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Kevin Weiss from Body Performance.net this is the last deadlift variation I am going
to film and then I will move onto
other exercises and exercise variations. So this is deadlift from blocks... we have done
deadlift from deficit where you
are standing on the blocks to raise you up so the bar is lower then it normally would
be so this is esentially the
opposite where I have set the barbell up on some platforms so it's about 4 inches up off
the ground and that puts the bar
at about mid shin level or just below the knee level as opposed to if you were in the
regular bottom position that puts
you about mid shin or slightly below. So you use this variation with people that are maybe
just starting learn the deadlift
or are having flexibility issues and they can't get themselves down into the proper
position when they try and get down
to the bar and if they're not flexible enough in the hamstrings and stuff they'll start
to round as they try and get down into
that position and so by bringing the bar up a little bit higher for them to get them started
off you can get them pulling
from a proper position and you then as you increase their strength and flexibility you
can get them down to the proper
position and it usually doesn't take very long to do that progession. So that would
be for someone just starting out or
has limited mobility for whatever reason maybe coming back from an injury... you use whatever
tools you need at the
time. For those of us trying to build strength some of us would have the misconception as
this is up higher off the
ground it's actually going to be easier and for some people it will be they'll be able
to pull more weight off the ground in
this position but there's going to be a lot of people too that find they can pull less
from this position because when the
bar is started on the ground where it normally is your legs are much more bent and that allows
you to get more leg drive
off of the floor and then continue that momentum through. So if someone is a good fast puller
off the floor and can drive
hard with their legs they can get through that mid sticking point right around the knee
region. Other people if they are
not particularly fast off the floor or they don't push as hard as they could with their
legs, they're going to find when they
get into that position that they're not as strong through the middle there either so
when you pick the bar off the floor like
this and put it on the blocks and then they try and pull it then their leg drive momentum
is basically been taken away so
instead of having the bar down here and being able to drive it with the legs more, now it's
here so your legs are much
straighter right off the very start. So the lower back and the hips take a lot more of
the strain so if someone gets to this
position and lifts it up on the blocks like this and realizes that they're a lot weaker
in this position then that's a weak link
in their chain they can work on. If they could strengthen up the upper part of the lift and
they will get a good carry over
for pulling off the floor. It might be something worth while giving a try if you're a beginner
and you need that extra bit of
mobility work on that to get yourself down to the floor if you're someone who has been
doing deadlifts for awhile and
maybe come to a little bit of a plateau and you're looking for something to push you through,
maybe set it up like this
and then try the ones where you're pulling from a defict where you're standing on the
block see how your strength level
is there then get the bar up a little bit and see how your strength level is there you
might find you're weaker in that
position then you think. Use all the tools that you can to ge the most out of every lift
that you can. I hope that this helps
you out and I will talk to you soon.