

It develops and increases Power off the floor, via Stretch Reflex Training.īouncing/Touch and Go Sumo Deadllifts may increase Power off the floor. It increease the loading in the sticking point, knee area. The Benefits of Bouncing/Touch and Go Conventional Deadlifts That means Dead Stops don’t allow much overloading in the knee area. The knee area is traditionally the weak link in the Conventional Deadlift.


Thus, Dead Stop Conventional Deadlifts overload the first 1/3 of the movement, the strongest link but does little at overloading the weakest link. That because Conventional Deadlfiters are strong off the floor, The Deadlift Style you employ is the determinate factor of if Bouncing The Deadlift is productive or counter productive.īouncing or Touch and Go Deadlifts is a productive training method for most Conventional Deadlifters. In other words, you are going to move more weight coming off the floor. That means you increase more force production pull/push more weight and move faster.Īllowing the bar into a controlled “Free Fall” (slamming into the platform) increases the force you will generate in the transition from Eccentric Action to Concentric Contraction. Research has demonstrated up to 18% more force is produced when the Stretch Reflex is elicited. The transition from Eccentric Action to Concentric Contraction is bridged by bouncing out of the bottom part of an exercise. Essentially, it falls into the category of… This method elicits a different training response. Hopefully, you guys can answer this thread! Thank you I really want to increase my deadlift this training cycle.

But, then I hear the dead-stop argument such as “You will be stronger off the floor bu using dead-stop”. I have heard arguments for this type of training like “It helps you dial in your technique” and it is true for me at least. That’s just stupid, I see people like the GOAT Ed Coan and silent mike, using the real touch and go method. By touch and go I don’t mean slamming the bar on the floor and using momentum to do the next rep. I see two types of deadlift training during reps. Hello all, I have a question to all you powerlifters.
