is it ok to have my own stance width?
I feel most comfortable when my little toe sticks out of my shoulder width. I don’t know if I can call this conventional deadlift since I see a lot of people have their arms next to their quad, but I have my arms on the quad. I have 0 problem with pulling the weight, though. So can you call this a conventional DL? what about in actual PL competition?
Inb4 you suggest me to do Sumo, I am good at Sumo and a lot stronger than conv, so I rather work on the weakness to get stronger.
If your sumo is stronger than your conv and your practicing conv for the sole purpose of hitting weakness vs hitting pr’s id say its better to work on trying to get a true conv stance down and go from there. Because hitting more weight with a sumo like conv stance vs getting the weakness on a regular conv stance just defeats the purpose of going conv at all .
I concur with the above. As for your question about meets, check the rulebook of your fed, but I know of none that have an enforced stance rule. In strongman, you cannot pull sumo, so that’s about the only time that could be a factor.
thanks for the response. With true form of conv, I have real bad leverage. long torso, short arm, etc, I can’t even feel the glute activation at the very beginning and it’s more about squatting up at the very first and then glute thrust starts kicking in. Some people might think my form is wrong based on what I said, my form has been checked million times done and done.
Long toros makes my body balance to go forward when it is supposed to pull backward. So as I pull my backward, my leg is forced to go down, almost 10 degree above parallel, my torso is almost parallel as well about 20-30 degree, it’s like the starting position is the closed scissor where it is hard to open it whereas scissor that is opened with more angle is easier to open. There are more stuffs to add it here, but let’s not even bother.
This was the reason why I preferred my own stance or just go straight sumo with it. I have no plan to competing and only interested in increasing deadlift strength itself. I guess I will probably just stick with sumo and stop wasting time.
I see a lot of younger lifters doing the wide stance conventional DL the gym to the point where I thought there was a local coach teaching it. I might be wrong, but I thought the narrower stance enabled a straighter, more direct line for the arms, shortening the bar path a tiny bit. Also, I think having your legs directly under your hips, torso, and ultimately the weight helped leverage and enabled you to make full use of hams and quads. Based on my theories, I try to have my feet just under shoulder width.
I recently made the switch from sumo, that I always assumed I was built for, to conventional because my hips were sore all the time. I could probably (haven’t attempted but I tripled 95% of my 1rm max after a full workout) blow my old PR off the map right now. Sumo gave me great leg drive, and got me comfortable “jamming” myself into the start position. I do the same now conventional. I set-up, pull the slack out of the bar, but at the same time load up my legs to get almost a reflex off the floor. Everything below 90% comes off the floor very fast for me on conventional, but I used to grind off the floor with sumo. I’m tempted to go back to sumo because my back, which was a limiting factor before is stronger now thanks to partials and T3hPwnisher advice.
You mean kind of like Stan Efferding like this?
Anyway, If you set up your feet wide for conventional, I’d try to get your hands as close to your legs without your hands or arms getting in the way. You’ll improve your leverages. If you’ve been going wider for a long time it won’t feel as natural and your poundage may even go down but I bet once you get used to it it’ll be better.
I’m not totally sure what exactly your saying but a video would clear all doubt.
thanks, that is almost similar to my stance. I guess mine isn’t semi-sumo and actually conventional.
