Review Of Mark Rippetoe’s Trap Bar Deadlift Critique 

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Exactly these guys for no clue what they're talking about.

I understand what your all saying. After 35 years of training and competition, I feel I have a decent right for an opinion. I absolutely love the trap bar. I've been using this for years and it's allows training for people who have injury, and adds another form of training to routines and that adds size and strength. I didn't see as a replacement, although I will use it for people who may have issues with a standard deadlift. I still deadlift normally and train deadlift normally, but rotate the bars , unless training for a event or competition. People will argue over anything. Why can't we use both, and if not competing, who cares? Such childish behavior has entered into pur space. The gym was for people to become better , using every tool available that worked , and working together as a brotherhood and sisterhood, now it's some strange place where people who dint know amything arguing I stead of getting good. So sad smfh.

Strength training, not bodybuilding

@@LukeMosse being lean and pro abs is

I went to a few pro coaches in my country, South Africa and all have told me that my structure is all wrong for barbell deadlifting.. It just doesn't work great for me. Trap bar and even landmine deadlifts don't hurt me at all. Surely I must be getting some training effect from these!

If your not competing it doesn't matter.

Then you've been deadlifting wrong

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The center of mass of a conventional deadlift is actually directly over your center of mass. The bar, 1 inch from your shins, is directly over your center of mass, which is mid foot. I think you mean in relation to the hip joint.

You think!

Totally! When I was in the military, we still had a the old push-up/sit-up/run PT test. The new test is much better for real life fitness. The deadlift makes sense in general but how often are you picking up things without movement on the Sagittal plane? I remember my third day in Basic we had KP and had to move like 30 or so 50 lb bags of onion from the loading dock to the kitchen. You know what doesn't give a crap about the sagittal plane? Onions.

@@jessetheseal I literally LOL'd at the last sentence of your reply. Well done :)

rack pulls at the knee or below the knee

You don't need to hold a world record to have a valid opinion. Thats dumb.

Rippetoe has said many times that he doesn’t care about muscle bellies, or making a record breaking power lifter. He wants to make the average person strong. (in his words, he wants to make it so that your grandmother can stand up after sitting on the toilet on her own).

get back on that trap bar, but you might want to lower your expectations; start with sub-200 pound loads, and use it what it's intended for. As for the argument that the trap bar is unsafe, that is utter nonsense. It's also not unstable when used as a deadlift, and if you can't lift it, you can just let go, and not worry about wrenching out back or shoulders. Remember who created it and why, and it makes a lot of sense.

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Maps and bollocks?

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that makes too much sense for the trap bar detractors to accept.

The only I’ve you watched

That's Sal...

Tell that to Dexter Jackson. Machines are what allowed him to be competing well into middle age.

Machines are ight for some isolation movements and cables are fairly helpful

Said the DYELer.

For pro bodybuilders machines are essential.. Dorian Yates probably used machines more than free weights. Jay Cutler as well and he retired relatively injury free. Some are very useful like the Nautilus Pullover, the Pendulum squat machine, etc.

@@BluTimber non-professional bodybuilding is silly though

One could actually use the same argument against the conventional deadlift. Why waste the recovery on the conventional deadlift when it doesn't yield much measurable difference and has a poor stimulus to fatigue ratio?

@@stevensmith4706 Because it is the best back exercise and heavy stimulus lift you could ever provide your body. It also teaches you to do hard things unlike the trap bar.

@@jamescollinge9082 so you’re solely comparing each exercise based on difficulty? Id read more EMG studies

@@ridsy9342 No.

That’s like saying you shouldn’t squat unless it’s ass to grass or vary form from ass to grass squats. They are the best for pure power and strength throughout the movement don’t ever do anything beside ass to grass. It depends on goals. Hack squats, half or 3/4 squats build enormous explosive, and jumping power. Research shows they are actually better for sprinting, jumping athletes. Basketball players benefit greatly from 3/4 to half squats and I’d push them towards doing more of them than full squats. I use to work them exclusive when playing competitive basketball. Started doing light lifting around 5th grade and was dunking by 7th grade at 5’10” by my senior year of high school I was 6’3” and had a 41 inch vertical. I could stand and dunk putting my arm all the way through the elbow in the rim. I could touch 13ft off my running jump and had a 10ft plus broad jump. I still did full squats every other week but worked primarily 3/4 squats. Goals, there is huge carry over depending on what you are trying to do with your lifts. The same goes for trap bar. A lot of lifters or athletes have knee injuries that make squating hard with heavy weight. ACL reconstruction being the main. Using trap bar like a squat allow you to load heavier with less pain. Then you can make the trap bar almost identical to conventional by going low bar and low hip. Close enough that unless you are in advanced power lifting competitions it won’t matter.