[douglas]

I must have been reading the same documentation as you but I ignored it! I figured I never squat and as deadlifts are always my first lift and my other lifts do suffer, especially power cleans and rows but I'm not too worried, it's ok. I could never sustain that all year but this winter I'll get back into it and repeat the cycle. For me it's a very fine balance between getting the body power but minimising the increased mass because my fingers are not the strongest.

[mark s]

im the opposite to you,i do squats so dont bother with deadlifts now and they now far off the same move.
deadlifts tired me out for the rest of my back routine and there are better back building exercises i want to do.

got the mrs doing them instead 

[mark s]

saw a bloke at the gym deadlift 350 yesterday

[krymson]

must be bouldering 8C, according to this thread 

[miso soup]

442.5kg

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[douglas]

http://www.usawa.com/middle-fingers-deadlift-showdown/

[Paul B]

got the mrs doing them instead

Shameless 

[Fiend]

Don't like this. The bar bends a hell of a lot with the outer weights still on the ground, so not lifting the full weight until part way through the lift. Why do they do it this way??

[shark]

Don't like this. The bar bends a hell of a lot with the outer weights still on the ground, so not lifting the full weight until part way through the lift. Why do they do it this way??

For show - why else use tyres rather than metal weights

[shark]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadlift

Seems like the tyre deadlift is a category of its own

Check out the number of muscles worked by a deadlift in one beautiful movement

[Nibile]

Can't wait to boulder 8c and climb 9a to finally dedicate my time to the weights.
I hate it when climbing gets in the way of getting strong.

[Fiend]

Cheers shark.

[rodma]

Don't like this. The bar bends a hell of a lot with the outer weights still on the ground, so not lifting the full weight until part way through the lift. Why do they do it this way??

crikey, looks like he could have easily lifted more 

[Fiend]

Okay this helps:

I despise NEGATIVE FUCKS!

This guy just lifted over HALF A FUCKIN' TON and people are on here saying how it isn't a big deal because it's tires instead of iron. Until one of you naysayers can do what he did and PROVE it...SHUT THE FUCK UP AND GO HIT THE GYM YOU JELLIE ASSES!

Well that's cleared up then

[mark s]

more impressive

[miso soup]

So why is that more impressive when it's less weight than the tyre guy?  Someone educate a deadlift noob.

[Richie Crouch]

Surely it's because all the weight has to move at once with a solid bar lift whereas it flexes a lot on the tyres lift and some tyres lift off the ground earlier... So he is already past getting it moving when all the weight leaves the deck?

[a dense loner]

Ritchie wins a cookie

[Nibile]

The second one also starts from lower, so the bar has to cover more space and breaking it from the ground is harder.

[miso soup]

Got it, thanks wads.

[mark s]

So why is that more impressive when it's less weight than the tyre guy?  Someone educate a deadlift noob.

you taking the piss?

[miso soup]

No, just wasn't sure I was correctly understanding the differences between the tyres and the one we posted.  I asked and got an answer.  Now I do.

[a dense loner]

You'll have to excuse mark he's gotten too big for his climbing boots, quite literally. I hear reports he's not the man he used to be. Has to put on some cut off denims whenever he's feeling a little angry now

[mark s]

Haha cheeky twat.
i just thought it was pretty obvious as to why a proper deadlift was not as impressive as someone who was nearly vertical before the weight was lifted.

[mark s]

Did a few today for the second week on trot.did a few reps 20 below my p.b.shall have a go at a new one next week.