[quote]YoungElias wrote:
brett christ wrote:
kroby wrote:
Stick your chest out forward. Pull your shoulders back, pinching your blades together in the middle of your back… and squat like you’re about to drop a load. If you don’t have good posture, you will pay. Believe me, you will pay.
do not pinch your shoulder blades together. i dont know why so many people think it’s the right thing to do
Mistake #2: Pulling the shoulder blades together
This is a mistake I made for years. Stand in a deadlift stance and pull your shoulder blades together. Take a look at where your fingertips are. Now if you let your shoulders relax and even round forward a little you’ll see your fingertips are much lower. This is why we teach a rounding of the upper back. First, the bar has to travel a shorter distance. Second, there’s less stress on the shoulder region. It’ll also help to keep your shoulder blades behind the bar. You’ll read more on this later.
Rounding your back is good, so that you have a shorter distance to travel? In the name of less shoulder stress? I’d like to read more about this…[/quote]
As other’s have noted, this comes from Dave Tate, a powerlifter. THIS IS FOR MORE ADVANCED LIFTERS. This is not a basic technique guide. This is meant for PL guys hell bent on lifting the most amount of weight possible. THIS IS NOT for people who can’t keep their back straight with deadlifting or squatting. What Dave Tate says is true, but will only confuse newer lifters who need to just work on stability anyway.
Since it’s been brought up, I might as well throw my perspective out there–Dave is talking about the upper back, meaning primarily the scapular region. He is not talking about rounding by bending over at the midsection or humping your back like a camel. And he is most certainly not talking about letting your lower back even so much as BEGIN to deform.
TO THE ORIGINAL POSTER–if you’re having trouble keeping a straight back you need to work on posture, stability, and training your back more. Neanderthal No More series is a great article series that will most likely solve all your problems.
[quote]Aragorn wrote:
YoungElias wrote:
brett christ wrote:
kroby wrote:
Stick your chest out forward. Pull your shoulders back, pinching your blades together in the middle of your back… and squat like you’re about to drop a load. If you don’t have good posture, you will pay. Believe me, you will pay.
do not pinch your shoulder blades together. i dont know why so many people think it’s the right thing to do
Mistake #2: Pulling the shoulder blades together
This is a mistake I made for years. Stand in a deadlift stance and pull your shoulder blades together. Take a look at where your fingertips are. Now if you let your shoulders relax and even round forward a little you’ll see your fingertips are much lower. This is why we teach a rounding of the upper back. First, the bar has to travel a shorter distance. Second, there’s less stress on the shoulder region. It’ll also help to keep your shoulder blades behind the bar. You’ll read more on this later.
Rounding your back is good, so that you have a shorter distance to travel? In the name of less shoulder stress? I’d like to read more about this…
As other’s have noted, this comes from Dave Tate, a powerlifter. THIS IS FOR MORE ADVANCED LIFTERS. This is not a basic technique guide. This is meant for PL guys hell bent on lifting the most amount of weight possible. THIS IS NOT for people who can’t keep their back straight with deadlifting or squatting. What Dave Tate says is true, but will only confuse newer lifters who need to just work on stability anyway.
Since it’s been brought up, I might as well throw my perspective out there–Dave is talking about the upper back, meaning primarily the scapular region. He is not talking about rounding by bending over at the midsection or humping your back like a camel. And he is most certainly not talking about letting your lower back even so much as BEGIN to deform.
TO THE ORIGINAL POSTER–if you’re having trouble keeping a straight back you need to work on posture, stability, and training your back more. Neanderthal No More series is a great article series that will most likely solve all your problems.
DO NOT try to lift like Dave Tate right now.
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