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Thread: Is deadlift the best exercise for functional and practical strength?

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Is deadlift the best exercise for functional and practical strength?

If not then what is?
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Farmers carry or pushing around a heavy wheelbarrow.
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just lift to look good you cuck. sloots don't care how much you deadlift
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Stone loading or picking up and moving any kind of heavy irregular objects would be best for overall functional strength.

For strictly barbell exercise, squatting is superior to deadlift.
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Originally Posted By Drew23⏩
Stone loading or picking up and moving any kind of heavy irregular objects would be best for overall functional strength.

For strictly barbell exercise, squatting is superior to deadlift.
Front or back squat?
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I'd probably say any sort of loaded carry and some other strongman stuff

For example, yoke carries, lifting stones, farmers walk, sled pushing/pulling, they require you to be strong all-around and work all muscles of the body

obviously it depends what you define as "functional" and strength is specific to what you're doing.
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post 1633316843 03-09-2021, 08:27 AM
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clean and jerk offs work best for me
post 1633316893 03-09-2021, 08:28 AM
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Nothing with free weights, sorry OP.

The most functional thing you could possibly do is get a ruck, throw it on your back and go running. Then learn to do math while you are dead tired to train your mind to work during high heart rates. Nothing else actually matters.
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Originally Posted By sooby⏩
I'd probably say any sort of loaded carry and some other strongman stuff

For example, yoke carries, lifting stones, farmers walk, sled pushing/pulling, they require you to be strong all-around and work all muscles of the body

obviously it depends what you define as "functional" and strength is specific to what you're doing.
Obviously farm work and manual labor type stuff is best, maybe stuff that could help you in a fight.
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Training with heavy sandbags in various lifting movements and carrying positions is probably up there as far as functional strength goes but sounds pretty miserable.
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Originally Posted By KingNothing95⏩
Front or back squat?
If you want to really get full functionality, I would clean or zercher from the floor up to a front squat. If you want maximum load, back squat.
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Deadlifts can be incrementally loaded though. Dips are better than bench press but bench can be incrementally loaded. If we're going to go down the functional rabbithole, any sort of sport > any exercise but again, how do you incrementally load a sport?

Also hard to make a one size fits all statement for squat > deadlift. If someone is a basketball lanklet with long ass legs, squats might not be so good. If someone is an athlete in a sport with both strength and endurance demands, they may need to keep their legs fresh.
I don't think any one barbell movement is best for overall strength. OP was about functional and practical strength, not sport or athlete specific.
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Arguably, forearm and grip strength is the most important

Therefore death grip wanks are the most effective exercise
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Yes and its also one of the most prone to injure you. Frankly, unless you are trying to compete in deadlift at meets or whatever it isnt worth doing at all.
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Well the definition of functional depends on your personal situation for example if you’re married or have a live in girlfriend you’re probably better off doing plunger reps to prepare yourself for tackling the clogged toilets that will be produced by her enormous chocolate keister beasts
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IDK, what lifts do juiced MMA fighters do?
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Originally Posted By KingNothing95⏩
Obviously farm work and manual labor type stuff is best, maybe stuff that could help you in a fight.
sounds kinda obvious but learning how to fight is going to help you in a fight lol

basically any movement that has carry over to punching/kicking/grappling harder which can be any number of various movements, technique however takes precedence over this than weights.

most of their workouts are a mixture of strength and conditioning as well as sparring, drilling techniques, practice etc. Lifting weights definitely helps but isn't the biggest part of it.
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Originally Posted By sooby⏩
sounds kinda obvious but learning how to fight is going to help you in a fight lol

basically any movement that has carry over to punching/kicking/grappling harder which can be any number of various movements, technique however takes precedence over this than weights.

most of their workouts are a mixture of strength and conditioning as well as sparring, drilling techniques, practice etc. Lifting weights definitely helps but isn't the biggest part of it.
So probably grip strength?
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No, probably shrugs. If done right its a goat exercise.
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Hard time seeing how deadlifts don't damage your back long term.
Just seems to create a fulcrum on your spine.
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Originally Posted By KingNothing95⏩
So probably grip strength?
No, everything. Strength is strength. Muscle memory utilizes said strength.
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Originally Posted By KingNothing95⏩
If not then what is?
For functional and practical strength I’d lean towards the snatch
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While I admit this will NOT give you the GOAT aesthetics, just doing heavy squats, deadlifts, rows, chins, bench and overhead press, each once or twice per week will give you tremendous functional strength and prophylax against injury. Wouldn't pick just one. If I had to, I guess it'd be deep squats, second would be dead
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All of you are wrong. One arm smith machine bench is...
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