Help me love deadlifts ! Benefits,please? !

Advice: don't do a bunch of other leg work before deadlifts. A little to warm up? Sure. But keep the smaller stuff (such as lunges) for after deadlifts.

i love deadlifts.

for crafty:

Benefits? How about it allows you to use more combined muscle mass to lift more weight than pretty much any other exercise in existence?

On the don't do other exercises before deadlifts... if you are squatting, I would do that before deadlifting so your lower back isn't fatigued. Otherwise deadlift first.

warm up do Deadlifts first, and only once a week.

They are awesome because they are onto themselves awesome.

why 100 lunges?

and dead lifts are fantastic- you can pull an obscene amount of weight off the floor- it's fabulous. why would you NOT want to do that!!

plus they are good for you bootay. and back. and abs. it's like a win win all the way around.

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When you can DL your bodyweight + what's not to love...I roar when I am done with mine...

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Deadlifts are definitely my first exercise of the day (with adequate warmup, of course). In fact, despite it being so tiring, its become my favorite exercise. I just hit a new PR of 350lbs yesterday.. and I'm still pumped about it!

Deadlifts work more of your body than probably any other exercise - period. Its a true full-body workout unto itself.

I'm in the basement, I've put them off to the end, can someone give some advice to get me through this please !?? Thanks to anyone who responds. ( I just did 100 lunges, feel like I NEED the DLs right)

1 - If you're wanting to maximize the benefits of the DL you should be doing them at the beginning. It is a pure strength building lift which requires a "clean" CNS to optimize your lift.

2 - If you do anything before you DL, it shouldn't be a bunch of other rando leg work. DLs are a primary lift, not an accessory or supplemental lift...if you must, do that other **** later, but I advise against it if you are a noob. You don't need to do all that assistance work and that stuff will often interfere with proper recovery

3 - Dead Lifts are arguably one of the best (if not best) full body exercise you can possibly do...you are working it all, from the calves all the way up through your core and further up the arms and into the rear delts and traps. It is the definitive "fully body" lift.

4 - Low rep, heavy deads are going to do more to sculpt and "tone" your body than all of the lunges in the world. Much more efficiently too

5 - Lunges are a great exercise...there is really no reason to do 100 of them though. Even if you're going for muscular endurance, 100 lunges is way overkill.

Deadlifts are awesome! Aside from working basically EVERYTHING in a single no-other-equipment-required move, they make it possible to do all kinds of other practical things -- like moving your own furniture, carrying all the groceries in a single trip from the car, picking up a stubborn squirming squalling toddler... and other things you might rather do, like running faster/longer and jumping higher. And wearing boatneck shirts without looking ridiculous, and building a nice layer of muscle to protect your spine. And yes, the first time you pull your body weight makes you feel like a total badass.

All that said, I would not do deadlifts with the kind of fatigue and tightness I'd probably have after doing 100+ lunges... that's exactly what caused me to pull my lower back and have to spend several weeks sleeping with a pillow under my knees and doing Pilates mat exercises instead of those wonderful deadlifts. I would ditch the 100+ lunges, not the deadlifts.

Do deadlifts first! It'll get you all pumped up.

This is Sara of the ETP group doing her 325lb deadlift that she got an APA Award for. I don't have access to barbells, but I hope one day I will because I'd love to work on getting around to being able to deadlift around this weight.

her happy dance. I did the same this week with my deadlift PR (though mine wasn't nearly as impressive as 325 lbs!)

NEVER do deadlifts last.

Stop. Don't do them today. You may injure yourself. Start with them. It's a big lift and should go first (after a warm-up)

That said, get on Youtube, watch a bunch of videos on form, and go do them tomorrow.

Your shoulders will get stronger. Your back will get stronger. Your abs will get stronger. Your glutes will get stronger. Your hamstrings will get stronger. Your calves will get stronger. Your quads will get stronger. Your forearms will get stronger.

^It is definitely an awesome compound exercise.

But OP, maybe you should research more into strength training in general. Some great reads (especially for lifting and beginners) are Starting Strength, Stronglifts, and NROL.

How I feel during deadlifting after doing 100+ lunges...

and this.