Start Position For Deadlift

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The start position for deadlift is lift the weight off the floor. Does it matter if you lift it off the rack, then go down?

Thanks!
GB

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That’s a Romanian Deadlift. For a normal deadlift, the bar comes off the floor. You’re lifting the weight from a dead stop, get it?

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[quote]getbig wrote:
The start position for deadlift is lift the weight off the floor. Does it matter if you lift it off the rack, then go down?

Thanks!
GB[/quote]

Do you mean that you go down, then come back up again? 'cause that’s fine. Don’t know why you’d do it, though, unless it’s to load the plates more easily.

-Dan

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The Romanian Deadlift that you describe works your muscles slightly differently, but I’m not sure how, sorry. The deadlift off the floor is a better lift and is the competition lift.

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I was doing lift the weight off the rack, back up then go down. Now I know I should lift it off the floor. Thanks guys!

GB

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The weight isn’t really “dead” if you’re starting the lift from a rack. Not to say that starting from the rack is bad, but you definitely do not get the same workout at the bottom of the ROM as if you start off the floor. I know I find that to be the hardest part of the lift. Once it’s off the floor it’s just a matter of how badly I want it.

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I agree with Hatebreeder. Rip the bar off the floor, you’ll be amazed at the beautiful simplicity of the lift. It’s a lot cooler to take 400 from the floor and lock it out than it is to do a Romanian Deadlift on 450 and wonder if you nailed it.

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The answer depends on why you’re deadlifting. If you could care less about doing the competition deads, as in off the floor then starting from a rack is fine. I always did rack deads and got a better workout from it for the purpose of building my back. You start in the up position, so some say it makes it easier, but they forget the fact that as go balls out and start to get tunnel vision, you still have to end in the up position as well, this is the scorcher for me. With regular deads i find it a psychological comfort that when i get tired i just put the bar down, as opposed to having to lift it to rack it. It’s all preference really.