that you folks do.
-Matt