I've always had good mechanics for conventional deadlifts. Thanks to long arms and a lifetime of martial arts giving me almost too much range in my hips and hamstrings, I can quite easily get my hands below my feet for wild deficit deadlifts without rounding my back.
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When I first started taking weight training seriously, I was at university in Swansea and was training at Burns Gym. Run by an ex-British Olympic Weightlifter John Burns, it was where every competitive weightlifter and juiced up bouncer in Southwest Wales trained... and there was 70kg me. I was in the bottom 1% of skinniest and weakest people in the gym.
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One day, I was going through some sets of pretty pathetic 60kg deadlifts and one of the guys from the front desk brings this bloke in his 70s (and fucking good shape I might add) over to me. "Benny butt, this is Rob. He's an ex national powerlifter and wanted me to introduce you to him."
Rob proceeded to tell me that he had been training in gyms for 50 years and not seen many people with my deadlift technique. I was quite lost for words, this guy was a legend in the gym who all the big lads looked up to, and I was a scrawny runt who'd learnt everything he knew from geeky websites. I went home thrilled, though little did I know at the time my technique was actually pretty shit. What Rob had meant to say (and would have, if he'd been a coach, as opposed to an athlete) was he'd not seen many with mechanics like mine.
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This meant that what I also didn't realise is that I wasn't a genius. Alas, I was just born with lucky biology and an athletic past beneficial for a very specific movement. At the time I thought if I could deadlift that range so easily then surely everyone should be able to if they just learnt the fucking lift properly. I'd give friends shit for having "rubbish technique" if they couldn't. Lol. Cringe.
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The deadlift is a great lift for showing how individuals work differently. Not a single one of my clients currently deadlifts from the floor, because not a single one of them has the range to hinge that low whilst maintaining complete control of their spine and focusing all of the load on their hip joint. [cont. in comments]
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