Deadlifting Vids: 7-12-06 Critique as always

[Shades McCool]

Here we go:

485lbsx1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d22yszRXpIU

Give me the usual critique, comments, suggestions, ect please!

 

[mekannik]

Other than using straps (pussy).

Good speed off the floor. Slight hitch towards your lockout (0:44).

Only negative is your back - rounding from the start. Need to work on flexibility to keep an arch/straight back thru out the lift.

 

[Protobuilder]

You and those straps! LoL You were told to edit that part out next time. j/k

Looks good. At the top, maybe think about consciously "drive the hips forward" using your glutes to push your hips forward and get the lockout.

Also, best advice -- get stronger so you can deadlift more.

 

[BiggT]

Nice pull, I think you have lots more in the tank still.

Awesome speed off the floor.....with this weight I did notice the little hitch at lockout. What a lot of guy with crazy speed off the floor and through the middle of the DL do is straighten their legs as the bar nears their knees, this gets the bar moving, but the problem is that the hips are then in a poor position to be driven forward to finish the lift, and when you lock out a heavy deadlift, you really get more power by driving the hips forward.

Now, I watched your vid at least 5 times and on that particular pull you look to have straightened the legs a little bit too early.....now, thats fine, I have pulled some of my biggest DLs almost straight-legged as has most anybody who has ever strained to do a DL.....but, if you reach a point where the bar is flying off the floor like mad and you start to miss at lockout because you can't drive the hips forward, then you'll need to make a conscious effort not to straighten the legs so soon.

As for 500lbs, I think it is as good as in the bag, if I were a betting man, I'd bet if you took off next week from Deads you could come in the following week and hit 500-510 no problem.

 

[Shades McCool]

I notice the hitch too. To be honest it didn't ever feel like I wasnt going to get it but I could see where if I needed my hips...they wouldn't be there. I'll start making an effort to stop straightening out so soon. Today I probably did it because I felt so bad. VERY tired and winded between sets.

 

[BiggT]

The fatigue is building, man.....heavy pulls will do it, and they aren't just 'relatively heavy'...mid-upper 4's for several weeks in a row is a legitimately heavy DL.....I think if you skipped them next week and then came in in 2 weeks, 500 would be destroyed.

 

[Shades McCool]

That probably has a lot to do with it. Also the fact that I do that pull after doing 4 earlier sets of 5. I also think I might be running a little anemic here lately. Hopefully I'll feel better Friday.

 

[Protobuilder]

How's your caloric intake right now?

 

[Shades McCool]

Honestly it needs to be higher but I am up 5-7 pounds since I started.

 

[theprofessor]

i think someone else suggested once to just grip it over/over if you are using straps...
....GREAT LIFT BRO...

 

[Shades McCool]

i think someone else suggested once to just grip it over/over if you are using straps...
....GREAT LIFT BRO...

Thanks bro!!!

 

[carlsuen]

nice speed.. i'm ashamed of my DL numbers..around 270-280@200lbs... sigh.. but i think mekanik brought out a good point tho.. u were rounding your back initially.. i think that has to be fixed first.. otehr than that.. keep up the good work!!

 

[Shades McCool]

nice speed.. i'm ashamed of my DL numbers..around 270-280@200lbs... sigh.. but i think mekanik brought out a good point tho.. u were rounding your back initially.. i think that has to be fixed first.. otehr than that.. keep up the good work!!

My technique is fine on lower weights but on a max I tend to round just a tad. Oh and about your numbers, keep lifting...that is the only way they will go up!