Question on Dead Lift Form:
I’m working on sitting back more before I pull. I find this puts the bar in much closer contact with my shins. Is it fair to say using good form results in ‘dragging’ the bar up your shins?
[quote]sen say wrote:
Question on Dead Lift Form:
I’m working on sitting back more before I pull. I find this puts the bar in much closer contact with my shins. Is it fair to say using good form results in ‘dragging’ the bar up your shins? [/quote]
yup. Or close enough to it. Isn’t a session goes by I don’t take some skin off.
[quote]skidmark wrote:
yup. Or close enough to it. Isn’t a session goes by I don’t take some skin off.[/quote]
I’ve always had a nice, bloody right shin, but I’ve been trying to avoid it rather than embracing it…never again ! Death to my shins !
[quote]sen say wrote:
Question on Dead Lift Form:
I’m working on sitting back more before I pull. I find this puts the bar in much closer contact with my shins. Is it fair to say using good form results in ‘dragging’ the bar up your shins? [/quote]
Skid is right, you want to keep the bar close to the body
I sometimes stand with 2.5 or 5lb plates under the front half of my foot.
Sitting back, helps me with two things, keeping the bar
tight to the body
and not rounding my back.
kmc
When you guys pull…are you ‘exploding’ with the first move, or is it more controlled? I used to ‘explode’ but I think that caused my L4 and L5 to rupture…not sure if I’m explaining this correctly…
What I do now, is set up…get my hands and arms on right…settle my hips down…contract my hams/glutes to begin and then try to push through my heels…
[quote]sen say wrote:
When you guys pull…are you ‘exploding’ with the first move, or is it more controlled? I used to ‘explode’ but I think that caused my L4 and L5 to rupture…not sure if I’m explaining this correctly…
What I do now, is set up…get my hands and arms on right…settle my hips down…contract my hams/glutes to begin and then try to push through my heels…[/quote]
Pushharder might have better advice, but I’ve always tried to “squeeze” the weight off the floor with a slow uptake of tension through the hips and back. The whole back has to be tight and I try to make the shoulders move first. I’ve ruptured my L5-S1 in the past, and this is the only way I’ve been able to keep the poundages going up without getting hurt.
First it sounds like you had a Great Weekend!
Here is a Mark Rippetoe teaching the set up…
I dont’ want this to turn into a cross fit debate, but his teaching is solid.
set up
Back angle
deadlift anatomy
there is some great stuff, from westside,
EliteFTS.com
I try to use leg drive explosively
but its not like the O-lifts in that the speed on those lifts is generated on the second part of the pull.
It sounds like you and I have a similar set up…as far as pushing through the heels
I try to have a “big or tall” chest and a good back arch.
kmc
1st course from Thanksgiving:
Smoked Trout
Smoked Salmon
Smoked Mussels
Smoked Scallops
Smoked Shrimp
Raw Shrimp
2nd course:
Salami
Crab Dip
Grilled Squash
Grilled Artichokes
Grilled Asparagus
Olives
Marinated Shrooms
Salad
Main Course:
Turkey
Spaghetti Squash
Sweet Taters
Rice Pilaf
Mashed Taters
Zuchinni and Pearl Onions
Gravy
Cranberry Sauce
View from our table.
She Say’s boobs.
Dessert:
Pecan Pie
Some sort of Caramel Cake
View from outside.
View of restaurant from outside.
She Say’s boobs again.
These are blood relatives of mine that demonstrate the type of fat genes I wake up and fight every day…well, almost every day.