Whilst on the eccentric motion of a deadlift What do you guys do - Drop the bar or perform a controled movement… I am 17 y/o and training for a mixture of Strenght and Hypertrophy… Any opinions would be greatly received…
Ps a few stats
Deadlift - 440
Deep Squat- 450
Bench - 245
Weight - 210
Under control, but pretty fast compared to other lifts.
damn man, nice dead for 17. It depends on what your doing, eccentric motions help build strength and hypertropy, it kinda depends on what you shoot for.
I only drop it if I feel that I will hurt myself on the way down :). Otherwise it’s controlled.
Cheers for the advice guys… At present me and my trainin partner have never used belts for lifting… Do you guys have any views on this? What can they help you with??? Thanks… Merc
The deadlift is by definition a largely concentric excercise. There is little benefit in my opinion to controlling the negative portion of the lift, as the chance of injury is pretty great. Unless you are doing a special program or routine, I would not train the negatives of the deadlift. There are plenty of other excercises to train the negatives on. If you are looking for deadlift variations try the one armed deadlift and the walking deadlift.
Under control, but pretty much as fast as I can…
Maybe it’s just me, but aside from dumping the weight, I feel like I can only put a dl down so fast without being at risk of letting my form go and putting myself at risk of injury. So that’s how fast I let them down. I don’t accentuate the negative portion or do negatives if that’s what you’re asking. For me they just have their pace and that’s what I go with.
About the belt, I don’t train with a belt, but then my lifts aren’t super huge yet, and even my maxes are hardly body/back breaking poundages. Everything I read about belts suggests that you limit their use to training near and at max, otherwise the belt can become a crutch that limits full development of the lower back, because you rely on the belt rather than your own body for stability. Certainly the guys you see wearing belts for barbell curls (in the squat rack) are overdoing it. Then again, some of those guys really seem to put their back into curls…
I feel like I’m still developing an overall base of strength from which to push up my lifts, so I won’t be thinking about a belt for a while.
I lower it RDL style, since I do mine clean grip style, and form is more like a powerclean
Controlling the negative may be good Idea if you need to build up your lower backs strength and work capacity. Otherwise bring the bar down about as fast or faster then you lifted it.
JA
I used to lower the bar under control, so I would not put holes in my garage floor!
But now I go to a gym with a nice deadlift station so I lift and drop, I can get more reps that way because it is less taxing on the nervous system. My poundage went up too, from 400 to 480 in about 2 months. But I am sure there are benefits to controlling the motion; I guess it depends on your goals.
i control it. i believe it gives a new dimension to the lift. it is true that u can drop it, because the point is to get the weight up, but i dont like people who throw weights around. control is better in my view.