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Good call on that.

Glad you found it useful, and thanks for the kind words. Hopefully, now the terminology is a bit more sensical :-)

I posted this in response to your question on the "STOP Doing This!! Your Shoulders are DESTROYING Your Bench Press" but wanted to post it here too to make it easy to find. I hope it's useful for you. "In general, it is far better to have the hooks a bit too low than a bit too high as you don't want to finish a set and then run the risk of not getting the bar back into the hooks while in a fatigued state. As far as the height of the hooks seen in this video, they are different for each lifter, so don't base the height of your hooks on what you see in the video (perhaps I misunderstood the "1 peg lower than in the video" comment, but I wanted to be clear just in case). If your arms have to be perpendicular to your torso to reach up and unrack the bar, then your hooks are most likely too low (I would say "certainly too low" but I haven't seen you lift in person, so perhaps I'm not correctly envisioning what you're describing). You should be able to reach back slightly as seen by the lifters in this video and still clear the hooks with an inch or two of space when unracking and racking the bar. Setting up so that you are reaching straight up to unrack the bar (instead of up and back slightly) means you are essentially directly under the hooks, which means that eventually, you'll end up benching up directly into the underside of the hooks, getting trapped under the hooks in the process. This is not a situation you want to be in. Probably a longer explanation than you were looking for, but I hope it was helpful. I'll post this to the other video that you commented on as well so you can see it in either place."

In general, it is far better to have the hooks a bit too low than a bit too high as you don't want to finish a set and then run the risk of not getting the bar back into the hooks while in a fatigued state. As far as the height of the hooks seen in this video, they are different for each lifter, so don't base the height of your hooks on what you see in the video (perhaps I misunderstood the "1 peg lower than in the video" comment, but I wanted to be clear just in case). If your arms have to be perpendicular to your torso to reach up and unrack the bar, then your hooks are most likely too low (I would say "certainly too low" but I haven't seen you lift in person, so perhaps I'm not correctly envisioning what you're describing). You should be able to reach back slightly as seen by the lifters in this video and still clear the hooks with an inch or two of space when unracking and racking the bar. Setting up so that you are reaching straight up to unrack the bar (instead of up and back slightly) means you are essentially directly under the hooks, which means that eventually, you'll end up benching up directly into the underside of the hooks, getting trapped under the hooks in the process. This is not a situation you want to be in. Probably a longer explanation than you were looking for, but I hope it was helpful. I'll post this to the other video that you commented on as well so you can see it in either place.

Glad you found it useful!

Thanks very much - glad you found it useful!

Solid question, and the issue is the durability of the bar. A 15 kg bar has significantly more flex than a 20 kg bar due to the difference in diameter (25 mm vs 28-29 mm). As result, a 15 kg bar doesn't hold up well long term to heavier loads on lifts such as the squat, deadlift, bench, and press. This is exacerbated by the fact that, on a lift such as a squat, the plates rest on the bar even between sets when the bar rests on the hooks of the rack. Load a convenient weight such as 100 kg or 225 lb on a 15 kg bar as it sits on the hooks, and you'll already notice more flex in the 15 kg bar, and this gets more significant as the weight increases. As a result of all of this, a 15 kg bar used in regular strength training will bend over time unless only lighter weights are used.

@@TestifySC okay and one more question; i am watching that you are using mostly bumper plates instead of olympic plates. does they make any difference because bumper plates are mostly used in weightlifting competitions internationally where they clean and jerk and throw it on the ground. what’s your advice to use which plates ( for bodybuilders ).??

Our plates at home (in our garage gym) are kilogram plates, so I mostly train in kilos at the gym so I don't need to go back and forth between different units. Our kilo plates at Testify are all bumpers since these are the plates we use during the snatch and clean-and-jerk (both in training and competition), so this is why you usually see me using kilo plates. Beyond that, if you're not performing the olympic lifts, you don't need bumper plates (although you certainly can use them), and metal plates are cheaper.

That’s a pretty solid way of thinking about it, and yes indeed, “push the floor away“ is a great cue.

Thanks for the kind words, and I wouldn’t worry too much about matching my weights. At the time of the 600 pound pull shown at the start of this video, I had just turned 44 years old, and my bodyweight average that week was 219. Don’t get me wrong, many, many people in the world deadlift far more than me, but the age difference and the additional roughly 35 pounds of bodyweight certainly helps me out.

Ha! Thanks for saying so, but I don’t think I get to rate 600 as a casual pull for me just yet… I’ll keep working on it :-)

Thanks very much, and I do indeed. The rigidity and support provided by the sole and the metatarsal straps is tough to beat, and the heel is pretty much negligible. I’m not opposed to pulling in flats, but what most people use for a “flat shoe” is still somewhat elevated and almost always has a significant amount of compressibility to it (a Chuck Taylor is a good example of this). If I was going to recommend a flat pulling shoe, I would recommend something like the Sabo deadlift shoe.

@edx21x Here's the shoe I was talking about: Sabo Deadlift PRO amzn.to/3zzAWKI The heel design can look a bit misleading - it actually only has a 1 mm drop but has some molding around it that makes the heel look larger. The rationale for the 1 mm drop is in the description and is rather interesting.

@@TestifySCthanks I’ll take a look at it. I’ve been deadlifting barefoot for several years now but maybe it’s time for a change.

You’re very welcome.

Thanks very much!

Thanks very much!

You’re very welcome!

Thanks very much - glad you found it useful!

Thanks for the kind words, and have a great squat session!

Excellent - glad to hear it!

Absolutely - nailed it.

You're very welcome - I'm glad you found it useful. Have fun with the cleans!

Ha! Thanks - it’s a little thin on the sides, but I’ll take it :-)

I’m glad you found it useful, and you’re welcome.

You're welcome - I'm glad you found it useful.

You’re welcome Tom, and that’s great that you’re back in the gym and back at it (and have been for a couple years)! I’m glad this video was useful for you, and thanks for the kind words as well!

Glad you like it, and it is indeed a solid cue!

Agreed - they are extremely useful for a lot of people!

Glad you liked it, and you’re welcome!

Agreed - I still remember the moment (many years ago now) when I first saw it :-)

Glad you found it useful!

Thank you, and you’re very welcome.

As a former high school math and physics teacher, I would be fine with that as the metric system makes far more sense. To be fair to pounds, however, it’s also fairly idiotic that the lifting world measures weight in kilograms as that’s not correct either. At least measuring weight in pounds is correct in the sense of units, even if it is a silly measuring system.

You’re welcome, and you as well.

I’m glad to hear that it was helpful, and yes, the ever popular “buttwink” is often simply the lifter’s back coming out of overextension (which happened at the start of the descent or in the setup) near or at the bottom of the descent.

You might’ve already seen my response to your question in the other video, but in case you didn’t, here is that response: “I have not, and I haven’t heard of any of our members doing that, but that’s a bummer. Most of us use the squat rack to put on the belt as it’s a very easy and effective approach.”