Quote Originally Posted by Jakspro
2 warmup sets of 10's is fine. Maybe even 12, if your using piss ant weight just to loosen up and solidifying your form. Then go to working sets. Lower reps but i also stress not more weight than you can bear. Just as getting 10 reps in with lighter weight can weaken form and cause injury, so can going 3 reps with shity form.
sure warm ups for 10 are fine. what i was trying to compare was , you cant possibly train the deadlift to failure, not like curls or tricep pushdown,(isolation movements etc) if you are doing sets of 10's you can not posibly be coming close to failure, you would have to use a lighter weight(sub maxiaml weights). form is everything in this lift, lot of people on this board think this lift is soley for back, this is NOT the case, it works the entire posterior chain(glutes hams,quad lumborum, longissimus ,paraspinals, erectors,lats traps, slight biceps and even a little quad muscles. you shouldnt train this movement like it is an isolation movement because it is not even close to an isolation exercise, and you should never train this movement to failure using higher reps you can achieve hypertrophy usinf multiple sets and lower reps(ie- 5 sets of 5 reps is perfect using percentages of 55- to 80% of your one rep max)