Rack Pulls and Halting Deadlifts Programming

[Adam Lauritzen]

Mark,

I am 30 years old, 1.7m tall, and weigh 90kg(10kg heavier since the West Point Seminar last year). I have reached the point of 202.5x5 in training for the deadlift and have, as you've stated in the technique videos, had trouble recovering from deads effecting my other lifts in a negative way. My solution would be to use halting deads and rack pulls. My questions are:

1. Would I treat rack pull warm up pyramid and work set the same as the deadlift (i.e. single work set of 5)?

2. How much weight would I back off for the halting deads, assuming the work set would be a single set of eight?

Also I just competed for the first time about a week ago. Happily, I set personal records in all three lifts. Thanks to you and your staff for the high quality of work that you do and for your time.

Adam

[Mark Rippetoe]

1. Same procedure as the deadlift warm-up.

2. It varies, so titrate it up and see.

Nice job at your meet.

[Adam Lauritzen]

Awesome, thanks!