Deadlifts Deweighted vs. Bounced

[youngguns]

YG - as much as I hate to say it your DL looks fine - there are areas to improve, but it is better than 95% of what I see...

thanks man, this was 365, I just recently got 380x5, the deloaded and set up for the last rep, but it felt like a million pounds and I knew I would have been struggling to get it up, and it wasnt worth it, next deadlift will be 380x6, I might video it, can't wait to get to 4 plates.

 

[youngguns]

nice thread here

 

[BiggT]

Youngguns....I think your DL's are perfectly fine, and personally I don't consider that bouncing at all.....just keep doing that and progressing and you're good to go.

 

[youngguns]

Youngguns....I think your DL's are perfectly fine, and personally I don't consider that bouncing at all.....just keep doing that and progressing and you're good to go.

good to hear, thanks man

 

[Powerbuilder333]

I've never heard of Steve Mack, but I aspire to have that kind of brute strength. Great vid.

 

[BiggT]

He's Steve McDonald. He won last year's IFSA (strongman) America's strongest man show.

 

[Guinness5.0]

It's probably been established by now, but bouncing is not the same thing as touch and go; bouncing means that one consciously tries to employ momentum to make the lift easier whereas touch and go means that one doesn't fully deweight the bar at the bottom but does not get sloppy and 'cheat' to in order to make the weight move.

My $.02 is that it's probably best to err toward resetting fully as it allows one to get their mechanics in line for each individual rep. If one's goal is to obtain the highest 1rm possible I have to believe that resetting even when pulling for reps is best as it replicates the effort necessary for the big single.

 

[blut wump]

Steve McDonald is very impressive in strongman.

One thing I noticed on all of the vids showing touch 'n' go was that the first rep from the floor looked much harder than the later reps.

 

[silver_shadow]

thanks man, this was 365, I just recently got 380x5, the deloaded and set up for the last rep, but it felt like a million pounds and I knew I would have been struggling to get it up, and it wasnt worth it, next deadlift will be 380x6, I might video it, can't wait to get to 4 plates.

yep looks good to me. def NO bouncing!

it might seem difficult at first to do the deload since you are used to this method. so you'd probably have to reset weights and try again. that is IF you want to. as it is the deads look good so it's your call.

one thing that would make a difference between the 2 styles would be the stretch reflex. i suspect that when you deweighted you sat in that position for long enough to lose it. ideally you'd want to spend as little time in the starting position as possible. if you're pulling for reps then that possibly could mean deweighting, going up a little with the bar still on the ground then descending once again this time when you reach the bottom position you will start pulling - so each rep would seem like (or close to) a single. something like 5 "singles" = one set of 5. make sense?

 

[lesarin]

power shrugs and barbell rows have made a SHIT load of difference in my deadlift. Once i get it past the starting sticking point, and it starts to go i KNOW i can lift to lockout.