 So I'm going to sell a mic talk a little bit about deadlift in general training things I've learned from what the majority of people consider the best powerlifter of all time Ed Cohen. Ed Cohen is a lifter that lifted mostly 80s 90s smashed a lot of world records. Powerlifting is a little difficult because records are different by federation and standard of the lift by barbell and timing and all this. A lot of his records arguably were more difficult back in the day. He had two hour weigh-ins opposed to now 24 hour weigh-ins. He used a stiffer bar to deadlift which does make it often more difficult to deadlift for many. Sometimes he even had to follow himself in a lift similar to weightlifting where the bar never goes downwards it only goes upwards. You may have to follow yourself in an attempt where now it always goes by flight so you the whole group will go before you go. Point being he's one tough lifter mentally physically and I've got the honor to get to know him over the years to learn from him to observe from him. Many things I've learned from him not only were things we talked about but things I just observed in his lifting or videos over time. I've studied his lifts many a time not because we're similar by any means. He's much stronger than I but he is and built a little different than me but he obviously found greatness in the strength sport and in life because he's one of the most humble nicest guys you'll ever meet. Whether it is observing talking to him and learning or even just hearing things he said that reaffirm some of the things I'm doing and make me feel that I'm on the right path feel great. So common questions hopefully that will answer in this thing are how to improve the deadlift speed off the ground how to improve your deadlift a flatter back. Some of the things we're going to try to cover through Ed Cone's lessons and one big thing I talk about is deadlifting like Ed Cone or the Ed Cone style deadlift will help starting position general just good technique and position flattening your back through the deadlift and then speed off the ground. Something just chatting with you know Mr. Cone Eddie is he always had a plan you know the guy was well thought out with not always programming his prep his training in general and although his style of training maybe doesn't work for everyone he was kind of a lower frequency higher volume type guy. Similar to how I program he was fairly submaximal he always trained within his means leaving a few reps in the tank he normally although some of his reps were a little grindy he only went to really tech technical failure he didn't really break his form to lift heavier weather and training especially training sometimes a meat you know crapola hits the fan we got to watch the cursing for youtube nowadays but he always kept within technical failure and he also saved a few reps in the tank another thing programming wise he always had a plan he always had a program and you guys know anything in life business that the top business people I met the top lifters I've met the top bodybuilder I met they always have a plan if you want to get from here to here you have to have a plan to get there if you're trying to go to the store if you're trying to go out of town if you're trying to drive somewhere you have to have a map to take you there and that's what program that's what plan is and within that programming he was very submaximal in much of his off season and the majority of his prep much like the processes and techniques I used to coach a program as well as something he often did was work backwards find a realistic goal at the end and you'd find a goal that he feel he could accomplish at the meat and then work backwards in his programming that's something similar I do with a lot of people that I coach online or in person with their prep I'll all see what's realistic towards the end on the platform for top three attempts and start to work backwards and how we're going to prep for that meat those are all awesome lessons I've learned through reading his stuff watching his stuff and then obviously getting to hang out and chat with him one of the biggest lessons I've learned is just observation of how he lifts is what I I want to take claim for this even though it's his lift that I'm taking claim for so put it however you want but the ed cone style deadlift is something that I observed him do where in a in a in a sense of the word it is a control the centric and you'd allow his hips to lead the way pulling the bar allowing the bar to pull him into a better starting position rep after rep you know typically when you're talking power lifters there's the touch and go rep and then there's the dead stop rep or even a full reset where you're stepping away from the bar and going throughout a higher rep set but something I saw ed cone do in that I implemented myself which helped me hit PRs and flatten my back in the deadlift as well as helped a lot of people that I've led to the platform or or that I've programmed for and coached along the way it's allowing that bar to pull you down knees out back depending on the lift obviously that's kind of the sumo lift hips back flat back knees just behind the bar on the conventional pulling the bar pulling you down into position into that starting position and without repumping your hips or anything allow maybe 80 90 even 100% of the bar to lay back on the ground and then pull from there I guess you know you would call it somewhere in between that touch and go in the dead stop rep but I called it the ed cone style deadlift it's helped so many find a better position often what you'll find is if you're doing it controlled manner that way and you're training some maximal obviously you can't do this always some people can with 90 95 100 percent the risk for injury goes up but if you're doing it with 60 70 and even 80 percent your second third fourth rep almost become better and if you do that rep after rep week after week training day after training day then your starting position overall muscle memory whatever you want to call it motor pattern appropriate reception gets better and you'll find that starting position on your singles when you do them you know adds a big a big fan of reps in general and obviously nowadays people are studying all this stuff daily undulating periodization and all these fancy words to get more volume more work more frequency in but everyone knows that a volume over days weeks months years is what's one of the main drivers and strength and hypertrophy so when ed says he's a fan of reps or reps drive your form and reps drive your strength it all kind of means the same thing and if you're doing them in this style with your deadlift I do believe you'll hit new PRs when I find people with funky back positions when I find people with bad starting positions or weak off the ground this is something that I prescribe right away we go back break it back down to maybe 60 70 percent for sets of five and we'll do it in this style obviously there's some other things that help just pulling heavy singles you know in the 85 90 percent range allow you to get a little bit of confidence and allow you to practice that starting position under heavier loads but if I find if you have a good progression good programming over time and you work you know maybe from that 60 percent range to that 80 90 as you prep the speed the bar speed stays very similar and so will that starting position over time it teaches you how to breathe and brace tightly breathing in the midsection using a belt flexing your lats keeping that bar close to you both on the way up and the way down with that control eccentric and when I say controlled we're not doing a five second eccentric you know people talk about eccentric training that's a whole other topic for a whole other day this is just kind of controlled chaos or be quick but don't hurry or all these phrases you want to control it on the way down and have control that bar into your skin into position but it doesn't have to be obnoxious or absurdly long so something I suggest a lot of you guys try out again with lighter weights following some kind of program it doesn't have to be my coaching could be any great coach out there but having some kind of plan in my opinion is better than not having a plan especially when you're talking powerlifting strength is not linear strength is not static when you're powerlifting your goal is to be strong on a particular day to represent a one-rap max and even with your strength training in general it's very difficult to hit maxes every single week and progress although I know comments are going to be Bulgarian method this and that and that does work for some but generally speaking the body does not last a long time and if you want to build muscle and be generally strong that's a whole different goal if we're talking about a sport like football or something of that nature if you're powerlifting if you want to get that deadlift max up suggest programming try out the ed cone style deadlift I want to make this video hopefully we have some good examples in the back give it a thumbs up because it's something I prescribe to a lot of people and I just want to revamp the topic so people have something to refer to when they're learning that style deadlift appreciate you guys be sure to 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