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I never recommend anyone do deadlifts. Deadlifts can cause back injury if not done properly. You shouldn't do deadlifts unless you are a serious lifter who is a

I never recommend anyone do deadlifts. Deadlifts can cause back injury if not done properly. You shouldn't do deadlifts unless you are a serious lifter who is aware of proper form and paying attention to it.

ndriscoll 2y ago
The correct advice there is that you should do deadlifts and/or variations, but also for every weighted exercise, you should take the weight seriously and learn proper technique. Don't ego lift and let your form deteriorate. Done correctly it should be perfectly safe. Personally I've found overhead pressing to be prone to to pulling my back, and only do it with a belt now.
dizhn 2y ago
As long as we're bringing attention to things. Pull ups on a straight bar are also pretty bad. I have a bad wrist from that and it pretty much never healed.
- nightowl_games 2y ago
  That sucks..I've been training pull ups for a year now. Making really slow progress. I also have wrist problems but haven't had it for years now. I had some amount of "tennis elbow".. I fixed it with some exercises and can't even remember which ones now. I think it might have been rolling my tricep and elbow on a lacrosse ball. Ever try that? You get numbness in your fingers? Could be elbow nerve..
  - dizhn 2y ago
    I ride a motorcycle and play guitar as well. That might be why i have issues. I have tried a bunch of things from time to time including what you said, but never with any regularity. I might give it another shot. By the way chinups on a straight bar are fine. For pullups one of those curved bars is recommended. (Usually one bar can do both).
CPLX 2y ago
Deadlifts also prevent back injury when they are done properly.
- nightowl_games 2y ago
  > done properly I don't tell anyone to deadlift unless I'm there coaching them. Even then, I'm not good enough. You should get a qualified trainer if you want to deadlift, and you should make damn sure your doing everything else right first, sleeping, stretching, eating right, etc. The % of people who are gonna benefit from walking up to a bar and doing a deadlift right now in the West is probably something like 10%. You think it's not a big deal until you start meeting people who seriously injured themselves..some of them have been working out for years, some just getting started.

ndriscoll 2y ago

The correct advice there is that you should do deadlifts and/or variations, but also for every weighted exercise, you should take the weight seriously and learn proper technique. Don't ego lift and let your form deteriorate. Done correctly it should be perfectly safe. Personally I've found overhead pressing to be prone to to pulling my back, and only do it with a belt now.

dizhn 2y ago

As long as we're bringing attention to things. Pull ups on a straight bar are also pretty bad. I have a bad wrist from that and it pretty much never healed.

nightowl_games 2y ago
That sucks..I've been training pull ups for a year now. Making really slow progress. I also have wrist problems but haven't had it for years now. I had some amount of "tennis elbow".. I fixed it with some exercises and can't even remember which ones now. I think it might have been rolling my tricep and elbow on a lacrosse ball. Ever try that? You get numbness in your fingers? Could be elbow nerve..
- dizhn 2y ago
  I ride a motorcycle and play guitar as well. That might be why i have issues. I have tried a bunch of things from time to time including what you said, but never with any regularity. I might give it another shot. By the way chinups on a straight bar are fine. For pullups one of those curved bars is recommended. (Usually one bar can do both).

CPLX 2y ago

Deadlifts also prevent back injury when they are done properly.

nightowl_games 2y ago
> done properly I don't tell anyone to deadlift unless I'm there coaching them. Even then, I'm not good enough. You should get a qualified trainer if you want to deadlift, and you should make damn sure your doing everything else right first, sleeping, stretching, eating right, etc. The % of people who are gonna benefit from walking up to a bar and doing a deadlift right now in the West is probably something like 10%. You think it's not a big deal until you start meeting people who seriously injured themselves..some of them have been working out for years, some just getting started.