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2 seconds Later WTF!! You made the lift but it was MUCH harder then it should have been. Ha I wonder why. How the hell is anyone supposed to lift maximal loads with all that going through your head at once. All those self given cues or someone yelling then at you. Fact is at some point you have to SHUT UP and lift. Turn it off and just do what you know what you've practiced time and time again. What brings this topic to mind is yesterdays Dead Lift session and reflecting on my DL sessions of late. Before I go further here are two video's that wil portray and help explain exactly what Im talking about. Ignore the form of the lift itself, I am purposely lifting in two distinctly different styles. Look at the whole of the lifts. The set up, pull and completion. Watch them closely and the glaring difference should be very evident. 700 DL from the Arizona State's
1 of yesterdays 655 DL's
What do you see in the first? A lifter that;s fired up, calm, collected, and focused on one goal. LIFT THE DAMN LOAD. A confident lifter that has no doubt in his mind, a has one simple cue in head, Chest up. That's it. You got this, make it happen. Just do what you know, What you've trained for. The lifter approaches the load gets his grip his set up and then its show time and makes anew all time PR look easy. Now what do you see in the second video??? The one from yesterday. What is that lifter doing, what's going through his head? I'l tell you and it's the polar opposite of lifter number one. It's something like the example that line started this article. "Ok, I think you got this. This is easy its only 90%, Just go up there we'll use this grip, put your feet here and here OK maybe a lil closer, that might be better, ok get your air, no more air, now get ready, OK go, NO wait no yet get tighter get more air, is my set up right, remember to get he chest up let's make this easy, ok , NO!, one more second almost forgot make sure you get that hamstring firing that's been bugging you and hurting, OK screw it just go" What does this create, apprehension, over thinking and the ability to make a routine lift MUCH slower and sloppier then it should be. I realized this about a rep or two after this lift yesterday and got to thinking about my last few less then optimal dead lift sessions and honestly about my last 4-5 months of dead lifting. The dead lift has always been my strongest lift, but of late I've been over thinking and second guessing the heavy lifts which has lead to hit and miss sessions. More miss then hit. This over thinking, and not my physical capacity, this what has slowed my progress a bit and made heavy (90% and over lifts) spotty. One lift is great, then another is much heavier then it needs to be. Luckily I have always been a meet lifter I have an inept ability to shut it up and get the job done at meet. Now what exactly is it were looking to gain, and why do we need it? It is the ability to "Shut Up and Lift," frankly the ability for a spit second to be a mindless meat head. Its simple in thought, but hard in execution the more advanced and technical your lifts get, but all the best lifters and athletes in any sport have this ability. Its comes from practice, from punching the clock. Take a tennis player for example. If your opponent hit's a hard back hand to your weak side and then you have 8 thoughts run through your head on how to approach and defend this shot, your done. By the time you act on those thoughts the shot has beautifully bounced off the clay awarding your opponent, who is jumping up and down and taunting you with hands made to form pistols firing invisible bullets that pierce deep in your psyche, a point. Its no different in lifting. You have to run off instinct, act first, think later. This is why we punch the clock, get those heavy lifts in while having 18 cues running through your grey matter. Practice perfection in form and execution and ingrain that in our cerebral tissue. That's part of the game, and must be done. We MUST know perfection before you can ever fix imperfection. This should be done in training, in practice and most times needs to be done in loads under 90%,maybe even under 80%. Then we must practice and reach a point where you shut it off and think later, become mindless. Much like football players, boxers, most any athlete, or performer studies film. You lift first, fix later. You have to ID whats' wrong in heavy, maximal, mindless, meet simulation lifts, after the lift. Then you go back to practice lifts and fix the faults there NOT during the competition. You cannot have more then one que in your head during a competition and expect to excel.
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