Usually In Crossfit i program the deadlift as a skill from a heavy exposure perspective I want the athlete to know how to deadlift well. Rarely do I want them to go really heavy or actually test 1-3RMs In that regard I push strength through Squats and if the athlete need more posterior chain focus than I'll do it with other exercises and deadlift variations but not just deadlift from the floor. So Squats and posterior chain exercises to build the absolute STR if the deadlift, using the actual skill of deadlift a Max weight rarely but I do throw it in a 6-8 rpe format weekly or biweekly depends on how strong the athlete is or how much of an issue the exercise is itself .. if it is. If I want to really push it hard I'll usually use Clean/Snatch deadlift variations and just throw them more frequently. I don't take a hard note on sticky points in the deadlift as I don't see it really matter that much to train through the deadlift itself. If an athlete shows weakness in a specific point of the lift for me it usually points out a general weakness that I just need to pay attention to. Weak glute,back,legs etc... Pushing specific work for it through the deadlift to add 5-10kg to the lift makes no sense to me as I rather push strength through other ways -ways which also will improve the athletes other lifts as well. So I always rather see 5-10kg increase In the squat instead and the deadlift will follow.. as many other lifts. top end deadlift str been seen really rarely and the time-effort-fatigue doesn't worth it in most cases. Only the top athletes In the world has the opportunity to show deadlift top end STR up until now, no? Maybe some local comps too but I'm very posterior dominant and I deadlifted 300kg , haven't once met it in a crossfit comp for 12 years myself, I wish though... I do feel comfortable pushing volume and reps and tempo in the deadlift for begginers. So mostly I approach the deadlift as a capacity skill after the begginers phase. Depends on the person and the quality of his deadlift movement I can begin is journey just with high reps , then move to density work as emoms-for time and such..

Can't answer for 1 But 2. Did you try regressing and check just isometric holds? No added weight. Just holds , bracing and breathing.. Maybe then introduce isometric efforts, building from light effort into max effort. A while after that going with eccentrics and slowly try low rom unloaded full motions slowly building to full motion with no loads. As an idea for regression then progression

Thanks a lot, definitely makes things more clear for me. On the velocity: Do you have maybe examples on how improvement in heavy load bar speed changes the elite crossfit athletes abilities in a relevant test? I've seen Powerlifters and Weightlifters use it but they do seek 1rm improvements as end goal. Also throwers and jumpers that use it and seek a very specific end goal (jump / throw further/higher) What an Elite Crossfit athlete looks to get from that? Or maybe even what data a coach would track and use on his athletes and how would it change an approach in programming?

New here , broasing through and saw this post decided to throw in some ideas. Although i do think you can improve your jerk with all the idea's thrown here. Since its a Lab thought sharing my expirence as well. Just to put a backround for it: Im also playing with the Jerk for around 15 years now. No matter what i did, i lockout heavy jerks in front of the head or right above (the better ones) - barely holding on to them.. footwork goes crap.. short step+back heel hits the ground, hard arch in the low back: all the good stuff. Thing is that if i could hold on to it, i could push it back behind the head during the recovery of the split. All specific Bodybuilding style work - Done Heavy Recoveries - done Heavy Squat jerks - done BTN Work - done Pressing work targeting that specific issue - done I gave everything months and years of work. Although i got stronger and the jerk numbers did go up.. i couldnt change how i recieve them when they were heavy. all the boxes seemed checked: -mobility was there -Overload work in that range was done way heavier than my best jerk without issues (best jerk 180kg, did recoveries with up to 220kg) - Strength in the dip-drive was there (155kg push press) and all this could be fine if it wasn't painfull in the low-back. about 2 years ago i just deicided it wasn't worth it for me anymore. And i changed my approach - I figured if i'll look at the split jerk more from a skill lenses maybe i could change it. Footwork was fine. The specific 'skill' moment i was looking on is from the Drive to the Catch - Something had to change there under heavy loads. It all started with coming across an idea for execises i saw from WL coach (@matt_the_paddy) which was a Squat Jerk but to bench, So you dont go all the way down to a squat you just sit to a bench. Seems like a good execsies to try out and possibly load pretty heavy (with blocks, not a rack).. Any diviation from locking the bar behind the head would result in it falling on the blocks. Pretty quickly i could load it up to 120-130kg - after that the bench just wasn't comfortable but the idea stayed with me, i started to approach the Jerk more like Snatch Balance kind of intent - No need to go all the way down, with a wide stance i could stop it around above parallel. Meanwhile i stopped doing the Split jerk at all - looking from a skill lenses - any step back in the new "skill" i want to learn will make it harder to transfer. After 15 years i figured i could get back to the split-footwork pretty quickly.