>>34662849Probably too exhausting to do all that before your max set of 405 and your rep ranges and all that depend on your explicit goals. If strength, do a 'canned' progression scheme like 5/3/1 or Texas method. If your goal is growth do 5 sets of 5 across with higher rep work for the target muscles (glutes, hams, quads, IMO DLs aren't really a back excercise, they definitely work the back but its isometric contraction at best, treat them as a leg excercise). 5x5 sets across may not even be appropriate, a lot of people find a significant rep dropoff doing multiple sets on DLs. Maybe ramped sets up to anywhere from 1 to 3 sets of 5 at max weight (you can definitely base it on how you feel that day).
Maybe something more appropriate would be:
135x5
225x5
315x5
365x5
405x5
That would be an exammple of 5x5 ramped sets (5 sets ramping up to a max set of 5 ala billstar)
For 5x5 sets across this may be more appropriate as a warmup/rampup
135x5x1-2 (weight x reps x sets)
185x5
225x3
315x2
365x1
405x5x3-5 (base it on how you feel, 'autoregulate')
Doing the lower reps you get less fatigued before your worksets but you still get enough reps in to work technique and warm up the muscles. Although ramped 5x5 ramped sets youre still getting 25 good reps and the top 2-3 sets are stimulating gains even though they aren't max. Both will work.
