Is The Sumo Deadlift Cheating? Kenny KO Seems To Think So
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🗓️ 5 May 2023
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In this reaction video, Pete Rubish, Mark Bell, Nsima Inyang, and Andrew Zaragoza talk about whether or not the sumo deadlift is cheating, prompted by a reel that Kenny KO put out on his instagram page.
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Is The Sumo Deadlift Cheating? Kenny KO Seems To Think So
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| 0:00.0 | Many guys who pull heavy sumo can pull a great number conventional, but I don't know |
| 0:08.6 | if maybe I have a sumo bias, but I don't see much the other way around. |
| 0:13.2 | Yeah, that's the thing I've seen conventional, so we'll back down in it, where a sumo's |
| 0:16.8 | more quad, so it's just different muscle groups. |
| 0:18.8 | So there's downsides and positive beach. |
| 0:21.4 | To say that it's cheating though, I mean, I get it, I think people are just having fun, |
| 0:25.3 | but I also think to your point, like a lot of the people that are dead lifting extraordinary |
| 0:29.2 | weights, sumo are also very capable deadlifters period, right? |
| 0:33.2 | Sumo is cheating. |
| 0:34.2 | Person who is weak but wants to feel righteous, shut the fuck up and you just get strong. |
| 0:39.8 | Guys, sumo deadlift, do we think it's a legitimate deadlift? |
| 0:44.0 | And first off, what are your best pulls? |
| 0:46.3 | Let's start there. |
| 0:47.3 | We got Pete Rubich, the OG conventional king here. |
| 0:49.4 | What's your best pulls? |
| 0:51.3 | Best deadlifts in training, 920, 920 pounds and it means? |
| 0:54.8 | Conventional? |
| 0:55.8 | Yeah, conventional, of course. |
| 0:56.8 | 871 in a meet. |
| 0:57.8 | Okay. |
| 0:58.8 | So I don't have a great comparison because I got a 705 regular conventional deadlift |
| 1:04.2 | in a 766 sumo deadlift, but that was really cheating because I was in a squat suit as |
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