Squats absolutely DESTROYED me today!

[LadyLore420]

Well, I get most of what you're saying, but I can think of a thread that was posted very recently in which the OP was doing a routine with too much volume of deadlifting conventional 2x per week and romanian once per week, if I recall, and was feeling overly tired and run down from his workouts. I can speak from personal experience that deadlifitng too often DOES overly tax the CNS. That said, I pull conventional and romanian both once per week. But especially with conventional, I feel 2x per week would be too much without having to take additional rest days. My deadlift tends to go up just fine once per week, anyway. There's a reason why you see a lot of advanced lifters only deadlifting once per week or even once every other week.

You're right about DL's, I don't know how or why but even John Broz advocates maxing out on deadlifts maybe twice a year. I'm assuming his PLers do more than that, but he's a huge advocate of speed pulls. I really think though that DLing twice a week is fine as long as you're getting 9+ hours sleep a night, but many people can't get that amount. Sleep is a critical factor in athletic performance though, and many people skimp by with 6 hours a night like a normal adult thinking that's fine.