I'm rebuilding my strength on the deadlift and as we approach all time PR territory (600lb+), some flaws start to emerge in technique. Here's a breakdown of an incredibly common deadlift mistake people make; failing to engage the quads at the start of the pull. A smoother start will lead to an easier lockout.
Great advice! A good deadlift accessory lift I use is deficit floor-to-knee pulls, without full lockout. Same idea as rack pulls, but for that "leg press" portion of the lift. Just getting the reps in off the floor to feel the press. I'm 195lb, 6'1 with long femur. I'm not built for the deadlift and this technique got me to lock out 500 pretty well. Nothing spectacular, but pretty good.
Useful video, too many people turn the deadlift into a stiff leg deadlift especially when it gets heavy. Its sort of like a clean pull in that regard of pushing but also it is still very different
Yeah I will use my lats and my hamstrings to pull myself into the bar, but the rest of the movement to me is a press, a leg press mixed with a hip thrust
@@paavoilves5416 which is what I thought a couple of people including Chris Duffin would be able to help Juji Mufu with but obviously he's still uses 95% back
a great que I've been using recently that has helped me a ton (I think I got it from Ed Coan), is to keep the sternum up... as you push into the bar, assuming your starting position is correct, keep pushing without letting your sternum drop until the bar leaves the ground... patience is a big factor with this que but it really helped clean my form up
When I learned that I could allow my knees to be forward a little bit on the setup it was a game changer for deadlifting with low back pain. Anyone who finds they have a nearly horizontal torso should try it imo.
That slight forward shin is key it helps activate the quads more for the start of the pull so long as the knees don’t come pass your arms or just very slightly. Watching most of the best conventional dl’ers you’ll see this and it’s just the start then the shins are vertical for most of the pull
Your slack pull was different on 545. 565 you slack pulled and kind of un-slack pulled and then went. A lot of elite pullers slack pull, then shoot their hips up, then bring the shins back to the bar and then GO. I’ve been working on this but I flubbed it up some on my 3rd attempt at the Ohio River Rumble 2 days ago. I still made the lift and it was a lifetime PR. I just turned 53. Only 185 kgs though, far short of 800 lbs.
Get that nice co-contractraion as garage strength would call it. Important for oly lifting. Slight external rotation in the hips to help root the feet evenly.
What helps me to "push through the floor": set-up as usual, rock back (push your butt backwards) while holding the bar, at the point where you feel like you're about to fall backwards, that's the sweetspot for me for max quad use
I 've been toying with almost a pushing backwards cue. To the point where your mind almost cues equilibrium of falling backwards at the first quarter. But really that kinda down foreward eye and neck and head focus has been the best for me, even packing my neck towards the top of heavy stuff, vs the craning up at the sky. The upward head thing your almost pumping blood to your head for no reason and then getting this weird cns thing going on in your neck for no reason. Even if you can't or don't like the pack to chest, try driving the back of you head or traps and neck back.
Thank you Omar, I’ve always tried to tell people leg drive is possibly the most important part of the deadlift. Many will say if Your hips rise at the start of the pull to start with ur hips higher, which is wrong, you’re just not using leg drive. Ask Eddie hall what his favorite accessory is for deadlift and he’ll say leg press just sayin
If your hip rises early EVEN though your knee angle is set up correctly , it could be just that you are lacking quad strength, so that your body always "passes the hard work over" to your hip.
If i could recommend it as well, try using either a flat footed shoe or no shoe at all. Also try gripping the ground with your toes. No shoes (obviously I'm keeping my socks on because nobody wants to see that...) help me feel where my weight is being distributed and gripping the ground with my toes helps a bit in keeping my feet firmly planted without them raising off of the ground when I pull and really helps cement the mind muscle connection.
I tell myself something similar: you're not pulling the bar up, you're pushing the floor down until you can drive your hips through and lock-out the lift.
