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The deadlift: train more or train less? Three suggestions that may work for you

Leave a Comment / competitive planning, high performance, training methods / By wpunl

There´s a controversy that won’t go away that easy: what improves your deaflift more? Increasing or decreasing frequency? Until a few years back, we had few advocates of the higher (highER, not high) frequency deadlift. Today, however, a couple of good coaches recommend higher frequency pulling. Three weeks ago, one of my lifters had a […]

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The deadlift: sumo or traditional?

Leave a Comment / technique, training methods / By wpunl

Some coaches believe that the stance is something genetic, like the color of your eyes. Lifters come as sumo deadlifters or traditional. It’s a joke, of course, but not that far from the truth: you will notice that elite lifters very rarely shift from one to the other. There is a general rule that short

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Pronated and alternate grip for the deadlift

Leave a Comment / training methods / By wpunl

I believe it is a consensus that training the pronated grip for the deadlift will improve both grip strength and the deadlift itself. As Altug Dural described his protocol (the 1-2-3 ladder), I became curious and started to ask around about people’s pronated grip deadlift PR. Most people don’t know and never tried to measure

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Grip and the deadlift

Leave a Comment / alta performance, training methods / By wpunl

(of the series “random thoughts after training”) The deadlift is a different animal when compared to the other two powerlifts, in several aspects. One of them is that the number of RM (repetition maximum) does not correspond to max effort percentage the same way as for the squat or the bench press. It is really

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About boys, testosterone and pads

Leave a Comment / ensino de powerlifting @en, sports psychology, training methods, treinamento de força @en / By wpunl

Today I received a video from a student in his 4th week of this training cycle. He is (very) young physical educator and instructor at a gym chain in São Paulo. Nice deadlift. Pads under the bar to “protect” the floor from the 400 something pound impact. So I remembered the conversation I had with

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