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    Do you even lift bro

    Posts: 6 Member
    edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
    weight lifting friends, what's your favorite lift and why?

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    • Posts: 209 Member
      Heavy dumbbell deadlifts from the floor with a Fat Gripz handle because its tougher and has done a lot for my grip.
    • Posts: 11,068 Member
      edited June 2015
      Proportionately speaking I'm better at the squat than the bench and the deadlift but it's probably a toss up between squats and deads.

      I get way more frustrated with deadlifts but they are so fun.

      So: Squats or Deads.
    • Posts: 978 Member
      Deadlifts, easily. I also enjoy squats but have been having a hard time with them lately (stupid caloric deficit). Power cleans are great fun, but I’m not as confident with them yet.
    • Posts: 15,573 Member
      Deadlifts. They make me feel the strongest, they're fun, and I don't get as nervous when I'm testing near my max, like I do with squats.

      I dig barbell rows and good mornings too.
    • Posts: 497 Member
      Deadlifts. No real rational reason other than it feels full on beast mode to just pick up as much as you can possibly pick up.

      I suppose the rational part is setting PRs on squat I fear having to actually use the rack, where a DL if its too heavy it's probably not coming off the floor.
    • Posts: 58 Member
      Power Cleans. There's just something inherently awesome about picking up a heavily loaded barbell and racking it on your shoulders. I like Deadlifts and Squats too.
    • Posts: 79 Member
      Squats for sure! Cus my but & thighs.... ;)
    • Posts: 89 Member
      I love the challenge of Squats and Deads but the lift after my heart is the Barbell Hip Thrust. Seeing a direct correlation to adding weight to my lifts and added mass is incredible. Awkward as all hell some times but soooo worth it.
    • Posts: 4,955 Member
      I used to say deads. But these days, bench by far. My form has really come together and it is just feeling awesome these days.
    • Posts: 13 Member
      deads with trapbar. also like rackpulls.
    • Posts: 131 Member
      Bench > deadlift > squat > curls in a squat rack - in that order. Oh and calf raises obviously! :smiley:
    • Posts: 837 Member
      arditarose wrote: »
      Deadlifts. They make me feel the strongest, they're fun, and I don't get as nervous when I'm testing near my max, like I do with squats.

      I dig barbell rows and good mornings too.

      Goodmornings will anialate my legs like nothing else! I like a good squat but I think my favourite is a thruster or clean and press.
    • Posts: 1,626 Member
      A super set of squats makes me feel alive.
    • Posts: 411 Member
      Deads or cleans. I can't decide, they're both so awesome.
    • Posts: 712 Member
      Snatch - The amount of effort that it took to learn and get good at it makes it very rewarding. You need mobility, strength, speed and good timing, more so than most other lifts. Most other lifts you can "get away with it" a little bit, or grind your way through, whereas the snatch (and the jerk to a lesser extent) you either nail it, or it's a miss.

      I still love my squats, deads, presses and pulls of course.
    • Posts: 15,573 Member
      Karen_libert wrote: »
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      Goodmornings will anialate my legs like nothing else! I like a good squat but I think my favourite is a thruster or clean and press.

      Love the good mornings! I add them and hip thrusters to the program I do now.
    • Posts: 7,739 Member
      12 oz. curl.




      Seriously, though, it used to be DL. Nowadays, I think squat. Give me a few months, it might be bench. Nah - it might be DL again, but I don't think it'll ever be bench.
    • Posts: 14,261 Member
      Deadlifts and hip thrusts because I am stronges with those. And then RDLs because I like the way I feel them in my hamstrings.
    • Posts: 17,525 Member
      I think hands down my two favorite things to do are pull ups and arnold presses.

      But- I'm boring- I just squat/DL/bench. I like pause DL's- they are horrible. But so awesome.
    • Posts: 4,334 Member
      I'm starting to like bench now that my weights are improving but I really like deadlifts.
    • Posts: 813 Member
      I love me some squats & deads.
    • Posts: 67 Member
      deadlifts
    • Posts: 4,537 Member
      Probably deads
    • Posts: 3,515 Member
      Probably some form of squat.

      Gun against the head? Probably go with front squatting.

    • Posts: 3,472 Member
      Deadlifts, I'll be able to pull over 300lbs next month. That's not something I ever thought I'd be able to say.
    • Posts: 247 Member
      flat bench for me, love it. or lat raises. love them as well.
    • Posts: 9,003 Member
      Deads, Good Mornings, Over head Press.
    • Posts: 210 Member
      Bench is my all time favorite. I also really like bicep curls, military press, and shrugs.
      another interesting question might be which exercise you hate the most. For me, pretty much anything with abs.
    • Posts: 247 Member
      Bent over barbell rows. Lying leg curls for hamstrings. Hate both of them.

    • Posts: 7,334 Member
      I think I have to chime in with deadlifts too.
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