@@mihailmilev9909 That since the hips rise, shoulders move back to just in front of the bar and bar moves back over mid foot, it makes sense to set up in the position the bar will leave the floor
@@samman18You idiots underestimate whats achievable naturally. This guy got tested randomly out of competition and passed all of his drug tests while maintaining strength. More proof he is natty than not so I take the side of the evidence.
Wouldn't be much stronger believe it or not. Funny enough powerlifters and strong men have different builds for this reason. Powerlifters are weight classed so he would just lose a ton of relative strength actually. Where as strong men would greatly benefit from having some extra chest fat for a log press for example giving them extra space to rest the log.
I never really knew what big weight was until I started down the road at wanting to get better at the deadlift. My friend and former coach happened to be one of the best on the planet and pulled 880 after a double hip replacement. Some people are super human.
That wiggling into position and making your arms long are underrated cues. I also like to think of making myself as tall as I can while I'm wiggling myself and taking the slack out of the bar. Has worked wonders.
@@nexus5648 ua-cam.com/users/shorts6CNAI4vSx98?feature=share Theres all sorts of videos that teach different ways. The slack is the space between the bar snd the weights on the bar, and that clinking noise is him pulling out the slack. Pretty much, in a deadlift your body should be as tight as possible BEFORE you even lift. Pulling the slack out of the bar is one of the key steps in getting tight. Theres different ways to learn this, though.
Right. He has one of the if not thee most sound deadlift right now. He hammers technique hard. Many may have more weight than he does however not so sound of a technique.
Finally someone pulling conventional and the comments now focus on his arm length. What should he do? Should he row the weight to prove himself strong enough lol
Thanks for the explanation of the cue "long arms." I've always made a fist and punched them downwards as I start my deadlift, but I never knew the purpose of doing so.
@@iBlackForce_NRG my bad bro, I forgot that the testing is done frequently, accurately and accounts for all sarms, anabolic steroids and peptides. You are an idiot
@@meerkatmatrix I feel like that contradicts "making your arms longer." I feel like you would need to roll your shoulders forward to make the arms longer. I've heard engage and/or tuck your lats a lot but don't quite get it. I've also heard not to squeeze shoulder blades together, and other people say to do it?? Been working out for a few years and haven't been huge on deadlifts because I suck at them and feel like I'm not doing them right. I just started getting back into them a few weeks ago and really trying to nail down form. Sorry for the long text...
when I lift heavy weight ofcourse the back get curved a bit not much but my friends really demotivate me because of that so I came to see how it actually happens man. Life.
@@mihailmilev9909 you can lift heavy no problem as long as you're doing with good form. Lifting heavy is great for hypermobility because it strengthens our muscles. I have been told though not use a barebell as there's a chance of the joints getting locked and to use free weights dumbells and kettlebells instead. Do your own research about it. Talk to your physio or doctor of you have access to one
It's quite hard to do the arms long and keep the upper back tight so I'd say it's quite an advanced but great queue to stop people doing SLDL as you often see, at least in commercial gyms
That's an incorrect way to look at it. Thinking of it as a press makes people either drop their hips too low or push exclusively with their legs, causing their hips to shoot up
I have long arms which has always helped me with deadlift. What doesn't help is my adolescent Osgood Schlatter bump on my knee. Scraping my shins on the bar is one thing but hitting that bump is something else
Its easy with the right leverages. You would have to imitate that stance whether it be putting yourself in a sumo. If you have really short arms it would be hard to follow these tips the way russ does it. Youd be more optimal for bench
I only recently started to get the hang of pulling the slack after a deload week followed by light 1st week of strenght training. The weight literally just POPS off the ground compared to having loose lats and jerking the bar
One thing that I don't agree is pulling shoulders back. WSM Mitchell Hooper talks about this in his seminaras and he is known for his strong deadlift too. That is one thing that changed my game. Othervise this tutorial is amazing👋
lets be honest he has a nice build for deadlift and there are lots of lifters with great or even better techniek. But the same as Jamal browner the power isnt all broccoli, chicken and rice. I think many other lifters are underrated. And Jamal is also a IPF lifter in the tested federation.
I'm 5 10, I can't be that much upright at the beginning. My hips and the upper back are almost parallel at the beginning. Are these plates bigger than the normal 45
My lift is already 8 inches off the floor before I can even get to the angle of his starting position. My long arms are cancelled out by my ridiculously long legs!
