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Personal Trainer Michael Behnken, MS, NASM-CPT-PES, CSCS
Retraction allows you to work the most muscle fibers in the chest. If you cannot retract your shoulder blades due to bad posture, you must strengthen the muscles that do so.
This means you need to perform rowing exercises with proper form and stretch your chest and anterior deltoids if you have forward shoulder posture.
Lower the weight all the way to your chest and pause.
If you can’t lower the weight all the way to your chest, you do not have to. Just make sure you are not being lazy.
When you lower the weight all the way to your chest, your pecs are actually not working as much, but it’s okay, because you will more than likely be doing more chest exercises which isolate the pecs.
The sticky point is the point in which you know the lift will be completed. Hold your breath until then.
If you exhale before you pass the sticky point, you will lose all intra-abdominal pressure, lose the optimal bench press form and not get the full benefits of the bench press.
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Mark Rippetoe gives his trademark introduction to the back squat.
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Dwight Howard, a center for the Orlando Magic basketball team, and his strength coach Joe Rogowski teach the Bench Press. “”bench press is just total upper body and strengh. Dwight’s sets and reps, have a routine that Dwight really enjoys. He does a pyramid technique, and increases weight, until he gets to his max set of two reps. The pyramid takes endurence and strength, and most importantly for his position because he is a power player, increased the power in the fast twich muscle fibers. A lot of athletes, when they do the bench press, forget about their core strength, and really hypeextend their lower back. So, one of the things you need to be careful with is that you are not hyper-extending too much and over doing it.”"
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Recorded to demonstrate form.
OVERVIEW
This is a romanian deadlift, not a stiff-legged deadlift. The main distinction between the two is that the RDL is controlled from the hips — the butt is “punched” backwards causing the torso to lower and then pulled back in to return to upright. In a SLDL, on the other hand, the movement is initiated by lowering the upper body in an attempt to maintain the hips’ position in space; the butt is not punched backwards. In either movement, you want to minimize knee bend so that the posterior chain can take the grunt of the load; however, in a RDL, the knees are allowed to bend further if necessary, especially when flexibility is inadequate. This is unlike the eccentric of a conventional deadlift, where the knees bend further so that the quadriceps can be better used at the beginning of the next concentric, which is one of the reasons why more weight can be lifted in the conventional deadlift than the RDL (though at the cost of less “isolation” of the posterior chain).
METHOD
Bend the knees slightly to start and push the hips backwards to lower the bar. Ensure to keep the bar in contact with the thighs, sliding it down them until you reach a position slightly below knee height before allowing the bar to continue to lower straight down. For a weightlifter, this better strengthens the body, keeping the bar in close and placing the shoulders over/ahead it, as needed during the pull of a clean. Unlike in my previous RDL demonstration video, I now believe that all lifters benefit from this adjustment.
Notice how the bar stays in close against the thighs and lower legs and, consequently, the back must maintain a tight arch as the shoulders stay ahead of the bar. The chest also does not drop nor do the shoulders slouch as the bar lowers.
Also, notice the power that the glutes, as well as the rest of the posterior chain, provide on the concentric motion. The glutes are strongly flexed and the hips shoved forward, causing the barbell to accelerate very powerfully to lockout.
SAFETY
For the most part, never perform an RDL, SLDL, good morning, etc. (movements that involve hip flexion) with completely straight and locked knees. Unlock your knees and bend them slightly any time that your hip is bent and you are externally loading the body. Otherwise, the tendons at the back of the knee can take the grunt of the load, instead of the hamstrings, and the likelihood of injury greatly increases.
Lifting from the floor and lowering the barbell to the floor is not an essential part of this lift.
In particular, IF YOU’RE JUST LEARNING THIS MOVEMENT, do not lower the barbell completely to the floor, as you likely lack sufficient flexibility to do so. Likewise, I’d advise starting with an eccentric (negative motion) instead, using a conventional deadlift or lifting off of the rack in order to get the barbell to the top position before beginning your set. Finally, use a slower tempo until you get the hang of the lift.
FURTHER INFORMATION
There’s a nice set of RDLs at the end of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UFRn1JX0DA
This is also a good narrated tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnBREGM7pE0
This is a comparison of one lifter’s bar path in the RDL vs. that of his clean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1taUuKre3w
(1/2/2009)
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Did a little bench to warm up the upper body before my back workout and I hit a new 9-rep PR with 320 lbs (I think I have 10 reps in me on a chest day). My old PR was 8 reps with 320 lbs back in Nov ‘09.
I posted the wide-grip pullups to help keep my honest in doing these….I told myself that I was going to focus more on incline’s and back in 2010. So, this is the starting point. I suck at pullups at the moment, which is exactly why I need to do them! My goal is bodyweight (BW) plus 100 lbs x 5 reps.
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Why Bowflex SelectTech Dumbbells beat other dumbbells. See the full line of Bowflex SelectTech Dumbbells including 90 lbs., 52 lbs. and 20 lbs. models at http://www.BowflexSelectTech.com
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Different ways to modify resistance to the handstand pushup without actually adding weight.
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When creating a free weights workout program, keep personal goals in mind. Create a free weights workout program with tips from a fitness director in this free video on muscle building and free weights.
Expert: Les Whitley
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Bio: Les Whitley is director of Velocity Sports Performance in Franklin, Tennessee. He has a degree in exercise science.
Filmmaker: Tim Brown
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A straight-leg dead lift is a useful free weight exercise for the back. Use free weights to do back exercises with tips from a fitness director in this free video on muscle building and free weights.
Expert: Les Whitley
Contact: www.velocitysp.com/coolsprings
Bio: Les Whitley is director of Velocity Sports Performance in Franklin, Tennessee. He has a degree in exercise science.
Filmmaker: Tim Brown
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5 FULL squats with 135 lbs. Notice the perfect form? That’s why she’s on the cover of ‘SUPER STRENGTH’!
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