“Physical strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not.”
Rip reading the opening paragraph of Starting Strength Basic Barbell Training.
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We build the deadlift setup with the understanding that heavy weights are moved most efficiently in a straight, vertical line over the mid-foot balance point. People may present slightly different because of anthropometry while still conforming to the principle, but it doesn’t refute the physics. The popular lower hips position, with the shoulders back over the bar, puts the bar forward of the mid-foot balance point, and on a circa max pull, the lifter will eventually look like the top left figure as the bar comes off the ground, the bar comes back to the mid-foot axis, and the system finds equilibrium. One explanation is the lats and their job during the deadlift. From the book:
“This lat tension is responsible for the non-vertical angle of the arms as they hang from the shoulders under a loaded spine, as well as the position of the hips. “Shoulder extension” is the motion produced by the lats as they pull the humerus back. This force must equal the tendency of the weight to rotate the arms forward to a vertical position and the hip position facilitates the best force production length of the lat muscle belly. If the arms rotate forward, this will place the bar forward of the mid-foot and thus off-balance, unable to be pulled if it is heavy enough. When the shoulder is in front of the bar and the back angle is stable in a pull, the angle of attachment between the lat and the humerus is about 90 degrees, since this is the angle at which the least muscular force is required to produce a shoulder extension force that is equal and opposite to the weight.
Stated more succinctly, the arms are not plumb in a deadlift because the lats do not attach to the arms at 90 degrees when the arms are plumb. The arms must slant back to achieve a position of stability as they hang from the shoulders. So the body must assume a position that allows the arms to be at 90 degrees to the lats and for the bar to be pulled in a straight vertical line off the floor. If the hips are too low, the lat attachment angle will be less than 90 degrees, and the hips will rise as the back angle adjusts to the stable position.”
What does the time period between the ages of 55 to 70 look like for most people from a health and capability standpoint? It’s generally not good. What about how people look and carry themselves? @mamabear_delise went from “normal” results on a bone density scan at the age of 55 to 4 standard deviations above normal at 69 years old. Barbell training, decent coaching, and consistent hard effort over years. The process is simple and it works. Delise can do whatever she wants physically on a day to day basis, and is stronger and more capable than nearly everyone anywhere near her age. Strength training is the best way to improve bone density, hands down. A barbell is the best tool for strength training. Starting Strength is the best method for getting started. Let’s get it.
