Thank you for this my man. I so dead and go and always knew conventional dead stop were better. However, I do 8 reps instead of 5, so that should counteract some of the negative affects. Plus I feel like a beast lol.
I saw many people love to drop the weight for dead stop deadlifts, meaning that they don't control the weight down. This reduces the workload. On the other hand, it's better to control the weight without bouncing it for touch-and-go deadlifts.
I dont touch the ground. I stop about an inch from the floor. Basically a deep romanian deadlift. Seems that a totally different scenario that needs to be compared to the two shown here
That’s great, but that report you showed talked about bouncing the weight, not touch n go. You shouldn’t be bouncing your weight on touch n go. The weight should hit the ground, stop for a split second before you lift it again. To me touch n go are about explosiveness. I’m into thai kickboxing and I need my kick to be snappy and be able to deliver great deals of pain before my opponent can even react.
Hey, so what about the version I’ve always done lol, hopefully it’s not too far out there. I stand on something about 2-3 inches off the ground and never even touch the ground on each rep. I typically do 4 of 8s and end at 365LB. I pretty much go lower than I would by standing on ground level, without having to slam the weights.
Deadlift: the name says it all. Touch and go are not "dead" lifting, they are touch and go lifting. Do what you want, but I don't see why anyone would want to do touch and go.
This is foolish , dead liftinf is by definition lifting weight from a standing position … you can keep tension doing touch and goes by not allow weight to bounce but also having full control of the weight … SO CUT IT OUT
I personally noticed way more hypertrophy using touch and go. Simple reason is time under tension. Pulling then slamming weights does nothing for you muscle wise versus keeping tension all throughout the rep. Besides, most of your muscle gains are during the eccentric phase of the movement vs the concentric (pull from floor). Dead stop deadlifts also beat your CNS hard.
So this may be a silly question, but why do you need more hypertrophy for deadlifts? Could be wrong but most people are trying to get a stronger lower back and core, not bigger. Plus most people that do touch and go don't control the weight on the eccentric and use the bounce which is the easiest way to get injured.
I train like a bodybuilder, but I personally do dead stop deadlifts to increase explosiveness. Dead stop will easily carry over to touch and go, but touch and go won’t carry over to dead stop quite as well. If I’m going for more hypertrophy, then I would rather just do RDLs.
