High pulls7/26/2023 ![]() Strip two 25-pound plates: 405-pounds, one set of 3-5 reps pulling off a weight plate or weightlifting platform.So here we are at the end of a Progressive Pulls workout and we are left with a 455-pound barbell sitting on the floor. The poundage jumps would be smaller for someone weaker. *Note the evenness of the 30-pound jumps - other than between the last hi-pull set and the first deadlift set, a 50-pound jump, before resuming 30-pound bumps. Here is how a classic Progressive Pull routine would look for an intermediate level trainee… My reasoning was, “Hey, since we have to unload the barbell anyway, why not make some bus stops on the way down, why not do some additional, different stuff, as we unload the deadlift weight?” This strategy is easier to understand when seen on paper. I made this tough routine even more so: once the Progressive Pulls workout is done, the lifter is left with a heavily loaded barbell sitting on the floor. Keep doing deadlift sets until you get knocked down to a triple. Keep adding weight, when the lifter can only pull a triple to the belly button, add more weight and move onto 5-rep sets in the deadlift. When the lifter can only power clean a triple, add weight and move onto 5-rep sets in the high pull. Start off with 135 for 5-rep sets and start adding weight in small jumps using precise technique. The original article laid out the classic Progressive Pulls regimen: power cleans were pulled to sternum height at which point the lifter jumped down, under and forward to rack the bar on the shoulders. His lifting suit was ill-fitting and for some inexplicable reason he wore street shoes, penny loafers, for the photo shoot. At the time Homer had his hair done in an Elvis-style pompadour, using lots of Brylcreem to hold it in place. The original Progressive Pulls article had accompanying photos featuring national 148-pound Olympic weightlifting champion Homer Branum, another Texas boy. Tommy specialized in training articles and lifter profiles. He passed along solid information that helped the reader improve their lifting. Suggs officially pressed 330 weighing 198-pounds and was a writer with style, humor and flair. The article was penned by one of my athlete/writer heroes, Tommy Suggs, a rugged Texan, a man that always placed high at the national Olympic weightlifting championships. The Progressive Pulls genesis was a 1965 article in Strength & Health Magazine aptly called Progressive Pulls. The power clean technique and the reps used in that exercise are now greatly altered. We have added some overt and subtle changes to the original version of Progressive Pulls. I have learned quite a bit in the decade since the article was written. The hardcore love this routine because it is logical and exquisitely effective. High pulls are pulled to the belly button while deadlifts are pulled to mid-thigh.Īs the willpower Godfather once quipped, “That which does not kill me makes me stronger.” Progressive Pulls done right comes close. In the power clean, the Olympic bar is pulled to the shoulders. The poundage was incrementally increased as the lifter worked through three different back exercises that required pulling the barbell to three different heights. The routine started off with a barbell on the floor loaded with 135-pounds. I described a back-training routine I had used with great success for decades. ![]() Progressive Pulls - Reviving and revamping a Golden OldieĪ decade ago, I wrote an article, Progressive Pulls, for my big book The Purposeful Primitive. ![]()
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