DL for reps, full reset or touch-n-goes?

_noob_

Just curious, when you're doing reps on deadlifts, do you fully reset between each rep or just touch and go?

I always do full resets regardless of weight.

billsica

I do touch and go. My form on the first one is usually iffy, so as I come down I'm in a much better position and I come up a lot better.

lesliev523

Touch and go...

usmcmp

Both.

bfinup

Touch n go on my lighter warm ups. Full reset on work set(s)

catfive1

Touch n go on my lighter warm ups. Full reset on work set(s)

^^This is what I do as well.

I_Will_End_You

Generally touch & go.

eric_sg61

Reset to get in the right position on every rep.................your back, hips etc with thank you later

funforsports

Touch n go on my lighter warm ups. Full reset on work set(s)

That right there.

homeyjosey

full reset on warm up and heavy sets

The_Enginerd

Full reset. It helps me keep my form.

mryak750

touch and go..

CoachDreesTraining

It's probably best to do a combination of both. Basically, come to a dead stop at the bottom while maintaining tension in your lats and traps.

Most people that touch-n-go bounce the weight off the ground and then lose posture in their lower backs. The problem I see with the reset crew make, is doing 1 rep, rolling the bar around for 15 seconds, then doing their second rep.

NinjadURbacon

touch and go unless I am doing a heavy set and i am fighting to keep my form up

drefaw

It's probably best to do a combination of both. Basically, come to a dead stop at the bottom while maintaining tension in your lats and traps.

^^ This is what I do too ^^ It's what works best for me. And has always made sense to me.

NinjadURbacon

It's probably best to do a combination of both. Basically, come to a dead stop at the bottom while maintaining tension in your lats and traps.

Most people that touch-n-go bounce the weight off the ground and then lose posture in their lower backs. The problem I see with the reset crew make, is doing 1 rep, rolling the bar around for 15 seconds, then doing their second rep.

^^^^^ yes. Do not want to carry momentum into the next rep.

PriceK01

It's probably best to do a combination of both. Basically, come to a dead stop at the bottom while maintaining tension in your lats and traps.

^This is how I do them

JNick77

If you're doing CrossFit type workouts for time, then touch-n-go is probably best. Generally speaking, for warm-ups through worksets do a full reset; reset the way and then explode off the floor. As others have said, you don't want the re-bound, especially with rubber plates, to aid you in getting it off the ground. Second, warm-ups help set you up for your worksets. Why would you lift differently for the warm-ups than with the worksets?

DopeItUp

Always full reset with a breath in between. Good time to check positioning of feet and posture as well. Too easy to cheat deadlifts with touch-n-go...which contradicts even the very name "dead"lift.

Mighty_Rabite

Touch and go, unless my form is going to hell, then I will reset briefly. None of that momentum crap though, I see too many people do that whether it's benching, deadlifting, curling [in the squat rack], etc...

neandermagnon

my head spins too much after deadlifts to do touch n goes... I have to wait until my head goes back to normal before doing the next one lol

jenilla1

For anything heavy and/or complex, it's gonna be a challenge for me. I need a full reset or I'll get sloppy and hurt myself. I'm terrible with form unless I'm concentrating, slow and careful.

cingle87

I always thought it was correct form not to reset during a set, how wrong I am. Since ive started ive always tried to do the touch and go or just avoid touching to stop the momentom bounce. only time I reset is if my grip was slipping.

People who reset are you able to lift more because you are not keeping hold of the bar for the whole set?

Fithealthyforlife

Either way is fine, and it's personal preference. Personally (and I'm in the very early days of DLing) I've been going almost to the floor lately, but without actually hitting it. It's too jarring to my spine to hit the floor every rep.

MonsterToBe

I'm a strong advocate for singles only for deadlift. To lift maximal weights, you need both strength and skill. Skill comes from practicing a motor pattern consistently and correctly many, many times. Since deadlifts are done for much less volume than the other lifts due to their taxing nature, you get less practice. If you do sets of deadlifts, even if they're not touch-and-go, you still only practice the setup once per set of five or however many you're doing. If you do singles (set up, lift, lower the bar, step away from the bar, repeat) for a "set" of five, you've practiced the entire lift five times instead of once, allowing you to develop skill more effectively than you can doing traditional sets.

For anyone who's interested, SSPT (home of Matt Gary and Suzanne Hartwig-Gary, who are phenomenal powerlifters (she recently took bronze at IPF World's)) has a video explaining how to program for this approach. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q3CTfHSBTg

apriltrainer

I do full resets to keep my form in check.

ttippie2000

I do both, depending where in the training cycle I am. When doing touch-and-goes I try to get a brief break between the eccentric and concentric phases of the lift. The idea is to train your neuromuscular coordination to explode into the up-phase of the lift with the maximum number of muscle motor units. This is done with a submaximal weight but with all the speed and power of a maximal weight, and initiation speed IS the goal.