Rackpulls wtf??

[LondonTiger]

I saw some guy do rack pulls on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KmLY0N5CWM&feature=email, I didn't know it was a legitmate excricse I thought he was trying to deadlift so I told him lift it off the floor, and he retoreted by calling me a retard and that it was a rack pull... (either way he's overextending his lumber backwards like a retard anyway.).

I got me thinking, why on earth would you want to practice rack pulls, unless it was very sport specific.. I can't get my head around it because the hardest part of the deadlift (for me anyway), is the point when you lift the bar up from the ground.. practicing the easy part of the movement is just retarded right...??

[coldfire]

No. Read the book.

[The Sun]

dude, WTF!

[lylemcd]

Some purposes of rack pulls

1. Strengthen a weak point for DL lockout
2. Train the hell out of the back while sparing the legs
3. Look awesome in the gym b/c you can move a LOT of weight

There is only one retard in this thread and, for once, it wasn't the guy on Youtubes.

[misspelledgeoff]

how old are you, LondonTiger?

[Mr.City]

You are fool

[Smack]

Rack pulls are an extremely effective exercise for back mass and strength - especially the traps and lower back. As someone else already said, there's only one idiot in this situation and it's not the guy in Youtube.

[IWillLiveFreeOrDie]

I'm thinking this thread didn't go as expected. The good news is we all learn something new. :D

[Alyion]

Some purposes of rack pulls

1. Strengthen a weak point for DL lockout
2. Train the hell out of the back while sparing the legs
3. Look awesome in the gym b/c you can move a LOT of weight

There is only one retard in this thread and, for once, it wasn't the guy on Youtubes.

The best are squat lockouts.

I swear your grandmother could do 1000lb

[PVC]

I find it hilarious that you had the audacity to tell this guy he was doing rack pulls wrong when you don't even know what they are.

[metermanja]

legit rack pulls in planet fitness.
we have learnt more than one thing from this thread.

[Cmanuel]

take a look at my 555 DL in my sig below. FWIW, my strength off the floor is good for 600 easily, its the last few inches that screw me up. This is why I train rack pulls.

[Sami]

I saw some guy do rack pulls on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KmLY0N5CWM&feature=email, I didn't know it was a legitmate excricse I thought he was trying to deadlift so I told him lift it off the floor, and he retoreted by calling me a retard and that it was a rack pull... (either way he's overextending his lumber backwards like a retard anyway.).

I got me thinking, why on earth would you want to practice rack pulls, unless it was very sport specific.. I can't get my head around it because the hardest part of the deadlift (for me anyway), is the point when you lift the bar up from the ground.. practicing the easy part of the movement is just retarded right...??

I take it this is you too?


Ok, well rack pull is a legitimate excercise, I didn't know that... however you are still doing the excercsie wrong.. wtf are you doing at the top of the movement overextending your lumber, it does nothing apart from put your back at risk...

WHose the retard now??

[Jamie J. Skibicki]

"(for me anyway)"

This is the important part, which you left out of your analysis about the usefulness of the rack pull.

Fortunately, not everyone is like you.

[LondonTiger]

legit rack pulls in planet fitness.
we have learnt more than one thing from this thread.

im perplexed at the response here, fair enough i din't know that partial deadlift was a legit excercise, and i alredy admitted that.

However this is still bad form..

not to mention this is also a really light weight (the planet fitness plates are 22lbs max), i can understand someone doing a partial movement to work on a part of the movement they are struggling with.. however only at intermediate+ level i would expect that. with only 100kg/222lbs you might as well do the full movement??

also my second point, and most importantly is the bending backwards on the top of the movement which i also had trouble with.. i watched the SS dvd and some guy bent backward like that at the top of the DL and rip said this is entirely pointless for muscle development and puts the back at risk.

[Sami]

im perplexed at the response here, fair enough i din't know that partial deadlift was a legit excercise, and i alredy admitted that.

However this is still bad form..

not to mention this is also a really light weight (the planet fitness plates are 22lbs max), i can understand someone doing a partial movement to work on a part of the movement they are struggling with.. however only at intermediate+ level i would expect that. with only 100kg/222lbs you might as well do the full movement??

also my second point, and most importantly is the bending backwards on the top of the movement which i also had trouble with.. i watched the SS dvd and some guy bent backward like that at the top of the DL and rip said this is entirely pointless for muscle development and puts the back at risk.

Maybe he's using light weights because he's rehabbing a bad back... due to hyperextending the deadlift lockout, lulz.

[Dastardly]

im perplexed at the response here, fair enough i din't know that partial deadlift was a legit excercise, and i alredy admitted that.

However this is still bad form..

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Who the hell cares about small form descrepencies in random strangers on the internet?

He looks like a young strong guy, unlikely to get injured in comparison to the mad shit I see regularly.

Most guys who havent geeked out learning lifting from books, videos and knowledgable elders like Mr Rippetoe like to lean back when they deadlift.

They copy the macho look of powerlifters, and be honest, if you were basing your technique on what youd seen other 'big strong dudes at the gym' do, then you would be doing it too.

the whole idea of being so anal about 'form' for the big lifts is a youtube phenomenon. If someone put up their lift as a form check, fair enough - go ahead and criticise (if you can actually provide useful critique). But if some guy just put up a lift video for pride's sake. Just let him bathe in his hyperextended rack pull glory. there are better things to expend your effort on, such as tightening up your own deadlift.

Just get over it. ;)

[LondonTiger]

Who the hell cares about small form descrepencies in random strangers on the internet?

He looks like a young strong guy, unlikely to get injured in comparison to the mad shit I see regularly.

Most guys who havent geeked out learning lifting from books, videos and knowledgable elders like Mr Rippetoe like to lean back when they deadlift.

They copy the macho look of powerlifters, and be honest, if you were basing your technique on what youd seen other 'big strong dudes at the gym' do, then you would be doing it too.

the whole idea of being so anal about 'form' for the big lifts is a youtube phenomenon. If someone put up their lift as a form check, fair enough - go ahead and criticise (if you can actually provide useful critique). But if some guy just put up a lift video for pride's sake. Just let him bathe in his hyperextended rack pull glory. there are better things to expend your effort on, such as tightening up your own deadlift.

Just get over it. ;)

Easy for you to say, you have the squat of a skinny african child ;)

[WKen]

Easy for you to say, you have the squat of a skinny LONDON TIGER