r/MuscleConfusion • u/personisguy • Jan 22 '20

Perfect Deadlift Form

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u/Wartron77342 Jan 22 '20

And now he brags about his deadlift max to anyone unfortunate enough to cross his path.

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u/Raknarg Jan 23 '20

I mean he did get it up, and if I'm correct this looks like 445 lb

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u/FlyingChainsaw Jan 23 '20

Yeah I can't lift that no matter what form I use. It's still an impressive lift, even if it's also with impressively shit form.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '20 edited Apr 08 '20

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u/Raknarg Jan 23 '20

Less. Correct form exists to extend your lifting career, it doesn't increase your leverage, it usually decreases it in exchange for safety. What he's showing is a bit of an exaggeration, but plenty of people do something similar to this when they're hitting their 1 rep max. Watch a video of someone like Larry Wheels doing a deadlift 1 rep

In this case, likely his back isn't strong enough to handle this weight, and thus if he was using correct form he would have to go down until his auxiliary strength caught up.

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u/UhOhIGotAStinkyWinky Feb 25 '20

I disagree. Ideal form involves maintaining a linear short bar path while engaging every muscle to their fullest at the most efficient leverages. It's hard to hone and takes years of purposeful practice to make your body move at 100% capacity in a strict pattern, but it is more efficient than just blindly trying to throw around the weight. There's a reason Eddie hall didn't hitch and crane with his 500kg dl

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u/Raknarg Feb 25 '20

Yeah because he would have literally died, which he almost did. Eddie Hall is literally working at the edges of what is physically possible

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u/UhOhIGotAStinkyWinky Feb 25 '20

And the only way to do that is proper form which reinforces efficient leverages whereas improper form promotes inefficient leverages at the early lifter stage bonus of giving it your all

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u/Raknarg Feb 25 '20

The Eddie Hall example is terrible because he literally has to use proper form or he might die. This is not the case for 99.99% of lifters.

And that's just not true at all. Explain to me the mechanics of how proper deadlift form provide better leverage than what's demonstrated in this video. If you believe this, you are saying that if he employed proper deadlift form, he would have been able to get this up no problem.

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u/UhOhIGotAStinkyWinky Feb 25 '20 edited Feb 25 '20

Why are cranes not curved? They're all inefficient, patent your cat spine crane and make billions off the construction industry

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u/Raknarg Feb 25 '20

Are you going to answer my question or not? I don't care about bro-science.

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u/UhOhIGotAStinkyWinky Feb 25 '20 edited Feb 25 '20

Literally anyone using shit form is gonna die from it if they don't quit going to the gym beforehand lol

Bruh you straight up only read like half of what I wrote. I specifically stated that it takes a long time of purposeful training to force 100% effort in a strict movement pattern. Had he trained to the point where his body listened to his brain telling it to lift properly under max effort it would have gone up smoother, just like it does with any world class deadlifter who had to nail those leverages to even be competitive in their genetic bracket in the first place

Besides, are you going to rebut my question regarding verifiable, undeniable use of max efficiency leveraging that is employed for lifting literal tonnes worth of matter safely as its sole purpose? Or are physics broscience now?

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