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Title: deadlift with short arms
Post by: InsightD on May 28, 2006, 10:54:53 PM: i got short ass arms and in my deads at the end of my ascent i'm a little higher than mid-thigh... if you know what i mean... is it as productive to do deads with dumbells at the sides?
Title: Re: deadlift with short arms
Post by: 4thAD on May 29, 2006, 10:57:21 PM: Can you touch your toes? If not you need to stretch more until you can..You should be able to go all the way to the floor if your on a rack, or at least to the floor with the plates if not using a rack...Stretch stretch stretch!
Title: Re: deadlift with short arms
Post by: Beener on May 30, 2006, 03:19:40 PM: streach eh ;)
Title: Re: deadlift with short arms
Post by: 4thAD on May 30, 2006, 03:33:13 PM: yeah he should be able to touch his toes, or he needs to streach and adapt...
Title: Re: deadlift with short arms
Post by: sarcasm on June 01, 2006, 08:45:52 AM: short arms don't have jack shit to do with it, you've either got the back strength to do it or not, Don Reinhoudt's pulls ended up at mid thigh and he pulled 885 in the 1970's, just suck it up and get low and pull.
Title: Re: deadlift with short arms
Post by: themetalgod on June 10, 2006, 09:11:59 AM: don reinhoudt had short arms he was 6'4 his arms looked long to me
Title: Re: deadlift with short arms
Post by: sarcasm on June 11, 2006, 08:38:30 AM: Quote from: themetalgod on June 10, 2006, 09:11:59 AM
don reinhoudt had short arms he was 6'4 his arms looked long to me
not really, go back and pull up any picture of Don in the finish position of the deadlift and you'll see that the bar is ridiculously high on his legs , looking at the pictures it looks like the bar is at the top of his thighs.
Title: Re: deadlift with short arms
Post by: Geo on June 11, 2006, 04:32:16 PM: Quote from: InsightD on May 28, 2006, 10:54:53 PM
i got short ass arms

I usually call people with short arms "alligator boy" !
Title: Re: deadlift with short arms
Post by: themetalgod on June 11, 2006, 05:14:41 PM: what deadlifter had extremly long arms
Title: Re: deadlift with short arms
Post by: sarcasm on June 11, 2006, 07:00:50 PM: Quote from: themetalgod on June 11, 2006, 05:14:41 PM
what deadlifter had extremly long arms
Gary Heisey, Bob peoples
Title: Re: deadlift with short arms
Post by: Ex Coelis on August 17, 2006, 09:41:08 PM: I remember reading an old old article about Lee Priest training back - he said he had to do sumo deads becuase his arms were too short for regular ones . . .
Title: Re: deadlift with short arms
Post by: Hedgehog on August 17, 2006, 11:54:16 PM: Quote from: themetalgod on June 11, 2006, 05:14:41 PM
what deadlifter had extremly long arms

Lamar Gant has to be the most extreme case.

Arms almost touching his knees?

(http://www.t-nation.com/img/photos/05-031-training/image002.jpg)

Great deadlifter, great athlete.

YIP
Zack
Title: Re: deadlift with short arms
Post by: brianX on August 18, 2006, 11:37:16 PM: My arms are so short that the bar keep hitting my balls, hahahahahahahaha.
Title: Re: deadlift with short arms
Post by: Slin1 on August 19, 2006, 06:48:08 AM: Quote from: brianX on August 18, 2006, 11:37:16 PM
My arms are so short that the bar keep hitting my balls, hahahahahahahaha.

For me the bar ends up just over my cock i have never been good a deadlift