Look through the videos posted here and take notes. Use them to correct your setup on the deadlift or hire someone to teach you in person. If you can’t find the proper position to deadlift, your block pulls and rack pulls will also be fucked beyond belief and you’ll end up one of those cat back pullers.
So first, let’s start by acknowledging that the deadlift is not an absolute necessity for anyone unless they are a competitive powerlifter, in which case they must deadlift as part of their chosen sport. While the deadlift is my favorite exercise and there’s no doubt it’s a great one, there are some people who may struggle to deadlift for one reason or another, and they might be able to achieve their own goals without deadlifts.
However, I do not believe that you fall into this category. You’re just a guy who is really, really overthinking this.
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Search YouTube for “Mark Rippetoe deadlift.” Watch and listen carefully several times to the video posted by Art of Manliness.
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okay, i watched your videos again, so what is see:
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Feets are too wide apart, get closer !
an very easy trick is. hang from a pull up bar, wait till you stop swinging, relax, the let you fall. Look at your feet and take the same distance between your feet fo DLs, just correct the angle to slight pointed out. -
get your hips higher at start position.
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throughout the whole movement, imagine to have a stick from your backhead to your butt.
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DON’T LOOK UP when you deadlift, keep the head straight in line with your body.
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learn how to brace your core, breath in, then flex your torso, do the movement, on the top position breathe out. keep the air for the full rep.
Easy trick to brace even better is to push your tongue to upside of your inner mouth throughout the rep, sounds strange but it works, it’s like having a mouthpiece while boxing. -
for the pulling part, i would recommend to lift the weight slowly from the bottom and no explosive, your posture is crushing always when pulling.
The movement:
- start with higher hips
- don’ rush the weight on bottom position
- don’t push with legs like a squat, just try to imagine to tear the floor apart with your feet, the force should be on your heels.
- DO push your ass forward and flex it, imagine you bangin’ a girl
- don’t shrug the weight on middle/top part of the movement
- imagine doing a lat pullover from the middle to top position
- Final, at the end position, do not arch the back, instead keep the ass flexed, shoulders back, quads flexed.
if i forgot somthing just tell me, its difficult to describe just on a vid, just try some steps and look how it works. Best bet is always to get a strength coach (not a fitness instructor)
i’m not a expert, just some thoughts on my experience and knowledge
i love deadlifting som i’m very overflatted with the movment
hope that helps a bit
saw it and the only thing i wonder for the lift is where do i feel the tense ? cuz i feel nothng but lower back pain lol
how high? lik 105 dgree?[quote=“Vince_AthAesth, post:44, topic:221478”]
imagine doing a lat pullover from the middle to top position
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flex the lat to keep bar close to body ?? sorry i try to understand with my noob english powers LOl[quote=“Vince_AthAesth, post:44, topic:221478”]
Final, at the end position, do not arch the back, instead keep the ass flexed, shoulders back, quads flexed.
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i didint do that before…all i do is stand there
this how i brace and idk fi its right… big air in… chest up then pull ribcage down [quote=“Vince_AthAesth, post:44, topic:221478”]
i love deadlifting som i’m very overflatted with the movment
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i love it to that why i wanna learn it
@MarkKO tagged u to see this post commendor
im over thinker…in term of eeling tense in hams and gluts before the pull… i manged to feel it in sumo deadlift when i was jerking around in gym today… i just trying the lift and i can actually feel my glut and hams rly good doing it wide leg…is that good or abd
this is what i read about sniff leg deads
. The SLDL begins on the floor, from a deadstop, just like a regular deadlift. Ideally, each rep is paused on the floor and completely deloaded between reps, again, just like a regular deadlift. is this right?
Not really. There are many ways to execute a stiff-legged deadlift depending on what you aim to accomplish. If I do them as a deadlift assistance movement, I do them like Ed Coan does and start each rep from the floor. If I simply want maximum muscle carnage, I start up top and don’t touch the ground with the bar.
But if you don’t know how to execute a regular conventional deadlift correctly, you are going to have a bad time with stiff-legs.
- YouTube is this how we do it sniff
might not have read everything but I think that is a movement to mimic a deadlift?
Lower back still slightly rounding but it looks much better.
Try bending at the ankles moving your shins just past vertical and I think every thing should be a go.
Next time you are at the gym (deadlift day or not) load the smallest straight bar with the tiniest bumper plates that still keep the ROM the same and video your self from the side and the front. If 135 is the lightest…yea that will have to do.
On your next actual deadlift workout do the same recordings but with your working weights.
CUES I USE to keep everything tight and right.
Feet COMFORT, shoulder width apart maybe just inside shoulders with toes pointed slightly out and this should be extremely comfortable
GRIP, get it locked in
FLAT, by way of mimicking a back extension i use my lower back to pull every thing flat
kind of at the same time…
Shoulders, pull them towards your waist like you are locking your triceps to your side (engages lats which adds rigidness to back)
OTHER OPINION:
I firmly believe that deads are extremely important to a balanced lifting program but they are not necessary. No exercise is necessary, 4 movements are though (squat dead press pull). If you have a trap bar this can replace deads (and or squats). Use the low handles or flip it upside down to increase ROM. This can also be used as a mobility bridge where you use the Trap Bar until your mobility and coordination or efficient enough to do normal deads. PLEASE SPEND MORE TIME LEARNING THE DEADLIFT before you switch though, I really think by bending a bit at the ankles and recording more sessions you will have them nailed.
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Chance would be a fine thing. Hopefully, though.
Yes or from pins in a power rack
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or jusr rdl ?what u think? does rdl worork lower bak
I’ve lost count how many times you have asked this question. Just fucking deadlift! I’ve seen your videos, you can already pull reasonably well, so the only thing I can think that is stopping you is that deadlifts are hard and feel nasty, which is no excuse not to do them.
Either deadlift or don’t deadlift but stop trying to find a justification for not deadlifting other than you don’t want to because they are hard work.
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Exactly. If you don’t want to deadlift or do want, but don’t want to invest the time to learn it, then just don’t. If you don’t want to, that’s enough. You don’t need our approval for it.
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ok but dont slab me on face lmao kidding ok i will deadlift but it hurts my lower bacjk
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It hurts because your technique sucks donkey dick and you are trying to find acceptance here to just not deadlift. If you don’t want to learn the lift, then don’t.
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I’d be willing to bet it doesn’t really hurt, it’s just very, very uncomfortable because your back needs to get stronger. Keep going. It’ll probably get better.
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- Bar is waaaay out in front.
- You’re pulling with your back not your glutes/hams.
- Hams are tight, weak or both, tucking your ass under.
My suggestion is to find the lowest position you can attain with a perfectly flat back and vertical shins. Then set this height in a power rack and do romanian deadlifts to this pin position and pulls off this pin position. Then work the fuck out of the hamstrings both load and stretching.
Every month or so lower the pins or raise your feet a bit until you get down to the floor. The longer you pull with crappy positioning, the harder it will be to unlearn.
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