alternative to Stiff Leg DeadLift?

[blast00]

Keep doing SLDL. It is the only way you will get better at them. Start light, very light and add 5 lbs per workout till it gets challenging. Then add 2.5 lbs if you can or just an extra rep per workout. Sooner or later you will get better and stronger.

As an aside, I believe that squatting deep and heavy will be more beneficial that any hamstring only exercise.

I am working on squatting deep and heavy, it hits my quads more than anything first tho.

but with the SLDL; I can do very large amounts of weight because I cannot straighten my hammys entirely. so its not like starting light is going to make things better =( I am just not benefiting from it aside from the stretch when I lean down with the weight....

[Wildtim]

OP

Looking at your latest post raises a question in my mind. How do you do full squats with good form when you have serious enough flexability issues that they prevent you form doind a SLDL? I'm only asking beause I just don't see the possibility here.

[blast00]

OP

Looking at your latest post raises a question in my mind. How do you do full squats with good form when you have serious enough flexability issues that they prevent you form doind a SLDL? I'm only asking beause I just don't see the possibility here.

it baffles me, but I can do it. I went and got a trainer and learned how, and I go all the way down. I have INCREDIBLE quad flexibility, and I guess my hips are very flexible; its when my hamstrings are straight, aka not bent, that I am so damn tight.