This question is for all you T-Rex arm bastards who seem to defy the odds by still deadlifting a shit ton of weight. What is the best deadlift assistance/deadlift carryover exercise, that has helped you bust past that huge barrier called genetics? I’d like to hear from those guys who have hit 500+.
One of my favorite lifters is Chris Ramos who trains at Super Training Gym. Chris is pulling mid 6’s at under 200lbs. Chris swears on dynamic effort box squats as the main contributor to his success in deadlifting. What are yours?
Switching to Sumo and learning and training the Hip Hinge to the best of my ability. Also focusing on allowing my shoulders to roll forward as far as possible to shorten distance as much as possible. As for actual moves that have helped Reverse Band Pulls and Deficit Pulls.
I’m not a Deadlift monster by any means but pulled 565 at 210<— that’s was in Blue jeans, Shirt, Carrhart Jacket, and Shoes lol so 205 or less in Novemeber @ Record Breakers and pulled 545 from a 3" deficit yesterday… So take this with a grain of salt.
Why noy try cycling block pulls? Start higher to where you can get into a good position and as you get good move down another few inches until you are at the ground.
So i decided to take everyones advice. After a few months of being just terrible at deadlift (Even though my squat improves weekly), I’ve decided to switch to sumo. Today was my first day pulling sumo. I dont want to get too excited, but I think I’ve found my lift. I’ll post some updates soon. Thanks everyone.
[quote]TeflonTurk wrote:
So i decided to take everyones advice. After a few months of being just terrible at deadlift (Even though my squat improves weekly), I’ve decided to switch to sumo. Today was my first day pulling sumo. I dont want to get too excited, but I think I’ve found my lift. I’ll post some updates soon. Thanks everyone.[/quote]
One thing to watch out for is that sumo doesn’t develop your lower back strength the way conventional does. After a few months of focusing on strictly sumo I found myself starting to cave in at the bottom of a squat, which I attribute to a weak lower back. My recommendation is to find a way to include both in your training.
My deadlift started going up when i added 3 things: dead lifting more, front squats, deficit pulls. These 3 things took my best gym pull from 455 to 530. I don’t consider that very strong, as there are much stronger guys on here, but I was stuck at 455 for quite some time and it feels great to have my pull finally going up