Which deadlift do you pull? Conventional or Sumo (butt)

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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,867 Member
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    I do a lot of Oly work so I pull from the ground constantly on those lifts. I do traditional "heavy" dead lifts only occasionally...maybe a few times per month because I get so much volume as is...I do more Romanians than anything.
  • Willbenchforcupcakes
    Willbenchforcupcakes Posts: 4,955 Member
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    Warchortle wrote: »
    Nice, I like the idea of modified sumo for the greater recruitment of the quads. Breaking the floor can be a real pain in the *kitten* (literally) with sumo with ultra wide stances.

    Breaking from the floor is never my issue regardless of what stance I use. Man I miss my heavy deads
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
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    Sumo
  • Murphles1210
    Murphles1210 Posts: 16 Member
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    Stiff legged
  • zipa78
    zipa78 Posts: 354 Member
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    Conventional and stiff legged/Romanian.
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
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    conventional....sumo feels bizarre
  • whatatime2befit
    whatatime2befit Posts: 625 Member
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    conventional
  • LolBroScience
    LolBroScience Posts: 4,537 Member
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    Sumo, and rarely Conventional (mostly from a deficit).
  • KickboxFanatic
    KickboxFanatic Posts: 184 Member
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    Sumo, Romanian, conventional, rack pulls, deficits, trapbar, paused, double paused. They all go into my programming but for competition heavy lifts I pull conventional.
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,442 Member
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    Iron_Miss_Canada wrote: »
    Modified sumo. Hands are just on the knurling, legs just outside the hands. Works best for me.

    This - due to hip issues.
  • AllanMisner
    AllanMisner Posts: 4,140 Member
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    Both.

    Allan Misner
    NASM Certified Personal Trainer (Corrective Exercise Specialist, Fitness Nutrition Specialist)
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  • ew_david
    ew_david Posts: 3,473 Member
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    Main strength lift is conventional; Sumo for my hypertrophy work, but this may change. Stiff leg f'd my back up the week of Christmas, so at the moment I'm not pulling anything [sad panda]
  • sistrsprkl
    sistrsprkl Posts: 1,013 Member
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    Conventional bc I do SL and have no idea how to sumo or any other variety.
  • giantrobot_powerlifting
    giantrobot_powerlifting Posts: 2,598 Member
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    Conventional.
  • SonyaCele
    SonyaCele Posts: 2,841 Member
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    in training i pull both along with other variations, but in competition i pull conventional, i'm much stronger that way.
  • GiddyupTim
    GiddyupTim Posts: 2,819 Member
    edited January 2016
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    In a video, Alan Thrall says that there are advantages to doing Romanian deadlifts over conventional when you are just doing a workout. No, you cannot lift as heavy. But he thinks it is easier to load your hams and glutes, which are muscles you want to be working. Otherwise you tend to cheat with your quads and/or only use your lower back.
    I dunno. But I had been trying it.
  • piperdown44
    piperdown44 Posts: 958 Member
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    Mostly conventional but I'll occasionally throw in sumo.
    My body mechanics have me listed for either but I started years ago with conventional and it "feels" right.
  • Warchortle
    Warchortle Posts: 2,197 Member
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    I don't really like donuts.
    >_>
  • Carlos_421
    Carlos_421 Posts: 5,132 Member
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    _Mistah_J wrote: »
    There isn't a deadlift I don't pull. Why limit yourself? That's like only eating ONE kind of doughnut. It's just wrong.

    99% of the time I'm going to go straight glazed.

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