The Golden One: Deadlifts. Can you get M A S S I V E without them?
My personal bests: Deadlift: 252,5 kg. Squat: 235 kg. Bench: 180 kg (170 kg with a pause) both bench lifts are on this channel :-).
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Greetings, today we're gonna admire how glorious and magnificent I am.
Greetings!
It is of paramount importance that we retake Jerusalem.
In addition to doing that, I want to answer a commonly asked question that a lot of juicy pale orcs are wondering, and that is if you can attain Dark Enlightenment without doing deadlifts.
And now, let me elaborate a bit on deadlifts.
Deadlifts are magical in the sense that there aren't quite any other exercise that is as testosteronous to perform when you go for your one rep max deadlifts and get it up.
It's absolutely glorious.
It's a bit like retaking Jerusalem, as it were.
Now, obviously, a lot of guys don't want to retake Jerusalem, or they can't retake Jerusalem for whatever reason.
So, they have to do as Richard a Lionheart and obtain a lot of other victories.
They are glorious, but they can't quite replace Jerusalem.
And that is how you can view deadlifts as well.
So, if you want to build a massive back, deadlift is your primary exercise.
However, I realize full well that you know, some guys have hurt their back, some guys simply aren't built in a way that you know you can do deadlifts with great results.
So, I'm gonna go through some other things you can do to attain glory without doing deadlifts.
So, first of all, we have to look at deadlift as a heavy basic compound exercise.
Now, if you can't do deadlifts, you have to focus more on the squats.
And now, it's like, oh, you know what, they're two different exercises, but they have one thing in common, and that is that they stimulate basically the whole body because it's such heavy weight.
So, the entire body has to work as you know, one unit to get the weight up because it's such a stress for the body.
So, you see, that's the part where a deadlift is good for entire body movement, as it were.
And if you don't do it, you need to focus more on the squats.
And for me, I actually done so that I go with periods like either I squat heavy or I deadlift heavy.
If you can do both, that's absolutely brilliant.
But if you can't do one of them, do the other.
So, that's the first step.
If you can't do deadlift, focus more on the squats to get that extremely heavy weight that involves basically the entire body.
Now, you obviously want a massive back so that people will say, like, foi mirin, mirin gains.
It's a very testosteroneous thing to have a really massive back.
And now, I would say that heavy barbell rows is the way to go here.
It's obviously, yeah, not Jerusalem, more like Acre or some other city in the Holy Land.
Then, obviously, another back exercise which is quite glorious indeed is the weighted chins, which then obviously stimulates both your guns and your lats.
So, that is another exercise you can do.
And obviously, many of you probably can't do weighted chins directly, so you have to go with you know regular body weight chains up until you hit like 12 repetitions or something.
Then, you can start with either 5 kg or 10 kg hanging and then work yourself up from there.
So, basically, to conclude, yes, you can attain enlightenment without deadlifts, even if it won't be as glorious, but you can still do it.
You just have to focus more on the squats to get that, you know, whole body activation.
And then you have to focus more on heavy barbell rows and on weighted chins.
It won't be quite the same, but you can still obtain a massive back and optimal glory.
