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Monster Garage Gym/Maroscher Coaching Log: (Log number LXXXIII). GET COMFORTABLE BEING UNCOMFORTABLE [HD VIDEO INCLUDED!!!!]

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Getting outside of your comfort zone, and literally getting uncomfortable can be a key to get you past plateaus and sticking points.

Although we never will fully master the big three lifts, there should be a time when you can look at your technique and say that your technique at minimum is highly proficient with moments of mastery occurring on a more frequent basis. When you have reached this point, expanding on your proficiency with the big three should then extend onto movements that are not the big three, but are similar and supplemental to the big three. Take deadlift for example. Similar and supplemental to the deadlift could be deficit deadlift, deadlift with reverse bands, deadlift with bands as resistance, deadlift off of blocks, deficit deadlift with accommodating resistance just to name a few.

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When you first begin to implement these new movements, they will be uncomfortable, awkward and will be difficult in specific areas of the lift that are different than the difficulties of your traditional deadlift…..and they should be.

A few hundred years ago I ran track and was a sprinter who ran the 100 and 200 and ran on the 4x100 and 4x200 relays. In addition to plain old sprinting, we worked on the start of the race, the lean at the tape and the hand off of the baton. While the race is the full out sprint, there are areas such as the start and lean that directly contribute to the success or lack thereof with regard to the race. With the deadlift this also holds true. There is the entire deadlift movement, but there is the pull off the floor, the grind in the middle, the lockout at the end, the hold at the top, and the controlled placement back onto the platform of the barbell. If any of these components are weak points for you, the entire deadlift is compromised. If you are the fastest sprinter in the race but you have the weakest start out of the blocks, well, that weakness might be just enough for the second fastest sprinter to eek by you at the finish. Likewise, if you are the deadlifter who just drops the bar from the top position and does not fully take advantage of that critical controlled down (as it is the down that enhances the up), that might be just the chink in your armor that costs you that precious 15LBS on your total and costs you the meet. As the saying goes, nobody wins silver, they lose gold.

Consider adding any, some, a few or several of the deadlift-esque movements to your training program and work to be as masterful as possible with these new movements, as initially they will be considerably uncomfortable and awkward at first, just like the big three were when you first started powerlifting. The better you are at mastering them the more you will get comfortable with being uncomfortable.

The accompanying video captures deadlift movements some off the floor with accommodating resistance, some with reverse bands, some off deficit or off blocks….all of which are initially out of the norm for those having never done them, thus introducing something uncomfortable that when mastered and applied correctly can greatly enhance the essential and basic movements.

Wishing you all the best in your training. Ever Onward!!! Eric Maroscher, Monster Garage Gym

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Equipment used in this coaching log:

  • EliteFTS Texas Deadlift bar
  • EliteFTS average bands
  • EliteFTS light bands
  • EliteFTS chains
  • 2” deficit boards
  • EliteFTS 3x3 power rack
  • EliteFTS mini-deadlift mats

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