I like these older videos before years of trolls and people not following his instructions asking him why the program isn't working, took it's toll on his enthusiasm.
@@thermalmedia6454 He was very clear on how to incorporate these. Due to the stress a deadlift workout gives - alternate the rack pull with a halting deadlift on your pulling days. The rack pull and halting deadlift OVERLAP - meaning you will be training the full range of motion, just separately
I love your videos. It's ZERO bullshit, Zero fluff, and just shows exactly what you need to do. I completely changed out I squat by watching your videos and correcting my form.... my legs are growing! THANK YOU! Keep up the vids!! -Nigel
77 y/o. Stalled on deadlift for the past 4 months. Just started rack pulls and haltings. 5' 7" @ 165 lbs. Started lifting NLP three years ago without any previous barbell experience, no muscle memory of past lifting, and a neuro-muscular system that had never been stressed beyond capacity. For the real weight lifters out there, Rip said to use rack pulls and haltings once you reach 405#. I hope you don't spit your coffee out laughing, but I'm stuck at 250#. I'll check back in at 9 to 12 months to let you know how it worked out.
This is the first video that has shown me step by step through this lift and explained the reasoning and process behind this methodology. Thank you so much!
This video was more helpful than you know. 11 years ago I broke my L4 and L5 and had everything fused together back then I was a strong 260 pound, 6 foot 1, 28 year old with a great career in the military. One stupid 2 minute window later I was doomed to a walker for 6 months. I was told I would never lift or run again(I hated running so no real loss there). August of last year I started training again my bench was abysmal 135 for 3 reps couldn't squat at all and deadlifts were a hard no. As of today I am back up to a 325 max on bench, a 250 squat and still can't dead but I have learned the rack pull I'm only at 165 which kinda scares me with the lumbar injury but I stress perfect form wear a belt and use straps(tendinitis) and it quickly became my second favorite exercise right behind incline bench
What if you don't have the flexibilty to do full deadlifts? (I need about 3 inches off the floor). Could rack pulls replace deadlifts while I work off the gut and gain the room for the flexibility needed to do floor pulls?
Try pulling in a sumo stance. I’m training a lady who can’t pull safely from a conventional stance but can safely pull from sumo. I’m not sure of your lifting experience but she is a newer lifter and she is getting stronger. She can’t barbell squat because her shoulder won’t allow it so I believe it’s important to include a compound for the posterior. She can bench so we’ve been doing that as well. This is just my experience, I hope it helps.
Okay, wait. Let me check if I got this right. So, ypu only had two pulling days? Like maybe Mon/Thu? And on each of them respectively you did and alternated Rack Pull Below Patella/Halting Deadlift and BB Shruggs/Either Power clean or Power Snatch? Is that right?
Mr. Rip, when I rack pull the middle of my back seems to bear the majority of the strain. Sometimes I fear an injury. Is it that i'm not pulling from the hips? Any advice.
You're going to eventually pull supramaximal weights with this exercise, which makes using a non-strapped grip insufficient to hold these heavy weights. Rack pulls and power shrugs should use straps. I prefer figure 8 straps myself.
Explain to me again the whole resetting thing. I've been doing these for over 40 years and never used that method. Seems like a good way to get injured.
It’s just to insure that you are pulling from a safe position, as with some lifters doing an RDL will drift out of position after a few reps. But if you can maintain good and safe form then you don’t need to reset after every rep. This program is catered to newer lifter that encounter similar issues.
@@idx1941 A slight pause on the pins does the same the thing without turning the set into a number of singles. It shouldn’t take an experienced lifter more than a split second to reset his form.
@@hushai5154 that's a different point of discussion, but what you said originally was doing them as shown in the video is a good way to get injured. Explain how it does? I believe it's a great way to not get injured.
It's easier to keep the low back in extension from this height in the starting position, but still challenging the muscles of the low back to keep it in extension throughout the lift. Working the lower back doesn't mean it's dangerous for the lower back. Hope this helps.
