Spritcha
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If you are going to ask the question will strongman events help my deadlift- the answer will be yeah sure.
If you ask the question whether strongman training will be better than a PL template- well- I think you'll get another answer- but give it a go. Its telling that the top PLers I know of do PL specific work.
Yes the Ruskies do goodmornings. Thats my point- they build up sufficient strength following their templates which build mid-section strength and do so in a more effective way for their objectives- PL.
As I have said- strongman is full of guys with awesome deadlifts because pullling is a significant movement in strongman. The lifts they do often seem freaky because they pull from blocks with straps. Anyway- the best of these guys build their deadlifts the same way as the PLs. They just do a bunch of other stuff because strongman has a range of different events that require a wider range of skills and attributes than PL.
If you ask the question whether strongman training will be better than a PL template- well- I think you'll get another answer- but give it a go. Its telling that the top PLers I know of do PL specific work.
Yes the Ruskies do goodmornings. Thats my point- they build up sufficient strength following their templates which build mid-section strength and do so in a more effective way for their objectives- PL.
As I have said- strongman is full of guys with awesome deadlifts because pullling is a significant movement in strongman. The lifts they do often seem freaky because they pull from blocks with straps. Anyway- the best of these guys build their deadlifts the same way as the PLs. They just do a bunch of other stuff because strongman has a range of different events that require a wider range of skills and attributes than PL.
I cant logically dispute that deadlifts are the best way to increase your deadlift. I just think that a strong midsection is important as a base. Soro fed and bark are Russian so will undoubtedly do good mornings after most sessions if their training looks anything like most of the examples of russian programming. I will post on the rts forums asking if a strongman events day is a good way to train for the deadlift as i have already made my points. Specificity is undoubtedly king but i still believe you need a massive base to pull big and strongman seems a great way to do that and is justified by lots of big pulls in the sport. I posted a clint darden video in the sumo thread about the russians just being dtrong all over. I think the russians do strongman type stuff at school as well as gymnastics or at least do as many different sports as possible to build that base. I will look that up later its in "the development of the russian conjugate system" by tom myslinski if anyone can look that up
Apologies to err one for getting so revved up about he issue but it always rustles the jimmies when people bring up drugs