@@robinyourheart9461It’s funny man; they don’t realize all his shit is staged, and he will never be able to compete against these true and elite powerlifters 😂
Listen no matter how far someone makes it when it comes to the gym, a lot of this shit is subjective. The gym has so much to do with your anatomy, genetics and overall leverages. What works for an elite powerlifting will not work for majority of people. When I give people tips I tell them to do what makes them comfortable and where they feel the strongest. Im able to pull 500+ with my technique and I wouldn’t dare tell someone to use my technique.
I agree, but these particular tips are pretty objective. The only really subjective things with DL is grip style, grip width, feet placement, and hip height
Perfectly executed till you end up in a wheelchair one day. just to show off for a short time. Your body is precious don't over or ego lift. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
I have a question, every time I do a squat I’m not able to go to 90 degrees without easing my heals and if I don’t raise my heals I lose balance and I’ve tried every squat variation like open to or strait forward and wide open stance and closed stance
I think it may have to do with ankle mobility. Here are a few shorts that show good exercises/stretches that help with ankle mobility. ua-cam.com/users/shortsm6J-9oQ9lHQ?feature=share ua-cam.com/users/shortsW0qCrpz3oiE?feature=share Hope it helps!
Sounds like you have limited ankle dorsiflexion. While working on that you could invest in some squat shoes or just put a small plate under your heels when you squat. Good luck!
If it's not ankle mobility then you probably have long femurs and there's nothing you can do about it. You can widen your stance, lift your heels with shoes but ultimately your form will never be as good as it would be with relatively shorter femurs. You will place more load on your back because your torso is less upright. Try elevating your heels with angled blocks (the ones people use to stretch calves). They will elevate your feet even more than the thickest weightlifting shoes. Is squatting suddenly easy and fun? Then you indeed have short femurs. If you are training for fitness or muscle building exercises like the leg press or lunges are much better for you because they take the weight of your (lower) back. While doing that you can continue to work on your ankle mobility for at least 6 months and keep trying squats. If it doesn't work you're just not built for squatting.
Stretch your ankles like crazy (specifically work on dorsal flexion, like the first response to this comment says). I used to do the same thing. And holding onto something in front of you so you can pull yourself forward as you descend and trying to push your knees as far over your toes as possible can help a lot. If you pick your favorite ankle stretch and do it for two sets of 30 seconds (really pushing the stretch so it is uncomfortable), do that at least 5 days a week and you can get enough mobility to squat deep.
I think you're pushing them back too much, try pushing them away from your ears and then down while you're touching your lats. If you feel a strong contraction in the lats then you're doing it right and you can do the same with the bar in your hand
Think of putting your lats in your front pocket. Then pull with your lats super tight at the bottom to pull the slack and pull. Also make sure you’re pushing with the center of your foot and not off the heel or toes
His deadlift technique is perfectly executed
Look at what happens to his hips, shoulders and the bar before the bar leaves the floor....the body has to autocorrect for heavy weights
@@ck-rd2ce interesting
@@ck-rd2ce what does this mean about his technique tho?
@@mihailmilev9909 That since the hips rise, shoulders move back to just in front of the bar and bar moves back over mid foot, it makes sense to set up in the position the bar will leave the floor
@@ck-rd2ce I mean, do you deadlift as much as him or even close? If not, you aint really qualified to correct him
Big Russ is an inspiration. His physique has continued to develop through the years. Shout to him for lifting so long, relatively injury free.
and theres a possibility hes natural
@@greigite5191ah there isn’t brother. This guy lifts world records , you think he never used any PED? Everyone is on in that segment
@@debsaye3360 yeah at the world record level you’re not natural
@@greigite5191 wdym????? hes def not natty
@@samman18You idiots underestimate whats achievable naturally. This guy got tested randomly out of competition and passed all of his drug tests while maintaining strength. More proof he is natty than not so I take the side of the evidence.
Ok, step one: grow arms 3 inches, got it!
Right?! You mean I can't do this with pencil arms? 😂
I think he meant to grow his arms 3 inches longer, not bigger.
Lol I think you mean get on a cycle. Not natty
@@rickey9493you can probably deadlift 550 natty
@@rxonmymind8362you can if they’re long
Dude his form is impeccable on top of his body being perfect for deadlift. Could you imagine if he was a 300lb monster what he would be pulling?!
