Saturday afternoon and the last training day of the week. I like Saturday afternoon training, it feels far less rushed and given its a day session I have plenty of time for post session recovery meals.
While finishing squats I noticed 3 young lads heading to the deadlift platform, interestingly 2 of the three had gold gym singlets on and what looked like old fashioned weight lifting gloves from the eighties. Based on the gloves alone I knew I would seeing some interesting lifts.
After 10 minutes of arranging bars on the platform the first guy starts doing clean, front squat, press combo. Though he performs the whole move in slow motion so the clean is really just a grinding upright row. The second guy follows up with a deadlift which brings us to lifter number 3.
This poor bastard has been left to his own devices for too long and his mates clearly haven't got a clue either. He attempts a deadlift but starts with a completely rounded back but get this, he first elevates his heels on two plates?? With this ungainly starting position he almost topples on the first rep while on the second he falls back stumbling off the back of the two plates under his heels.
This crazy trio continue on in this fashion for 5 mins before satisfying themselves they are done, high fives all around and heading off for the day.
Next time I am going to bite the bullet and provide a little guidance because I cant ever see one more kid deadlift with elevated heels and lifting gloves!!
Stay Strong
Thomo
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