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Alistair Overeem deadlifting 250kg up stairs
December 3rd, 2010 | Deadlifters, Videos | admin | No Comments
MMA fighter Alistair Overeem deadlifts with a twist.
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5 Simple Tips to Improve Your Deadlift
May 18th, 2010 | Tips and Tricks | admin | 1 Comment
Has your max deadlift stopped going up? Plateaus happen to the best of us. Here are five simple and great tips that will put you back on track to adding more plates on the barbell.
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How to stretch and warm up for Deadlifts and Squats
May 16th, 2010 | Proper Form, Tips and Tricks | admin | 2 Comments
Are your hamstrings too tight? Here’s a quick way to check: if you don’t stretch often, and never do dynamic mobility drills, they are. Learn how to correctly warm up and stretch for heavy compound lifts.
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Top Deadlifting Mistakes and How to Fix Them
March 25th, 2010 | Proper Form, Tips and Tricks | admin | No Comments
By Dave Tate Mistake #1: Training the deadlift heavy all the time Very few people can train the deadlift week after week and still make progress. I feel the only ones who can get away with this are the ones who’re built to deadlift. If you’re built to pull, then the stress on your system [...]
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Best Weightlifting Music
March 24th, 2010 | Inspiration, Tips and Tricks, Videos | admin | 3 Comments
If you don’t workout with proper music, you’re missing out. Your gym playing Lady Gaga won’t give you the mind set needed to lift that 400 lbs for another set and to push yourself to utter failure. Even worse you might get Lady Gaga stuck in your head. So here are ten best songs to [...]
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Advanced Deadlift Analysis with Mark Rippetoe
March 19th, 2010 | Proper Form, Tips and Tricks, Videos | admin | No Comments
There are two types of people in this world. Those who think they know how to deadlift and those who actually do. Watch Mark Rippetoe give advanced analysis of deadlifting form and technique.
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Franco Columbu – Bodybuilder, Powerlifter and Deadlifter.
March 4th, 2010 | Deadlifters, Inspiration | admin | 3 Comments
Franco Columbu is a former bodybuilder, strongman and of course deadlifter. Franco Columbo has become an icon of deadlifting so lets pay homage to one of the greats.
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Mark Rippetoe Explains the Deadlift
March 4th, 2010 | Proper Form, Videos | admin | No Comments
If Deadlifting were a college course (and we feel it should be), Mark Rippetoe would be the professor teaching the course at Harvard. Watch the fitness guru explain the proper technique and mechanics of deadlifting.
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Welcome to the Deadlift
February 16th, 2010 | Featured | admin | No Comments
Men have been lifting weights from the ground as a feat of strength ever since God told Noah to Deadlift 2 of each animal onto the Ark. The earliest non-fabricated record of Deadlifting as a feat of strength was found on the Greek island of Thera. Archeologists discovered an obsidian 480 kg. volcanic rock measuring [...]
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