Episode 81: Strength Coach Tony Gentilcore on Deadlifts: Form, Dangers, and Function

The Strength Running Podcast

Jason Fitzgerald

Health & Fitness, 10k, Beginnerrunning, Marathontraining, Fitness, Injuryprevention, Marathon, Halfmarathon, Running, Sports

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Over the last two years, I've been learning more and more about strength training. In fact, our new strength program High Performance Lifting (details here) has rocketed to our most popular training course.

Like many runners, I'm not in love with weightlifting (I'd rather be running!) but I've come to appreciate just how valuable it is for endurance athletes. Higher levels of strength almost always lead to faster race times.

That's why I'm thrilled to present a new podcast with strength coach Tony Gentilcore.

Tony previously joined us on the pod to talk about why runners should lift.

He's back on today to go into more detail. Tony pointed out during our conversation that all of us deadlift all day long. Whenever we pick something up from the ground (a child, a bag of groceries, your running shoes), we're performing a deadlift.

If we practice that movement and get stronger moving in that way, it will make life - and our running - a lot easier.

And that's the mentality we should all have when we think about strength training: it's exercise that makes other exercise easier.

But we're going to talk a lot more about the deadlift in this episode:

Is there such a thing as "perfect" lifting form?
Should we chase ideal form or make adjustments based on our own anatomy?
The similarities between running and strength training

If you're not sure where to start, don't miss SR's free strength series.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Ready, set go.
0:04.7	This is episode 81 with Strength and Conditioning Coach, contributor to health publications like
0:09.2	T Nation and women's health, owner of the gym Corps in Brookline, Massachusetts, and former cross-country
0:15.7	runner, Mr. Tony Gentlecore. Runners we're going to get out of our comfort zones today. 2018 is the year of strength and I've been encouraging you to think differently
0:35.3	about strength training this year. It's not cross training, it's just part of
0:39.6	how runners train. This year I've interviewed strength and conditioning coaches, talked with pro-runners about their relationship to weightlifting, how to combine lifting and running for best results, shared case studies of runners who have used lifting weights to achieve their goals,
0:55.0	and exposed some of the conventional wisdom around strength work for runners to be not so wise.
1:00.0	Today I'm bringing back one of our most popular guests from 2017 strength coach Tony
1:06.2	Gentlecore. Tony's a former collegiate baseball player he graduated Magna cum laude
1:11.5	from Sunni courtland with a degree in health education and a concentration in health and wellness promotion.
1:18.0	He worked as a personal trainer for several years in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, my home state, big shout out, before opening a sports performance gym with two other trainers that has grown into probably the foremost baseball training facility on the East Coast. His work has appeared in T Nation,
1:34.7	the Boston Herald, Men's Health, bodybuilding.com, women's health, and many others.
1:39.9	And in this conversation Tony is helping us demystify the deadlift. An exercise that I think is one of the most important for runners, but often misunderstood. We're also going to talk about proper form when lifting body asymmetries and when you can start
1:55.4	bending or even breaking some rules in the weight room. If you're someone who's
1:59.6	often injured or maybe you've hit a performance plateau and you can't seem to continue to improve,
2:06.0	or maybe you're someone who just wants every advantage to potentially glimpse their potential
2:11.6	as a runner. A formal strength training program is going to
2:14.6	transform your running. Head on over to strength running.com slash strength to
2:20.1	get our free series on lifting mistakes, what benefits you can expect, more case studies,
2:25.6	example movements, and a lot more. I think you're going to love it. Without further ado,
2:30.8	please welcome our guest, Mr Tony Gentlecore.
2:34.6	Thanks again for taking some time to hang out with me.
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