Thread: Deadlift reps?

Originally posted by Prince
I am not saying whether or not you should or should not pause...

but, since you pause at the bottom of your deadlifts do you also do this on benchpress and other movements?

I could not imagine bringing the bar to my chest on every rep of benchpress and pausing for 1 second.

With deadlifts the pause is needed to eliminate ANY bounce, which is all to easy to do with this movement. And in fact, I do pretty much pause at the bottom of most presses. Even with a very controlled negative there is still alot of momentum out of the bottom of a rep if there is no pause. Not that I do this, but some studies do show that a pause of up to 4 seconds is necessary to eliminate innate momentum out of the bottom a rep.

Legal competition lifting requires a pause on bench. Elite level lfters also do box squats whereas there is a pause on the box to break the concentric-eccentric chain. There's no pause necessary on deads, you just have to lock it out.

Of course, I'm still very against doing deadlifts for more than 3 reps, and I'd prefer singles. It's too easy to not realize you're fatigued and let your arch slip.

Originally posted by Saturday Fever
Legal competition lifting requires a pause on bench.

Thanks, I am well aware of that, I competed in a few bench press competitions when I was younger.

But, we were not talking about competitions here.

I dont pause on SLDL unless I need to fix my grip, just to add to that.

I pause in all my lifts, at the bottom of my full squat, at the bottom of my pull-ups, at the bottom of my dips, the beginning and end of shrugs, at the bottom of my bench, and at the bottom of my deads. Maybe I'm just weird.

Peace.

Originally posted by Premo55
I pause in all my lifts, at the bottom of my full squat, at the bottom of my pull-ups, at the bottom of my dips, the beginning and end of shrugs, at the bottom of my bench, and at the bottom of my deads. Maybe I'm just weird.

Peace.

I don't really see anything wrong with that. Nonetheless, I prefer not to pause unless my muscles are required to hold the weight in place while pausing such as at the bottom of a bench press. For deadlifts this is not the case. However, sometimes I pause because I need to reaffirm my grip.

I pulled 600 today. My ego is going nuts.

Originally posted by Saturday Fever
I pulled 600 today. My ego is going nuts.

It's very weird that you bench 245 and deadlift 600, yet I bench 260 and deadlift about 300. Granted, I partially neglected my legs at first (Not fully, I did some leg stuff), but still that is crazy.

My journal has explained it as best I am able. My form is bad (though I'm working on it) and I've always used a close grip which makes my ROM very large. I've always been a good puller and since I re-evaluated my squats, I've become a pretty good squatter. There are vids of my dead today in my journal if you'd like to see.

And the videos are extremely impressive, I might add.

It's very weird that you bench 245 and deadlift 600, yet I bench 260 and deadlift about 300. Granted, I partially neglected my legs at first (Not fully, I did some leg stuff), but still that is crazy.

This is not weird at at all IMO. Most of the powerlifters I have spoke to at my gym about their lifts generally have their bench to squat/deadlift is a 3:5 ratio. For me, and SF too it seems, we have stronger deadlifts are and need to work on our bench. My bench is at 325 and my deadlift is at 615.

BTW, correct me if I am wrong SF, but your bench is now at 260, correct?