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Expert: Vveth Hammer - 11/4/2009
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Hi. I asked you about deadlifting a while ago because I was finding it hart to do conventional.
I have decided to return to my more natural feeling sumo style. However my ego hurts, sumo seems to get a bad reputation as it's "easier". I'm not a powerlifter. I want power and size for rugby, I want to hit harder, so will doing high volume sumo deads and overhead presses give me the goals I want? Please make me feel better about doing sumo lol.
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not everyone is built exactly the same, if we were, you and I wouldn't prefer sumo-deadlifts.
people are full to the brim with misconceptions about lifting and about the lifts, even if they've done them forever. most of those making stupid remarks about which deadlift is "better" are doing benchpresses which are about 70% easier than overhead pressing, and IF they imagine they should squat, are doing the worst leverage lift you can ever do. just this past saturday I watched a guy benching his ego lift weight of 315 pounds..as he worked up to it I slowly worked up to the same weight doing pushpress behind the head. I couldn't help myself but to ask him if he could lift 315 OFF THE FLOOR, I already knew he could never press it overhead. he left very soon afterwards mumbling something about it not being "back" day....do the lifts that you're suited to and pile on the weight, let the pumpers and posers do their ego rhetoric and prance their way through useless workouts...
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