Max Deadlift

Event #3 at the 2011 Falls Fest Highlander is the Max Deadlift.

This one is simple: 3 attempts with standard bar and plates.  If you miss, you cannot take a lighter attempt.  Belt, chalk, straps, and hitching is permitted. No DL suits.

If you don’t use straps and need some pointers for practice and maybe some advice for making some, see this video on Barbell Shrugs (jump to 3:30 for the straps pointers):

So it’s a “deadlift” in the commonly-observed gym/training  sense, but not the in the powerlifting sense.   Or to put it another way, it’s a “pull anyhow”, not a real-actual deadlift.

But for inspiration, we’ll put up the obvious example:

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