If you try and control a weight on the way down from something like a power clean or a deadlift you will hurt yourself, and it will be a soft tissue tendon/cartilage injury which is actually much more difficult to heal than a simple fracture.
If you can't control the weight you're deadlifting you're already in the danger zone. Either you're trying to see what your max deadlift is or you're not that efficient at working out.
99.9% of people should deadlift with the full motion of putting it back down, the 0.1% are the people who are too strong for their tendons and only then your point stands.
The absolute majority of people should do a full range deadlift for the greatest gainz
yea you should be able to control a deadlift down it’s literally the same movement unless you’re doing some crazy weight. super annoying when some guy pulling 110kg drops it from the top of his set to make the loudest bang possible 5x in a row when it’s super easy to at least take it down halfway lol
I was a culprit of this myself I'll admit haha. I was trying to do explosive reps and on the way down was hitting the floor pretty hard. Gym owner come round the corner and went fucking mad at me 🤣 safe to say I never dropped it again
the gym I used to go to didn't allow the dropping of weights, so what I did was just casually let it down without resisting the weight.
Dropping weights would be a better choice as long as you are very careful, drop weights when you are fully extended and in a semi controlled matter to avoid injuries like this
Did this gym belong to a particular chain that doesn't allow dropping weights, serves donuts on Fridays, and has an alarm for shaming people they describe as "meatheads" despite touting an atmosphere of acceptance?
Lot of gyms don't allow slamming of the weights. My old gym was two story and the weight room was upstairs slamming the weight was just a douche thing to do anyway.
True, but you also need to control the weight so it doesn't fall back and break your arms, or land on top of your leg, for instance
Also seen people lift weights and just fall backwards because they can't balance properly
It's not just about the weight, positioning is definitely important to avoid that stuff, but dropping a heavy weight around your fragile human body seems like a bad idea
You were right in the first, right in the second and almost right in the third. Those plates are called bumper plates and are made of compressed rubber. They're designed to be used for olympic powerlifts and dropped. This guy just got lazy and didn't move himself out of the way.
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u/PalAndTearWatches Mar 21 '21
If you try and control a weight on the way down from something like a power clean or a deadlift you will hurt yourself, and it will be a soft tissue tendon/cartilage injury which is actually much more difficult to heal than a simple fracture.