Tom87
Level 4 Valued Member
Hello everybody .
I rarely post here, but frequently lurk !
I'm 32, Male, 1.82m, 75kg. Not training to compete. Beginner, about 3 months of proper training (before that, years of calisthenics, mainly dips, pull ups, and pistols, with low volume and low results, due to playing a lot of badminton).
I'm 10 days into the program I found here for deadlift :
INCREDIBLE Deadlift Singles Program Resullts
My choice on this one over a classical LP is mainly based on me wanting to deadlift everyday and not 3 times a week. And also to be sincere, I kinda fell for its beauty .
On to my question :
I read, I don't know where, that using small plates for increasing ROM was a good idea, which is what I'm doing.
Today a coach of the gym advised me against it and said bumpers are better for back health, and less rigid thus less traumatizing for my body when hitting the floor. I said I'm lowering the bar in a controlled manner anyway so I guess rigidity doesn't change much. For the rest I didn't know, thus I thanked him.
The thing is :
1/ I'm never fully satisfied about one person's opinion unless I really know him well, which is not the case,
2/ I'm already 10 days into the program, so that would suck to change the height of my deadlift IF it's not important.
So which is better :
Should I go back to bumper plates to come back to a "normal height" deadlift
OR finish the program and switch to bumper after it
OR keeping small plates forever if I want to, no problem to "deficit deadlift" as a standard ?
My main goal is progressing at DL and becoming strong by doing so, I don't care about being able to lift 20kg more or less due to the plates I'm using, only strength and health.
Thank you all !
Tom
I rarely post here, but frequently lurk !
I'm 32, Male, 1.82m, 75kg. Not training to compete. Beginner, about 3 months of proper training (before that, years of calisthenics, mainly dips, pull ups, and pistols, with low volume and low results, due to playing a lot of badminton).
I'm 10 days into the program I found here for deadlift :
INCREDIBLE Deadlift Singles Program Resullts
My choice on this one over a classical LP is mainly based on me wanting to deadlift everyday and not 3 times a week. And also to be sincere, I kinda fell for its beauty .
On to my question :
I read, I don't know where, that using small plates for increasing ROM was a good idea, which is what I'm doing.
Today a coach of the gym advised me against it and said bumpers are better for back health, and less rigid thus less traumatizing for my body when hitting the floor. I said I'm lowering the bar in a controlled manner anyway so I guess rigidity doesn't change much. For the rest I didn't know, thus I thanked him.
The thing is :
1/ I'm never fully satisfied about one person's opinion unless I really know him well, which is not the case,
2/ I'm already 10 days into the program, so that would suck to change the height of my deadlift IF it's not important.
So which is better :
Should I go back to bumper plates to come back to a "normal height" deadlift
OR finish the program and switch to bumper after it
OR keeping small plates forever if I want to, no problem to "deficit deadlift" as a standard ?
My main goal is progressing at DL and becoming strong by doing so, I don't care about being able to lift 20kg more or less due to the plates I'm using, only strength and health.
Thank you all !
Tom
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