Classic 11-week deadlift peak

Deadlift once a week for eleven weeks, moving from sets of ten to a single at 110% of your starting max.

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Your numbers

Worked out for an example lifter who squats 100 kg × 5, benches 75 kg × 5, deadlifts 130 kg × 5 and presses 50 kg × 5. Change any number to see your own.

Maxes

kg
1-rep max

Details

The program’s usual settings

Week by week

Every workout, as Catalyst would give it to you from the example numbers.

Workout Work

Session 1
  • Conventional deadlift90 kg
    2 × 10

Where it takes you

Each lift’s heaviest set, workout by workout, over the first 11 weeks, if every set is done as written.

Conventional deadlift90 → 160 kg+70
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A forecast, not a promise: it assumes every set is done as written. In the app, what you actually lift decides what comes next, by the program’s own rules.

What it trains

Working sets in the first week for each muscle, counted once for each muscle an exercise trains.

  • Gluteals2
  • Hamstrings2
  • Spinal erectors2
Sets a week by muscle
MuscleMain moverHelping
Gluteals20
Hamstrings20
Spinal erectors02

The schedule

1 workouts a week, on whichever days suit you.

WeekSession 1
1Work
2Work
3Work
4Work
5Work
6Work
7Work
8Work
9Work
10Work
11Work

How it works

The program’s own rules, as Catalyst runs them.

Keep the same maximum for all eleven weeks. Round weights to one pound or one kilogram, and choose the warm-up work you need.

What you need

Everything its exercises call for. Missing something? The app suggests swaps that train the same thing.

  • Barbell

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