Doesn't anybody dead lift?

What the hell is STL?

I am assuming it's St. Louis...

Deadlifts are one of my favorite. So many injuries are due to not picking something up properly, it's kind of silly to leave it out.

To be honest, I've been doing Stronglifts for 5 weeks and never seen anyone dead lift. I've only seen 2 other people do free weight squats plus 3 others doing them using a squat machine. I've seen no one doing a standard press but all 4 bench press stations are normally full with the chesticle guys. I've only seen one other person do rows. If you lift free weights, you are kind of a freak in my fitness centre. Welcome to the freaks:happy:

This^^^^ everytime I go to use the squat rack it's always full!!! very annoying only seems to be open at 7am on sunday morning

There are quite a few people who use the squat rack at my Y. I try to go very early in the morning so I can use it. I've noticed that several load the bar up with a lot of weight then do some circuit that only brings them back about every 20 minutes. I wasn't sure of the etiquette of asking to work in when I'm using so much less weight. Suggestions?

I don't have any advice. I'm too shy to ask them if I can work in

If it really is 20 minutes in between when they're coming back to the rack unload their weight and do your workout. It's all fine and dandy if someone wants to do a circuit but it's completely unreasonable for someone to expect to occupy 3-4 pieces of equipment for an extended period of time.

^I do that - with circuit training and take up 3-6 pieces at a time.

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When someone is standing by something or acts like they need to use it, and I have my weight on it- I smile and tell them to have at it and go help them unrack it- and I just rework that piece back into my routine later in the workout.

If they confront me like a jerk about it, then I apologize for the inconvenience and still let them have it, and help them unrack it.



When I come across something similar and no one is around I simply unrack it all and use it. :bigsmile: and if someone is around I just say hey boss!
'wut up'?
'can I use this while your doing xyz?'
'have at it'
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If someone ends up being a big jerk about it all though AFTER I helped them unrack it, then you better believe I will turn off the nice switch, and become so confrontational and over the top that they never bother to deal with me again. :smokin:

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This made me think of a new version of "Do you even [dead]lift, bro?"

My husband and I both deadlift in our basement. I was getting burned out on it because the bar was KILLING my hands (I am on a keyboard for 8-12 hours a day and they were getting blistered and sore). I just bought lifting gloves, so I'm ready to get back to adding weight.

I do! No one at my gym did, though. Everyone did the leg press including the "trainer" there. He would load up the leg press with obscene amounts of weight. Never seen him squat or dead though. There wasn't even a space to do them so I made my own. Felt like I was in the way. Made our own home gym with cage, bar and weights. Problem solved

Deadlift day is that one magical day when all of the planets align just so and I get to unleash my savagery on a barbell covered in blood, sweat and chalk

I love deadlifting

"There is no reason to be alive if you can't do deadlift!"- Jan Paul Sigmarsson.

Honestly I don't because I can't find the dead lift bar at my gym. I just do squats and leg presses.

I've been deadliting with barbells and dumbbells since day one. IT IS ONLY TODAY that I looked up different deadlifts and saw a picture of someone using what you just called "the deadlift bar." I've seen that bar in the gym and had not a clue as to what it was for.....UNTIL TODAY.

SO, moral of story, you can deadlift without a deadlift bar. However, I CAN'T WAIT to use it the next time I go to the gym.

Are y'all talking about a deadlift bar or a trap bar? BIG difference.

Hell yes I deadlift. It's my favorite lift of all of them. And the one I care about where my numbers are.

If someone told me that for the rest of my life I could only do 1 lift, it would be deadlifts. No second thought.

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same -that or squats.

deadlifts are my favorite!

Honestly I don't because I can't find the dead lift bar at my gym. I just do squats and leg presses.

I've been deadliting with barbells and dumbbells since day one. IT IS ONLY TODAY that I looked up different deadlifts and saw a picture of someone using what you just called "the deadlift bar." I've seen that bar in the gym and had not a clue as to what it was for.....UNTIL TODAY.

SO, moral of story, you can deadlift without a deadlift bar. However, I CAN'T WAIT to use it the next time I go to the gym.

Are y'all talking about a deadlift bar or a trap bar? BIG difference.

It has a hole in it for your body.

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Out of the 20-30 people that are at my gym every morning when I workout, only myself and 2 other people dead-lift on a regular basis.

As others have said, I think a lot of people are afraid of them, because they don't know correct form for them and think they are going to hurt their lower back. I used to have back issues before I deadlifted. Now that I deadlift, my core, hamstring and glutes are much stronger, and I haven't had any back issues in years.

They are great compound exercise that hits a ton of muscle groups. Keep on doing them!

Maybe they're just not dead lifting when you're there.