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>Deadlift day this morning.
>Gym has an Oly platform that's always free.
>I always use it for my deadlifts because it has bumper plates and I don't have to fuck about with the power cage.
>Today it was taken up by a gaggle of middle aged hogs in about $500 each of Lorna Jane gear.
>They're all doing meme exercises with the fixed bars and the hex bar.
>Wait about for them to move, they're camped.
>End up deadlifting in the power cage.
>Rubber matts under the power cage, so a bit of flex.
>Can't lift as heavy as normal and 10 hours later my back is feeling garbage.
Never doing deadlifts off of the platform, ever again.
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>>42545667
>not deadlifting on concrete
>not breaking the gym floor
>not leaving humanity behind
anon... you'll never make it
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>>42545691
Honestly, concrete would be a better surface than rubber matts.
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I go to a shitty ass normie gym because that's all there is near me, it doesn't have proper platforms. The for is coated with about an inch of rubber.
How much difference does a platform make for deadlifting?
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lol i always deadlift on rubber.
ill improve on platform?
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>>42545802
Honestly, I feel like it's night and day.
I usually rep 3.5pl8, but it was a struggle to do two at a time today.
And my back feels terrible.
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>>42545869
Maybe, might be that my gym has shitty rubber though, who knows.
But there is a significant difference in what I could lift on rubber and on the platform.
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>>42545869
I once went to a power lifting gym when they had an open day, my deadlift went up half a plate.
I could attribute that to actually accurate/balanced plates or working on a solid platform.
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