Get Your Back into Your Lifting - The Diigo Meta page

• 27 Oct 08
  

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  • I’m becoming a deadlift supremacist more and more. Louie Simmons recently  wrote in Powerlifting USA, “A weak man has a weak back, and a strong man  has a strong back. It’s that simple.” Today’s gyms contain few examples of this  fundamental fact. In the American male’s preoccupation with supine, anterior  upper body strength—that is, the bench press—many neglect the vital importance  of posterior upper body strength.
  • I realize that deadlifts aren’t popular in most gyms. (Some gyms even ban  them!) They’re not popular for the same reason that real squats aren’t  popular—deadlifts are tough. You have to stay on your feet, coordinate an  immense amount of muscle, and tap into primal identity. Deadlifting is a  systemically taxing movement that does not tolerate candy asses.

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