unless you powerlift or something it's fucking stupid, high risk low aesthetic payoff, variations of DL like RDL are better for pure aesthetics
blown knees and pulled hamstrings are unlikely unless you really fuck up, but if you deadlift for long enough you will probably have some issues at one point or another
only after 6 years of deadlifting did i start getting occasional SI joint pain and other garbage but that's just inevitable when you've been a 500+ puller for years
Matthew Anderson
You'll have issues no matter what as you age, someone who builds a strong back and body with deadlifting will deteriorate much slower than someone who doesn't.
Matthew Cruz
>Well I hope a pulled hamstring, herniated disks, blown out knee and waking up with a new strain in your back every morning is worth it for "strength". get a standing desk, stop sitting for 1.5 more or hours straight and get proper form and that won't be an issue
Julian Wilson
Deadlift is THE most useful skill you might have IRL. Think about it, when will you EVER use your muscles IRL? When moving furniture. And when you're doing that, you'll be deadlifting. You'll need that grip strength to grab that shit tight and if you did it with proper form in the gym, you'll never fuck up your spine.
I've seen mostly women fuck up their spines by trying to lift 15-20 kg objects. Nothing much, but they did it with such a horrible form that it fucked them up.
That's why you do deadlifts, so that doesn't happen to you.
Caleb Nguyen
deadlifts have fuck all carryover to moving furniture 1. furniture is fucking light 2. furniture is volumetrically large and awkward, so you will need assistance anyway if the CG of the object is too far away from you 3. furniture is not a perfectly balanced cylindrical barbell with spinning collars to prevent torque at your wrists
there will be no difference in your furniture-moving performance if you don't deadlift as long as your program isn't totally stupid and you do some type of upper body pulling and do squats or something, stop looking for muh functional strength because strength is highly joint angle and bracing pattern specific anyway (which is incidentally why rippetoe harps on about how effective training for athletes does not have to resemble what they do in their sport)
Bentley Walker
>deadlifts for building traps
John Thompson
yes because
>much better posture >nice ass >ripped legs
are not aesthetic. sure thing bro.
Jordan Butler
>giving a fuck about faggy "aesthetics"
Camden Martin
Deadlifting is fun. Squatting is fun. Benching is fun.
