Don’t think i’m keeping the bar close enough to my body (shins) to pull as much as i could. how close do you start and keep the weight when u pull? do you rake your shins?
I know everybody’s body is diff but if I squat ~285 max what should I be able to dead?
Going for strength/power what’s the best set/rep range for deads? 5X5? 5/3/1?
My lockout is strong but the first 6 inches are really a bitch for me? does this mean my hammies/glutes are weak? or what?
Don’t think i’m keeping the bar close enough to my body (shins) to pull as much as i could. how close do you start and keep the weight when u pull? do you rake your shins?
I know everybody’s body is diff but if I squat ~285 max what should I be able to dead?
Going for strength/power what’s the best set/rep range for deads? 5X5? 5/3/1?
My lockout is strong but the first 6 inches are really a bitch for me? does this mean my hammies/glutes are weak? or what?
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The further the bar is from you, the greater the mechanical DISadvantage. IF you choose to rake your shins is largely personal preference, but you should try to keep the bar as close to you as possible.
Probably at least 900lbs.
To be honest, it really doesn’t matter at this point. As long as your intensity is there as a beginner, you will get stronger. Rep schemes are a more advanced thing, and still take a back seat to over all intensity. If you bust your ass doing 3x8, and fuck the dog doing 10x3, what is the more effective program?
No, it means gravity is a bitch. Everyone sticks from the floor. You can try pulling from a deficit, but leaving the floor is the hardest part of the lift for everyone. You are at your weakest point, inertia, etc.
These are pretty obvious questions if you think about… get the bar close as possible my shines are atleast red if not slightly bleeding just a little. Who knows about your deadlift honestly to actually help you it would have helped alot if you would have atleast post your current Max. Just lift heavy in my opinion under 5 reps always for the deadlift unless you have a deadlift for reps comp or something.
And to your last statement the first 6 inches are always a bitch according most girls I talk to… just lift man don’t miss workouts perfect your form and pull.
Wear some long socks and let that motherfucker drag up and down your shins. Don’t over emphasize some crazy rep/set scheme you read about in national geographic just workout with intensity and dedicate yourself to the lifts.
Agreed on most of this. ‘How much should I lift’ is a bad question. You should lift as much as you can lift. Some people pull 200lbs more than they squat, some squat 200 more than they pull. For a beginner, the numbers will generally be in the same ballpark as each other, usually with the DL maybe 50lbs better than squat, assuming reasonable grip strength.
I personally don’t scrape my shins when I DL, and I’ve pulled some decent weight. It really depends on what feels natural for most. That being said, I don’t know anyone pulling heavy weights out past their toes or anything like that. Just be reasonably close to the shins.
And yes, the start is the hardest part for most. If the weight is heavy ‘off the floor’, it’s heavy, period.
alright good shit. so at least i’m moving in the right direction, the intensity is there for sure. i’ll just keep it up and get stronger. i pulled 285 for 4 today but it was a bitch
[quote]Andrewdwatters1 wrote:
alright good shit. so at least i’m moving in the right direction, the intensity is there for sure. i’ll just keep it up and get stronger. i pulled 285 for 4 today but it was a bitch
so… guess need to stfu eat and lift lol.
ketosis was that a serious answer for 2? [/quote]
lol of course it wasn’t. use some common sense man, turn on your brain.
If you pulled 285x4, and your squat max is 285x1, it sounds like there aren’t any real balance issues. Just keep working at all the lifts. FTR, a big squat is more impressive than a big deadlift, and big squats are also the best lift to help improve your deadlift. There are plenty of powerlifters out there who almost never actually perform deadlifts except when they’re getting close to competition (see westside methods), because their squats are so integral to DLing bigger numbers. Most people can do more volume on squat than dl, so keep that in mind as well.
My sumo deadlift is only 10 pounds more than my squat, it’s always been like this even when I used to pull conventional.
Maybe you should try a different stance? As for the shins thing, the bar is usually scraping up my shins, if it’s not and I’m pulling a heavy rep I’ll fall forward and miss. As for how close when you start, I usually have it on top of where my shoe laces tie together a.k.a midfoot. Ultimately how you setup is going to be determined by the length of your limbs.
Do you reset the lift every rep in a set or do you touch-n-go/bound?
yeah no one can tell you how much you can deadlift based off your squat number. Everyone has different leverages. I pulled 315 for reps easily long before I could even 1 rep 315 for squats, but I have freakishly long arms.
I don’t really scrape my shins, but my shins had some faint red lines on them all the time when I deadlifted regularly. Never drew blood.
[quote]fisch wrote:
yeah no one can tell you how much you can deadlift based off your squat number. Everyone has different leverages. I pulled 315 for reps easily long before I could even 1 rep 315 for squats, but I have freakishly long arms.
I don’t really scrape my shins, but my shins had some faint red lines on them all the time when I deadlifted regularly. Never drew blood.[/quote]
My deadlift is pretty far off from my squat as well. I pulled 315 for 16 reps the other day, reset for each one, and had a few reps left in the tank. My max squat ever is 335, atg.