55 Reasons Why the Deadlift Exercise is
the Best of All Time
The deadlift exercise is the best exercise of all time. After
reading these 55 reasons why, you won’t be able to debate it.
1. Back pain can stem
from weak glutes.
2. Back pain can also
come from weak spinal erectors that cannot maintain a specific position. Deadlifts
train the spine to remain stable while
exposed to stupidly high shear forces, and thus making you Superman.
3. Chicks dig guys with
strong powerful glutes
4. Guys dig chicks with
strong powerful glutes
5. (Some) guys dig
guys with strong powerful glutes
6. (Way more) chicks
dig chicks with strong powerful glutes
7. Deadlifts are a
total body exercise, working muscles from your toenails to your hair follicles.
8. It gives short guys
a way to feel superior to tall guys.
9. It gives tall guys
another reason to hate short guys.
10. No matter how
many times you’ve done it, you can always do it better.
11. 2 words: Zercher
Deadlifts
12. Very few people
qualify to be able to do a deadlift as the required mobility from the hips,
thoracic spine and ankles is incredibly high. This means I’ll be kept busy for
a very long time teaching and fixing people who pull stuff like this.
13. Your
testosterone will spike with each 1 rep max, roughly 13246% your regular
walking around levels, which means you’ll be more likely to impregnate casual
observers with nothing more than an icy stare, disrupt gang fights with your
mere presence, and become the next supplier of Red Bull by bottling your urine.
14. Squats don’t have
the same effect on the scapula and rotator cuff in terms of their stability and
ability to withstand distraction forces. This makes deadlifting a great rotator
cuff exercise, while requiring a lot from the lower body.
15. The most enjoyable
things in life require triple extension from the hips, knees and ankles. In the most pure form, we could say
deadlifts are Darwinian, rewarding those who have exceeded in developing strong
hip extension capacity.
16. The endorphin
release from 1 rep of deadlifts is on par with runner’s high, meaning you can
get the same fix with 1/100 the amount of time investment, and you can wear way
cooler clothes too.
17. I would argue with
anyone that your lats are the most important muscle group in your body.
Deadlifts work the hell out of them in multiple planes.
18. Every athlete can
improve at almost every dimension of their sport by becoming better at
deadlifting.
19. “My back is
weak/sore” is a reason to do deadlifts, not a reason to avoid them.
20. No crunch could
train the abs to work as hard or to become as hypertrophied as learning how to
breathe and brace for a max pull.
21. Your back gets
shredded!
22. Every pushing
movement requires hip extension, whether you believe it or not. Hence
deadlifting can increase your bench press.
23. Women can deliver babies easier by having control of the creation of intraabdominal pressure,
a strong pelvic floor, and can survive the rigours of delivery with fewer soft
tissue injuries by having a strong deadlift prior to third trimester, and those
who are very strong prior to conception will likely deliver a baby that slaps
the hell out of the doctor and changes their own diapers. That’s science.
24. No matter how
awesome you think you are, you need to deadlift with chains.
25. Growth hormone
release is at its’ highest following maximal resistance training exercise that
encompasses the greatest amount of muscle mass.
26. If you’re a guy
who has trouble adding muscle, heavy deadlifts will help you out due to the
testosterone and growth hormone alterations, which play on muscle hypertrophy.
27. Sorry ladies, you don’t have enough testosterone to get big from doing heavy
deadlifts alone. Female body builders
need a lot more than heavy deadlifts to gain size.
28. Bruce Lee did
deadlifts with Franco Columbu. Chuck Norris did the Total Gym with Christie
Brinkley. That is why Chuck Norris is now a series of jokes, and why Bruce Lee
is no joke.
29. Kim Kardashian
went to Gunnar Peterson. He said she had to do deadlifts. Then she went to Tracy
Anderson who said she didn’t have to do deadlifts. At that very point in time
her series was renewed on television. Hence, deadlifts could have saved us from
another season of “Keeping up with the Kardashians.” This is reason enough.
30. Short lifters can
develop more strength due to higher degrees of torque through shorter levers,
whereas taller lifters can develop more velocity due to higher bar speeds at
the same relative speed if measured in degrees per second at the hip joint, due
to their longer levers.
