Get Your Back into Your Lifting

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Palindrome on 2008-10-27 - Tags deadlift , exercise , weightlifting , fitness , health

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I’m becoming a deadlift supremacist more and more. Louie Simmons recently wrote in Powerlifting USA, “A weak man has a weak back, and a strong man has a strong back. It’s that simple.” Today’s gyms contain few examples of this fundamental fact. In the American male’s preoccupation with supine, anterior upper body strength—that is, the bench press—many neglect the vital importance of posterior upper body strength.

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I realize that deadlifts aren’t popular in most gyms. (Some gyms even ban them!) They’re not popular for the same reason that real squats aren’t popular—deadlifts are tough. You have to stay on your feet, coordinate an immense amount of muscle, and tap into primal identity. Deadlifting is a systemically taxing movement that does not tolerate candy asses.