Deadlifts at beginning or end of back workout

[ajdonutz]

Heavy deads always start my back day.. love em

 

[TheClap]

Secondly, from an injury prevention standpoint, doing them last after you have fatigues various other muscles could put you at a disadvantage. Tire your abs or low back, and you can't maintain proper form/technique, this could lead to injury.

My thoughts exactly!

Injury prevention is at the absolute top of my list. Do a warm up set with light weight and then hit the heavy stuff early on while you can maintain good form.

 

[keith1569]

At the beginning before I am tired

 

[eknight]

I've always considered them more a hip extension dominant movement than back extension, so I wouldn't put them on back day at all. I'd leave them on leg day. -EK

 

[matthewk04]

First. After compound movements everything else is just fine-tuning.

Exactly. Marty Gallagher said in purposeful primitive, compounds are dinner. Isos are dessert if your full after dinner skip dessert.

 

[IronSoul]

Secondly, from an injury prevention standpoint, doing them last after you have fatigues various other muscles could put you at a disadvantage. Tire your abs or low back, and you can't maintain proper form/technique, this could lead to injury.

I agree with this. I usually do all my compound lifts at the beginning of my routines. Even so on my high volume days. I'll hit my big lift on a huge pyramid so I'm still getting some heavy weight in and volume and the. Proceed to my craziness with supersets, triple sets, iso, and all out circuit. Just depends. I love throwing curveballs at my muscles. But if I were to do the big lifts at the end, it would be for volume with light weight really focusing on a good slow-moderate tempo with a huge squeeze at the peak/peaks.

 

[JR Ewing]

At the beginning of every other back workout. Rack pulls below the knees, with the bottoms of the 45's just a couple of inches off the ground. I'm a short-legged shortie, so I'm not really cutting out very much ROM. Low reps on these. Over / under grip, no straps.

 

[BrotherIron]

At the beginning unless performing the classical lifts (snatch or C&J). In that case I would perform them first.

 

[crazy jack]

Do deadlifts first