Wouldn't be much stronger believe it or not. Funny enough powerlifters and strong men have different builds for this reason. Powerlifters are weight classed so he would just lose a ton of relative strength actually. Where as strong men would greatly benefit from having some extra chest fat for a log press for example giving them extra space to rest the log.
I never really knew what big weight was until I started down the road at wanting to get better at the deadlift. My friend and former coach happened to be one of the best on the planet and pulled 880 after a double hip replacement. Some people are super human.
Hmm I wonder why he needed two hip replacements...
peds pushed him over the top and the rest of his body coundnt keep up. And voila here comes the problem.@@tamas9402
That wiggling into position and making your arms long are underrated cues. I also like to think of making myself as tall as I can while I'm wiggling myself and taking the slack out of the bar. Has worked wonders.
What does pulling the slack out of the bar mean?
@@nexus5648 ua-cam.com/users/shorts6CNAI4vSx98?feature=share
Theres all sorts of videos that teach different ways. The slack is the space between the bar snd the weights on the bar, and that clinking noise is him pulling out the slack.
Pretty much, in a deadlift your body should be as tight as possible BEFORE you even lift. Pulling the slack out of the bar is one of the key steps in getting tight. Theres different ways to learn this, though.
Very few people are best off with a perfect form like this tho, his leverages are just perfect lol
Right. He has one of the if not thee most sound deadlift right now. He hammers technique hard. Many may have more weight than he does however not so sound of a technique.
Best tutorial video for deadlifts I’ve seen for a while
His leverages are flawless. That helps a lot haha
This is the perfect deadlift i have ever seen with heavier weights.! 👌🏻
meanwhile theres a 15 year old
kid doing 8 plates
Must be sumo...no way in hell any 15yo kid is pulling 8 plates conventional
@@Luckygun6513it is indeed sumo
@@rickvanderveen2947 knew it ...I see kids pulling 700 like nothing in sumo but can't deadlift 500 convo
@@Luckygun6513that's just because of different leverages it doesn't make them any less strong 😂
Hey Anatoly is gonna slip up on this guy
The form is beautiful
What impresses me the most is knowing that he manages to beat the weight of the category, he is very bulky
Off season he is about 200lbs. Hit cuts down to 182ish for competition
lifting for 10 years and I'm still being taken to school. Great tips.
best DL vid i've ever seen., fantastic
Finally someone pulling conventional and the comments now focus on his arm length. What should he do? Should he row the weight to prove himself strong enough lol
Just shows that people will hate no matter what
Thanks for the explanation of the cue "long arms." I've always made a fist and punched them downwards as I start my deadlift, but I never knew the purpose of doing so.
The review u did at the end was much needed...
Good work!
He is beast lifting those amount without straps is beyond impressive
Very professional tips. Especially engaging lats to pull slack out of the bar, very key.
great technique, love it
Truth is long arms and dedication.
I'll put these things into action tomorrow 👊🏾
800 coming soon champ 🏆 💪🏿
I can only dream to have such perfect form like Russ.
Thanks, i must try these TIPS tomorrow for chest and back/deadlift training 💯💯💯💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻🔱
And remember to say lightweight baby
Would love to have this technique! One day
This man is a different breed.
yup started adding the 1st cue and pulled 500 pounds no belt. It allows 0 slack in your arms allowing me to use my legs even more
Step One: Have a good anabolic stack
He's an IPF world champion powerlifter that gets tested regularly lol
@@iBlackForce_NRG my bad bro, I forgot that the testing is done frequently, accurately and accounts for all sarms, anabolic steroids and peptides. You are an idiot
Tucking my lats is what stopped me injuring myself as a noob, golden advice right there!
What does it mean by tucking the lats? Like squeezing them? Flexing them?
@@codystroys pulling my shoulders down and back
@@meerkatmatrix I feel like that contradicts "making your arms longer." I feel like you would need to roll your shoulders forward to make the arms longer. I've heard engage and/or tuck your lats a lot but don't quite get it. I've also heard not to squeeze shoulder blades together, and other people say to do it?? Been working out for a few years and haven't been huge on deadlifts because I suck at them and feel like I'm not doing them right. I just started getting back into them a few weeks ago and really trying to nail down form. Sorry for the long text...