31. Chicks dig long
levers.
32. Marathon runners need to do deadlifts to develop a kickand to improve velocity, efficiency, stride
length, and sprinting power, all things important to running fast and to make
your body more efficient.
33. Biceps are
incredibly active during deadlifts, as they keep your elbow from distracting
itself apart, and provide anterior shoulder stability. If you want arms, lift
something heavy.
34. Deadlifting helps
you poop better. You want to poop better. Trust me.
35. The development of
intra-abdominal pressure helps train pelvic floor muscles and stimulate the
colon to produce peristaltic wave contractions, which helps you to poop. Told
you.
36. Power and strength
are the two defining characteristics that, when lost, determine function on old
age. Losing power and strength limits your ability to do everything, from standing
and sitting on the toilet to getting in and out of a car, to climbing stairs,
and even breathing. Heavy deadlifts, when done properly, can help retain and
even gain strength and power through the entire body, which improves functional
outcome measures in old age, which promotes independence.
37. It’s totally more
functional than anything you could ever hope to do on a bosu unless you could
find a way to pull a max weight deadlift on a bosu — which is impossible.
38. To paraphrase
Charlie Weingroff, a perfect deadlift is a mythical beast that you can’t really
define unless you see one. It’s sort of like a unicorn. What is a unicorn? A
horse with a horn sticking out of its’ head. What is a deadlift? A heavy-ass
weight pull of the floor to standing. You’ll know a perfect one when you see
it, and you really know an ugly one when you see it.
39. No other exercise
has potential side effects like massive nose bleeds, reddened eyes, and
possible projectile vomit.
40. Nothing builds
muscle thickness and density more than heavy deadlifts. This feature is what
gives people the long-yearned after “tone.”
41. Deadlifts have a
greater affect on cardiopulmonary health than common cardio exercise, much in
the same way that building a high-rise tower to withstand a 7.0 earthquake also
helps prevent damage during a moderate windstorm.
42. Side raises with
15 pound dumbells won’t build deltoids in anywhere close to the same scale as
when those same deltoids are screaming in your ear as they try to prevent your
shoulders from ripping out of their sockets.
43. Contrary to popular
belief, heavy deadlifts are not bad for your low back. Piss-poor deadlifts, be
they heavy or light, are demonstrably destructive to your low back.
44. The ability to
develop strength and stability through the lumbar spinal muscles is one of the
primary factors in preventing lumbar discogenic issues, as it helps buffer
shear forces the disc is exposed to, which if left unchecked could result in a
bulge, herniation, or even spondylolisthesis.
45. Deadlifts build
the strength and stability of lumbar spinal muscles.
46. Lifting heavy
weights through a stable and static base of support lets the core muscles work
a lot harder and become more stable than any unstable surface could ever hope
for.
47. Crunches can’t work the entire
core the way deadlifts can, nor can you ever look cool doing them. Also, you’re
not relegated to the corner of the gym to do them. You get to hang out in the
cool kids area.
48. A powerful
deadlifter has the hip mobility necessary to do the splits.
49. If you expect your
milkshake to bring all the boys to the yard, you’d better have some deadlifts
under your belt to give them a reason to walk on the grass.
50. One of the only
exercises that can develop depth and thickness to the upper traps and mid back
is heavy deadlifts.
51. Fat burning
capability is dependent on the metabolically active tissue, as well as the rate
of activity within that tissue. By having extra muscle mass and by having it
cranked up to high neural activity means you have a greater chance of burning
fat and getting lean if you lift heavy.
52. I had clients
deadlifting bodyweight after abdominal reconstructive surgery. This helps to
reduce the risk that they may have any follow-up issues, and will reduce their
risk of re-injury and more surgeries.
53. Max weight lifts help you see
God. After each set you see a bright light, and are usually tempted to walk
towards it. That’s what this guy did.
54. Sitting in the groove of a flawless deadlift is like
being in the Matrix. It doesn’t feel real, and everything is kinda tinted
green.
55. Seriously, why are
you still reading this and not deadlifting?? Grab the bar and make like you’re
in Oz and you got the top bunk.
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