Deadlifts-very good or not useful?

[SaladFork]

No, lol, I got your meaning. I was just using it as an excuse to piss and moan.

Due to the minor injury, I decided this was as good of a time as any to try the Bill Starr workout. Darn thing has me doing squats three times per week which is a different experience than simply doing legs once per week. I like squats but I'm getting kind of a big ass (it IS muscle, but still...).

I do squats three times a week also, trying to make up for lost time due to six knee surgeries in the past 8 years, not fun.

 

[b fold the truth]

I don't go along with that. I used to be an olympic lifter pulling big weights from the floor, but it was the heavy bench pressers who always got the most attention.

No one is really interested in seeing anyone deadlift. 1st - Bench, 2nd - probably curls...then maybe squats...and dead last - deadlifts.

Sad but true.

We must train in different gyms...

 

[tropo]

We must train in different gyms...

It would seem so....but I can't count the number of gyms I've trained in over the last 30 years in many different countries.

BTW, I'm talking about bodybuilding type gyms, not gyms specializing in power lifting or olympic lifting.

 

[tropo]

I do squats three times a week also, trying to make up for lost time due to six knee surgeries in the past 8 years, not fun.

Don't you think that 3 squat workouts per week is extremely excessive for someone recovering from knee surgery?

Lost time is lost time... it's gone.

Perhaps your past excesses are the reason why your knees required surgery in the first place.

 

[b fold the truth]

It would seem so....but I can't count the number of gyms I've trained in over the last 30 years in many different countries.

BTW, I'm talking about bodybuilding type gyms, not gyms specializing in power lifting or olympic lifting.

I gotcha man. I own a consulting company for Special Education as well as a Supplement shop that supplies a lot of gyms (and trying to get a magazine to move off the market stands too) so I spend a lot of time going from gym to gym.

So many people ask me questions how to get big like me and when I tell them they will say "but my arms look better than yours." Or on the opposite end of the spectrum they will say "your arms are huge, what do you do for them?" and when I tell them that I do about 2 sets of really light curls a week, if ANY, they look at me like I'm talking Chinese or something (I can't say Greek because that is what we speak here...lol).

I have been forced to train at gyms like such from time to time (because of health issues) and I'll grow training "bodybuilding style" and people will see me like I'm a freak in the gym and they can never accept that it is the exercises that I do, the intensity that I bring into the gym, and the food that I eat that gives me the results. They only assume that it comes from a bottle sitting somewhere in my cabinet at home.

They have all stayed the same or lost ground this year. I've knocked on death's door, said hello, and gained 50 lbs back.

 

[silver_shadow]

I've knocked on death's door, said hello, and gained 50 lbs back.

what's that about bro?

 

[SaladFork]

Don't you think that 3 squat workouts per week is extremely excessive for someone recovering from knee surgery?

Lost time is lost time... it's gone.

Perhaps your past excesses are the reason why your knees required surgery in the first place.

I had my last knee surgury 6 years ago. Two years of nonstop work, then a year to recover. So no, I don't think it's excessive, it feels good.

 

[automaticj5]

I just started deadliftings -- and I agree -- they are the best thing since sliced bread.

 

[b fold the truth]

what's that about bro?

Severe ulcerative colitis. Meant I was on the toilet pushing out blood 10-20x a day for months on end. Took high doses of cortisone tablets for it, they eat muscle and make you look horrible too.

 

[silver_shadow]

^^^
ouch. hope you are alright now.