because it's one of, if not the single most productive lift there is. for the first few years of training was pretty much the only back exercise i did.
No it isn't. I've gone over this countless times in a number of different threads. People always start out defending deadlifts but then eventually admit it's not a good bodybuilding exercise at all and not really good for any particular bodypart, but still stick to claiming it's the king of exercises.
Cliffs:
*You have old people who pick up deading in their senior years and end up pulling hundreds of pounds. Would not happen on any other exercise.
*You have people who look like holocaust survivors who can pull hundreds of pounds. You can put up amazing deadlift numbers and it doesn't reflect at all in your physique. Does not happen with any other exercise.
*The strength you acquire on deadlift doesn't translate to other exercises. Those old people and teenage girls who put up amazing deadlift numbers aren't usually doing amazing squat numbers or breaking records doing chin up or lat pull downs.
I could go on and on and I have across multiple threads. If you thought about it rationally, you would come to the same conclusion. You don't find videos like this of other power movements.
I'm sure you can find some anomalies of people benching or squatting more than it looks like they are capable of, but there are pages and pages of vids of people who look like they'd have trouble setting up their own bar pulling hundreds of pounds. You just don't find a similar thing with other power movements.
