Reply With QuoteDeadlifts are performed without a platform, Platform Deadlifts are performed with one. They're two different exercises. Naturally, if you're standing on a platform you're going to be pulling using more hamstring than you will back.
Switch off if you must, but yea, it's pretty much just a matter of taste.
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08-08-2007, 11:53 AM #1Registered User
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deadlift + platform
The 45lb plates at my gym are seem large (radially). So I started to use a little platform when i deadlift so that I could get lower.
But... when i use the platform, during the bottom of the motion it is hard to keep my back straight. I am getting close to chest parallel to the floor (maybe 15 degrees) at the bottom of the movement, so should i not be worried about going that low.
the platform adds 2 inches or so, and I am 6'5".
Is using this platform just a matter of taste? Without it i can pull way more weight (230 vs 200). So would that be a bigger positive than a little bit larger ROM?
Ive been contemplating this for a while.
Oh yeah im going for hypertrophy and no im not pretending 230 is a lot for a deadlift :P
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What about a volume set of short controlled concentric peak pulses off the platform as ( sesh before ish) warm up?
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08-09-2007, 11:14 AM #4Succinct ELITE MEMBER
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For hyperthrophy a platform is great. Just keep your back straight at all times.
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