You want me to not have the bar too close but you want me to drag it over my shins.
“If you have bloody shins, the bar is too close…” The idea that if you don’t drag the bar along your legs you will injure your lower back is unbacked by any evidence, whatsoever. It becomes more about my lower back than when I pull straight up on the bar. Really? Because when I pull back on the bar, a funny thing happens. “You must do this to save your lower back…” So, I am supposed to not only have to deal with the weight of the bar, I am supposed to intentionally create friction, pull the bar in the wrong direction (back instead of up), and even have to navigate it over my bony knees? And… “If you deadlift with the bar drifting away from your legs it is harder on your lower back…Drag the bar over your shins, knees, and thighs to the top.” On the other hand, the overhead press is a bit more technical than a front raise. It’s harder to lift a heavy weight in a front raise, of course, but you don’t generally lift heavy weights that way. Some people have a strange definition of hard. Ummm…what? (Just thought I’d throw this in. “The front raise is harder than the overhead press.” “The further away from your body the bar is, the heavier it feels.” Here is what Strong(weak)Lifts says, paraphrasing: This is not what I’d call economy of motion. For most of us (there may be exceptions due to body proportions), if we are actually dragging the bar against our legs as we lift, we are pulling the bar back not just up. It is hard enough to lift the bar straight up, let alone drag it backward and up at the same time.
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