Yes, you should be deadlifting!
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I love deadlifting and lifting so much weight. I've always said, deadlifting is for the body and ego
Not sure if its been said but Chalk, Chalk, Chalk0 -
290 sounds amazing! Gotta love girl power!0
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Deadlifting is the greatest goddamn lift on the planet.
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I prefer squats to deadlifts, but that's just because I can lift far heavier, lol. Still working on dialing in my form on deads since I switched to sumo-style.
BW 125, pulling 290 for a pair?!? That ratio would require me to pull 429 twice, and my 1RM is only 405!! *bows* I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy!0 -
juliewatkin wrote: »Iron_Miss_Canada wrote: »juliewatkin wrote: »I'm going to post this here because I'm inordinately pleased with myself. My max is 315 in competition. This week in training I pulled 290 for a double. My previous best was 285 for a couple of doubles. The past couple of weeks I've been cutting a bit of weight and dealing with life stress so the rep PR was a nice lift for me. BW is down to 125.
Sorry no yoga pants. Just scabby, paint covered sweats.
Nice!
Thanks. btw, I don't recall seeing your name on the list at nationals? If so, I hope you're there next year as it's going to be out west.
Missed getting my qualifying total at westerns thanks to my back. Would have been spanked big time had I done power surge, and wadnt able to do cold lake to get it either. Most definitely be there next year.0 -
New PR: 340 x 1, 335x50
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You are all SO impressive. Deadlifts are my favourite. I like deadlifts more than ice cream.
I’m only at 145 for 5 reps now. I could go higher, but I’ve been moving up really slowly to ensure I don’t screw up my form. My squats are catching up, at 3 sets of 5 reps with 115, so I need to step up my game.1 -
AllanMisner wrote: »AllanMisner wrote: »This is why it bugs me when uninformed people (or worse, gyms) say that you shouldn't deadlift. It's a great way to prevent injuries, and it's one of the most effective and highly functional exercises out there.
To be fair it is very easy to do incorrectly, which is a quick path to injury.
Is 'incorrectly' really just rounding your back, or are there other ways to hurt yourself with dl?
Anytime the weight is brought off center, it possible to injure yourself (especially with heavy weight). Rounding your back, not holding your abdominals strong, not keeping a good frame with your shoulders will all lead to a less than vertical pull on the bar. However, it isn't a hard technique to learn and master.
Thanks (to all who answered this) - how do you mean about the shoulder frame? Is that just not letting the weights pull your shoulders forward?
Yes, just keeping your shoulders activated as you come up and your arms straight.
It took me a few times to get this form right when I first started deadlifting. Now I find that it is much easier.0 -
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homeyjosey wrote: »I love deadlifting and lifting so much weight. I've always said, deadlifting is for the body and ego
Not sure if its been said but Chalk, Chalk, Chalk
There's other ways to build grip strength which is included in deadlifts.0 -
yopeeps025 wrote: »homeyjosey wrote: »I love deadlifting and lifting so much weight. I've always said, deadlifting is for the body and ego
Not sure if its been said but Chalk, Chalk, Chalk
There's other ways to build grip strength which is included in deadlifts.
Oh? Talk at me. Because I admit I use gloves - and yes, they do match my purse. I could go for grip strength.0 -
I prefer squats to deadlifts, but that's just because I can lift far heavier, lol. Still working on dialing in my form on deads since I switched to sumo-style.
BW 125, pulling 290 for a pair?!? That ratio would require me to pull 429 twice, and my 1RM is only 405!! *bows* I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy!yopeeps025 wrote: »homeyjosey wrote: »I love deadlifting and lifting so much weight. I've always said, deadlifting is for the body and ego
Not sure if its been said but Chalk, Chalk, Chalk
There's other ways to build grip strength which is included in deadlifts.
Oh? Talk at me. Because I admit I use gloves - and yes, they do match my purse. I could go for grip strength.
Option one.
Do double overhead grip. Palm face you during deadlifts. I also do them without thumb like suicide grip for bench press. Then you do alternate grip.
Option two.
plates pinches.
You take two weight plates that are the same. Have the flat with nothing surface face outside as you press and hold both plates together with one hand.
I used to not be able to pull more than 315 because of stall grip strength. I do option one. Now I did do 295x10. I have a dl PR of 415 a month ago.
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Gloves.......I learnt a salutary lesson with gloves. I thought they would improve my grip.
Wrong!
