Sumo Deadlift High Pull

Why We Don’t Do SDHP

or:

The next Dumbest CrossFit Workout

By Dallas Hartwig, MS, PT

Confession: i'm a dreadful CrossFitter – We have never ever done the sumo deadlift large pull (SDHP). Yes, truly. (I’ve never ever done Fran, either, but that’s a tale for the next time.) My first experience of the SDHP had been a lot more than five years ago, in a CrossFit.com recommended work out complete with instructional photographs. The actual therapist in me instantly recoiled at Nicole Carroll’s demonstration. Initially, the movement itself (not only the woman particular demonstration) more closely resembled a jumping upright row than just about any kind of explosive, high-powered “core-to-extremity” activity. But my higher expert concern? The positioning towards the top of a SDHP really closely resembles this clinical image of a shoulder impingement test. Except with an even more stressful neck position. (???!!! Yeah, that is the thing I believed, also.)

Over my last couple of years of clinical PT practice, I’ve had a number of colleagues call us to ask, “i am aware you do CrossFit. I’ve recently observed a number of clients who had been hurt performing CrossFit. What’s all of this about?” I was quick to protect CrossFit’s exercise program, very carefully explaining a few of the concepts of intensity-driven version, core-to-extremity activity habits, and moving-large-loads-long-distances-quickly. I hoped my description of CrossFit’s methodology would assuage their issue concerning this new strain of workout.

But in every case, I also asked which CrossFit movements the in-patient had been performing when they had been injured. Two quickly emerged while the Usual Suspects: the SDHP and kipping pull-up, movements relatively special to CrossFit’s prescribed training routines. (I’m maybe not gonna discuss the kipping pull-up on this page, although Melissa features written on that right here.) Reading my PT colleagues explain a SDHP (hilarious, incidentally) totally explained the accidents these were managing. Because truthfully, 94.72per cent of SDHPs that I’ve present in the 4th or 5th round of Fight Gone Bad look nothing like core-to-extremity, hip-driven motions. They look like contradictory, badly executed, discoordinated leaping upright rows. And let me tell you just what an upright line truly looks like, to a physical therapist.

The Hawkins-Kennedy impingement test (pictured above) “pushes the supraspinatus tendon up against the anterior area of this coracoacromial ligament and coracoid procedure” (guide). Translation: this can be a test for supraspinatus tendinitis in addition to ensuing subacromial stress and infection that typifies impingement. In much more quick terms, this position jams your most often injured rotator cuff muscle between two bones. Similar to the top of a perfectly performed, filled SDHP. (No, that does not seem advisable that you myself, both.)