Strength And Fitness Training

Reading a forum the other day I saw someone asking about buying larger diameter plates for the deadlift. He wanted them in order to raise the starting height of the bar so it’d be eaiser to add additional standard sized olympic plates.

Fair enough it’s one way of making the loading easier and we’ve probably all done it at least once, however it’s not ideal, especially if you’re planning to compete in any powerlifting, weightlifting or strongman events that will require a similar movement as you’ll miss out on training the deadlift from the usual start height.

So here’s a simple alternative, get a pair of 1.25kg plates and place them in front (or behind) the innermost plates on the bar lip side up. Then roll the bar onto the 1.25kg plates. Load the bar as normal then roll back off the 1.25kg plate when loaded and lift as normal.

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