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Congratulations to Granville Mayers, StrongFirst Certified Team Leader and AWPC Drug Free World Champion on his big pull! 705. Respect.
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Which deadlift style is stronger:
conventional or sumo?
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In the conventional style the lifter keeps his feet narrower than his shoulders and grips the bar outside his legs. Russians call this style “classic.”
The sumo stance is wider and the arms are inside the knees at the start of the pull. Sumo stances range from narrow, with the arms crowded by the legs, to super wide, with the toes risking getting chopped off by the plates.
The sumo versus conventional debate is decades old and pointless. Historic world records have been brought down with both stances. Conventional: Andy Bolton, Lamar Gant, Konstantin Konstantinov... Sumo: Ed Coan, Max Podtinny, John Inzer…
In a nutshell, the sumo’s main advantage is a shorter distance the bar has to travel. The classic stance’s ace of trump is the higher level of arousal it tolerates. Conventional pullers like Kirk Karwoski work themselves into blind rage, something sumoists like Tom Eiseman cannot afford due to a greater precision demanded by a wider stance.
Every lifter has to find his or her own answer to the question “Which style is better?”
Generally, if you have a short back and you are a psych lifter—like Granville—the conventional style is your best bet. A composed lifter with a longer spine is most likely to succeed with sumo.
We teach both styles at our StrongFirst Barbell Instructor Certification (SFL).
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Built, by his own admission, "as an eleven-year-old stamp collector," sports psychologist Dr. Judd Biasiotto took on the sport of powerlifting. For a long time he finished dead last in every meet he entered. Then he applied the methods detailed later in his book PSYCH to his training—and won 4 World Championships and set 14 World Records. Drug free.
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StrongFirst is proud to be the publisher of the definitive text on achieving excellence in any sport through the power of your mind—PSYCH by Dr. Judd Biasiotto.
PSYCH and be awesome.
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