Deadlift Question for Robert Santana
Feel free to move this, as this has nothing to do with nutrition, but I figured that posting in this section would allow me to get your opinion specifically rather than someone else. I read your recent article and you mentioned the importance of maintaining a significant deadlift lead on the squat. I asked about this in another section and I was told that I shouldn't keep the squat down in favor of keeping the deadlift up. I have always had bad form on my deadlift, but I am working to correct this and I subsequently lowered my deadlift weight to within 20 lbs of my squat sets. I am running an NLP for the second time with better form after not lifting at all during football season. As soon as I lowered my deadlift to correct my form, within 2 weeks, my squat sets came to an abrupt halt. I am deadlifting 3 days per week for one set of 5, but I am having no recovery issues. I failed my squat at 340x5x3 and I had lowered my deadlift to 355x5x1. Failing the squat at this light of a weight on the LP makes me want to try something differently. Should I drop down my squat weight so that it is, say, 50 lbs lighter than the deadlift? If I figure out my deadlift form, I could reasonably take 10 lb jumps in both lifts while maintaining a 50 lb gap between the two. What do you think I should do? Nobody else on the forum but you thinks I should necessarily maintain a set deadlift lead over the squat.
Thanks,
Jack Morrison