Deadlift From Floor

To make bar height better fit your body place 10 25 or 45 pound bumper plates underneath the deadlift bar.

Deadlift from floor. Everyone seems to think that if you can t deadlift from the floor without problems that you just need to work on your mobility suck it up and be a man or hang your head in shame for being an unevolved human being. Some like myself seem to generate maximum speed from the floor that carries through the top and others that are very slow off the floor seem to find all the speed strength in the world at the lock out. As such you should implement exercises that increase the loading demand on your quads including low pause deadlifts deficit deadlifts and front squats.

Not everyone needs to deadlift from the floor. Low back movement isn t the devil but probably isn t what you want to have happen during a deadlift. This is a problem.

If you lack the mobility to start the deadlift from the floor without having to use trunk flexion you should reduce the range of motion by doing something like deadlifting from pins. And as your mobility improves you can move down to deadlifting from the floor. Much like my little anecdote the researchers wanted to know how much the starting position affected the one and three rep maximums.

If you can t keep a flat back when setting up to deadlift from the floor don t lift from the floor. Some people shouldn t due to insufficient mobility and increased risk. If you can pull from the floor with great form and without low back pain go for it.

These are reasons why the internet sucks holy hell because people will actually talk to each other like this. Use the lowest pin settings where you can avoid trunk flexion. Your deadlift is ugly.

However pretty much everyone does pull from the floor whether they have the requisite mobility to do it or not. In the deadlift every lifter has strong points and weak points. In other words lift the bar up from the floor and then drop it instead of setting it back down.