Hey I was just watching kevin nee deadlift 905 lbs. :
Is it proper to have your back slightly rounded like that?
I’ve seen it on a few big deadlifts now.
[quote]i work out wrote:
Hey I was just watching kevin nee deadlift 905 lbs. :
Is it proper to have your back slightly rounded like that?
I’ve seen it on a few big deadlifts now. [/quote]
It’s NINE HUNDRED POUNDS.
I know. It’s impressive as hell. I’m just asking should I try and keep my back strictly flat, or on a PR attempt is that ok?
lol yea…its 900lbs! there will be some rounding but i believe its the lower back that you dont want rounding.
I was thinking that as well. My upper back rounds when I rep out or go heavy on the deadlift. Lower back’s straight and sturdy though unless it’s a true 1RM.
Reading around the general consensus seems to be what djaz posted.
[quote]i work out wrote:
I know. It’s impressive as hell. I’m just asking should I try and keep my back strictly flat, or on a PR attempt is that ok?[/quote]
If you can, but when you are up there, it is just going to happen.
That was a pretty cool video.
Yeah, it’s going to happen someone when you’re going balls out for a max. It’s because you’re near failure. Failure is usually when you round to the point you can’t recover to finish the lift.
Grip it and rip it. Anything that happens inbetween doesnt matter as long as you pick the shit up.
Like everyone else said… upper back is GOING TO ROUND on a heavy deadlift. Good luck deadlifting any appreciable weight with a completely straight back.
andy bolton mentioned in one of his articles on here that your upper back is going to round on heavier weights, but your lower back should still not round. I pull the same way for my heavies… not the same weight lol.
kevin knee has one of the thickest backs in deadlifting history, and so he uses it to its fullest.
i wouldnt base my deadlift form off his.
kevin knee has weak legs in comparison to his back, so his hips stay pretty high, and his back/etc does most of the work.
if kevin knee could say, put 250lbs on his front squat, he would probably deadlift 1000lbs, via improving the efficiency of his form.
so no, rounding your back isnt a good idea, whether you see freaks of nature do it or not. get your legs stronger, get your hips lower, and keep your back neutral.
[quote]Supreme Newb wrote:
kevin knee has one of the thickest backs in deadlifting history, and so he uses it to its fullest.
i wouldnt base my deadlift form off his.
kevin knee has weak legs in comparison to his back, so his hips stay pretty high, and his back/etc does most of the work.
if kevin knee could say, put 250lbs on his front squat, he would probably deadlift 1000lbs, via improving the efficiency of his form.
so no, rounding your back isnt a good idea, whether you see freaks of nature do it or not. get your legs stronger, get your hips lower, and keep your back neutral.
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Last I checked only Bolton deadlifted 1000lbs and his hips are high. The only other two guys even in the conversation about 1000 are Savickas and KK and of these three lifters, only Savickas gets his hips low.
I wouldn’t talk about anyone’s efficiency when they clearly are capable of doing something that most of the world is not. It’s not like this is a sumo pull that we’re talking about. It’s a conventional pull. You can have your hips as high as you like and even have a decent amount of rounding as long as it’s not lumbar rounding. And while I agree that if you get your legs stronger that it will help, a deadlift demands strength in your entire posterior chain which includes both the back and the legs. But front squats? Really?