Huge Gainer 10 Week Staggered Deadlift Workout Program

This is a 10 week deadlift program.
You can read the entire article about the program here.

• Week 1 – 75% x 5 sets x 5 reps
• Week 2 – 65% x 7 sets x 5 reps
• Week 3 – 80% x 4 sets x 4 reps
• Week 4 – 70% x 6 sets x 5 reps
• Week 5 – 85% x 3 sets x 3 reps
• Week 6 – 75% x 5 sets x 5 reps
• Week 7 – 90% x 2 sets x 2 reps
• Week 8 – 80% x 4 sets x 4 reps
• Week 9 – 60% x 5 sets x 3 reps
• Week 10 – *Max Attempt, see below

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Christian Thibaudeau - Deadlift Program

This is a high frequency approach to deadliftning. The following is cut and pasted from a thread on T-nation:

Here is the cycle I use... it is a 4 days cycle (so 4 days per week):

DAY 1. 60% of your max for 10 sets of 2 done as fast as possible
DAY 2. 60% of your max for 13 sets of 2 done as fast as possible
DAY 3: 60% of your max for 15 sets of 2 done as fast as possible
DAY 4. 60% + 40lbs for 10 sets of 1 done as fast as possible

Then restart the cycle with 20lbs more... so it would look like:

DAY 1. 60% of your max + 20lbs for 10 sets of 2 done as fast as possible
DAY 2. 60% of your max + 20lbs for 13 sets of 2 done as fast as possible
DAY 3: 60% of your max + 20lbs for 15 sets of 2 done as fast as possible
DAY 4. 60% + 60lbs for 10 sets of 1 done as fast as possible

You keep going until you start to have a form breakdown, this is normally after 3-4 cycles (some will extend it to 5-6) after that you stop deadlifting for a week, retest your max and start a new cycle.

The goal is to go as fast as possible (not during the set, but taking short rest periods between sets).

Good time targets are:

DAY 1. Under 3 minutes
DAY 2.Under 4 minutes
DAY 3. Under 6 minutes
Day 4: Under 2 minutes