Ryan N block pull you have to deal with the plates overcoming resting on the blocks, on the rack pull the plates arent sitting on anything so you dont have to deal with the plates overcoming any surface
@@ZhakRyuu ruclips.net/video/pT4Ebx2ra1A/видео.html oh look one bodybuilder stronger than EVERY person that has ever come from SS. No stupid layback, no stupid closegrip, and he's way stronger. And if you want to compare form, look at the hideous SS reps vs his reps. ruclips.net/video/I0uhDZ06hrQ/видео.html ruclips.net/video/HkEo5Thds10/видео.html "You can't be strict with heavy weights" 😂
Man, I can feel through the camera how much it sucks to get old. Sure, he's pulling more than 99% more than other males can, but it's still a lot less than his prime. I'm in my mid-30's now, still prime, but every day that passes is another day eventually into past-prime. And I fear this greatly. More than death. Because it's slow and gradual, and filled with regret.
I'm 56, DL over 400, still play hockey, am as strong as I was when i was in my 30's. It don't suck at all. Live in the moment dude. Maybe you won't make it to be old, so better enjoy every day and not worry about how getting old sucks
Bullshit. Just turned fifty, and been training five months after a ten year lay off. Training harder than ever and making better gains/3 times a week. Never felt better
I'm pretty sure this is the same guy that said a deadlift with a trap bar is an incomplete/untrained deadlift. Essentially the same thing as a rack pull. I still like the guy, just pointing out the hypocrisy.
True, but I tend to think the RP is a back/trap dominant exercise as opposed to a dealift, which in my experience feels like a push. Great to do above the knee if youve been out of the gym for a while and/or lack the flexibility to go right into deadlifts.
@@alhemmings8554 I'd suggest looking at your form, the deadlift should be a pull, it's all pulling muscles, and you're pulling the weight in line with your body. If it feels like a push, your hips are probably too low.
@@josiahwright7114 Hmm fair point, but even with the hips in the 'correct' position, my upper body is tensed and there is no give in my arms while holding the bar in the start position. I see so many people jerking at the elbows and/or using momentum. All things considered, I find the intial movement comes from the push into the ground and the finish comes with the hip drive. My upper body is there to stabilise and my arms are holding on. My 2c bruv.
@@johntrains1317 Mark Rippetoe doesn't change. His personality wouldn't allow him to change his mind. It's right because he said it. The trap bar deadlift is, in form and function, a rack pull. In the same way a block pull is a rack pull.
I like these older videos before years of trolls and people not following his instructions asking him why the program isn't working, took it's toll on his enthusiasm.
I think that aging and things like the Covid situation might have played a role too.
@@thermalmedia6454 He was very clear on how to incorporate these. Due to the stress a deadlift workout gives - alternate the rack pull with a halting deadlift on your pulling days. The rack pull and halting deadlift OVERLAP - meaning you will be training the full range of motion, just separately
@@danski6694 Rack pulls is great exercise I’ve seen huge strength gains.
@@thermalmedia6454 nah he was like that long before covid.
Yes I agree
This was the best step by step explanation of a genuine rack pull. Mark's the perfect teacher.
I love your videos. It's ZERO bullshit, Zero fluff, and just shows exactly what you need to do.
I completely changed out I squat by watching your videos and correcting my form.... my legs are growing! THANK YOU!
Keep up the vids!!
-Nigel
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77 y/o. Stalled on deadlift for the past 4 months. Just started rack pulls and haltings. 5' 7" @ 165 lbs. Started lifting NLP three years ago without any previous barbell experience, no muscle memory of past lifting, and a neuro-muscular system that had never been stressed beyond capacity. For the real weight lifters out there, Rip said to use rack pulls and haltings once you reach 405#. I hope you don't spit your coffee out laughing, but I'm stuck at 250#. I'll check back in at 9 to 12 months to let you know how it worked out.
how’d it work out?
@@mackenziebenedict8403 he'd be 78 now, he probably died.
@@josiahwright7114RIP ol Bobby Baker. He worked on his deadlift.
@@josiahwright7114No way you said that
@robertbaker2341 How's it going with the progress>?
This is the first video that has shown me step by step through this lift and explained the reasoning and process behind this methodology. Thank you so much!
This video was more helpful than you know. 11 years ago I broke my L4 and L5 and had everything fused together back then I was a strong 260 pound, 6 foot 1, 28 year old with a great career in the military. One stupid 2 minute window later I was doomed to a walker for 6 months. I was told I would never lift or run again(I hated running so no real loss there). August of last year I started training again my bench was abysmal 135 for 3 reps couldn't squat at all and deadlifts were a hard no. As of today I am back up to a 325 max on bench, a 250 squat and still can't dead but I have learned the rack pull I'm only at 165 which kinda scares me with the lumbar injury but I stress perfect form wear a belt and use straps(tendinitis) and it quickly became my second favorite exercise right behind incline bench
19:22 collapses in a heap in corner of the gym! Nice vid,cheers.