I have quite small hands and the gym only has a male Oly bar. No problem, I just thought it would be a little more comfortable. I'm really not bothered with callousing, have enough of those related to my day job using screwdrivers and other hand tools on a daily basis! I'm proud of my callouses they are like my leeetle pets!
The gloves make the diameter of the bar bigger and with the heavier lifts the bar would start rolling in my palm
...which was one of those "yikes" awful feelings. Alternate grip was an option and helped but I'm really trying to lay off that until it's really needed in the future.
So, even if you are using a women's Oly bar for its reduced diameter, using gloves is going to bring up the diameter to the fella's one anyway, or thereabouts.
So gloves are now off again0 -
yopeeps025 wrote: »I prefer squats to deadlifts, but that's just because I can lift far heavier, lol. Still working on dialing in my form on deads since I switched to sumo-style.
BW 125, pulling 290 for a pair?!? That ratio would require me to pull 429 twice, and my 1RM is only 405!! *bows* I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy!yopeeps025 wrote: »homeyjosey wrote: »I love deadlifting and lifting so much weight. I've always said, deadlifting is for the body and ego
Not sure if its been said but Chalk, Chalk, Chalk
There's other ways to build grip strength which is included in deadlifts.
Oh? Talk at me. Because I admit I use gloves - and yes, they do match my purse. I could go for grip strength.
Option one.
Do double overhead grip. Palm face you during deadlifts. I also do them without thumb like suicide grip for bench press. Then you do alternate grip.
Option two.
plates pinches.
You take two weight plates that are the same. Have the flat with nothing surface face outside as you press and hold both plates together with one hand.
I used to not be able to pull more than 315 because of stall grip strength. I do option one. Now I did do 295x10. I have a dl PR of 415 a month ago.
You know, I’ve been doing the alternate grip only after I got the gloves - I can’t wait to try it without them. I will absolutely try plate pinches. Thanks so much!
@Tortitudekitty I hear you, although my gloves fit okay-ish, I don’t think my grip is as strong as I’d like it to be. Definitely going sans gloves next time. I’d rather improve my grip strength anyway. No muscle left behind!
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I just want to rant about this great exercise for a while. I never used to do a lot of deadlifting, since I chose to exercise my legs in other ways. After I started deadlifting on a regular basis though, most of my knee pain went away, and I found that I could run faster and jump higher. Not to mention that I think it helped accelerate my overall muscle growth.
I wish that I had started doing this much, much sooner.
I hate lifting. What's dead lifting tho?
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Basically, any time you bend down to pick up something from the floor, you're deadlifting. Sleeping child, basket of dirty clothes, couch you're helping a friend move to the other side of the room, all deadlifts. Here we're talking about the exercise which helps prep you for all those other moves, where a bar is loaded with weight and you have to pick it up from the floor until standing.1
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I was challenged to do a 100 dl's this weekend on the account of 100 day MFP streak... currently Sumo is my primary, will switch back to regular dl's after May.
- 135x30
- 225x14
- 315x4x8= 32 reps (Somewhere around 70% of my 1RM I think - I only tested regular dl's last month.)
- 325x6
- 345x4
- 355x4
- 225x10
- TOTAL: 100 reps.
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I got to 2 x 205# last week. I wish I could do math correctly on the fly, though, because I didn't realize that 210# would have been 1.5 x body weight and I would have felt like a totally awesome personI love deadlifts and I've reached 60kg now (my bodyweight) with a single rep. According to http://www.exrx.net/Testing/WeightLifting/DeadliftStandardsKg.html that gets me close to novice
One thing though: I don't think my hands, or rather my fingers can hold much more. Um.. how do you go about this? I don't want to tie the bar to my wrists as I don't want to get injured as I'm usually completely alone in the gym. So I guess I need to get more hand strength somehow.
I've been doing dead-hangs from the pull-up bar, or fingertip hangs if I can. You just grab the bar and hang there for as long as you can, until you literally fall off, and then get back up and do it again. I try to do it 3 or 4 times at the end of a workout. It helped a lot when I was rock climbing, so I'm hoping it'll work for deadlifts too.0 -
I did deadlifts yesterday, I am not sore but I can still feel the burn today.0
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I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to expound on this.
