On Benni's deadlift training, this was his training program as offered up by a training partner in 2009 or so, and if you look at his traing hall tapes they are still doing similar work-
Week A
Deadlift warm up to about 80%
80% 8setx2reps
Platform deadlift about 3-4inch high
Train with weights from 40-70%
4-6set x 4reps Speed!
Then go down to about 40-50% 2setx8reps
Week B
Deadlift. Work up to 3rep max.
Platform deadlift about 3-4inch high
With weights from 50-75%
4-6set x 3-5reps Speed
Then go down to about 50% for 2setsx8reps
Week C
Jeff Jet Method Deadlift ( This is hard to write down )
When you do Jeff Jet Method deadlift you start by doing a rack pull. Then your training partners take the rack away and you go down and then up! Then your partners put the rack back in! The rep starts up by your thighs then you go down and up again ( I hope you get it )
A guy from America told us about this. His name is Jeff Jet. We started doing this because pretty much everything me and Benedikt can pull up we can do more reps! So we thought this would be a great way to do work with much more weight to shock the body! It worked!
Jeff Jet Method Deadlift - Go up in 1-3reps max ( Do what the day allows!! )
Platform deadlift about 3-4inch high
4set x 4-6reps with weights from 50-60%
Deadlifts are trained 1x a week.
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Now my commentary on various things touched on in this thread-
Now, just a caveat, many guys at the top levels are more instinctive, so there might be changes that never make it to print.
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Now as to whether jacking Ronnie up to 300+ lbs in the offseason would help? Maybe, maybe not. As mentioned, when guys add weight, many times their squats go up, but their deads drop because the mechanics of their pulls change. Hence the old powerlifting axiom "keep adding weight till your deadlift goes down".
From what I've seen and judging him against others in the strength sports, I'd bet he'd wind up with a #2200- 2300 rawish total or so.
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As far as drugs go,
Dianabol, Anadrol, and Test are always the base drugs. Figure a gram to 2 grams of those a week. Tren is added in by some now, it's a bit more popular withe younger lifters. Eq and Deca are more popular with the older guys. Anavar and Halotestin are popular if you can find a quality source and have the money to run them right. Many just run Halo on training days and pre meet. Anavar has to be at least 50mg+ a day to be worthwhile in many people's eyes. Superdrol sometimes gets added in sometimes too.
Pre meet-
Ephedrine, Halo, Dianabol, Anadrol, and if you can find them, Cheque Drops are used, but have lost some favor.
Many guys just bump the Anadrol and Dianabol to 100mg/d for Dianabol and 150-200mg/d for Anadrol the week of the meet and leave it at that.
Cheque Drops have to be timed exactly against attempts or they'll do more harm than good many times.
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One last thing, it was mentioned that Strongmen don't bench or bench infrequently at the higher levels, that's mis-information. They all bench and bench a lot. There are times that inclines or Push presses, etc.... are given more emphasis by some. But the bench is still a bread and butter lift.
