Deadlift Everyday

[Sulabh]

I deadlift 6 times a week (My gym is closed on Sundays) with around 70-85% of 1 RM for 2-6 sets of 6 (progressively increasing the number of sets and reps upto 6 sets of 6 for a particular weight before increasing the weight by 10 kilograms. Needless to say I don't have smaller weights, or fractional plates, in my college gym).
Here is a brief background information. I started doing the Starting Strength program. Doing squats was a problem from the start due to non availability of a squat rack. I used a bench press set to squat after elevating the rack upto shoulder height. Also I had no training partner (most people in my college gym concentrate on machines for lower body workout) or a gym instructor who could point out flaws in my form. I tried to squat along side a mirror to keep track of my form but doing that becomes difficult during the final sets or reps when reps become tough. So I have dropped squats from my workout and now I have been doing deadlifts everyday for the last 2 months. Before that I deadlifted 3 times a week for a month. Maintaining the form is easier in deadlifts by looking at the side mirror. I don't use the exact form as described in Coach Rippetoe's videos but use lower hips at start which prevents my upper back rounding and helps in shoulders-in-front-of-the-bar concept described in the "Deconstructing the Deadlift" Article by Coach Rippetoe on T-Nation website.
Apart from deadlift, I do dumbbell overhead press, push ups and hanging leg raises everyday. I have seen some improvement in deadlifting strength (from barely deadlifting 50 kgs at 63 kg body-weight to deadlifting 80 kgs for 2 sets of 6 at 58 kg body-weight) in 3 months. I would be grateful if Coach Rippetoe could advice me on three questions.
Is this a sustainable workout routine to be followed untill I can deadlift 2.5 times my body-weight with good form?
Will high frequency deadlift be a problem in the long run as regards to back injury or any imbalances?
Will a deadlift-heavy workout be useful in learning wrestling, which I would start once I gain sufficient strength?

[Mark Rippetoe]

These are certainly interesting questions, and an interesting approach to DTFP. We're all very proud of your innovative attempt to solve your problems. I think I speak for everyone in the Starting Strength community when I say that this may well be the most interesting post of the day. And further, I think it merits a more complete description, like you would find in the Training Logs section of the website. Yes, I think you should make a training log. Link to it here when you get it done. And again, thanks!

[Mark Rippetoe]

I think it's certainly very interesting.

[Culican]

I'll be interested to hear what happens to his neck as he deadlifts higher weights and keeps turning his head to look at the "side mirror" to maintain his form.

[Tom Campitelli]

Will high frequency deadlift be a problem in the long run as regards to back injury or any imbalances?

I would be worried about developing palliative sacral trailing on that program. At the very least, you would be producing a lot of junk torque, which might interfere with scapular mechanics, or perhaps even prevent advanced shoulder firing sequences. Is Dr. Been in the house?

[Austin Baraki]

I have seen some improvement in deadlifting strength (from barely deadlifting 50 kgs at 63 kg body-weight to deadlifting 80 kgs for 2 sets of 6 at 58 kg body-weight) in 3 months.

Wow! This is mind-blowing progress for a college-aged male.

Please do start a training log, and include video of yourself deadlifting while watching yourself in a side mirror as you describe.

[Mark Rippetoe]

I'll be interested to hear what happens to his neck as he deadlifts higher weights and keeps turning his head to look at the "side mirror" to maintain his form.

It will be interesting.

[Frankie]

This is why we can't have nice things.

[Bill Been]

I would be worried about developing palliative sacral trailing on that program. At the very least, you would be producing a lot of junk torque, which might interfere with scapular mechanics, or perhaps even prevent advanced shoulder firing sequences. Is Dr. Been in the house?

Sulabh,
Professor Campitelli has both illuminated and paralleled the issue with enormity and clarification. Substitutional paradigms cannot overcome manual limitations nor can they ameliorate junk tissue nor indeed junk equipment. His gut instinct that you're producing a large and unsubstantiated junk torque calculus was spot on across several modal domains. The harder we work on deadlift concentricity, hip drop, lazy eye, and reflective insufficiency, we cannot overcome this obstacle or any other. Dr. Baraki often quips (and I'm paraphrasing) that sagittal instability often leads to the pervasive ligament dominance and inability to stabilize junk tissue we're finding in our undersized, weak, college-aged runts.

[Mahendra]

Sulabh,

Buy Starting Strength 3rd Edition. Join another gym with better equipment. Do the program (DTP).

Don't complicate things.