I know the deadlift exercise is supposed to be extremely functional in this regard, but I don't quite understand. I have tried deadlifting with two 20 lb dumbbells, but oddly enough it's a struggle for me to get past 15 reps.Basically, any time you bend down to pick up something from the floor, you're deadlifting. Sleeping child, basket of dirty clothes, couch you're helping a friend move to the other side of the room, all deadlifts. Here we're talking about the exercise which helps prep you for all those other moves, where a bar is loaded with weight and you have to pick it up from the floor until standing.
But in real life, however, I can certainly lift much more than 40 lbs. When lifting other objects, I'm in a squatted position. Depending on the object, it feels to me as though I can more easily ensure that I'm using my legs and not my back for lifting if I'm squatting as opposed to in the deadlift position. Also, in real life I'm using my biceps much more for picking up things off the floor than with the deadlift exercise itself, so I'm missing the true connection.
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Ilikelamps wrote: »
I'm loving my ankle gains! I have always been prone to rolling my ankles, typically if I'm being inactive a lot. I had to concentrate on maintaining my ankle alignment when I started lifting again but now it's atleast not a limiting factor. And I walk on rocks lawns and hop in and out of my truck with absolute confidence where I used to be mindful and even avoided those dangerous conditions.0 -
ForecasterJason wrote: »I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to expound on this.
I know the deadlift exercise is supposed to be extremely functional in this regard, but I don't quite understand. I have tried deadlifting with two 20 lb dumbbells, but oddly enough it's a struggle for me to get past 15 reps.Basically, any time you bend down to pick up something from the floor, you're deadlifting. Sleeping child, basket of dirty clothes, couch you're helping a friend move to the other side of the room, all deadlifts. Here we're talking about the exercise which helps prep you for all those other moves, where a bar is loaded with weight and you have to pick it up from the floor until standing.
But in real life, however, I can certainly lift much more than 40 lbs. When lifting other objects, I'm in a squatted position. Depending on the object, it feels to me as though I can more easily ensure that I'm using my legs and not my back for lifting if I'm squatting as opposed to in the deadlift position. Also, in real life I'm using my biceps much more for picking up things off the floor than with the deadlift exercise itself, so I'm missing the true connection.
You're correct that we tend to lift things with more of a squatting position, like this:
so a higher torso angle is a better way to train for that:
but sometimes bending over is unavoidable:
Fortunately it's rare to need to deadlift more than our bodyweight outside the gym. Many, if not most, injuries happen from unexpected or under-trained movements.. like carrying the couch around a bend, or lifting it onto a pickup truck. Hence the value of training a diversity of movement skills, by including exercises like goblet squats, lunges, loaded carries, rotational movements, and lifting bulky objects.
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Thanks for the explanation and links, Cherimoose. That makes more sense to me now.0
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wolfsbayne wrote: »Deadlifts are king! I'm a happy girl on deadlift day!
Me too!0 -
Love deadlifts.
They give that strong core and practical strength that helps so many other exercises.
Sets done quick feel like sprints0 -
I love deadlifts. I didn't realize how much I loved them until I couldn't do them for a few months with a non-lifting related leg injury.
Now back at them and working to get back to where I was.0 -
Snatch grip deadlifts are my fave DL's - great for the lats. I would say overall though DL's are my third favourite exercise - power cleans are where its at 0
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juliewatkin wrote: »I'm going to post this here because I'm inordinately pleased with myself. My max is 315 in competition. This week in training I pulled 290 for a double. My previous best was 285 for a couple of doubles. The past couple of weeks I've been cutting a bit of weight and dealing with life stress so the rep PR was a nice lift for me. BW is down to 125.
Sorry no yoga pants. Just scabby, paint covered sweats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vmZ5jUEwrg
man- I biffed my last 315- I've pulled it exactly once. I'ts still a very mental pull for me.
I can't wait till I can comfortably pull 315 for more than one rep. You and me my friend- we are chasing that 4 plate dream!0 -
juliewatkin wrote: »I'm going to post this here because I'm inordinately pleased with myself. My max is 315 in competition. This week in training I pulled 290 for a double. My previous best was 285 for a couple of doubles. The past couple of weeks I've been cutting a bit of weight and dealing with life stress so the rep PR was a nice lift for me. BW is down to 125.
Sorry no yoga pants. Just scabby, paint covered sweats.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vmZ5jUEwrg
Holy *kitten*, you rock!!! 290 @ 125 is awesome...that would be equivalent of me pulling 515 for a double according to the wilks calculator! And you did it with a double overhand grip and not the mixed grip which in my opinion just makes you that much more bad@ss!0
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