i know i will probably make some people angry by questioning one of the big three exercises. i just started deadlifting. it is alot like a good morning. using the posterior chain to resist a weight pulling you forward. but the good morning has a greater range of motion, and is not limited by ones grip strength.
is the only reason people deadlift because they like to see big numbers?
there may be more to it though, since the day after i first deadlifted my entire back was sore, from shoulder to tailbone.
[quote]eremesu wrote:
i know i will probably make some people angry by questioning one of the big three exercises. i just started deadlifting. it is alot like a good morning. using the posterior chain to resist a weight pulling you forward. but the good morning has a greater range of motion, and is not limited by ones grip strength.
is the only reason people deadlift because they like to see big numbers?
there may be more to it though, since the day after i first deadlifted my entire back was sore, from shoulder to tailbone.[/quote]
I think you may have just answered your own question! Deadlifts (and variants) hit the whole back, hamstrings and glutes hence the entire back being sore where the good morning is more an isolated erector spinae move.
Deadlifts hit your whole back, whereas good mornings isolate more, like edn said. You can achieve the same range of motion if you stiff leg from a platform. It’s not that people just like to see big numbers, but it’s kind of like benching with your feet on the bench, your not benefiting as much because your not hitting your chest with maximal weight, deadlifts allow you to hit your hamstrings and back with more weight.
They teach you to grind out a long hard rep. It’s easier to bitch out on lighter weight exercises (military presses or chins, for example); deadlifting will condition you to tough out those hard reps.
I think people just like the big numbers… I see so many hunched over cripples in backbraces who love deadlifting at the gym. I dont see any reason to do more than 1 set (plus warmups) a week, get 90% of the benefit at 10% of the risk.
Either way, I feel that good mornings are a dangerous exercise and, anyway, I can progress more with the poundage on the deadlift. Also, properly executed deadlifts are amazing to do, regardless of the muscles recruited.
Because guys who do deadlifts intimidate everybody else in the gym. When I do deadlifts I can feel the hate oozing out of all the porky assholes who just go to the gym to lift tiny weights and then complain that their fat asses are genetic.
[quote]eremesu wrote:
there may be more to it though, since the day after i first deadlifted my entire back was sore, from shoulder to tailbone.[/quote]
That’s why I do 'em, you kill 87 birds with one stone.
Out of all the lifts I perform, the deadlift takes the most out of me BY FAR.
[quote]pachell wrote:
eremesu wrote:
there may be more to it though, since the day after i first deadlifted my entire back was sore, from shoulder to tailbone.
That’s why I do 'em, you kill 87 birds with one stone.
Out of all the lifts I perform, the deadlift takes the most out of me BY FAR.
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For me it’s squats but that’s probably because my ROM is huge.
It’s not exactly a mystery. We lift weights to stress the body in order to force it to grow. There’s no other exercise that achieves that goal as well.
[quote]ZeusNathan wrote:
mr popular wrote:
Why deadlift?
It depends on your goals.
i cant think of a single sport or exercise routine that wouldn’t benefit from deadlifts.
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If you are a bodybuilder that has found cable rows, back extensions, and lat pulldowns to work best for adding size to your back, doing deadlifts instead obviously wouldn’t benefit them, would it.
The deadlift is not the be-all-end-all of training…
[quote]mr popular wrote:
If you are a bodybuilder that has found cable rows, back extensions, and lat pulldowns to work best for adding size to your back, doing deadlifts instead obviously wouldn’t benefit them, would it.
The deadlift is not the be-all-end-all of training…[/quote]
Perhaps you’ve mistaken this for the Bodybuilding forum?
