My latest on T-Nation: Deadlift Mechanics

[Mark Rippetoe]

https://www.t-nation.com/training/de...g-the-deadlift

This is a long article. Thanks to T-Nation for running it, and for the nice layout of the piece.

[Sean Herbison]

Good article, Rip. Nothing really new, but some good ways of looking at things from a different angle.

Don't quotation marks generally go around, you know, the quote?

Dimas was the undisputed master of staying out over the bar, preserving his back angle until the bar was above his knees.

Dimas put on some weight.

but Olympic lifters who fail to keep their backs tight and flat will have problems reproducing their technique accurately

Guilty.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Pick pick pick, Herbie.

[Sean Herbison]

Pick pick pick, Herbie.

I did try to start with a compliment. As a bonus, it was even sincere.

I also just now noticed that you said "Thanks to T-Nation for running it," not "ruining it," as I originally thought. That makes a lot more sense now, since it didn't seem ruined to me.

[Roland Conde]

Well composed, thank you for writing it.

[ithryn]

Who is this "Mark Rippetoe", anyway?

I'm a veteran of rolling the bar before I pull, thus increasing the moment arm producing leverage against me (I think I'm using all those terms right), causing a lot of failed lifts that only get an inch off the ground, or don't budge at all. I've started to wonder how much "weight" this adds to the bar, how much extra force I have to exert to get the bar up, e.g. a 300 lb deadlift, rolled out one inch ahead, means I'm actually trying to pull...what? 450? It must be a huge increase if it means the difference between pulling to lockout and absolutely nothing.

I don't do fizzics enough to be able to figure it out, but if we can figure out the average PSI being exerted against the ground when you pull, it seems like this could be figured out too.

[Mark Rippetoe]

I've started to wonder how much "weight" this adds to the bar, how much extra force I have to exert to get the bar up, e.g. a 300 lb deadlift, rolled out one inch ahead, means I'm actually trying to pull...what? 450? It must be a huge increase if it means the difference between pulling to lockout and absolutely nothing.

I don't do fizzics enough to be able to figure it out, but if we can figure out the average PSI being exerted against the ground when you pull, it seems like this could be figured out too.

Sounds like an excellent project. Get busy.

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The best part was the eyeballs paragraph.

[Meshuggah]

Just curious Rip, what is your all time best Deadlift?

[Mark Rippetoe]

633 @ 220