Rakul Preet Singh recently sustained an injury while attempting a deadlift. In a video, she shares that not listening to her body and pushing herself too hard landed her in bed. Bollywood actress Rakul Preet Singh, known for her fitness, recently sustained a back injury while performing an 80 kg deadlift without a back belt. […]
Both squats and deadlifts are compound exercises that target several muscle groups at a time to perform a movement. But is one better than another? Let us find out. Squats and deadlifts are two of the most popular exercises in strength training. Both target major muscle groups and are essential for building strength, muscle mass, […]
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 …
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 …
For the first half of my career as a lifter, I avoided deadlifts. Why? They were hard, and I just really didn’t want to do them. Sound familiar? Then I decided that my back needed to be brought up to the same level as the rest of my body, and consistently started incorporating deadlifts …
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 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 …
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 […]
Let's take a trip back in time. How far? Back before the gym was cluttered with dudes with camera crews, and stick figure lifters who strain harder for a selfie than they do during a set of squats.Back then, before the … [Read More...]