 Ladies and gentlemen, good morning silent Mike Welcome back today. We're talking conventional Deadlift cues tips. I've gotten an insane amount. Thank you. Thank you Thank you. Thank you compliments on my Conventional polls just saying how smooth they are how mechanical they are Which is if you watched last video those are a lot of the cues and maybe not cues but mentality I was talking about with Riley's lifting and all your lifting tips and cues to try to make yourself A machine. I think about if I was a robot. Thank you very much for Mr. Roboto If I was a robot, how would I move most efficiently? From approaching the barbell before the barbell you want a little tradition. You want a little routine But how do I approach the barbell? And then how do I move the barbell the exact same time after time? There's so many songs that pop up, you know, this is gonna turn into a fitness karaoke channel Time after time When you're lost and you look would you will find me? Time after time Sorry, I got lost in your eyes comment below if You want a similar video for sumo, but here are some of the cues and a lot of them go back and forth my top tips For being a conventional polling machine That was the best Alan throw ahead So when it comes to all poles, obviously, we're gonna look slightly different, but the main stuff we're looking for flat ish back Tension out of our arms or tension in our arms no slack in our arms a little bit of tension onto the barbell before we pull hips lower than our shoulders and Bar as tight to our body as we can Now some of those factors will change and look different depending on how we're built But the main things I'm thinking about when I'm pulling right now It's kind of keeping my arms straight Getting that tension on the bar and then kind of a teeter-totter effect and then beyond that It's very similar to the squad and what I talked about in the last video is once I find my middle ground my balance in my foot My body and my shoulders over the bar All I'm thinking about is pulling like hell a bat out of hell the kind of teeter-totter effect is is is Used for a lot of things so pulling slack out of the bar was a cue talked about a ton in the early 2010s because people I guess had no idea what slack was or finding tension through the system but Is it important yet 100% you don't want to jerk on the bar? Maybe we'll throw some examples up But you start jerking on the bar and you're going to have no tension your hamstrings none your glutes No, no low back and obviously not in your arms one you may push some more tension on that bicep To what's really going to happen is you're going to pull yourself out of position You're going from zero to a hundred real quick and your hips are going to shoot up Your body weights going to go over the bar and now you're not only are you doing a stiff leg We're doing a stiff leg with your body weight in front of the bar, which makes leverage is terrible We want to keep those shoulders above the bar and our momentum moving behind the bar We're trying to lock out on especially on the conventional our knees and our hips at the exact same time Say it with me. We want to lock out our knees and hips at the same time We want them to move at the exact same time Now some people think like oh my quads are so strong my hips shoot up I push too hard with my my quads my knees and that's why my hips don't lock up my glutes are weak I don't like to think about the movement being broke up like that It is possible our quads are stronger or more dominant than our glutes But a lot of that comes to starting position and motor pattern Both which can be fixed and if our starting position and motor pattern are fixed Guess what our muscles will probably build in the proper order and we don't have to think about all that nonsense We don't got to activate our glutes do a 360 ammo camo foam roller before every workout just to get your left Quadra tendon to move a little bit right so Getting that teeter-totter effect and what I mean by that is once I kind of hold on to the bar I flatten my back. I begin to lower my hips. I don't think about dropping my hips down. I Think about my hips right here. I think it's my my hand knuckle my thumb I was just saying moose knuckle, but I don't think that would be appropriate here now. Would it I like to think of this Knuckle here is kind of my booty is thick Sometimes may be a little rough and this is the upper body arms coming down I don't like to think about my hips going down as I'm pulling my chest up another queues chest up I pull slack out of the bar all these things. I don't think about it like this I think about it like this I'm pushing my hips back Because of just how we're set up as humans because there's weight on the bar because the bar will be into my shin I won't be able to actually fall backwards And it'll depend on leverages how deep your hips will look But I think about from my shoulder to my hip being totally stiff and connected as one unit And then that's where the teeter-totter happens from the bar to my feet From the bar to my feet is where we're gonna find that leverage and that's the same thing as people saying wedge your hips I also think that's a good queue, but not the best queue for most people I think when most people try to wedge their hips, they'll curl their low back And they'll also try to drop their hips too low Unless you have a tiny baby torso and gorilla a regatang arms Your hips aren't gonna be insanely low on a deadlift That's just probably not what it's gonna look like now We want them lower than our shoulders and we want them in optimal position, but often when