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Amateur Bodybuilder 
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How do you do a deadlift?     | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder 
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well you bend down like a squat and grab the bar then stand up and back down ,now you can either let the bar touch the ground or not its your choice and repeat till your set is over ------------------ "Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity." "In the 60's people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take prozac to make it normal." http://pub33.ezboard.com/bburnboy check this board out its just gettin started | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
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Yep, Just bend your knees good and bend down with your back....make sure your shoulders are back..bring the bar up in line with your shins, the bar should travel parallel with the shins on the way up, then just straighten your back and bring shoulder back, and come down again bending your knees naturally, brin the bar back down parallel with the shins again. | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 179 |
There are two types of deadlifts. Stiff-legged and bent knee. It depends what you're trying to build. Stiff-legged really builds strong hamstrings, and is less stressful to your lower back. Bent knee recruits your lower back with more intensity and develops hams a little less. I personally, do stiff-legged with heavy weights. If you do them this way try to bring the weights as close to the floor as possible. As your weights get really heavy you should consider straps, so you don't dropo the bar. Your fingers will fatigue before your legs fatigue when dealing with heavy weights. | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 69 |
Gawd how I love talking about the deadlift, probably my favorite excercise. There are more than two styles. There are the stiff legg, bent-knee, and the single leg varieties. Now, we'll just get into the regular bent knee deadlift, the one that enables you to lift the heaviest amount of weight, hits more muscle groups than any other bodybuilding exercise and is easily one of the most neglected exercises among amateur/newbie lifters. Two types these deadlifts are used, the traditional style and sumo style. The only differences are where the hands are placed on the bar. In a traditional style, the hands just outside of the legs, and in the sumo, inside of the legs (causing your foot spacing to be pretty wide). To perform the deadlift, stand in front of a bar with your shins just touching the bar. Keep your foot spacing about shoulder width apart, your hands just outside of your shins. Squat down, keep your back flat, head in a neutral position and your hips tucked low. Lift with your legs, and when the bar has cleared the ground and is past the knee, straighten your back out. Lower the weight under control, don't bounce it off the ground. That's the deadlift, easier explained than performed. Seeing someone perform it with correct technique would be much nicer than me explaining it here, but I think you get the point. Expect soreness in your hams, glutes, lower back, traps, forearms and even your neck the next morning. | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 179 |
Nice explanation johnny iron. I have a question also. When you peform the bent knee regular dead, do you lower the bar all the way to the floor before you repeat, or do you stop just before you reach the floor? Which do you think is more beneficial? I know when I do stiff legged I get as low as I can but don't allow the bar to touch the floor. The hams are constantly under pressure this way. BTW, I recently decided to incoporate regular deads into my back day. Previously I was only doing stiff legged on leg day. |
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posted January 21, 2001 07:30 PM