dead

Gotta admit: i'm in a quandary concerning dead lifts. They're the only real lift i'm any good at, and in reality super-heavy deads don't contribute to the greater goal. And even though i really believe they have a role (and i really don't wanna give up my hopes and dreams for 'em just yet) i don't know where to fit 'em in my program. Climbing-wise everything else fits less problematically into the program. There's a Base Fitness bit, a Strength phase (where, as you'd expect, most of the hypertrophic sorts of exercises should occur), a Power phase where you demand fast-twitch, mass-recruitment sorts of things out of all that muscle, a Power-Endurance phase where you take all that recruitment out for marathons of pain, and a Performance phase which is what you've done it all for. And it's understood through most of it all that you're still doing strengthy stuff--working core and large muscles, etc.

But it's difficult to justify a constant, non-macro-cycled 5/3/1 workout; and more difficult still when i totally know it's cutting into the quality of all my other workouts.

All that to say i didn't do 5/5/5 today. And that i wouldn't mind locking out 600 lbs.