we pull Regardless if we jerk on it good position bad position your hips and where your shoulders are in line to the bar will end up in The optimal position. That's just how leverage works. It will force you into that position So what we want to do is be most efficient and find that position and get strong in that position Rather than us jerking on the bar force the system that position So grab the bar. I tighten up my low back. I breathe I squeeze I pull that bar into my body and I start to get that teeter-totter between my legs and the barbell Those are the two main points and my upper body is the one floating. I try to shift it backwards towards my hips not down Backwards towards my hips Feel that tension in my glutes feel my arms stretched Arms as long as I can And once I feel that tension hips starting to move down. I'll slowly push on the gas, right? Think about driving a 500 horsepower car with with shitty old tires if I floor it we're gonna peel out a little bit So I want to slowly hit the gas start rolling and then I'm gonna slam the gas and pull on that sucker If you have a stiff bar, it's gonna look a little bit different But you can still kind of see if you're doing it right by filming from the front and lower You'll see how the bar moves Deadlift bar is super easy to see obviously the whip in it You'll see some tension in the middle of the bar before the plates start moving or tension in the bar before we start hammering it And I know you guys are gonna leave comments below but so-and-so lifts this way and Timmy lifts that way and I've seen Georgie poos slam the bar really hard and he's very strong He's stronger than you Mike and that is 100% true But if I'm gonna shoot teach you guys how to do a layup I'm not gonna teach you and show an example Michael Jordan dunking from the free throw line Some of the lifters you're about to name have probably done it for 10 to 15 years They're insanely hard-working and they're insanely genetically gifted and they're built different than us Hi, I'm Mike. I'm a very average built dead lifter. I have a long torso Tiny little arms. I've done this for a very long time and I've coached Thousands of people with different body types from world record holders all the way down to Literally 2,000 people that have never touched a barbell. I taught them how to deadlift So it's much different than you comparing to your very Favoritist lifter that you double tap on their Instagram and say wow. I want to pull like Jimmy. Jimmy pulls 900 We're not Jimmy. Could we be possibly but we're not built like them We don't have the musculature like them and chances are little tips and tricks They did they kind of learned and tweaked along the way So a lot of stuff I'm talking about our cues that I've gone along the way that help most Right when you're talking about things. I don't want to coach the 0.01% here that have this that have six fingers. I'm not leaving a cue for you I'm leaving the cue that works for most of us There are some lifters that really jerk on the bar a lot get no attention Have it's insanely good leverages and are insanely strong and can pull themselves out of any position That's not most of us to be optimal and pull not only for longevity, but for us to Be that machine to pull smoothly That's one thing I can do and I have mastered because I'm not built to necessarily pull I've mastered Getting into good positions and trying to make my lifts look clean and smooth like a piston and I'm not talking Detroit Now that may not be some cue that has never been said Maybe I invented it Maybe I didn't but kind of talking to teeter-totter pulling out the slack is what my mind goes through to get myself into that attention and then from there the goal again with any lift is to Master it to have that routine to have those sensations in your body that when you're actually lifting you only have maybe one thought in your head One cue in your head, but mostly you're just thinking about pulling right or mostly just thinking about squatting Hopefully we're working towards Getting so proficient in those movements That all we can think about is pushing Breathing and lifting In the beginning you're gonna have a million thoughts. You're gonna be nervous You're gonna be self-conscious about how you're moving in the middle You're gonna be overly confident and you're just gonna load up weight and lift like shit, and then we'll start to find that middle ground Where things don't always work perfectly, but we're getting good work in and we're getting better so Keep tugging my friends Stay thick take care of yourselves to carry your loved ones surround yourself a good company I'm selling Mike more videos every Monday Wednesday appreciate this port appreciate the love new clothing coming probably in February Little We'll call it the bridge transition drop. So some wintry things some year-round things Based on on a Philosophy that many of us know kiss keep it simple stupid dumb it down as one of my favorite sayings if you know enough and you're A good enough teacher or expert in anything you can dumb it down for a third grader to know It's a also a song by one of my favorite artists Lupe fiasco go listen to that He was highly lyrical he is highly lyrical word play large vocabulary And he wasn't getting the radio time and so he basically made a shot at that saying that if The critics are telling him to dumb it down Lu I'm gonna let the pieces talk Minimal branding. Hopefully you guys enjoy it. I'm really excited about it's on the way It will start teasing it here teasing on Instagram follow us third Street barbells on my two case. I'm out y'all