Deadlifts: drop or put down?

[Joshua Boyd]

Interesting thread. Been crossfitting for 6+ months at a local box.

I think its a personal choice and how your box recommends you do it. If its a wod and im doing my body weight, i want to follow it down and back up for speed -

If its a max; and I want to see how much weight I can pull, I'm not going to injury my back and lower it slowly; this is where i tend to bend over like a cat. I'll feel good when I can pull 500 but have to drop it. Same goes for doing a set of 315 unbroken -

Different days / workouts I'll do differently...

Is there really a black and white answer?

[Blair Robert Lowe]

There are some circumstances, for instance if you were merely concerned with working the concentric; that you would not bother with the eccentric.

excessive hypertrophy, mo' soah (muscle damage due to the eccentric)

[Pete Nadeau]

Put it down, or it’s a failed Deadlift, unless it’s about to cause injury

[Sean Dunston]

Originally Posted by Joshua Boyd

Interesting thread. Been crossfitting for 6+ months at a local box.

I think its a personal choice and how your box recommends you do it. If its a wod and im doing my body weight, i want to follow it down and back up for speed -

If its a max; and I want to see how much weight I can pull, I'm not going to injury my back and lower it slowly; this is where i tend to bend over like a cat. I'll feel good when I can pull 500 but have to drop it. Same goes for doing a set of 315 unbroken -

Different days / workouts I'll do differently...

Is there really a black and white answer?

Josh -
If you are ever at the point where you "bend over like a cat" you should not be performing the lift at all - that is just silly and dangerous.

[Joshua Boyd]

100% agree, that was my point.

Maybe its just me, but I have to fail to know where my breaking point is....and when i mean fail, i mean lose good form.

If i start to arch my back on the way down, its too heavy and i shouldn't do that weight in a full (up/down) deadlift.

But if I can pull the same weight without losing good form on the way up; that doesnt mean I shouldnt pick that weight up at all, it just means to me, dont follow it down, until i get stronger...

I think we're nit picking at a crossfit level. In a tradional competion lift, yea, you might have to follow the weight down, but I wasn't sure if that's exactly what the OP was asking

[Jon Gregory]

Originally Posted by Joshua Boyd

100% agree, that was my point.

Maybe its just me, but I have to fail to know where my breaking point is....and when i mean fail, i mean lose good form.

If i start to arch my back on the way down, its too heavy and i shouldn't do that weight in a full (up/down) deadlift.

But if I can pull the same weight without losing good form on the way up; that doesnt mean I shouldnt pick that weight up at all, it just means to me, dont follow it down, until i get stronger...

I think we're nit picking at a crossfit level. In a tradional competion lift, yea, you might have to follow the weight down, but I wasn't sure if that's exactly what the OP was asking

Don't be offended....I am making a big assumption here....but.....if you are able to lift the weight with good form but then lose form on the down its just as likely to be technique related as it is the weight.....more so in fact.

[Sean Dunston]

Originally Posted by Jon Gregory

Don't be offended....I am making a big assumption here....but.....if you are able to lift the weight with good form but then lose form on the down its just as likely to be technique related as it is the weight.....more so in fact.

Indeed.

For every deadlift, the form you use lowering the bar to the ground should be a mirror image of the way you lifted it - just in reverse. The only real difference will be that the bar descends with greater speed than it rose because gravity is helping you rather than fighting you.

[Andrew Breyer]

Originally Posted by Eric Montgomery

On metcons, it takes longer to reset your grip after a dropped deadlift than it does to keep your hands on the bar and do a touch-and-go at the bottom.

I meant after the entire set. It would be silly to drop for every rep.

After the first set of 21 deadlifts at 225 for Elizabeth, I drop the bar and begin HSPU's.

[Matthew Nichols]

By the standard can you drop the bar and have the rep count?

[Matthew Nichols]

No opinions allowed.
By CrossFit standard can you drop the bar and have the rep count?