Deadlift Question

[mm107]

yea i was doing mine Stiff Legged, then my freidn walked by and showed me how to do them the "original" way and they becaome so much fuckin harder. Actually have to drive through your heels the old school way.

I basically get nice and low ass out and pull up, and the bar usually scratches the shit out of my shins. Gotta love it.

 

[bignate73]

ok. lets just clear up that "old fashioned" is called a conventional style deadlift. everything else is an offshoot of this lift.

 

[blut wump]

ok. lets just clear up that "old fashioned" is called a conventional style deadlift. everything else is an offshoot of this lift.

Olympic lifts included.

 

[sidney61199]

So it isn't just me when I think/say the old school way is harder? I get so tired of seeing guys do more than me with stiff legged dead lifts and I'm doing the normal way. I always wondered what would happen if I told/asked them to take the weight on there and try it the normal way. I bet they couldn't hardly get it off the ground. I'd ask them to but there the type of people who think there hot shit and I seem to agree with the shit part just more a steaming pile of shit instead of just hot shit.

 

[blut wump]

Invective aside, most people don't have the reach or flexibility to deload the bar on the floor between reps while repping SLDL (Stiff-Legged Deadlift). Equally, most people can conventional deadlift a lot more weight than they can SLDL, mostly due to strain on the lower back. You might be describing RDL, though, (Romanian Deadlift) which is bent-legged but the bar doesn't go all the way to the ground. Most people can use more weight in the RDL than in a conventional DL.

 

[Quadsweeps Sister]

Invective aside, most people don't have the reach or flexibility to deload the bar on the floor between reps while repping SLDL (Stiff-Legged Deadlift). Equally, most people can conventional deadlift a lot more weight than they can SLDL, mostly due to strain on the lower back. You might be describing RDL, though, (Romanian Deadlift) which is bent-legged but the bar doesn't go all the way to the ground. Most people can use more weight in the RDL than in a conventional DL.

Excellent desccriptions. I wondered also when I read some questions if people weren't thinking you would do 'one or the other'...SLDL vs DL (conventional, sumo, romanian).

I don't know about others, but I have always treated and thought of them as two seperate exercises. I use SLDL to work my hamstrings when I am focusing on that bodypart and DL's...well - they just are done to improve the movement, help with squat and work the posterior chain? My thinking may be wrong in the seperation of the two in my mind, but that's how I work with them.

 

[Guinness5.0]

Most people can use more weight in the RDL than in a conventional DL.

First time I'd heard that...

 

[xblitz44x]

I can deadlift about 100 lbs more than I can stiff-leg. I use stiff legs not instead of a conventional deadlift, but to try to focus on strengthening the hamstrings FOR the conventional deadlift.

 

[Jim Ouini]

First time I'd heard that...

Might depend on where your DL weakness is...my RDL is *a bit* higher than my conventional dead, where I'm weak off the floor.

 

[blut wump]

Well, compared with the DL, it's a partial movement with a stretch reflex assist and an ill-defined bottom point. The DL might have a benefit if someone has huge acceleration from the floor otherwise the RDL should be higher. The RDL is often done starting from the pins to keep the bar off the floor.