@@codystroys I've never been good at explaining😅 only other way I can think to explain it is to pull your shoulders toward your butt lol
ROCKSTAR TECHNIQUE!
Bro very very nice tutorial. Very well done.
when I lift heavy weight ofcourse the back get curved a bit not much but my friends really demotivate me because of that so I came to see how it actually happens man. Life.
Perfect form, truly textbook dl
Thats insane. I couldnt even count all the plates, you know its too much weight when the bar starts to bend.
Watching this deadlift, it definitely looks efficient.
Good job Russ
I have a long torso and shorts limbs but I’ve been trying my best to focus on these for every rep and it’s starting to make a difference
thank you .tomorrow is my power lifting compitition
Then there's Jamal browner who did 500KG recently and only celebrated with a big smile
Sumo**
Everybody isn't the same
True happiness comes from personal goals
I never could. My hypermobile shoulders would literally pop out of the socket and sublux with that cue
huh. I didn't think of that.....
I have really mobile joints too. Should I not lift heavy then?
@@mihailmilev9909 you can lift heavy no problem as long as you're doing with good form. Lifting heavy is great for hypermobility because it strengthens our muscles. I have been told though not use a barebell as there's a chance of the joints getting locked and to use free weights dumbells and kettlebells instead. Do your own research about it. Talk to your physio or doctor of you have access to one
It's quite hard to do the arms long and keep the upper back tight so I'd say it's quite an advanced but great queue to stop people doing SLDL as you often see, at least in commercial gyms
Most people aren’t aware that a good deadlift is 50% leg press, and then you start lifting your back
That's an incorrect way to look at it. Thinking of it as a press makes people either drop their hips too low or push exclusively with their legs, causing their hips to shoot up
deadlift like jamal it works been doing it every since he broke his form down, ez lifts now and honestly zero back pain whatsoever. no lie.
That’s impressive
And dont forget the pre-load. I prefer having my hands facing the same direction( knuckles facing outward).
Incredible.
Increíble ❤🎉
I have long arms which has always helped me with deadlift. What doesn't help is my adolescent Osgood Schlatter bump on my knee. Scraping my shins on the bar is one thing but hitting that bump is something else
I think their is no difference between Squat and Deadlift💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿
Its easy with the right leverages. You would have to imitate that stance whether it be putting yourself in a sumo. If you have really short arms it would be hard to follow these tips the way russ does it. Youd be more optimal for bench
That was so hype at the end I love the culture
Russell reminds of the anatomically perfect deadlifter guy
Ed coan. His deadlift tip, please.
My dude!
I only recently started to get the hang of pulling the slack after a deload week followed by light 1st week of strenght training. The weight literally just POPS off the ground compared to having loose lats and jerking the bar
All 3 rules are basic building block principals to do the deadlift.
Hats off man.. Perfect ✌
One thing that I don't agree is pulling shoulders back. WSM Mitchell Hooper talks about this in his seminaras and he is known for his strong deadlift too. That is one thing that changed my game. Othervise this tutorial is amazing👋
**Finishes deadlift; jumps through the roof**
lets be honest he has a nice build for deadlift and there are lots of lifters with great or even better techniek. But the same as Jamal browner the power isnt all broccoli, chicken and rice. I think many other lifters are underrated. And Jamal is also a IPF lifter in the tested federation.
I'm 5 10, I can't be that much upright at the beginning. My hips and the upper back are almost parallel at the beginning. Are these plates bigger than the normal 45
My bro bouces out of the lift
my goat
Bruh his thighs are twice the size of my head
Holy F he strong
Is the best
My lift is already 8 inches off the floor before I can even get to the angle of his starting position. My long arms are cancelled out by my ridiculously long legs!
Alls good until u hear “can I clean here” and Anatoly shows up
... wtf is with these Anatoly bullshit
@@robinyourheart9461It’s funny man; they don’t realize all his shit is staged, and he will never be able to compete against these true and elite powerlifters 😂
I don’t know how he keeps from tearing his bicep lifting that much weight with an underhand grip.
Thank you
Love the game
Listen no matter how far someone makes it when it comes to the gym, a lot of this shit is subjective. The gym has so much to do with your anatomy, genetics and overall leverages. What works for an elite powerlifting will not work for majority of people. When I give people tips I tell them to do what makes them comfortable and where they feel the strongest. Im able to pull 500+ with my technique and I wouldn’t dare tell someone to
use my technique.
