A “deadlift” is simply any exercise where you lift an object off the ground without momentum. When done correctly, this compound exercise can help you develop power, strength, muscle mass, full body activation, core stability, better posture, and improved grip strength. Despite these benefits, many people avoid this exercise because of the risk of …
The Movement: How Discovery Deadlift Gained Momentum
Main | Part 1: The Idea | Part 2: The Lift | Part 3: The Movement | Lifting and Mental Health | The Benefits of Working Out on Mental Health | Exercise and Brain Physiology If you’re scrolling through your feed and see a big, bearded dude deadlifting near a waterfall, your first reaction might naturally be, “What …
How To Deadlift: Layne Norton's Complete Guide
This Is the Best Way for Tall Guys to Deadlift
It’s easy to look at the conventional barbell deadlift and think it’s the weight room’s great equalizer. After all, it’s just a bar on the ground and everyone has to pull it from the same height, right? Uh, wrong. Once you’re up above 6 feet, especially 6-foot-4 and above like Canadian strength coach Lee …
The Sumo Deadlift from the Ground Up with Stefi Cohen
The sumo deadlift is the black sheep of all deadlift movements. It’s the misunderstood cousin of the conventional deadlift, and it gets a lot of hate, primarily by noncompetitive lifters. In my opinion, there is no controversy surrounding the sumo deadlift—just a joke taken completely out of context. The anti-sumo proponents believe that the …
Conventional vs. Sumo: What's the Best Way to Deadlift?
With a doctorate in physiology, post-doctoral research at Yale, and an encyclopedia of muscle and strength to his name, Jim Stoppani, Ph.D., is someone to pay attention to when you want to learn how to do an exercise correctly. And what better exercise to master than the deadlift? As Stoppani says, the deadlift is considered […]