Originally Posted by
CDG
I perused the DVD, again, and notice a healthy sampling of short-femur, long-torso lifters. The same can be said of the demonstration videos. Do you know where I can find video of this ‘lean over more’ technique with this type of lifter? It would be nice to see someone who DOESN’T need the knees so I could adjust myself appropriately, and help others built similarly. Some people swear by deadlifting with low hips, but when they deadlift, those hips go up to the correct position because the pull can’t happen otherwise. Likewise, the desire to stop the knees in the first 1/2 of descent is a modest aim, but it doesn’t seem to stop record breaking squats from happening with no injuries for people of this body type. I know this regrading a horizontal back angle: If I try to go vertical, I jack up my back. Every long-femur trainee jacks up the back trying to be vertical because we round over to not fall backwards. Horizontal isn’t the problem, which is why I want to see it done. Show me or explain to me how more horizontal wouldn’t throw that lifter out of balance (leaning over is useful until it isn’t) and why continuing to extend the hips back, which is what a more horizontal back angle does, would facilitate depth when it will in fact send the lifter into a deadlift position instead of allowing the hips to drop down below parallel. I don’t mean to sound frustrated but I keep trying to explain this as best I can and these two-sentence posts just make it feel like I’m being an irritation for asking about this. I deeply respect your work and all that you do, and the Asgard company, and I listen to all the podcasts, but I’m not going to spend $945 to rehash stuff I do perfectly fine on a regular basis in the gym from the book I read and studied and practiced when I’m just asking for somebody who is mechanically built poorly to trying squatting to depth without sliding the knees past the first 1/2 of descent.