Thanks Nick.
This an excellent follow-up to many forum posts and website articles on adding haltings and rack pulls into a program.
When you go from doing deadlifts as the main pulling movement in your program to a partial range of motion exercise like rack pulls, you intentionally overload a part of the full range of motion of the parent exercise. Depending on the situation, doing so can reduce overall stress in your program while still allowing you to pull a very heavy weight.
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Thanks Nick.
This an excellent follow-up to many forum posts and website articles on adding haltings and rack pulls into a program.
Great article, Nick.
I think I'm the only person I know who doesn't hate haltings. Why are they so universally hated?
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Maybe it's because most (all?) other Starting Strength recommended exercises require the trainee to move the bar from position A to position B in the most anatomically efficient way possible, given the mechanical constrictions of the exercise. The halting deadlift requires the trainee to strenuously inhibit their effective range of motion during its performance.
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You are right, Andrew. I disliked haltings when I was doing them like half a deadlift too, so it has to be more than just the awkward mechanics. Maybe it's also something to do with their incompleteness. You're giving up when you're half-way there, with no definite end-point or lockout - unlike the rack pull, which everybody loves. Maybe haltings are just not as satisfying as other lifts?
They definitely work, though.