S3 EP5: Listen To This Before You Deadlift
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
It’s easy to get the wrong idea about deadlifts. A common misconception is that deadlifts are dangerous, or that you shouldn’t attempt them if you have back pain. Listen to today’s episode in which we’ll talk about all things related to deadlifts – why you should do them, what myths you shouldn’t fall for, and what a proper deadlift should look and feel like.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- Why deadlifts aren’t dangerous
- The benefits of deadlifting
- Training yourself to deadlift
- The importance of concentrating while you’re deadlifting
- Why you shouldn’t be afraid of the weight being heavy
- The problem with hunched-over shoulders during a deadlift
- What the deadlift setup feels like
- The deadlift position
- What kind of gear you need for deadlifts
- Why your setup should take longer than your deadlift
- Maximizing the power of your deadlift
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- Our Fitness Blog.
- Behind the scenes at CVG.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | One of the things that I tell people about their deadlift and is the most important thing about their setup is if your hamstrings aren't literally burning up like a fire, like if you can stay in your deadlift setup position for more than 10 seconds without being like, who, oh Lord, these hamstrings are on fire. |
| 0:22.9 | If you can do that, they're not on enough. |
| 0:38.3 | The big question is this. In a world of fake Instagram models and fad diets, how do real people achieve their fitness goals? We are an army of hardworking women, |
| 0:42.3 | changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 0:45.3 | Wherever you are at on your journey, |
| 0:48.3 | we have the answers to how to make working out |
| 0:51.3 | and eating well a part of your life. |
| 0:55.5 | Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. |
| 0:59.4 | Welcome to the Thick Thighs Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:05.4 | Welcome back to the Thick Thighs Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:08.4 | I'm Rachel. |
| 1:09.1 | And I'm Kelsey. |
| 1:10.0 | We're back together. Here we are. |
| 1:12.6 | I always am, we're back together. My son has like, he struggles with THs. So we're back. |
| 1:20.0 | We're back together. That's what he always says. And I'm so happy to be back with you. Even though it's kind of cold. |
| 1:30.6 | It's much too cold here. Much too cold, but these are where my people are. New England's drunk all the |
| 1:37.1 | times. It's so, New England has a drinking problem. One day, it's like 60 degrees and you're like, |
| 1:43.9 | open the sunroof, get your ice coffees, |
| 1:46.2 | clean your car. Okay, but here's it. I want to say one thing about that though. In other |
| 1:50.7 | climates, they do not open their sunroofs at 60 degrees and clean their cats. Not at all. That's a cold day |
| 1:59.8 | and they wear a sweatshirt. |
| 2:04.5 | So I just want you to keep it in perspective. |
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