I think about all legs until the bar gets to the knees. Continue to straighten the legs but also straighten the back or finish the hip hinge from the knees up. Works for me.
Weightlifting made me see deadlift differently. Actually I for a while forgot how to deadlift properly. I would start with the emphasized quad push and have hips dropped lower than in usual deadlift.
Let me put some respect on Alan's name, the combination of the two feats is quite impressive IMO. When I visit the Thrall in Sacramento next year...we'll find out just how slow my mile time is.
Yes, but if you watched that video, you could clearly see that Alan was leaving a lot in the tank on the deadlift to make the sub 5:40 mile more exciting. He easily could have done at least another twenty pounds or so but then there would be no drama in making a six-minute mile.
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Another great thing for anthropometry. Step to the bar, squeeze your glutes as hard as possible, it may induce a change in foot angle. This could be good or bad for strength depending on feet type or hips.
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yea pushing through the ground for me really helps engage the glutes and hamstrings much better instead of turning into a extreme good morning exercise.
Maybe that’s my problem. When I do sumo I sometimes fall backwards. It’s a very unnerving feeling. I only push off with my heels instead of the entire foot. I’m gonna try pushing off with my entire foot. Hope it helps because I’m about ready to completely give up on barbell deads. I already gave up on conventional deads because I simply can not keep my lower back from rounding way too much. Been doing trap bar deads only lately.
Just pulled 445lbs at 165lbs bw today. Watching this video helped a lot so thank you. If anybody wants to watch and give me tips on what I can do better the video is on my channel, thanks for the feedback.
Nice setup and decent pull. Your back rounded after lift-off so that was probably the point of 1RM technique breakdown for you. Keep working at it bro!
i took kratom before a workout 2 weeks ago and did deadlifts and hurt my back real bad. trying to heal from it now just wanted to say kratom is a good energy but the pain relief is bad cuz then u can move through movements that ur not ready for and cause ouchy
I think I have the opposite problem. When maxing on my deadlift, I bearly can engage or feel my hamstring and glutes. Instead I feel my quads and lower back. I try to remodel my deadlift by doing stiffed deadlifts and rdls in which I do feel my hamstrings, but normal deadlifts are still are a problem. Anyone an idea what I might be doing wrong?
The weakest link in the chain is where most usually feel it and that isn't wrong. There will always be a weakest link. I think you should just keep improving them.
This only matters if you’re a powerlifter or Olympic weightlifter and you care about your numbers. If you want to grow your hamstrings and glutes then continue to treat it as a pulling movement and squeeze the glutes before you lift , elevate the toes for more stretch in hamstrings
You have to keep the attitude of being a lifelong learner IMO. There are the fundamentals but a lot more that only experiential knowledge can teach, ya know?
@@OmarIsuf yep, when a person lifts for many years there will be subtle changes in technique, what worked 10 years ago might not work today. Been deadlifting 42 yrs and have had to make slight changes out of necessity. Use what works until it runs it's course, then move on to the next adaptation
Yup. Approached it the same way, but I think Ed Coan tipped me off earlier, don't remember which vid. Push through the ground. BTW fries your ass if you have weak glutes (no homo)
Your hips are rising at the start of your pull because you're setting up with your hips too low for your anatomy. Set up with your hips at the height they rise to on bad pulls and you won't have these two stage deadlifts because your body won't have to correct your poor set up during the lift. Buuuuurrrp and faaarrrrt AAAAHHHHHHHH!!!
I'm rebuilding my strength on the deadlift and as we approach all time PR territory (600lb+), some flaws start to emerge in technique.
Here's a breakdown of an incredibly common deadlift mistake people make; failing to engage the quads at the start of the pull. A smoother start will lead to an easier lockout.
Bigger deadlift or bigger calves?
