Well so far deadlift are one of my favourite exercises but i know there's different types of deadlift. While i was perfoming the conventional deadlift then my gym partner suddenly told me not to touch the barbell or perhaps the weight at the ground. Anyone can explain why? Or he's wrong?



This post has been edited by degraw1993: Jan 21 2014, 10:25 PM

For me, i always reset after each rep.

Is there any reason why he said you don't need to touch the floor? For me, it depends on what do you want to achieve from the deadlift.

1. Touch the floor, pause and lift.
-This style will eliminate momentum that you gain from bouncing the bar off the floor.
-This is good for strength training as you'll need to pull 100% using your strength.

2. Touch and Go.
-Improper touch and go technique will create momentum that will assist lifter to lift weight.
-Highly not recommended.

3. Not touching the floor (as advice by TS' friend).
- It will maintain pressure on the targeted muscle from the start of exercise until end.
- Same method as not locking the knee during leg press.
- Aiming for the pump instead for the strength.


This is strictly my opinion that I gather from my observation.

Nothing wrong with both. I personally prefer to reset it dead on the floor. It's called deadlift for a reason.

Just lift the DEAD, respect the dead, don't let the dead rebound. Engagement and disengagement benefits the 80% of the entire group of muscles BETTER. Absolutely no right or wrong as long you are having a good form. it depends your goal and which way is better for muscles development in the long run.

google Romanian deadlift please.

If i'm not mistaken he says when doing light weight you don't need to bounce the weight off the floor. If doing heavy weight then can touch the floor, pause and lift again. Well i think imma do what's good for me. For hypertrophy is it necessary not touching the floor?

Lightweight not touching the floor is for my warm up. I guess its called deadlift for a reason. Not midairlift. Should touch the ground and lift again. Doesn't really matter to me tho cause my heavy lift only 1 rep.




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This post has been edited by Amedion: Jan 22 2014, 01:58 PM

Deadlift and hypertrophy? Lol.

Just lift as heavy as you can and reset each rep. Don't think too much. Want hypertrophy do barbell rows or something.

I've been wondering is it fine if i do higher reps for deadlift? For example 4 sets of 8-10 reps? Or just stick to 5 sets of 5 reps?

When I am maxing out, I always touch the floor with a 2 sec pause and end the set with a douchebag slam (only allowed if you deadlift >3 plates each side)

1st set: 12 reps 225lbs
2nd set: 10 reps 275lbs
3rd set: 6 reps 315lbs
last set: 2 reps of 355lbs

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