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Low bar squatting and sumo pulling

colingilbert13
colingilbert13 Posts: 10
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Just curious if any one else has found these to be complimentary to each other, I recently switched from conventional deadlift to a sumo deadlift and found it to be way more powerful

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  • hill8570
    hill8570 Posts: 1,466 Member
    Not sure what your question is. Sumo takes a lot of the back out of the lift, so you're turning it into more of a purely leg exercise at that point (which tends to make it overlap with squats more instead of adding additional stuff).
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    edited February 2015
    Sumo doesn't work for me. I also noticed at my comp on saturday that anyone pulling over 200kg was doing it conventional.

    For me, I can sumo at 360#, or conventional to my pr, which is currently 505#. I've been told I should get good at Sumo to complement my conventional, but I don't see the benefit honestly.
  • Shawshankcan
    Shawshankcan Posts: 900 Member
    dbmata wrote: »
    Sumo doesn't work for me. I also noticed at my comp on saturday that anyone pulling over 200kg was doing it conventional.

    For me, I can sumo at 360#, or conventional to my pr, which is currently 505#. I've been told I should get good at Sumo to complement my conventional, but I don't see the benefit honestly.

    The last comp I went to, no one pulling more than 185 pulled sumo
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