The following is a template which I had in mind.. I am thinking / willing to do 4-6 weeks of SDT before embarking upon the below… basically I am really confused.

My reasons for this are (From most important to least important):

1. Deadlifting every week is leaving no room for going big on the Squat - No matter what the consensus on this is - I want to be able to keep my squat near my DL.. and by near I know its going to be a 80-100lbs difference but still.

2. I also feel I cannot handle it at this moment - I have been so much more tired and weary throughout the day after deadlifting every week. I cannot afford that now as I have my exams coming up along with working the graveyard shift - IMO - I won't recover enough, and my nutrition is going to suck big time for a while with so much going on at once (It's already the worst it's ever been - I'm living off powdered oats and whey and my only solid meal comes at night - which is chicken and bread). Now I know I have said this before and I want to reiterate that I am not making excuses here - But this is what I genuinely believe.

3. I want to have a more all-around approach (I won't be surprised if I get called a BB'er for this ).

Day One: Deadlifts / Back work [Weekly Rotation].

Deadlift Day:

1. Basic Mobility.
2. Deadlifts - Work with triples, and Singles on Strong days - Go with the flow… If a PR is set on strong days then do some consolidation in the following weeks with volume in the 80-90% range.
3. Static holds (if desired).
4. Stretching, Foam Rolling.

Back Day:

1. Basic Mobility
2. RDL's / Rack Deads / Good Mornings - Not sure which - It won't be heavy work though - just some rep work.
3. Shrugs.
4. Bent Over Rows (Optional).
5. One Arm Rows.
6. Horizontal Rear Delt Rows.

Day Two: OHSQ Mobility + OHSQ's.

1. Overhead Squat Mobility (This is basically 'Squat Mobilty').¹.
2. OHSQ Swiss Ball Drill.
3. OHSQ.
4. In conventional deadlift week the rowing exercises are added here.

Day Three: Press.

1. Bench Press - Flat Barbell Bench Press.
2. Decline DB Presses.
3. Barbell Overhead Press / Dumbbell Overhead Press - Weekly Rotation.

Day Four: Squat + PC.

1. Front Squat for some volume during deadlift week, heavy back squats during non-deadlift weeks.
2. Cable Pull-throughs.
3. Leg Curls.

Yes, I know there are a lot of things similar to push-pull here but please don't hate on me for that.. I do not want the opening lines of your reply to be OMG - Push-Pull .

OMG, push pull.

Deadlifting every week is leaving no room for going big on the Squat - No matter what the consensus on this is - I want to be able to keep my squat near my DL.. and by near I know its going to be a 80-100lbs difference but still.

If you don't care what the consensus is, then why ask us to critique? I do not mind going to the utmost to help people, but if you don't want to compromise, then I will not bother. Personally, my time is too limited. If you think you can get a 'big deadlift' and a 'big squat' at the same time, go for it.

I worked pretty hard on devising the current template for you and I am not ready to turn around a critique another one because you want your cake and eat it to. I understand that you are young and impulsive, but I am old and busy. You have a lot of ideas, preconceived, about how things should be and it is not my mission in life to empty your cup. But if that cup is full, well, I cannot really put my tea into your cup, because my tea comes from a different place. So either you must be willing to empty your cup, or have many cups, and engage in out of the box thinking to make them useful.

My one piece of advise would be, if you don't like deadlifting, don't deadlift. That will solve your dilemma. You have to build up a tolerence to the hard work it takes to progress on any big lift, but if you expect to progress on two big lifts, at the same pace and same level, at the same time, you will not progress as quickly, in the long term, as you would otherwise. I've dealt with this before when people try on templates like they try on a pair of pants.

Understand that I have not really looked at the template, it could be fine, for all I know. It sounds like the squat is more important to you "but" you want something more all-around (which is meaningless from my perspective). Those two things together leave me nothing to work with. I can solder bad wires, but they will still short out.

basically I am really confused.

Confused about what?

If you don't care what the consensus is, then why ask us to critique? I do not mind going to the utmost to help people, but if you don't want to compromise, then I will not bother. Personally, my time is too limited. If you think you can get a 'big deadlift' and a 'big squat' at the same time, go for it.

I worked pretty hard on devising the current template for you and I am not ready to turn around a critique another one because you want your cake and eat it to. I understand that you are young and impulsive, but I am old and busy. You have a lot of ideas, preconceived, about how things should be and it is not my mission in life to empty your cup. But if that cup is full, well, I cannot really put my tea into your cup, because my tea comes from a different place. So either you must be willing to empty your cup, or have many cups, and engage in out of the box thinking to make them useful.

Wow, I am trying to think for myself a bit so why such anger?? - If you do find time, then please go through the template once - I don't think its that bad - If I wanted to just go ahead and do iI wouldn't have even asked over here - I would have done it.

If not - no problem.

Yes, I do have some preconceived ideas to an extent - that doesn't mean they can't change - they change if it seems right to me and this is not meant to be an arrogant statement but I am simply trying to say that those ideas don't change if something else doesn't look better than them.

