The Deadlift Benefits: A Simple Deadlift Workout to Add to Your Workouts
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If you’re serious about wanting to get ripped and adding muscle to your frame, then you need to be doing deadlifts. Yes, it’s true… deadlifts suck.
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Within just a few reps you’ll be gasping for breath, and your whole body will feel hot and your mind will be screaming at you to put the bar down. That all happens because it’s such an effective exercise. A lot of people think that the squat is the king of all exercises, but that’s just because they want to have an excuse not to deadlift.
The Deadlift Benefits: A Simple Deadlift Workout You Can Add to Your Workouts
Here’s how most people’s workouts go: they go in to the gym, see if anyone’s on the bench, and if there is, they dick around doing some curls for a minute until they can bench press. Their heart rate never goes higher than 90 bpm, and they don’t even break a sweat.
If you’re going to spend the time away from Call of Duty to go to the gym you might as well make it worth your time and kick your own ass for a few minutes, right? Calling in airstrikes is a lot funner than working out, but you gotta do it, YO!
So even if you’re the guy who strictly does bench press and curls, here’s a little tip that will get your body firing on all cylinders before you lay down and show everyone how tough you are.
All you need to do is take a bar with one set of plates on it, which is 135 lbs here in America, and do 25 deadlifts before you start your regular workout. That will get the blood flowing, you’ll be sweating, and your muscles will be hot for the rest of your workout. It will also get you into that mindset of “wanting to do more”, which bench press never does for anyone.
Now, on legs day, you can really take it up a few notches by starting things off with a set of 50 deadlifts with 135 lbs. In fact, if you can do all 50 reps without setting the bar down once then you’re a real man… whether or not your crying by the end. Deadlifts are the shiznit when it comes to revving your whole body into high gear, and it will enhance the rest of your entire workout.
One Little Note Before You Go Hulk on the Deadlifts…
Maybe I’ve convinced you that you should try this deadlifting ritual before your workouts, and I hope I have. But… you don’t need to go overboard. I personally like to do a few sets of a big, full body exercise before I start my real workouts, but I don’t always do deadlifts. Sometimes I’ll do hang cleans, sometimes I’ll do squats even though it isn’t legs day, and sometimes I’ll do a combination of all three and make up a goal in my mind to hit before I’ll put the bar down- for example 5 hang cleans, 5 power presses, and then 10 squats.
If you’ll add in a set of a big daddy exercise like deadlifts before you start your real workout, you’ll make a lot more progress in each workout, and over time.
What to do now:
- Start “warming up” with a set of deadlifts before your workouts
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