Idiotic Newbie Deadlift Question

[Shmackey]

Just did them for the first time today. I can feel it in my lower back, but I think I had the form right (back flat throughout). Hope the fact that I can already feel it doesn't mean that I'll be injured tomorrow. I can deal with sore, but injured is not going to work for me.

Anyway. The idiotic question: what's the easy way to get the 45-lb plate off the bar when there's one left on each side? It's resting on the floor, which makes it hard to just slide off. Impossible, actually.

[NateDogg]

Originally posted by Shmackey
Just did them for the first time today. I can feel it in my lower back, but I think I had the form right (back flat throughout). Hope the fact that I can already feel it doesn't mean that I'll be injured tomorrow. I can deal with sore, but injured is not going to work for me.

Anyway. The idiotic question: what's the easy way to get the 45-lb plate off the bar when there's one left on each side? It's resting on the floor, which makes it hard to just slide off. Impossible, actually.

If you don't have what I would call a "bar lever" (one end you push down on, and the other end picks the bar and plates up off the ground for easy removal), I guess the best ways to get them off are: just pull one side off quick, then go get the other side, or when you are finished, don't go all the way back down for your last rep, just put the bar on a rack.

EDIT: Congratulations.

[Plucas8916]

Yea I did them for the first time too a few days ago and my lower back also is sore. (still) You could try Instead of using 45lbs. Use 35lb and then put a 10 or 2 5's. But 35's are hard to get off also, I know from experience... lol. You could find a box or something to put the bar down on when your done? I'm not positive.

[Kitara]

Oh, I know this is not the subject, but it just reminded me of my biggest pet peeve at the gym. I like to do the leg press, but there has been more than one time that I've had to ask someone to help me because the hemen leave the 100lb plates on the machine and I can't even budge them .

The fist time I did deadlifts I felt the same sore back thing. I was really careful and thought, "Oh great, I was careful and I still hurt my back." The next morning I didn't even feel it. OH - I felt it in my hamstrings, but not in my lower back. I think you'll be OK.

[Alex(AJ)]

why not just pick the bar up with one hand, and with the other slide the plate off?

[Plucas8916]

Its hard to slide a 45lb weight off unless your big. You have to take that into consideration. ( I am speaking from experience... lol)

[Shmackey]

why not just pick the bar up with one hand, and with the other slide the plate off?

I'm not weak, and there's no way I could do that. Can you really do that? I can pick up one end of the bar off the ground, of course, but I certainly don't have the kind of side and rear delts that let me flip around 45-lb plates--especially when they're stuck on an olympic bar and you have to guide them off perfectly straight. Hell, try doing that to a 45-lb plate when it's *not* also on the ground; put one on the end of a long racked bar and pull it off with one hand. You wind up wedging the hole against the bar and the friction makes it impossible. That's why you need two hands--just to pull it off straight.

I'm not saying you personally can't do it, but anyone who can should be my personal trainer.

[1more]

hehehe, sorry this is funny!
if you cant put it on the rack, take one of the plates off (easy enough) then hold the second plate as balance and pull the bar from it, should be easy, long as you got room to slide it out from the plate.
actuallu you wouldnt even need to balance a 40lbs plate just slide the bar from it. Let the plate fall to the ground with a bang!

[ebon00]

Originally posted by Alex(AJ)
why not just pick the bar up with one hand, and with the other slide the plate off?

This is what I do all of the time. It's not that hard and will give your forearms a little ectra work.

[NateDogg]

Originally posted by ebon00
This is what I do all of the time. It's not that hard and will give your forearms a little ectra work.

This is actually what I did before I discovered the lever.

[Steve]

just put lots of little weights on the bar...you can take them off one by one.

Steve