Re: A question on deadlifts (Chris Dahms)

[Guest guest]

I'd like to point out that Kenny Croxdale (the writer of the article

I was referring to, or rather misqoteing) did not say this.

So - to make it completely clear - the absurd person is me, and I

apologise again.

Ulf Karlsson

Halmstad, Sweden

> It's really absurd to claim that the two Olympic lifters never

deadlifted,

> the first pull of the snatch and the clean is more or less a

deadlift.

>

> I think there is some merit to reducing the volume of deadlifts

when a high

> volume of squats and good mornings are being performed, but not

because the

> deadlift puts too much strain on the spinal erectors, all these

exercises

> strain the spinal erectors.

>

> Dahms

> Boston, USA

>

> >I recently read an artcile on the Internet that said that in order

to

> >make gains in the deadlifts, don't do them (just occasionally), but

> >stick to squats and good mornings. The logic of this was that doing

> >deadlifts frequently puts too much strain on the spinal erectors

and

> >inhibits recovery. (The example given in the article was two

olypmic

> >weight lifters who beat all the powerlifters in a meet, and they

had

> >never done a deadlift, the author said, in their whole

lives /which I

> >doubt/. But OK, let's say that hey never had performed an actual

> >deadlift, but wouldn't the initial pull in a clean put the same

> >stress on the spinal erectors as a deadlift?)

> >

> >What's you take on this?

> >

> >Ulf Karlsson

> >Halmstad, Sweden