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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Fitness / Get Your Sumo On!

Get Your Sumo On!

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

By Guest Blogger, Paula Jager, CSCS
The Sumo Deadlift High Pull builds on the Basic Deadlift post from last week.    Additions include a widening of the stance, bringing the grip inside the knees, adding a shrug, an upward pull with the arms, and most importantly, additional velocity.  The move requires an aggressive extension of the hips and legs before the arms pull.
Set Up:
-stance = wider than shoulder width, but not so wide that the knees roll inside the feet
-weight in heels
-back arched/lumbar curve locked in
-shoulders slightly in front of the bar
-bar in contact with the shins
-arms locked straight
-symmetrical grip inside the knees
Once you get in the “set up” position I again recommend holding for a few seconds to feel where your body is and review the above points. A common fault is allowing the knees to roll in. If that happens, check your stance to make sure it is not too wide and consciously pull your knees apart.

Execution:
-accelerate through the heels from the ground to full extension of the hips and legs
-shrug, with straight arms
-arms follow through by pulling bar to the chin with elbows high and outside
-return the bar down fluidly in the reverse sequence: arms, then traps, then hips, then knees, back to the set up position.
The most common fault with this exercise is pulling too soon with the arms, the hip not completely open before the shrug or arm pull. A quick and easy fix is to learn the exercise in steps. Emphasize that the hip needs to fire first, before the arms. Try 2 sumo deadlift shrugs for every full sdhp; do as many times as needed to get it right.
Progression:
  1. sumo deadlift
  2. sumo deadlift shrug, slow
  3. sumo deadlift shrug, fast
  4. full sumo deadlift high pull
Incorporating into your workouts:
Beginners: stay with very little to no weight initially (using your pvc, wooden dowel or broomstick), use as a warm up of about 10 to 15 reps. Work them into your bodyweight exercises as a pulling movement.
Intermediate: increase the weight gradually and keep the reps in the 8 to 12 range never compromising form for weight. Include them in your routine as an exercise for hips and back rounding out the workout with push, single leg strength and core work.
Advanced: incorporate into your regular routine with a variety of both light and heavy loads using rep ranges of 10-20 and 5 to 8. One of my favorites is to perform circuit style; for example, 10 bench presses, 10 sdhp, 100 m sprint, 60 — 90 s rest, 5 to 7 rounds.
Below is a link to an excellent video for proper mechanics
This movement is excellent for core development, functionality, increased power output and improved coordination. What are you waiting for? Take your workouts, sport performance and activities of daily living to the next level by incorporating today. If all else fails you can at least deadlift the milk crates to the counter tops!
 
Paula Jager CSCS and Level 1 CrossFit and CF Nutrition Certified is the owner of CrossFit Jaguar.

Her exercise and nutrition programs yield life changing results
www.crossfitjaguar.com
[email protected]

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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: the bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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  1. The Food Hound

    Oct 17, 2010 at 4:40 am

    Just started doing CrossFit and we LOVE IT!!

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