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Body just a bit off on the breathing/hold timing and bingo it's lights out. On top of getting light headed , I used to get an occasional blood nose when I was doing heavy stuff back in the day but, apparently it's normal. Or at least I was told it's ok?

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A mate of mine likes to do sumo; has recommended it often to me. He says it feels more autonomous to him; he doesn't have to think about his technique as much to do the lift correctly/safely. Still doesn't lift as much as me though :P

Well I gave Sumo a shot today to see if it pisses off my lower back like regular deadlifts always manage to...nope, absolutely no pain at all. It removes a lot of load from the lower back and send to hand it off to your legs lol. Managed to do better today than the last time I did regular deads.

Will definitely be doing Sumo deadlifts from now on, though I'll still get to sorting out WTF is wrong with my regular deadlift.

Its strange how many think sumos are easier than conventional.

The biggest deadlifts in history are all conventional

Benedikt Magnusson, Andy Bolton both over 1000lbs, Konstantinov, Koklyaev over 900lbs, even here in Oz Odell Manuel 400kg, George McLaren 375kg.

There is no doubt though that some are more suited to sumo. Here in the gym we have 2 guys pull 300kg conventional, Martin should be next and he has switched to sumo, Dan has 290kg conventional and Roger has pulled 300kg but not in a comp, he too is conventional

Wasn't Martins choice. His deadlift had stalled and Max decided to try sumo. Max also noticed that Martin had stopped front squatting.

Up until Nats, Martin trained himself, he went into Nats with the 2nd highest total at PTC, came out with the 7th highest, all those in front had been trained by Max, so he asked Max to train him.

His results will be skewed by the fact he has added bodyweight, so were not going to sit here and make outlandish claims BUT he went into Nats with a 685kg total and went 687.5kg in the same weight class.

First thing Max did was to get Martin front squatting again and to have a program for him. I think Martin will go close to 730kg at ProRawFive.

The reason Max switched his deadlift was to take advantage of his levers, Marty has long arms

He is currently the only PTC lifter doing Sumo

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