Pikey

Hi Mate
SLDL – let you knees unlock but not bend, bend from your waist but keep your waist to shoulder straight, i.e. don’t round you back.

Deadlifts off of rack – waist of time! You’ll shift a load of weight and prove nothing, and risk injury due to the massive overload. If you want to improve your grip just pause each rep for a second on the floor. To give you an idea I have used them and easily pulled 100K more from the knees rather than the floor – I was aware more than anything of holding a lot more weight only ever did it to condition core strength similar to taking a huge weight from the squat rack and standing with it for 30 seconds prior to returning it to the rack – both best left to advanced powerlifters with spotters who are very conditioned to Big weights.

You’d be much better off performing normal deadlifts pausing each rep on the floor, when you stick I’ll introduce you to dead lifts from the hang with a 5 count but you need more conditioning first or else your back would be in a right old mess – if you think your legs where bad after the leg session I promise your lumbars would be worse!

A good exercise for your grip is hammer curls– include 3 sets of 12 hammers in your workout after deads …hold the dumbbell at a right angle to your upper arm for a pause on each rep – you’ll soon improve your grip

Cheers
Pikey