Thursday Throwdown - SDLHP Burpee

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3 Movements and 4 Rounds of:

1A) Barbell Sumo Deadlift High Pulls x 12

1B) Burpee x 10

1C) Plank Holds x 60 secs (Use advanced plank holds with your feet elevated on a box or with a Jungle Gym XT if you got one)

Go through this circuit 4 times as fast as you can. You'll have a 4 min handicap due to the plank holds, but if you must go down during the min holds, you will ADD 10 secs to your time for every time you come down. I went down 4 times...

I went ahead and used 135 lbs for the Sumo Dead Lift High Pulls and a Jungle Gym XT for the plank hold and ended up with a final time of 10:30 but had to add on another 1:00 due to going down.

Damn! Those planks are TOUGH when your breathing heavy...

Anyways, speaking of SDLHP's... This needs to be addressed...

There's been a countless amount of coaches that say this movement is the worst movement for you and that they would NEVER allow one of their athletes and clients to do it because it's unsafe, yadda yadda, yadda...

That's understandable and for good reason... There's been athletes that have been injured using SDLHP's, but there's also been athletes injured doing just about any movement out there before...

The truth is, people can get injured doing any type of movement wrong...

Now, before I go deeper into injuries and what not, I need to go over some coaching points to focus in on when doing SDLHP's...

Key Tips For the SDLHP:

-First and foremost, this movement is a power based movement that starts with the hips first, NOT the arms.
-Keep your chest UP and OUT with a flat back.
-As you come up, drive through your heels and EXPLOSIVELY extend through with your hips to drive the bar up towards your chin
-Pull with your arms while driving your elbow up and BACK, not just up while you continue to extend with your hips.
-DO NOT over extend with you hips, you should be standing straight up and down at the end, NOT leaning back
-Make sure to RETRACT (squeeze) your shoulder blades together at the top of the movement to ensure shoulder integrity
-DO NOT allow your shoulders to roll forward at the top of the lift, this is what will injury your shoulders...
-You can't see it from the front too well, but my shoulder blades are retracted and elbows are up and back.
-Keep the bar CLOSE to your body and try to make sure the bar is traveling in a straight, linear path from the ground to the end point.

I haven't had ONE single client or athlete get hurt using this movement (tap... tap) because just like with any movement, if you do it CORRECT, you'll be fine.

Speaking on this in terms of specificity... I would suggest that if your an overhead throwing athlete like a pitcher or baseball player, SDLHP's probably wouldn't be the best thing for you....

You always want to be doing movements that are relative to your overall goal while always thinking about the overall RISK vs REWARD that's involved...

Another key point to think about is if you're not in good enough shape to do higher rep, power-based circuits and movements like the SDLHP is usually used for, you'll want to regress yourself down a bit and work on technique and general conditioning first.

If you're more of a beginner, this type of metabolic conditioning circuit would best be done using lighter weights and with more rest between rounds instead of going straight through from time.

I've always been about training INSANE, but at the same time, you've got to train SMART.

And by SMART I mean: using good, solid technique and form all the time. If you have terrible form and poor technique, stick to the basics and build yourself up overtime. Don't be an idiot and try to push your limits to early. You've got to have a bit of patience if you want to have amazing gains overtime.

Ok, so I'm done being up on my soap box speaking about injuries... Back to training relentlessly without remorse!

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[bs431980]

these type of routines rock!! never get old. thanks for the vids

[syms85]

hey man great vids, just started the paleo diet two weeks ago, lost 8lbs already!!! its alot like a keto run? which is good for losing fat, but what do you do for gain muscle, just eats loads of potatos??? love the throw downs mate keep it up!

[Mr4johnson4]

great heavy workout gonna do it tommorrow :D

[Reignunlimited]

What kind of plates are you using.. those are not your standard 45lbs plates ?

[dwb84roxsox]

Yo Travis! Gotta say your workouts are taking me to a whole other level! I plan on purchasing your system very soon. And as for this throwdown, BRUTAL! I like your motto, h.a.m.! Did exactly that and threw in pull ups to this ladder. 4 rounds 12:30.00 time. I'm sure when I repeat next time, the time will decrease significantly as this was my 1st time doing SDLHP's. Thanks!

[claritycome]

Great! I'll try this sunday!

[62890ballplaya]

always a good music selection

[saffa0000]

He's back! One of my main inspirations, keep the videos up!

[TheSuperDocDave]

You're back, finally! Nice Workout!

Ahah, Mr. Lean&Mean is always there to support!