IM POWER BUILDING
BETTER OFF
DEADLIFTING
By Sarah Chadwell, NASM CPT
The Deadlift Has Stood The Test Of Time Because It Works All Of Your Muscles.
Power is within you. Want to increase and unleash it? You
can. How? You can do so with one move: The deadlift. Dead-
lifts are the true measure of muscular strength and endur-
ance. By performing a deadlift, you train more muscles than
any other single lift. Awaken your true power potential with
this most effective physique-building exercise. dead weight they could lift off the ground? We may never
know. However, sometime between 1910 and 1920, some-
one had the bright idea of actually recording deadlift weight
records to determine who was the most powerful man
around. Today, not much has changed except that men and
women head to the gym to record their personal bests.
Deadlifts are a powerlifting exercise. The history of deadlift-
ing dates back to the early 1900s. Who knows how far back
in history men actually began to brag about the amount of Why haven’t things changed when it comes to the deadlift?
Probably because the deadlift is the ultimate test of your
overall power as it takes almost your entire muscular system
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