Ok, my brain must be feeling better since it’s, oh my god, new content. This is actually one of many pieces that have been floating around my brain but, let’s just say I had other things going on for a bit. Anyhow, what I want to look at today is the arguments surrounding the topic of round backed deadlifts.
Now I have previously done technique articles about the clean-style deadlift as well as the RDL vs. SLDL and in both I certainly seem to be against any sort of back rounding in the deadlift. Well, yes and no. Even in the first linked article I specifically stated:
… Keep ReadingAnd just as I was talking about a very specific style of bench press in the previous technique article, I want to make it clear that this piece is only detailing the clean style deadlift.
I mention this in that, in recent years, other deadlift techniques have become somewhat more common.