That’s how they’re done, thanks. This man is a exercise genius, seriously.
Lol, Rip does the lifts and the camera guy gets winded.
Lmfao!
What a legend.
Im envious watching that gym
Great Information
That's awesome. "This is how we do the RACK pull."
Works well for me. Thanks, Rip.
Thanks for the advice mate. I'll let me know.
Great video!
That moment when you realize that background "gym noise" is the camera man's Michael Myers type breathing! 🙉
awesome thanks for shareing
4:13 "Tibial Tuberocity"
That's a mouthful lol.
What if you don't have the flexibilty to do full deadlifts? (I need about 3 inches off the floor). Could rack pulls replace deadlifts while I work off the gut and gain the room for the flexibility needed to do floor pulls?
I asked the same question on another video and that was the advice I got. So that's why I'm watching this one now.
Try pulling in a sumo stance. I’m training a lady who can’t pull safely from a conventional stance but can safely pull from sumo. I’m not sure of your lifting experience but she is a newer lifter and she is getting stronger. She can’t barbell squat because her shoulder won’t allow it so I believe it’s important to include a compound for the posterior. She can bench so we’ve been doing that as well. This is just my experience, I hope it helps.
Look at the goddess at 14:00 doing a perfect set of squats! I think it's 225!
Okay, wait. Let me check if I got this right. So, ypu only had two pulling days? Like maybe Mon/Thu? And on each of them respectively you did and alternated Rack Pull Below Patella/Halting Deadlift and BB Shruggs/Either Power clean or Power Snatch? Is that right?
ABOVE THE KNEEEEEESSSSSSSS
looks like he walked away at the end and passed out somewhere
lol
Lmaoff I'm dying
@@franky01ize Me too lol.. I'm crying from laughter
If you don't pass out after this, you're doing something wrong. 😁
the camera man's breathing is creeepy
michael myers filming kkkkkk
I think I'd like to be a RUclips CC transcriptionst ….
At what percentage increase should the Rack Pull be? How much heavier than your deadlift?
Here's a blast from the past for you!
Rip has said that your 5 rep max rack pull should be roughly your 1rm deadlift, so calculate accordingly I guess
Mr. Rip, when I rack pull the middle of my back seems to bear the majority of the strain. Sometimes I fear an injury. Is it that i'm not pulling from the hips? Any advice.
HOW HIGH YOU PULLING FROM ITS A MID BACK TO UPPER BACK TRAP EXERCISE
Your upper back needs more work. Do a ton of face pulls and lat pull downs.
Also, try and move your belt up a couple of inches.
Can we do over/under grip instead?
You're going to eventually pull supramaximal weights with this exercise, which makes using a non-strapped grip insufficient to hold these heavy weights. Rack pulls and power shrugs should use straps. I prefer figure 8 straps myself.
is there a way to submit questions to Rippetoe
Explain to me again the whole resetting thing. I've been doing these for over 40 years and never used that method. Seems like a good way to get injured.
Just watch the video again lol
It’s just to insure that you are pulling from a safe position, as with some lifters doing an RDL will drift out of position after a few reps. But if you can maintain good and safe form then you don’t need to reset after every rep. This program is catered to newer lifter that encounter similar issues.
Why would resetting cause an injury? Resetting allows you to make sure your form is correct.
@@idx1941 A slight pause on the pins does the same the thing without turning the set into a number of singles. It shouldn’t take an experienced lifter more than a split second to reset his form.
@@hushai5154 that's a different point of discussion, but what you said originally was doing them as shown in the video is a good way to get injured. Explain how it does? I believe it's a great way to not get injured.
I was under the impression that this exercise would be “easier” on your low back if you possibly are having some low back issues, is this incorrect?
It's easier to keep the low back in extension from this height in the starting position, but still challenging the muscles of the low back to keep it in extension throughout the lift.
Working the lower back doesn't mean it's dangerous for the lower back.
Hope this helps.
Master
today i got to know rack pulls are little different from deadlift.
"Mediocre genetics"- maybe when it comes to lifting, but surely Mark's no idiot.
