Now before I begin to elaborate on the topic at hand, I have a glorious announcement.
We have on the Legio Gloria page now lifting belts, powerlifting belts.
So absolutely clean, the best in the world.
Now this is a model I have had since 2014.
My belt is still good as new and that is the belt you've seen in basically all of my training videos where I have done powerlifting.
So if you want a lifetime investment, if you do powerlifting, then definitely get one of those.
If you don't do powerlifting, then you don't really need a belt.
But it's for the heavy squats and deadlifts.
Now if you don't do those exercises, you don't need a belt.
But if you do lift heavy, it can be good.
So you can watch my training videos to see which exercises do I use the belt in.
And that's how you can use them as well.
Now, anyway, on to the topic at hand.
Why only deadlift once a week?
Now, of course, you can deadlift more often if you want, but in a recent schedule I wrote the Hero Titan class hypertrophy plan.
I only had it once a week, even though I say that as a natural, meaning that you don't take steroids, you should train each muscle group twice a week.
But there's a difference between doing deadlifts and hitting those particular muscles.
Now, if you do squats often, that will have a great carryover effect on the deadlifts.
So I have gone in periods where I've only done squats, no deadlifts, and yet my deadlift has increased.
I did this going up to my first powerlifting milit that I partook in in 2014.
The video is still up, you can search for it, the golden one powerlifting, and then you will get to it.
So I got a PR in the deadlift there.
And yeah, before that I only did squats basically.
So what you do is when you train a lot of squats and you do train rows and complementary exercises several times a week, you will also strengthen your deadlift.
And then only doing deadlifts once a week, it will still stimulate the movement pattern without overly taxing your body.
Then of course if you eat well and you rest well and you want to focus on the deadlift, yeah you can do it more often, but you can still make great gains specifically on the deadlift even only doing it once a week.
But there is a danger in doing it too often because it's so taxing on the body especially if you do a lot of other things.
So anyway long story short all of us of course we want a big deadlift.
I suppose all men want a big deadlift, completely natural, normal.
Now you can also get it via training other things.
So just as perhaps you want big arms you don't only need to do biceps curls to get big arms.
You can also do chins and rows and everything that hits the arms.
You know, doing a lot of triceps work will also increase the size of your arms.
So that is at least my point here.
So, if you follow such a schedule, or if you go on Russian Squadron, which I did a lot of back in the day, if you are an OG subscriber, you'll know this.
Then, yeah, it will have a good carryover effect to the deadlift as well.
So, anyway, that was my wisdom for the day.
I hope everyone's training is going well.
I hope everyone will get into a great shape for summer so we can all post physique.
And thank you to everyone who has committed to the Hero Titan class hypertrophy plan.
