Deadlift with toes raised on plates?

BossArky

What are your opinions on doing a deadlift with your toes tilted approx 0.5 or 1 inch upwards on a 15kg or 20kg plate?

Good stretch for the hamstrings? Bad for the lower back if not flexible enough?

tribulus

It will help you drive through your heels more anyway.

If you can keep a neutral spine then go for it.

Hanley

Why?? Seriously, why??

BossArky

No idea why. That is what you lot are for!

Read it somewhere a few weeks back. The author reckoned it was a great way to blast your hamstrings. Meant to post the question weeks ago but forgot.

eroo

I don't know man,sounds risky.Talk about putting your achilles at risk and then theres losing balance...and fooking your lower back up!

walt0r

ummmmm no

Hanley

The ay I would look at it is, it's an easier varitiaon that you'll presumably have to use less weight on.

Load up the bar and work on getting stronger. That'll sort your hammies out!!

If you want a good stretch in them then do some stiff leg dl's.

Rogueish

STOP!!!!!

The stress you feel through the hamstrings is a neural stretch throught he sciatic pathway!! Nerves do not have the same stretch capacity as muscles do. Therefore uncontrolled stretching of the sciatic nerves is not good.

The plates under your toes are placing your ankles into added dorsiflexion and a stretch on your achilles. It has the effect of putting stress on your achilles. Keep in mind that achilles tendon problems are a b***h to get rid of.

Plates under your toes have no effect on the range of motion through the knee/hamstring, bar as tribulus said, it ensures that you drive through your heels more and makes you hyperextend your knees at the top of the lift.

BossArky

Don't worry, I don't actually do deadlifts with toes raised... was just wondering.

amazingemmet

Isn't rasing the toes just a training aid to help people feel the pull through their heels when starting with light weights?

mack1

Have never seen anyone doing toes raised - when the instructors in westwood are showing people how to squat they always have them put a thin (maybe 5kg) weight under their heels - never seen them do toes though.

Hanley

mack1 wrote: »

Have never seen anyone doing toes raised - when the instructors in westwood are showing people how to squat they always have them put a thin (maybe 5kg) weight under their heels - never seen them do toes though.

That's because slightly raised heels in the squat will let people sit down further more comfortably.

But the OP was talking about deadlifts, which are best done with a flat foot anyway.

Transform

Possibly read it in flex magazine

Where everyone looks massive so it must work - why are people trying to reinvent the wheel.

stick to normal deadlifts and stretch your hams

mack1

Hanley wrote: »

That's because slightly raised heels in the squat will let people sit down further more comfortably.

But the OP was talking about deadlifts, which are best done with a flat foot anyway.

haha! I have the attention span of a fish! Somewhere as I was reading down through the posts I forgot we were talking deadlifts!