Mike Sheppard 8 plates a side Deadlift

ajpt · May 19, 2012

That was a great lift, and I am taking nothing away from him by saying this.... but, he needs to work on his hip drive and keeping his back curved. You can see he rounds his back a lot, which will lead to serious injury lifting that amount of weight. I can say this without sounding like a 'hater' because ill admit I have the exact same problem. As soon as i get passed 495, I start to round my back and use more hamstring to get the weight up. Im trying to correct this as I want to be deadlifting heavy in 2 years still...

but all in all, thats a great accomplishment to pull that much weight.

JUICEDUP3 · May 19, 2012

beast!!!!!!!

Turbomaster · May 19, 2012

wow ..... WOW !:headbang:

nickels · May 19, 2012

Beef.

hellas23000 · Jan 12, 2014

Very impressive strength!

Turkishexpress · Jan 12, 2014

Very strong. If he put some legs into that he'd be doing 10 plates a side.

smalldawg · Jan 13, 2014

wow i will say it again WOW

triathloncoach · Jan 13, 2014

ajpt said:
That was a great lift, and I am taking nothing away from him by saying this.... but, he needs to work on his hip drive and keeping his back curved. You can see he rounds his back a lot, which will lead to serious injury lifting that amount of weight. I can say this without sounding like a 'hater' because ill admit I have the exact same problem. As soon as i get passed 495, I start to round my back and use more hamstring to get the weight up. Im trying to correct this as I want to be deadlifting heavy in 2 years still...

but all in all, thats a great accomplishment to pull that much weight.

You had to say this huh?

sma · Jan 13, 2014

akim williams is repping that

NEMSZ · Jan 13, 2014

BRB, taking everything under the sun to get that strong..

I'm jelly right now lol Impressive

anarchocapitalist · Jan 13, 2014

we each deadlift differently.

i have stronger legs and a weaker lower back with short arms so it makes sense for me to start the lift with my legs and finish the lift with a hip thrust.

perhaps the guy in the video has weaker hammies and rather than risk a tear he just uses a shit load of lower back.

regardless he just pulled up 16 plates and a bar. who am i to tell him differently.

Wanderer · Jan 13, 2014

JS--

You'll have to keep us posted on his progress. Crazy strong, and if he's lifting that kind of weight, it doesn't surprise me that he grew, as you describe it, EASILY, his first year. I'll be interested to see where things go.