Why isn’t there an apples-to-apples way to compare deadlifts?

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Jim McDonald

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🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

You probably think that pulling sumo is the biggest variation between deadlifts, but there are many more. It can even be challenging to tell the conditions of a particular lift, let alone compare them. Is it wrong to “game” the system to get a deadlift record?

Similarly, should major sports all-star teams have standards – beyond just being a popularity contest?

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0:45.0	We got the used to be multiply versus raw and then raw got confusing because there's classic and the non-classic and knee wraps and not knee
0:54.5	wraps and then you know the origination of powerlifting issues is how many federations
1:00.1	all of different rules. Then it seemed like we were coming together a little bit.
1:04.0	People were starting to walk out their lifts, not that I care.
1:06.3	I'm not a purist, but I just want standard.
1:08.8	So everyone was walking out their lifts, and then the only differentiation seemed to be
1:11.9	untested and tested and
1:13.2	deadlift bar and stiff bar.
1:14.3	And sumo versus conventional.
1:17.7	Yeah, but at least there's not argues about it.
1:19.8	That's through every Fed.
1:21.4	It's all.
1:22.4	It's not. Yeah, it's not. Everybody's all standard. It's not yeah.
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