Lightening strikes twice

Scott Birdby Scott Bird | June 19, 2005
Filed in ME SQ/DL , videos , workouts | 4 comments

PullAfter nearly three years of living in Edinburgh I still can’t get used to the fact that it occasionally gets hot here. Today was one of those uncomfortably warm and humid days where the promise of a cooling storm goes unnoticed for 12 hours.

I put off the workout until it cooled down a little around 10pm. After warming up with a few sets of Hindu squats (plus a bit of light regular squatting) it was time to wrap a pair of sweaty hands around the bar for a return to the Lightened Method of deadlifting.

The combination of sweat and overall lethargy saw a near repeat of the previous performance - 140kg was all that was going up; to lockout anyway.

Warmup: light squatting

Deadlift (lightened - green bands) 5@60kg, 5@100kg, 4@140kg

Regarding the Hindu squats, there are two varieties I currently employ - regular and sumo. The regular variety uses a narrow/medium stance, and the heels come off the ground as you squat down. For the sumo version, the stance is much wider and the heels remain floored throughout the movement. Whilst it doesn’t have quite the same benefits to overall leg strength, this latter version is much closer to a deadlift action.

Here’s a brief video (1MB, .wmv) clip showing the difference between the styles. Note that this is actually a bit slower than I usually do them - it’s just easier to see what’s happening.


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Comments

1

Link works but there’s just 1 second of the intro. Where’s the vid?

Posted by: ALberto Caraballo | June 20, 2005 4:18 PM

2

Not sure what’s happening there - the link works fine for me. Perhaps your download timed out or something.

The file should be a little over 900kb. Is that about what you have there?

Posted by: Scott | June 20, 2005 4:46 PM

3

worked for me.

Posted by: Stinn | June 20, 2005 7:44 PM

4

I might try this at home instead. Man, I want to see it!!!

Posted by: Alberto Caraballo | June 20, 2005 8:36 PM

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