Deadlift question

Hey-

Do you all recommend the mixed grip?

Are there any concerns about bicep tendon on the supinated side?

-Back2Basics

Hapy, if you're sticking off the floor, try sinking a bit lower at the start and keeping your shoulders behind the bar. It's your hamstrings that will get that thing moving. In the past, low box squats with lots of band tension have helped me get through that.

As many fingers as you can get over the thumb is good. One is fine, two is fine.

As shown here, there is no such thing as too small of a hand to hook grip.

Gnome, Gillingham pulls close to 900 with an over hand grip.  Lose the straps and your body will adapt.  Have you tried switching your in the reverse grip?

Hapy, come to my house for a deadlift workout sometime.  Until then, try this. I pull in 2 phases.  1) I look down at the floor, at a 45 degree head posture and I push my feet into the floor, almost wedging myself under the bar. Keep the bar close to your shins.  My goal is to get the bar to my knees. 2) Once the bar crosses my knees I slam my hips forward to finish.  Look up Benedickt Magnusson on some of his deadlift blogs.  That is the way I pull and this may help you.  If you sit back and use more legs that may help, (this is the Drew Hickey method), but you will be limited by how much you squat (Drew can squat a ton). Keep the rep range in the 1 to 3's for multiple sets this time of year.  If you want I can post or send a deadlift routine cycle that I got from Mark Phillipi.   

Wayne, Sean-

Thanks, I'm at a point in my season where I'm past my focus events (Nationals and Worlds), and am thinking about foundation work. 

I admit to being a novice with the deadlift. However, I've tried both a clean grip and a mixed grip, with/without straps, with/without wraps and with/without a belt. I haven't experienced any thrills from the darn thing yet, but am willing to give it a few more months of work.

Tonight I went with Sean's advice to start pulling with the hook in a pronated grip. I can stand it up to about 250lbs, past that it just distracts me too much. I finished with my normal clean grip up to 375lbs with no, no, no. Would like to get into the 400 club! 

And the grip was my limiting factor. I've done more with straps, of course,  but am trying to get over it. I kinda like just going naked,... but with just a little chalk. 

Thanks again,

-KR188 

unless your in a powerlifting meet you dont need to use that stupid grip. what event is it that you pick something up like that at a games, is that how you pick up your laundrey basket when you have to do the laundry because you threw so shitty at the last games your wife says thats all your good for!!!!!

[oh!! i'm sorry i just got caught up in something that happend to a friend once not ME]

save a bicep just use an overhand grip, deadlifts are bad enough on the tendons and ligaments without that stupid grip ask someone who lost one that way[inside tendon left arm surgeon said there was no reason to fix it]

MasterDeadlifter,

If you haven't been pulling much then you'll be in the 400 club in no time due to practice alone.  And now that its "off season" I know you won't be 188 for long.  So that will help too.

DynamicLifter

or maybe even gloves in the games!!,i only use straps to pull more weight grip strength is not an issue with me.

7th man in the world to close the #3 ironmind grippers and hope to close the #4,s sometime in 2007

Marry a 400lb+ woman and pull her around by the hair.  If that doesn't make you tougher, nothing will.

AncientOne wrote: It appears that my grip is limiting me to sub-400lbs. Say I did a workout of 10 sets including 5-7 singles up around +90%1RM, how often should I go back? How many days or whatever between deadlift workouts?

I gairawntee I could have you lifting 400 lbs or more in one session.

Most people will say that you should DL once a week, and that you should max only very occasionally (but you aren't maxing if you're grip-limited).  Then there are those that claim to max once a week, which I think strains the definition of "max".

-Wayne