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Originally Posted by COCKBOAT
How so?
More like the form
felt bad. And it was plain that I didn't fully lock out. I've been trying to avoid ugly grinding reps, especially deadlift reps, when eating only 1300 calories a day. I could probably have pulled a fourth, but it would have been ugly IMO.
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I really doubt your set up on the deadlift is doing you any benefit.. It looks weird. Do you really get a good feel of a proper starting position rocking your way to and fro like that?
It's not generally a to and fro thing. Just a rocking back, but if I don't feel sufficiently tight I'll start over and rock back again before pulling. Ideally, I'd pull on the first try but I find that my technique isn't as good when I'm only deadlifting once per week. I think it just comes with being an unathletic person who doesn't have good kinesthetic awareness.
Anyway, I find that rocking back helps me get my hips a little lower without losing tightness. It's just something that works a little better for me than the rippetoe setup.
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But they do it in a more meaningful manner, rocking like that almost looks more like an attempt to put 'english' then actually getting the hamstrings engaged.
That may be, though it's not the intent obviously.