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

_noob_
_noob_ Posts: 3,306 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
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.

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  • billsica
    billsica Posts: 4,741 Member
    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
    lesliev523 Posts: 366 Member
    Touch and go...
  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    Both.
  • bfinup
    bfinup Posts: 47
    Touch n go on my lighter warm ups. Full reset on work set(s)
  • catfive1
    catfive1 Posts: 529 Member
    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
    I_Will_End_You Posts: 4,397 Member
    Generally touch & go.
  • eric_sg61
    eric_sg61 Posts: 2,925 Member
    Reset to get in the right position on every rep.................your back, hips etc with thank you later
  • funforsports
    funforsports Posts: 2,656 Member
    Touch n go on my lighter warm ups. Full reset on work set(s)

    That right there.
  • homeyjosey
    homeyjosey Posts: 138 Member
    full reset on warm up and heavy sets
  • The_Enginerd
    The_Enginerd Posts: 3,982 Member
    Full reset. It helps me keep my form.
  • mryak750
    mryak750 Posts: 198 Member
    touch and go..
  • CoachDreesTraining
    CoachDreesTraining Posts: 223 Member
    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
    NinjadURbacon Posts: 395 Member
    touch and go unless I am doing a heavy set and i am fighting to keep my form up
  • drefaw
    drefaw Posts: 739
    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
    NinjadURbacon Posts: 395 Member
    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
    PriceK01 Posts: 834 Member
    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
    JNick77 Posts: 3,783 Member
    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
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
    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
    Mighty_Rabite Posts: 581 Member
    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
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    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
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    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
    cingle87 Posts: 717 Member
    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
    Fithealthyforlife Posts: 866 Member
    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
    MonsterToBe Posts: 244 Member
    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
    apriltrainer Posts: 732 Member
    I do full resets to keep my form in check.
  • ttippie2000
    ttippie2000 Posts: 412 Member
    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.

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