Do you use straps when u go heavier? My grip starts to fail around 400lbs. Thanks
You got the 600 in you
Great advice! A good deadlift accessory lift I use is deficit floor-to-knee pulls, without full lockout. Same idea as rack pulls, but for that "leg press" portion of the lift. Just getting the reps in off the floor to feel the press.
I'm 195lb, 6'1 with long femur. I'm not built for the deadlift and this technique got me to lock out 500 pretty well. Nothing spectacular, but pretty good.
Standards has become so warped, man, you should be super proud of 500, not diminish your achievement like that! You’re stronger than 99% of people 💪🏻
Implemented this exact same idea about a month ago. Fixed some ongoing hip pain I had been having for a year or so as well as hitting some new PRs.
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Good pull, I think sometimes that happens not only cause the quads are weak but as is the lower back
Useful video, too many people turn the deadlift into a stiff leg deadlift especially when it gets heavy. Its sort of like a clean pull in that regard of pushing but also it is still very different
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I never think of a pull. My biggest queues are to brace my core hard, push through the floor, and push my hips forward.
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@@michaelc1541 The best cue ever is to "make love to the bar", courtesy of Alan Thrall.
Another great idea is performing barbell hack squat as an assistance exercise. This can helps to delay premature knee extension.
Yeah I will use my lats and my hamstrings to pull myself into the bar, but the rest of the movement to me is a press, a leg press mixed with a hip thrust
Same, works exceptionally well as a more torso dominant guy!
@@paavoilves5416 which is what I thought a couple of people including Chris Duffin would be able to help Juji Mufu with but obviously he's still uses 95% back
a great que I've been using recently that has helped me a ton (I think I got it from Ed Coan), is to keep the sternum up... as you push into the bar, assuming your starting position is correct, keep pushing without letting your sternum drop until the bar leaves the ground... patience is a big factor with this que but it really helped clean my form up
When I learned that I could allow my knees to be forward a little bit on the setup it was a game changer for deadlifting with low back pain. Anyone who finds they have a nearly horizontal torso should try it imo.
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That slight forward shin is key it helps activate the quads more for the start of the pull so long as the knees don’t come pass your arms or just very slightly. Watching most of the best conventional dl’ers you’ll see this and it’s just the start then the shins are vertical for most of the pull
bridgeford just cued this on ista. Changed my deadlift!
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Your slack pull was different on 545. 565 you slack pulled and kind of un-slack pulled and then went. A lot of elite pullers slack pull, then shoot their hips up, then bring the shins back to the bar and then GO. I’ve been working on this but I flubbed it up some on my 3rd attempt at the Ohio River Rumble 2 days ago. I still made the lift and it was a lifetime PR. I just turned 53. Only 185 kgs though, far short of 800 lbs.
To be at your pr strength is the absolute best place to be at any time. Good shit bro
Congrats on your PR, love hearing from other people training in their 50’s and beyond.
@@johndaley964 Funny I had been stuck just below 400 for the last 4 years and then broke through it decisively 3 days ago.
My hips raised first also, I started thinking about my torso moving up first. Realistically it kept everything moving in unison.
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I've started more volume on my quads to try to help my squat and my DL has unexpectedly started to blow up
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Get that nice co-contractraion as garage strength would call it. Important for oly lifting. Slight external rotation in the hips to help root the feet evenly.
I'm going to deadlift with my 1990 Hammer pants next time.
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How the fuck do you do the same thing for over a decade and STILL find ways to improve it. You are a god damned boss Omar. Love from mexico
What helps me to "push through the floor":
set-up as usual, rock back (push your butt backwards) while holding the bar, at the point where you feel like you're about to fall backwards, that's the sweetspot for me for max quad use
Yeah true I do something like that too
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I 've been toying with almost a pushing backwards cue. To the point where your mind almost cues equilibrium of falling backwards at the first quarter.
But really that kinda down foreward eye and neck and head focus has been the best for me, even packing my neck towards the top of heavy stuff, vs the craning up at the sky. The upward head thing your almost pumping blood to your head for no reason and then getting this weird cns thing going on in your neck for no reason. Even if you can't or don't like the pack to chest, try driving the back of you head or traps and neck back.
