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Stiff Legged Deadlifts
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blut wump
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He doesn't deload his SLDL.
OK I'm being unreasonably harsh. Maybe I'm wrong to deload my SLDL but when a movement calls itself a 'deadlift' then I expect to be lifting a dead weight not repping a dynamic weight. Accordingly, I deload between reps. It could also simply be that he doesn't have enough flexibility to be able to deload with stiff legs.
OK I'm being unreasonably harsh. Maybe I'm wrong to deload my SLDL but when a movement calls itself a 'deadlift' then I expect to be lifting a dead weight not repping a dynamic weight. Accordingly, I deload between reps. It could also simply be that he doesn't have enough flexibility to be able to deload with stiff legs.
JohnRobHolmes
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I dont think Ronnies SLDL's are the main source of his growth.
It makes a pretty big difference in the amount I can DL when I deload between each rep. Gives me a chance to reset my body too, and practice the initial lifting contraction.
It makes a pretty big difference in the amount I can DL when I deload between each rep. Gives me a chance to reset my body too, and practice the initial lifting contraction.
BiggT
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An SLDL is deweighted between reps. A Romanian Deadlift isn't deweighted and the plates aren't even supposed to touch the floor. Both are okay lifts, SLDL's meant to be done a bit heavier. As an alternative to deadlifts, good mornings blow them both out of the water. For people who do them light and for a stretch, good mornings also blow them both out of the water. For people who want core strength, good mornings again blowm them both out of the water. Blut Wump is right, the lift is called a deadlift, because you lift the weight from a dead stop.
You're gonna have a slight bend in the knees, it's a train wreck waiting to happen without....the lift should be called an ''almost'' Straight leg deadlift.
I am not gonna get into a debate about why and how Ronnie Coleman gets the results he does, lol, I really do not care. I think he is impressive as hell, but I will say he isn't somebody whose form you want to mimic.
You're gonna have a slight bend in the knees, it's a train wreck waiting to happen without....the lift should be called an ''almost'' Straight leg deadlift.
I am not gonna get into a debate about why and how Ronnie Coleman gets the results he does, lol, I really do not care. I think he is impressive as hell, but I will say he isn't somebody whose form you want to mimic.
blut wump
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Go out and move some heavy weight. At the end of the day, only you care what you moved and how you moved it. Ask yourself why you want to include the exercise in preference to any other. What are you trying to achieve by doing this exercise?
Once you have the answer to that question then you can decide on the best way to do them, for yourself, that training cycle/rotation. The exercises are a means to end end not an end in themselves unless you're a competing lifter.
Once you have the answer to that question then you can decide on the best way to do them, for yourself, that training cycle/rotation. The exercises are a means to end end not an end in themselves unless you're a competing lifter.
blut wump
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You need to refine it more than that. Your overall goal is to mould the ideal physique based on your own genetics but that has to be accomplished in stages.
When you think of doing a SLDL is it because you want more mass on your hamstrings, more mass on your glutes, more mass on your traps, better tie-in between your calves and whatever the calves connect to? This is what I mean by deciding why, when and how to perform an exercise. Every exercise you do will change you in some small way. Choose the exercises and methods of execution such that the changes you effect are the ones you desire.
Stage one is to build another 20Kg of mass.
When you think of doing a SLDL is it because you want more mass on your hamstrings, more mass on your glutes, more mass on your traps, better tie-in between your calves and whatever the calves connect to? This is what I mean by deciding why, when and how to perform an exercise. Every exercise you do will change you in some small way. Choose the exercises and methods of execution such that the changes you effect are the ones you desire.
Stage one is to build another 20Kg of mass.
