Enter the pull you actually did: the weight, the reps, what you had left, and how your hands and the floor were involved.
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The headline arrives with its standard attached — estimated dead-stop, bare-hands deadlift 1RM, or one of the other three. Four labels, one piece of arithmetic. Nothing is added for straps and nothing is taken off for a bounce, because the label is the honest part: it tells you which of your four possible deadlift numbers you just estimated.
Grip is the half of that label with direct evidence behind it. A controlled crossover had trained lifters take sets to failure at 80% of 1RM with straps and without: the strapped condition produced significantly more repetitions, with a smaller loss of grip strength and no meaningful difference in bar velocity. A rep-max equation reads reps at a load and nothing else. So straps don't change how the number feels. They change the number.
Reps left in reserve are added to the rep count before either equation runs, and on this lift you should think hard about what your reserve is measuring. Deadlift sets very often end because the bar has started rolling out of your fingers, not because your hips stopped moving. If that's why you put it down, the reserve you're reporting belongs to your grip rather than to your pull.
Underneath sit the working weight for the rep target you picked and the usual 90 / 80 / 70% rows at 3, 8 and 12 reps. How to distribute percentages across a block belongs to the general 1RM page.
Effective reps = reps entered + reps left in reserve. Epley: 1RM = weight × (1 + effective reps ÷ 30). Brzycki: 1RM = weight × 36 ÷ (37 − effective reps). The estimate is the mean of the two. Working weight for N reps = mean of (estimate ÷ (1 + N ÷ 30)) and (estimate × (37 − N) ÷ 36) — the same average, inverted, so the working weight and the estimate cannot disagree. The execution standard applies to the label. No coefficient in the calculation depends on it.
A dead-stop set pulled bare-handed: 150 kg for 4, with one rep honestly still there.
About 171.9 kg, dead-stop and bare-handed. Feed the identical set in as touch-and-go with straps and 171.9 comes back untouched, because the arithmetic cannot see your hands. That is the entire reason the label exists: four ways to do the set, one equation, and only the wording to tell you which measurement you are holding.
They change the input, and everything downstream follows. In a controlled crossover at 80% of 1RM, the strapped condition produced significantly more repetitions than the bare-handed one, with less grip-strength loss and no meaningful difference in bar velocity. More reps at the same load is a bigger number going into the equation. What nobody can give you is the size of that gap in kilograms, so the tool records which condition you used and leaves the maths alone.
Enter what happened. If you get to choose, dead-stop is the more conservative measurement: every rep starts from a full stop with nothing stored, so none of the number depends on how hard you bounced the plates. Touch-and-go reuses elastic energy off the floor and tends to read higher, but that one is coaching consensus rather than a quantified effect, and this page will not invent a percentage it does not have.
Because that is the documented behaviour of these equations on this lift. LeSuer's group found all seven equations they tested underestimated the deadlift, and a study predicting deadlift maxes from load-velocity profiles came in under the tested value too. Neither result gives you a correction you can apply, and a recent preprint disputes the exercise-specific framing altogether. Treat the estimate as a conservative programming input and settle the top end on the bar.
The assumption says yes. The measurement says no. A study that tested both lifts under the same protocol reported high test-retest reliability for each, with the deadlift's variation band coming out slightly the tighter of the two. Whatever makes deadlift numbers feel unstable — grip, sleep, a rep standard quietly drifting — it is not that the lift is harder to measure.
Yes. Both are grip solutions rather than grip removals: your hands are still on the bar and still the thing that eventually gives out. Straps are the line, because straps take the hands out of the limit entirely. Note which grip you used anyway. A set that ended with your fingers opening on a double-overhand pull is partly a measurement of your grip, and it will read differently the week you switch.
Not as a deadlift max. Raising the bar shortens the range and moves the hardest part of the lift, so a rack pull estimate describes rack pulls. Keep it on its own line in the logbook and compare it only to pulls from the same height.
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