Thank you Omar, I’ve always tried to tell people leg drive is possibly the most important part of the deadlift. Many will say if Your hips rise at the start of the pull to start with ur hips higher, which is wrong, you’re just not using leg drive. Ask Eddie hall what his favorite accessory is for deadlift and he’ll say leg press just sayin
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If your hip rises early EVEN though your knee angle is set up correctly , it could be just that you are lacking quad strength, so that your body always "passes the hard work over" to your hip.
If i could recommend it as well, try using either a flat footed shoe or no shoe at all. Also try gripping the ground with your toes. No shoes (obviously I'm keeping my socks on because nobody wants to see that...) help me feel where my weight is being distributed and gripping the ground with my toes helps a bit in keeping my feet firmly planted without them raising off of the ground when I pull and really helps cement the mind muscle connection.
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Only Time I used this que was the time I PRed on Conventional and even that felt light.
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I tell myself something similar: you're not pulling the bar up, you're pushing the floor down until you can drive your hips through and lock-out the lift.
I think about all legs until the bar gets to the knees. Continue to straighten the legs but also straighten the back or finish the hip hinge from the knees up. Works for me.
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hey Omar I have a problem with knee cave, especially with heavy weights on deadlifts. Would appreciate it a lot if you do a video on that too!
Tempo squats with band around ankles will help!
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Not treating the bottom part of a deadlift as a push caused me to develop terrible tendinitis in my knees.
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My personal favortie ques are... Brace up, pull the slack then LEG PRESS that thing
Whats that song playing when u played the 565 attempt i love it
Weightlifting made me see deadlift differently. Actually I for a while forgot how to deadlift properly. I would start with the emphasized quad push and have hips dropped lower than in usual deadlift.
Well that's 20 more pounds than what Alan Thrall got before running a quick mile
Let me put some respect on Alan's name, the combination of the two feats is quite impressive IMO.
When I visit the Thrall in Sacramento next year...we'll find out just how slow my mile time is.
@@OmarIsuf there's no way you'll run a mile, even without a time limit
@@OmarIsuf hey I never knew his deadlift 1RM until that video so kudos to you guys for killing it!
@@liftingcoffeebag1168 not with those calves, right?
Yes, but if you watched that video, you could clearly see that Alan was leaving a lot in the tank on the deadlift to make the sub 5:40 mile more exciting. He easily could have done at least another twenty pounds or so but then there would be no drama in making a six-minute mile.
Im at a point where it's demotivating to eat really clean in my ~3 years of starting up a steady beginner-intermediate lifting career. Not quite sure if i just need to take more time to take care of myself & wait for my body to get accustomed to be OK with eating both really clean and a lot of it... or just listen to my body rn and eat whatever & get strength (& adapt w job demands & life, using this whatever eating)
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Alright mate, all good and worth trying but...BUT- what's the brand of those pants! Please ☺️ looks great 👍
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Another great thing for anthropometry. Step to the bar, squeeze your glutes as hard as possible, it may induce a change in foot angle. This could be good or bad for strength depending on feet type or hips.
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Dude, Tommy the first green ranger's actor just died... Omar, we need a tribute video
yea pushing through the ground for me really helps engage the glutes and hamstrings much better instead of turning into a extreme good morning exercise.
you know, without you saying "omar isuf here" in the beginning i would have never guessed who was in the video tbh
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Any chance.you know why my back seems to twinge during the pull movement?
Maybe that’s my problem. When I do sumo I sometimes fall backwards. It’s a very unnerving feeling. I only push off with my heels instead of the entire foot. I’m gonna try pushing off with my entire foot. Hope it helps because I’m about ready to completely give up on barbell deads. I already gave up on conventional deads because I simply can not keep my lower back from rounding way too much. Been doing trap bar deads only lately.
