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Old 08-20-2007, 08:22 AM
EricT EricT is offline
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Yeah I think what happens is that people finish the lift and then want to shrug so they jut the neck forward without realizing it so you end up with neck injury. Also if you are not using straps and doing heavy deads as your grip begins to fade you will have a tendency to hitch the shoulders unconciously and put the whole shoulder neck region in a bad position from which to shrug...further adding to the chance of injury.

When it comes down to it shrugs are something you need to be careful with and do correctly and deadlifts are too thus combining them can really assure you won't do either perfectly. There is a big difference between a power OL movement which has a shrug as a component of it and shrugging with deadlift. The weight is much lighter for the OL lift since the limiting factor is what you can clean not what you can get off the bottom. This gives you more wiggle room then what you get with heavier slow movements.

I also hate the idea of fatiguing the upper back in general while doing deads. You need to upper back strong to hold the shoulder and chest back and failing that to buffer the spine from injury.
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