deadlift with short arms

[InsightD]

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?

[4thAD]

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!

[Beener]

streach eh

[4thAD]

yeah he should be able to touch his toes, or he needs to streach and adapt...

[sarcasm]

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.

[themetalgod]

don reinhoudt had short arms he was 6'4 his arms looked long to me

[sarcasm]

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.

[Geo]

i got short ass arms

I usually call people with short arms  "alligator boy" !

[themetalgod]

what deadlifter had extremly long arms

[sarcasm]

what deadlifter had extremly long arms

Gary Heisey, Bob peoples

[Ex Coelis]

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 . . .

[Hedgehog]

what deadlifter had extremly long arms

Lamar Gant has to be the most extreme case.

Arms almost touching his knees?



Great deadlifter, great athlete.

YIP
Zack

[brianX]

My arms are so short that the bar keep hitting my balls, hahahahahahahaha.

[Slin1]

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