Warm up sets for this?
Light, less light then working sets.
Warmupreps.com
Murcia y'all want some grizzly
Rack pull vs block pull?
Ryan N block pull you have to deal with the plates overcoming resting on the blocks, on the rack pull the plates arent sitting on anything so you dont have to deal with the plates overcoming any surface
RACK PULL IS EASIER ITS A DIFFERENT FEELING
I love Rip but thank god he didn't become a bodybuilder, his torso is like half of his legs
AND HES FAT
What does strength training has to do with the silly idiots the bodybuilders are? They dont lift heavy, at least not with proper form ;)
@@ZhakRyuu wrong. Bodybuilders are way stronger than Starting Strength fans. Not even close.
@@stevenh7095 Sure if you call steroids and quarter reps strength. You silly 😅
@@ZhakRyuu ruclips.net/video/pT4Ebx2ra1A/видео.html oh look one bodybuilder stronger than EVERY person that has ever come from SS. No stupid layback, no stupid closegrip, and he's way stronger.
And if you want to compare form, look at the hideous SS reps vs his reps.
ruclips.net/video/I0uhDZ06hrQ/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/HkEo5Thds10/видео.html
"You can't be strict with heavy weights" 😂
9.52. You are welcome.
Man, I can feel through the camera how much it sucks to get old. Sure, he's pulling more than 99% more than other males can, but it's still a lot less than his prime. I'm in my mid-30's now, still prime, but every day that passes is another day eventually into past-prime. And I fear this greatly. More than death. Because it's slow and gradual, and filled with regret.
Just start doing light steriod cycles once you’re 45. Boom solved
It's not all bad. Girls are still attractive and money still spends.
I'm 56, DL over 400, still play hockey, am as strong as I was when i was in my 30's. It don't suck at all. Live in the moment dude. Maybe you won't make it to be old, so better enjoy every day and not worry about how getting old sucks
You're only as old as you think & feel. Stop whining you big puzzy & embrace the now. 🤔
Bullshit. Just turned fifty, and been training five months after a ten year lay off. Training harder than ever and making better gains/3 times a week. Never felt better
Listen to the camera man. That's what happens when you don't do cardio and just gomad.
He's long winded, right babe?
yup
Florida Fish Guy lol yes sir
9:00 does anyone hear someone breathing behind the camera?
Hiyup drahve
Poooooool. Draaaaaaahv.
Paul Froelich draaaahv!!!!!!
I'm pretty sure this is the same guy that said a deadlift with a trap bar is an incomplete/untrained deadlift. Essentially the same thing as a rack pull. I still like the guy, just pointing out the hypocrisy.
True, but I tend to think the RP is a back/trap dominant exercise as opposed to a dealift, which in my experience feels like a push.
Great to do above the knee if youve been out of the gym for a while and/or lack the flexibility to go right into deadlifts.
@@alhemmings8554 I'd suggest looking at your form, the deadlift should be a pull, it's all pulling muscles, and you're pulling the weight in line with your body. If it feels like a push, your hips are probably too low.
@@josiahwright7114 Hmm fair point, but even with the hips in the 'correct' position, my upper body is tensed and there is no give in my arms while holding the bar in the start position. I see so many people jerking at the elbows and/or using momentum. All things considered, I find the intial movement comes from the push into the ground and the finish comes with the hip drive.
My upper body is there to stabilise and my arms are holding on. My 2c bruv.
People change?
@@johntrains1317 Mark Rippetoe doesn't change. His personality wouldn't allow him to change his mind. It's right because he said it. The trap bar deadlift is, in form and function, a rack pull. In the same way a block pull is a rack pull.
Eliminate leg drive...uses leg drive.
Bro needs to work on his cardio fr
is this a class on how to get fat?
You sound really, really weak.
Noo, it's about how to kick asses of some idiots.
If you want to open your mouth, get on your knees first. This knowledge isn't for weaklings.
If you are hungry I can put something in your mouth for you.
HES FAT BUT HES STRONG
GOOD STUFF BUT LOSE THE GUT BUB
When you can pull 445 for sets of 5 at his age you can talk.
They don’t care about abs in Starting Strength. Their athletes drink a gallon of whole milk per day. But they are strong
Talks way too much. Two pounds in a ten pound bag.
Johnny Quest u dont listen enough maybe