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    Squats yes but do you also deadlift?

    Posts: 801 Member
    edited January 25 in Fitness and Exercise
    I do squats but the killer for me are deadlifts. Anyone else a big fan of deadlifts? By the time I've warmed up to my working weight I'm covered in sweat by the end of my set.

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    • Posts: 14 Member
      "There is no point in being alive if you cannot do the deadlift."
      -Jon Pall Sigmarsson

      Deadlift and squat compliment each other. Each helps improve the other.
    • Posts: 304 Member
      Opposite for me. I love deadlifts and can rock them like nothing else, squats on the other hand....
    • Posts: 957 Member
      I love deadlift day. LOVE. I feel like a raging she-beast when I pull heavy. I still squat though, mostly because I love the results.
    • Posts: 2,780 Member
      Deadlifts are my favorite thing ever. I don't love squats(though I love the results), but I truly love deadlifts.
    • Posts: 1,192 Member
      I'm opposite of Iulia... I love squats, but I haven't been enjoying deadlifts. I do them for the benefits, but after I finish NROL4W and move on to just doing my own workouts rather than a plan, I'll probably cut deadlifts down to rarely but continue squats often.


      ETA: I still have immense respect for anyone that can do high weight deadlifts (with good form).
    • Posts: 295 Member
      Yes. 100% both.

      I was only doing squats for a short time and although the results were amazing they almost doubled when I started including dead lifts.

      NSFW http://www.goldenfitnesstraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/squats_vs_deadlifts.jpg
    • Posts: 1,623 Member
      I do both. Deadlifts are one of my favorites lifts. Squats=meh but too effective to not incorporate in one's lifting routine.
    • Posts: 522 Member
      I LOVE squats and feel great about the weight amount I can do with them. Dead lifts on the other hand make me feel like a weak suck- I've only just started incorporating them and at this point it's a little pathetic.
    • Posts: 674 Member
      I feel so bad-*kitten* when I deadlift :laugh:
    • Posts: 2,137 Member
      I do squats, I do dead lifts. I prefer dead lifts to the squat machine (hate the machine). However, squats (non-machine) are incorporated into far more things because they are so versatile.
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    • Posts: 5,922 Member
      Deadlifts are king.
    • Posts: 2 Member
      "There is no point in being alive if you cannot do the deadlift."
      -Jon Pall Sigmarsson

      Deadlift and squat compliment each other. Each helps improve the other.

      Not sure you have the background, but I think he also died while performing a deadlift.
    • Posts: 1,992 Member
      squats will always be my first love. not currently doing standard deadlifts, but i'm looking forward to getting back to those.
      don't forget about barbell hip thrusts those are magic!
    • Posts: 341 Member
      I love deadlifts, but I prefer the deadlift bar over the barbell. Not sure if one works better than the other or not.
    • Posts: 588 Member
      "There is no point in being alive if you cannot do the deadlift."
      -Jon Pall Sigmarsson

      Deadlift and squat compliment each other. Each helps improve the other.

      ^^ Yep... do both!
    • Posts: 86 Member
      I love both equally and do them in conjunction.
    • Posts: 1,857 Member
      Oh yes, I love dead lifting! :love: :love: :love:
    • Posts: 16,913 Member
      Yes. Deadlifts could be useless (They aren't, of course) And I would do them because I feel like a badass and feeling like a badass makes me happy.
    • Posts: 341 Member
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      Not sure you have the background, but I think he also died while performing a deadlift.

      Jón Páll Sigmarsson died on the 16th January 1993 of a heart attack. He was deadlifting in his gym in Iceland when he suffered the heart attack, caused, it is thought, by a traumatic aortic rupture which was related to a weakened heart, a problem that was known to exist in his family
    • Posts: 304 Member
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      Not sure you have the background, but I think he also died while performing a deadlift.

      "Jón Páll Sigmarsson died on the 16th January 1993 of a heart attack. He was deadlifting in his gym in Iceland when he suffered the heart attack, caused, it is thought, by a traumatic aortic rupture which was related to a weakened heart." -Wikipedia
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      Jón Páll Sigmarsson died on the 16th January 1993 of a heart attack. He was deadlifting in his gym in Iceland when he suffered the heart attack, caused, it is thought, by a traumatic aortic rupture which was related to a weakened heart, a problem that was known to exist in his family

      People choke on food, crash their cars, slip in the tub and die during sex too... what's your point?

      Don't eat, drive, bathe, or ****?
    • Posts: 304 Member
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      People choke on food, crash their cars, slip in the tub and die during sex too... what's your point?

      Don't eat, drive, bathe, or ****?

      I was just curious and decided to look it up. I lvoe deadlifts. lol
    • Posts: 1,992 Member
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      Jón Páll Sigmarsson died on the 16th January 1993 of a heart attack. He was deadlifting in his gym in Iceland when he suffered the heart attack, caused, it is thought, by a traumatic aortic rupture which was related to a weakened heart, a problem that was known to exist in his family

      what a way to go. that's how I want it, either lifting or doing something else i love, or sleeping.
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      what a way to go. that's how I want it, either lifting or doing something else i love, or sleeping.

      Epic and Ironic all at the same time...
    • Posts: 2,819 Member
      I do deadlifts. But I worry about my back.
    • Posts: 2 Member
      Redhead nailed it - the point is....Jon Pall Sigmarsson qoute in combination of how he died makes it "epic and ironic" at the same time. That doesn't happen very often.
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    • Posts: 515 Member
      Love me some deads!
    • Posts: 511 Member
      Yes. I've recently started doing the single leg deadlifts for the butt, butt, butt. (trying to make Cisco proud)

      http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/GluteusMaximus/BBSingleLegStiffLegDeadlift.html
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