Snatch 24kg: 5/5, 30/30
Dead lift 70kg: 5
Dead lift: 110kg: 3, 5
Clean 2x20kg: 10
Clean 2x20kg with fleece gloves: 20
Snatch 12kg with fleece gloves & baby powder: 10 min (2/2/2/2/1/1)
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Today's surprise was the cleans with gloves. That was hard.
By the way, a deadlift is not a pull
"By the way, a deadlift is not a pull; it's the same movement as a leg press except you're using your hands to hold the weight. So the deadlift is a press."The quotation comes from a T-Nation article by Thibaudeau (LINK). The article was not written for me so I did not read it all. Nonetheless, I found the above citation good food-for-thought. I have always thought of dead lift as a pull. But, the authour is right in that there is a leg press element in the dead lift. Yet, he is wrong when he claims that it is "not a pull." There is a pull-element as well; think straight legged dead lift. A lesson to be teased out is that thinking in absolute dichotomies usually leads you astray: black or white, good or bad, correct or incorrect. Often "both-and"-explanations proves to be closer to the truth than "either-or"-explanations.
2 comments:
I find how much is pull or leg press depends on the feet position. I just started doing Sumo DLs with my feet spread wide and that feels like much more of a leg press, however, with my feet close together it is certainly a pull.
funny too, I do my deadlifts like this with kettlebells (though I do have some plates. i can get the bar up to almost 400lbs with the bells (though I can't quite lift that haha)
I do some high rep sumo dl with bells only too. They feel great but the bells' weight has its limit (2x36). I have never tride sumo with a bar, might try.
Lucky you to have such a bar!
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