Would love comments as to how to rep Zerchers. I’m starting with the bar on the floor. I’ve done 3 x 135 lbs both yesterday and today as below:
I deadlift the bar to mid-thigh then lower it onto my thighs near my knees.
Rep #1 has a “bottoms-up” character, since there’s a bit of slack in the posterior chain when you release the DL grip and move to the ZSQ start position.
Rather than lower to just touching and coming up again, I’ve been letting the tension out while resting the bar on my thighs, then doing my next rep in the same “bottoms up” style as the first – and so on. After the third rep, regrip for DL and lower to the floor.
Good approach? I will compete at this lift in the USAWA and, much like I prepare competition deadlifts by doing a “set of singles”, it feels like this is the same approach for the Zercher.
Comments appreciated, and thanks in advance.
-S-
I deadlift the bar to mid-thigh then lower it onto my thighs near my knees.
Rep #1 has a “bottoms-up” character, since there’s a bit of slack in the posterior chain when you release the DL grip and move to the ZSQ start position.
Rather than lower to just touching and coming up again, I’ve been letting the tension out while resting the bar on my thighs, then doing my next rep in the same “bottoms up” style as the first – and so on. After the third rep, regrip for DL and lower to the floor.
Good approach? I will compete at this lift in the USAWA and, much like I prepare competition deadlifts by doing a “set of singles”, it feels like this is the same approach for the Zercher.
Comments appreciated, and thanks in advance.
-S-