Thread: Where do you fit deadlifts in your workout

If you grip is giving out, train your grip separately to make it stronger and use straps when it gives out until it IS strong enough to last the whole session.

Deadlifts are critical to any program. I've found good results putting them anywhere in my program. Put them where you are most likely to get the most of them. Do them on their own if you have to!

DL go first on their very own day, one day a week, with follow-up supplemental work to include BOR, pull ups, shrugs, and rack pulls.

I do them with shoulders and calves.

Considering DLs are a hip-dominant movement, the natural classification would be lower pull, or, at the very least, "legs". They work your back indirectly through isometric tension, but they're not a "back" workout, per se.

But, as Gaz said, at the end of the day -- whatever works for you to simply do them then just go with it. DLs are too important to skip. If they work better for you on back day than legs then by all means. As long as it doesn't interfere with your other leg work then there's really no problem.

I usually do them with my lower body work. You could do some kind of full body workout so that the rest of your workout isn't filled with really grip intensive lifts like a back/pull day. You may also consider doing lower body pulling movements paired with upper body pressing movement for the same reason (Deadlifts, RDLs, hypers paired up with dips, bench presses, military presses).

Someone else mentioned devoting a day to the deadlift with some smaller accessory work following that. I don't think that's a bad idea at all either.

I do it on back days after the first couple of exercises. I want to make sure my back is nice and warmed up.