I agree, but these particular tips are pretty objective. The only really subjective things with DL is grip style, grip width, feet placement, and hip height
How do you make lats tight?
I failed 80 kg today 😢
u will get it king
You lost me at “make your arms as long as possible while eliminating space between yourself and the bar”
Moron
As a guy with short arms I'm screwed on that part
@mattr918 that means you have the leverages to be a savage bencher, focus on that!!
@@russellmuscle7434 haha thanks that's true I do alright with it. Nothing crazy but nothing to be ashamed of either.
@@russellmuscle7434 i think that he must focus on his weak mouvement isn't right ?
Watched a video where a guy called this squating your dead lift, but now I just don’t know anymore
🔥
Knuckledragger form
Have the exact right anatomical proportions 😂😂😂
Thanks
Kid is a monster and salute if he’s not using poison , which is very rare in this drug out country🤔
Idk I saw someone at my gym do 750 pretty easily in a competition
ty
Perfectly executed till you end up in a wheelchair one day. just to show off for a short time. Your body is precious don't over or ego lift. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
What a stupid comment
@@younglord2619 I got autism from reading it
Am I the only one who finds it difficult/impossible to get an even set-up on DL when I use switch grip? It just feels so wrong
Yeah switch grip is also a decent way to get unevenly trained muscles and risk injury iirc
No wrist wraps sick ass foo
I have a question, every time I do a squat I’m not able to go to 90 degrees without easing my heals and if I don’t raise my heals I lose balance and I’ve tried every squat variation like open to or strait forward and wide open stance and closed stance
I think it may have to do with ankle mobility. Here are a few shorts that show good exercises/stretches that help with ankle mobility. ua-cam.com/users/shortsm6J-9oQ9lHQ?feature=share
ua-cam.com/users/shortsW0qCrpz3oiE?feature=share
Hope it helps!
Sounds like you have limited ankle dorsiflexion.
While working on that you could invest in some squat shoes or just put a small plate under your heels when you squat. Good luck!
If it's not ankle mobility then you probably have long femurs and there's nothing you can do about it. You can widen your stance, lift your heels with shoes but ultimately your form will never be as good as it would be with relatively shorter femurs. You will place more load on your back because your torso is less upright.
Try elevating your heels with angled blocks (the ones people use to stretch calves). They will elevate your feet even more than the thickest weightlifting shoes. Is squatting suddenly easy and fun? Then you indeed have short femurs.
If you are training for fitness or muscle building exercises like the leg press or lunges are much better for you because they take the weight of your (lower) back. While doing that you can continue to work on your ankle mobility for at least 6 months and keep trying squats. If it doesn't work you're just not built for squatting.
Stretch your ankles like crazy (specifically work on dorsal flexion, like the first response to this comment says). I used to do the same thing. And holding onto something in front of you so you can pull yourself forward as you descend and trying to push your knees as far over your toes as possible can help a lot. If you pick your favorite ankle stretch and do it for two sets of 30 seconds (really pushing the stretch so it is uncomfortable), do that at least 5 days a week and you can get enough mobility to squat deep.
Lockout is down near the knees
Legs use the legs it's not a back exercise only it's a full body workout.
What are your thoughts on kinng nabil deadlift ? He pulls 750 @ 164
He doesn't deadlift. He pulls sumo
My 6’3 ass is 95% legs 5% arms. Deadlifting is fucking hard!
when I push my shoulders back I get feeling in my back like its going into over extension
what am I doing wrong?
I think you're pushing them back too much, try pushing them away from your ears and then down while you're touching your lats. If you feel a strong contraction in the lats then you're doing it right and you can do the same with the bar in your hand
Youre over extending. Push ur lats in the back pocket, dont try to get chest up or squeeze shoulder blades.
Think of putting your lats in your front pocket. Then pull with your lats super tight at the bottom to pull the slack and pull. Also make sure you’re pushing with the center of your foot and not off the heel or toes
Step 1: be 5ft
I'm very surprised at his lockout position. It's halfway up his quad. I'm usually crushing my balls at lockout. Maybe I am pulling my arms up.
Can someone tell me what kind of shoes does he wear in the last clip ?
No straps damn
way more impressive than some bow legged kid sumo deadlifting 1000 lbs for 6 inches off the floor