How to do a Sumo Deadlift High Pull (SDHP) to increase your strength and improve your performance in CrossFit WODs.

Set-Up for a Sumo Deadlift High Pull

• Start with your feet wide outside of hips, toes turned out slightly
• Hands should nbe two thumbs distance outside of the center of the bar
• Set hips just above knees, flat tight back, set shoulders at or just over the bar

Points of Performance for a Sumo Deadlift High Pull

• Deadlift the bar from the ground building speed pushing through the heels
• Aggressively extend the hips and follow through into a shrug keeping the arms long
• Arms begin to bend after the shrug keeping the path of the bar tight to the body with the elbows high and outside the bar
• Hands come to chin height, elbows come to ear height to finish the movement
• On the way back down the arms extend, the shrug relaxes, then the hips push back to the starting position

Tips and Tricks for a Sumo Deadlift High Pull

• Be patient on bending your arms until the bar reaches your hip and more importantly your torso is vertical
• Very similar pull to that of the snatch or clean