It is no secret that in order to achieve any training related goal (size, strength, structural balance, performance, etc.), you should be training the hip extension movement pattern.

There are many different hip extension exercises to choose from but the king of the jungle has been and always will be the bent knee deadlift.

There are only two basic styles of a bent knee deadlift: conventional style and Sumo style.

Which one is better?  This question has practically been argued to death.  That’s why I decided to write this post and give you my opinion, based on my 20 years of coaching these lifts.

At first glance, the two lifts appear to be very similar. They both involve lifting a  … Read More

Doing the greatest exercises should produce the greatest results, right? Well, in theory, the answer is yes. But in practice this is not always the case. You see, some exercises are so effective at recruiting a maximal amount of motor units and for allowing maximal loading that they are difficult to recover from.

Do them too frequently, too intensely or with too much volume and you are sure to overtrain, get nowhere or worse yet, get injured. In other words, the most effective exercises, done incorrectly, will lead to the worst results.

The worst offender of this counterintuitive law is the bent knee deadlift. Although, I usually prefer to keep things simple, giving you the ultra basic advice of deadlifting  … Read More