Deadlifts are not worth the risks? | Topic Thunder
50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD
Jim McDonald
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🗓️ 17 February 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Our panel tries to find agreement (or not) with the suggestion that training deadlifts the risks if you’re not a competitive powerlifter.
Are they actually dangerous? Or are there just better ways to spend your training time?
Joe Stanek and Nico Flores of Gameday Barbell joined us in addressing this question. You can find Joe on TikTok @joegameday and Nico @nicoflores83kg on Instagram and TikTok
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| 0:00.0 | I |
| 0:09.4 | Ladies and gentlemen welcome to topic |
| 0:11.4 | Fenny |
| 0:17.0 | I like that one better we're here with the game that's the same one |
| 0:19.4 | I think he's got just a thousand fucking federal nightings on there the fuck you like that one this isn't the top 10 hits |
| 0:29.6 | Fucking thunder |
| 0:34.3 | That thunder really did |
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| 0:46.3 | Deadlifts |
| 0:48.3 | Aren't worth it |
| 0:50.9 | Unless you're specifically training to get a stronger deadlift now a lot of people say this |
| 0:55.8 | And they're talking about risk and reward. I don't know what the reward is and I don't know what worth it is first |
| 1:02.0 | Are we on the same page or are we not on the same page? Oh, what do you think it's not worth it? |
| 1:05.7 | I don't think it's worth it. Oh, what do you think it's worth? |
| 1:07.9 | I mean, I just think it's good to be like generally strong picking shit up off the ground |
| 1:12.8 | It feels like it that's the only one that's actually |
| 1:14.7 | Avocable to anything in the real world. Yeah, I'm not a real lift. All right |
| 1:18.8 | So I think us three are against Nico, you know, I'm not gonna get you guys in all right |
| 1:22.1 | So what do you got what what's it and what's the risk? I mean honestly what's your goal? |
| 1:27.8 | It is probably a stronger physique. Okay, a stronger physique |
| 1:33.0 | Generally stronger the or strong strong physique but muscle like development. Oh, yeah, let's go very broad |
| 1:38.0 | Let's say it |
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