Points 1 though 4 are certainly correct. It's just that their is a difference between the first of the week and the rest of the weeks and also how you can progress on deads versus something like bench or press. One of the most important things is how volume is accumulated here. That doesn't mean there aren't other ways of accumulating the volume of course. Someone might be to progress in many different ways. But where you place the different workouts is very important.
It's not really about high reps or low reps it's about what comes at the beginning of the week versus later and what you can do on deads versus something like bench. Obviously ALL high reps wouldn't produce strenght gains consistently but of course all triples all the time won't work either. Keep in mind when I say high reps I mean moderately high. It is really starting to get on my nerves that people consider HIGH reps to be reps over 15, lol. We are talking about strength and muscle so HIGH reps are reps in the 8 to 12 range (well, maybe up to 15)
Anyway it's not the reps it's the volume to start with. Let's just make one simple statement regarding how this is set up. Start with the minumum amount of volume you can progress on.
Say for instance in my training I do ONE set of 5 to 6 heavy deads at the beginning of the week. Then later in the week I do three sets (if not more) of 8 to 10 on Romanian deads. The romanians are lighter but guess what takes longer to recover from? The Romanians. Let's just say thank god for the "weekend".
And I do not want to get into any nerdy arguments with anyone about CNS fatigue versus muscular fatigue. Nothing happens in a vacumn. We're assuming that everything is a near maximal effort at whatever rep range and in this case the romanians are close enough to deads and it's just the SHEAR volume of work that makes it more fatigueing. Thinking that the deads are more tiring is like saying moving your entertainment center is more tiring than moving all your stuff to another house. You entertainment center may be the heaviest (and ugliest) piece you own but that's still a lot less work than a hard day loading and unloading a U-haul.
So given that in this routine the "volume" is accumulated later in the week, staring out with 3 by 6 on deads is going to fuck up the whole thing.
I would recommend starting with the simplest most direct way of progressing with the lowest volume you can.
So on deads maybe something like:
Week 1: 1x5
Week 2: 1x5 (weight added)
Week 3: 1x5 (weight added)
Week 4: 1x8 (same weight)
Week 5: 1x8 (a little weight added)
Week 6: 2x6 (same weight)
Week 7: 1x5 (weight added)
so on and so forth..
Just a made up example. It would be unique to the individual. And of course it may not even work for everyone. This thing was for Anuj specifically and the intention was to do what worked until it didn't work and then do something else. We never got that far on deads though.
There are lots of other things people can do on deads. This was specifically for anuj. And I did want him to do a little more volume on deads because I simply wanted him to have practice at deads (quality practice), build up some functional and protective muscle mass, and basically get ready for a future of much heavier loads.
. In the future when you are healthy and you train well then some little dumbell isn't likely to hurt you no matter how you pick it up but right now always be aware.
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