Deadlifting every week is leaving no room for going big on the Squat - No matter what the consensus on this is - I want to be able to keep my squat near my DL.. and by near I know its going to be a 80-100lbs difference but still.

Just to clear up the misunderstanding on the above statement of mine - I never expected to progress on the same level and same rate with both my lifts - but what I meant when I said the above was that I want to make sure it stays a little near, If I am progressing 10% on deads then I progress by 5% on squats atleast (I don't know why I'm putting percentages here - Its just that I cannot think of a better example right now).

I've always heard you can deadlift more than you can squat - I don't know how true that is - but I want to make sure I keep both nearby.

Confused about what?

Confused about SDT or this template - basically what next.

Wow, I am trying to think for myself a bit so why such anger?? - If you do find time, then please go through the template once - I don't think its that bad - If I wanted to just go ahead and do iI wouldn't have even asked over here - I would have done it.

When did I express anger? I just expressed bluntness. You must not have read me angry yet, there is a lot more cussing involved.

I am simply trying to say that those ideas don't change if something else doesn't look better than them.

You want it to look better or work better?

Look, you haven't done this long and it would have made more sense to make adjustments based on how you feel than to come forth with a whole new routine.

Right off the bat, for instance, you jumped to the conclusion that deadlifts alone are the source of your troubles, failing to consider the effect of your overall training volume. How do you know that some adjustment in volume, throughout the week, would not allow you to recover better and thus be able to handle the deadlifts without feeling so tired and sluggish. This is what I mean by preconceived notions. Your notions tell you "you can't handle the deadlifting" and that is no doubt based on something you've always thought about deadlifts. If heavy squats had been first in the week, and you were doing more volume on deadlifts later in the week, at a more moderate weight, do you think you'd be less tired?

What does this come down to and why did I get on to you? Because the purpose of templates is to be flexible. If it's not working you adjust it. If every time something doesn't feel right "immediately" you want to make a new template, then you are defeating the whole point of using templates.

Keep in mind, I really do not care whether you deadlift or not or whether you would not like to keep it up front. That is not the point. As far as the squat progressing at some level on par with the deadlift, you don't know how you are going to progress until you stick with something long enough to actually progress, given proper adjustments.

As far the exams, I agree they are more important but my approach would be just to go on maintenance while that is going on. I.E. slash everything to the minimum and keep up strength on your basic lifts by performing short sessions of triple, doubles, the occasional single, and then revisit, re-adjust your template when you are able to give training more of your attention.

Confused about SDT or this template - basically what next.

Why are you stressing on whats next , instead of working on current template. next will happen later make most out of the current template.

Ativ your main goal for squat should be " depth" rather then poundages.

Ativ, to add to what Harish has said, your depth in the last video you posted was much better than the one on K11 videos in which you were training with Azzy. I guess you need to be little patient and keep doing what you are doing currently. You have lot more in you.

When did I express anger? I just expressed bluntness. You must not have read me angry yet, there is a lot more cussing involved.

Bluntness is good, Thanks for clearing that up :-).

You want it to look better or work better?

Look, you haven't done this long and it would have made more sense to make adjustments based on how you feel than to come forth with a whole new routine.

Actually the whole template is the same - The changes/adjustments are on deadlift day - Its conventional deadlifts alternated with Romanians or Good Mornings on a weekly basis with the placement of rowing on the RDL day in the RDL week, and after OHSQ's in conventional deadlift week.

And the rep schemes in deads ain't fixed so to speak > "Deadlifts - Work with triples, and Singles on Strong days - Go with the flow… If a PR is set on strong days then do some consolidation in the following weeks with volume in the 80-90% range."

Everything else is the same .

Why are you stressing on whats next , instead of working on current template. next will happen later make most out of the current template.

Ativ your main goal for squat should be " depth" rather then poundages.

Because the current template has run its cycle (QVT on deads).. Now it was supposed to roll into SDT but I started thinking otherwise - everything else is the same I am just tampering with the deadlift programming.

Ativ, to add to what Harish has said, your depth in the last video you posted was much better than the one on K11 videos in which you were training with Azzy. I guess you need to be little patient and keep doing what you are doing currently. You have lot more in you.

Yes, I am focusing on depth - I'm not compromising it for poundage.. As soon as that happens I stop loading - But now that my depth is atleast legit - I want to start progressing on the poundages - Mobility will come with time - I can't sit twiddling my thumbs till then - I am doing the drills - I am foam rolling.. I am trying to sit deeper everytime.. its just a matter of time.

Ativ, you should just do the template you've proposed. If it works, then good for you. If it doesn't, well, then you know that you have to empty your cup.

So, right now all this back and forth is a waste of time. Do whatever floats your fancy. Do the triples, doubles, singles or whatever you want on Deadlifts, rotate them with curls or anything else you feel like. When you're done with satisfying all your impulses and everything, empty your cup and re-evaluate everything.