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thx Kylo for the tips ! 😉
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Thank you for sharing! :-)
You was doing 545. 10 years ago. Did you have a injury or something
I feel my quads alot on deadlifts
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Where the hell are you getting those jazzy pants from big man ?! 👁
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It really helps if a bunch of people yell "UP UP UP!" on me, otherwise i allways forget and pull down
The advice of “build tension through your legs and feet during setup, just like you do with your back” helped me with this
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Those pants changed my deadlift.
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Last time bro posted my deadlift was 495, now it’s 225
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Just pulled 445lbs at 165lbs bw today. Watching this video helped a lot so thank you. If anybody wants to watch and give me tips on what I can do better the video is on my channel, thanks for the feedback.
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Nice setup and decent pull. Your back rounded after lift-off so that was probably the point of 1RM technique breakdown for you. Keep working at it bro!
@@SisypheanRoller thanks
What is your raw dl pb now ?
I heard somewhere to "leg press" the bar up, it always stuck with me
Yeah. Its a leg press followed by a hip thrust :)
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Bruh it took you this long to figure out the push through the floor cue???
i took kratom before a workout 2 weeks ago and did deadlifts and hurt my back real bad. trying to heal from it now just wanted to say kratom is a good energy but the pain relief is bad cuz then u can move through movements that ur not ready for and cause ouchy
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always improve. Major key.
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Ant Hawthorn said this years ago and people wanted to argue one of the best lbs 4 lbs deadlifter. Just proves people will find something to not like.
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What's the song at 0:18?
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I think I have the opposite problem. When maxing on my deadlift, I bearly can engage or feel my hamstring and glutes. Instead I feel my quads and lower back. I try to remodel my deadlift by doing stiffed deadlifts and rdls in which I do feel my hamstrings, but normal deadlifts are still are a problem. Anyone an idea what I might be doing wrong?
The weakest link in the chain is where most usually feel it and that isn't wrong. There will always be a weakest link. I think you should just keep improving them.
I have the same problem. Does your hips rise at the beginning of the lift? If so, you might want to look into your starting position
When i learned to use the quads in the DL, i instantly pulled a 30kg PR😂
Those pants really compliment your calves.
This only matters if you’re a powerlifter or Olympic weightlifter and you care about your numbers. If you want to grow your hamstrings and glutes then continue to treat it as a pulling movement and squeeze the glutes before you lift , elevate the toes for more stretch in hamstrings
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this hips rise cuz ur quads weak and your body gets in it's strongest postion
all you need is HIP DRAHVE
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I heard some asshole will be selling them on Black Friday but I can't for the life of me remember the name.
Based
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Nope
Zubaz!
Explains how Omar cultivated such a fine peach
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Mans been in the community for over a decade and just now discovered proper deadlifting technique.
You have to keep the attitude of being a lifelong learner IMO. There are the fundamentals but a lot more that only experiential knowledge can teach, ya know?
@@OmarIsuf yep, when a person lifts for many years there will be subtle changes in technique, what worked 10 years ago might not work today. Been deadlifting 42 yrs and have had to make slight changes out of necessity. Use what works until it runs it's course, then move on to the next adaptation
Yup. Approached it the same way, but I think Ed Coan tipped me off earlier, don't remember which vid. Push through the ground.
BTW fries your ass if you have weak glutes (no homo)
Your hips are rising at the start of your pull because you're setting up with your hips too low for your anatomy. Set up with your hips at the height they rise to on bad pulls and you won't have these two stage deadlifts because your body won't have to correct your poor set up during the lift. Buuuuurrrp and faaarrrrt AAAAHHHHHHHH!!!
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natural hypertrophy is mad ur stronger than him
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I wanna see u versus my dad in a lift off 4 lifts ohp bench press squats deadlifts lol it'll be fun 😉 @bestofbothworlds
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