[Cloudguy]

I saw a guy in the gym this past week doing rack pulls while I was doing deads. He was pulling around 600+ and he had a huge back.

So I read up on rack pulls and found that they can be helpful in getting past the weak spot on deadlifts. If you start them where you usually slow down pulling deads (around the knee, just above or below), they can help move higher on deads.

Anyway, it is hard to see how I could incorporate them unless I rotated between deads and rack pulls each week. Right now I work out on Mon, Tues, Fri & Sat:

Mon: Push
Tue: Pull -this is when I do deads
Fri: Push
Sat: Pull + Squats

Anyway, I was thinking about trying to add the rack pulls in on Saturdays, but my concern is that I will not be recovered to do deads at 100% on Tuesdays. For example, I had been mixing up my workout because I had an elbow problem and last Friday I did deads at 385 (I have peaked out the week before around 415 with 2 reps in a set). I tried to get back into my regular routine this week and went to do deads again on Tuesday and when I hit 325 I did not want to go any higher because my back started to get sore from the Friday workout.

So, should I do light rack pulls, or is it alright to alternate between rack pulls and deads each week? I had been reading up about it and some people suggested that guys doing deads with high weight are sometimes only able to pull deads once every 2 to 3 weeks because they are so destructive. It was suggested that if doing fairly high weight, once a week was probably the most that should be attempted. Will rotating between deads and rack pulls each week be detrimental or beneficial? I just do not see any other way to try these out without doing something like this.