[quote]fr0IVIan wrote:
pullthroughs 40 lb for 10 reps?[/quote]
Not 100% sure what your question is but I assume you think the weight is light?
The reason I have the weight as light as I do is:
a) This lift is still new to me and I am feeling it out.
b) I based my set up and movement off of the embedded video.
c) Since I put it after deads and rows my lower back is fatigued so I am really trying to hit glutes and hams as he talks about in the video. Maybe I will try 60lb for 10 reps next week and see how it goes. I was ultimately trying to ease myself into 5 sets without overly fatiguing my lumbar. One Movement: Pull Throughs - YouTube!
yea it seemed light, I wasn’t sure I was reading it right.
I can’t see the video on this ffuuuuuaaaa iPhone but if we’re talking about the same lift… you’ll be moving down the stack pretty quick, pretty soon methinks.
cable pullthroughs will grow slabs of meat on your behind. they used to fry my glutes and hams when I did them.
anyways the amount of volume at those weights would kill me. good stuff.
it might actually be easier for you to feel glute/ham stimulation at a much heavier weight than 60 lb. when i did it, i couldn’t get a forward lean going until around 130-150 lb, and it’s hard to thrust your glutes and hips forward and feel the stretch in your hams against light resistance.
i can almost guarantee that you’ll be at or near the bottom of the stack for this movement for your working sets.
[quote]fr0IVIan wrote:
it might actually be easier for you to feel glute/ham stimulation at a much heavier weight than 60 lb. when i did it, i couldn’t get a forward lean going until around 130-150 lb, and it’s hard to thrust your glutes and hips forward and feel the stretch in your hams against light resistance.
i can almost guarantee that you’ll be at or near the bottom of the stack for this movement for your working sets.[/quote]
I could be mistaken but I thought the video said “use light weight”.
Maybe his light weight is my heavy weight?
I am heading to the gym to hit legs so maybe I will throw in a few sets today.
Up the weight and report back.
well it depends I guess. the sound was shitty on the netbook I was using but I think Dave said he was using the movement as a warmup. I was using it as a substitute for deads when I hurt my back last year.
either way if your glutes and hams are fried, yerdoinitrite. streeetch at the bottom and SQUEEZE at the top.
Dead Lifts:
3245
3275
8295
8295
8295
1405 (Because the guy I was working with wanted to try it so I showed him the path)
Pendlay Rows:
5225
5225
5*225
Yates Row:
5225
5225
5*225
Trying to decide which I like more between the pendlay and yates row. I feel the Yates all the way through my upper back and traps but the pendlay only directly around my shoulder blades, arm pits, and lumber. Will run them back to back again and decide later. If anyone has advice about which one would lead to dead lift badassary feel free to weight in.
I’ve been wondering about that as well. I do pendlays because I figure you’re closer to a deadlift starting position and when your muscles take the load it’s closer to the starting position for the deadlift, and I generally have more trouble getting the bar off the floor than locking out.