1RM Deadlift

[Jamie100]

Any way to improve my pull?



When commenting say what video you're refering to please (or all of them)

[Karl Schudt]

Ouch. Your back is terribly rounded in all the videos. Are you doing that on purpose?

What is the point of the "look up!" cue?

[Jamie100]

I've always deadlifted like that (been deadlifting 24 months now) and haven't felt any back pain. So yes I am doing it on purpose.

Looking up whilst hitching just helps you keep your torso upright in my experience.

Ouch. Your back is terribly rounded in all the videos. Are you doing that on purpose?

What is the point of the "look up!" cue?

[hamburgerfan]

Well your form is shitty, but if it's intentionally shitty, then I don't know what else there is to say about it.

[Jamie100]

My form may be "shitty", but is it inefficent ? If so how

Well your form is shitty, but if it's intentionally shitty, then I don't know what else there is to say about it.

[hamburgerfan]

Do you plan on competing?

[Les Hahn]

The first one looked the best. The second one had some ramping going on, and the third one reminded me more of a Strongman style deadlift (hitching, ramping, etc).

I am all of uncoventional form, so setup any way you like. I would work on the back bending. Some people can lift more with a bent back, but I would try to round the top instead of the middle if you can. Watch some vids of Konstantin Konstantinovs lifting to see what I mean.

If you plan on competing, even in a push/pull or DL only meet, you will have to ditch the straps and keep your form more like the first vid. The other two would be no lifts.

Keep it up! You have a good deadlift, and all you really have to do clean up a few things and you should be good to go!

[Jamie100]

I already do. (Strongman)

Do you plan on competing?

[Karl Schudt]

Good luck. The rounded back is more efficient, if you can do it.

[Nick D'Agostino]

These are not efficient. Each spinal segment in your back giving way to flexion as you pull the weight represents force from your legs dissipating in your non rigid spine, thus never reaching the bar. Learning how to set your back before you pull will be more efficient. I would read the book and follow the steps and lose the straps. Especially for strongman I would be working on that grip strength.