Physical Culture
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My 13 year old son deadlifted in his first meet yesterday. He's been training the deadlift for about two months. He weighed in at 137, which put him in the 148 division. He was the only kid in that age and weight division who was deadlifting only.
I put him on a PTTP cycle, starting at 120, and working up. He was not as consistent as I wanted him to be (kids these days), and trained about three days a week: deadlifts, Roman chair backwards and forwards, a few pushups, and whatever else he wanted to do.
He was on track to hit 155 in the gym before the meet. He went down to lift on Thursday, and came back up and said "I just don't have it today. It just feels too heavy. I did two reps, but man, it feels heavy." I said "show me", and went down to the garage with him. Immediately I saw he had loaded the bar wrong. It was loaded like 185, but my bar is only 33 pounds (cheap Chinese bar), so it was 173. He gave me two good, solid singles, and I told him what he had done, and to knock it off for the day. A new PR for four reps!
Saturday, he opened with an easy 135, then 155, then 180. He went three for three, with 9 white lights.
Pavel and others warned me here about kids deadlifting heavy with bad technique, so I really drilled technique with my son, and did not push him near his limits. Pavel wasn't kidding! There were kids there that honestly scared me, the way they lifted, and their parents kept pushing them to lift more and more weight. It's all fun until someone gets hurt.
Video of Isaac's 180 pull. His technique looked great to me, but advice is welcome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV7aRT-Jc9U&feature=em-upload_owner
I put him on a PTTP cycle, starting at 120, and working up. He was not as consistent as I wanted him to be (kids these days), and trained about three days a week: deadlifts, Roman chair backwards and forwards, a few pushups, and whatever else he wanted to do.
He was on track to hit 155 in the gym before the meet. He went down to lift on Thursday, and came back up and said "I just don't have it today. It just feels too heavy. I did two reps, but man, it feels heavy." I said "show me", and went down to the garage with him. Immediately I saw he had loaded the bar wrong. It was loaded like 185, but my bar is only 33 pounds (cheap Chinese bar), so it was 173. He gave me two good, solid singles, and I told him what he had done, and to knock it off for the day. A new PR for four reps!
Saturday, he opened with an easy 135, then 155, then 180. He went three for three, with 9 white lights.
Pavel and others warned me here about kids deadlifting heavy with bad technique, so I really drilled technique with my son, and did not push him near his limits. Pavel wasn't kidding! There were kids there that honestly scared me, the way they lifted, and their parents kept pushing them to lift more and more weight. It's all fun until someone gets hurt.
Video of Isaac's 180 pull. His technique looked great to me, but advice is welcome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV7aRT-Jc9U&feature=em-upload_owner