Benefits of deadlifts

If you have a well rounded program

How important are deadlifts for skinny guys

What are the benefits?

Deadlifts are a loaded hip hinge.

If you compete in powerlifting, they’re worth practicing, so you can perform well.

If you compete in strongman, it’s worth getting SOME practice in, since a regular deadlift will show up in competitions.

Beyond that, they’re never necessary.

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For a skinny guy getting jacked they good conventional deadlift

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If you want to use it, they’re a fine movement.

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IMO, deadlifts provide the least muscle hypertrophy bang for the buck of all the common used compound lifts.

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They’ll make you thick and give you a base level of strength to build and sculpt from.

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Where I firmly believe that a person can get jacked and never do a single deadlift, there is a psychological boost doing deadlifts for skinny guys.

One of the positives of doing deadlifts is that a skinny guy can lift more weight doing deadlifts than any other of the compound lifts. As he gets stronger, he is getting positive reinforcement, and thus get more motivated to stay on task with the entire program.

IMO, once you find the most efficient bar path for you doing the deadlift, only do them heavy once a week (and never do singles.) Also, I see many people who deadlift today, don’t tap into the hypertrophy benefit of the negative, but just allow the bar to freefall to the ground.

IMO, once you are finished with the warmup sets, do 3 sets of 5 reps. But always stop after the rep that your form breaks.

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What’s your view on the efficacy of deadlift variations? I agree that the conventional deadlift is a pretty poor choice for hypertrophy but I’ve used high volume in the past for snatch grip and RDL

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I don’t have any experience with deadlift variations. I only did conventional, competitive style deadlift, attempting to lift the most weight. I did compete in powerlifting a couple years to build a solid foundation to further my quest in bodybuilding.

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Overall strength, grip strength, bracing practice, and increased confidence.

Thick where? Posterior possibly but it’s not a good back movement

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During competition, the only ones that I saw that struggled with grip strength were the ones with “meaty” hands and relatively short fingers.
I never encountered a grip strength issue using the opposing grip.

That said, I would suppose that my grip strength increased as I got stronger.

My entire posterior chain gets much thicker when my training is deadlift heavy. It’s pretty common to see in powerlifting circles too. A bunch of fucking ninja turtles running around. While some pulling assistance work is incorporated in to training, the heavy dead variations largely create this effect.

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I pulled for years…barbell and trap. But also conventional BB lifts, too… wish i had only pilled long enough to see the results. I see powerlifters run the gamut of physique development

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I always felt like touch-and-go deadlifts with a well-controlled negative were the absolute most work I could ever do in a given set, so they were a good movement to train for me.

I agree with others who say they are unnecessary, but so is literally any given movement for any given person. Deadlifts can have a less favorable risk to reward ratio than other movements, especially depending on what kind of reward you are after. I believe a hip hinge of some kind is necessary for me.

I still deadlift but do not push the envelope with anything other than a moderately challenging set of 5, more often simply doing higher repetition sets of kettlebells swings or RDLs for my hip hinging.

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I am in this ballpark.

The most benefit I felt that I got from the deadlift was that it was my strongest powerlifting movement.

I credit my back development to delt work and rows for back. I was my best relative to my bodybuilding competition when my lower back was hurt such that I couldn’t do deadlifts or squats.

I feel like building a strong back builds a strong deadlift, but not the other way around.

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Yeah. With physique out of the picture, strength curves and corresponding weight classes/physique development can be all over the map.

Typically backs are pretty thick though. Occasionally there’s a weirdly strong skinny guy running around.

Sorry they didn’t work for you. I don’t think Thibs likes them either.

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I don’t compete myself. The grip strength has helped me in everyday life.

I see deadlifts as primarily a hamstring exercise, not a back exercise.