 Ladies and gentlemen silent Mike back with another video today We're talking about squats and deadlifts and if they're necessary and if they are the king of exercises before we dive in do your Boy a favor subscribe. Let's see if we can get a thousand likes on this video Give me a little thumbs up comment below what topics questions you want me to cover in the next video Let's dig in we got a comment from my guy. He said deadlifts and squats are mandatory exercises and you must do you must do now I might disagree so first off when we're Choosing our exercises exercise selection does matter very and it's very dependent on the athlete the history of the athlete and the ultimate goal of the athlete if your goal is to be a three lift powerlifting the sport of powerlifting is squat bench deadlift Then I agree with my man deadlifts and squats are mandatory because you're going to have to compete in them And you're going to have to perform a one rep max in those movements If you never do them if all you do is lunges and all you do is is hamstring curls and calf Raises and then you hop in a powerlifting meat chances are you won't hit a good one rep max You're best one rep max or even hit them to competition standard But if we're talking about the regular public who just wants to get a little bit fitter Look a little bit better. Everyone wants to gain a little bit of muscle lose a little bit more fat That's how we often look our best most sexually attractive most aesthetic Or maybe your sport athlete. Maybe you play basketball in high school college or professionally football or soccer American football rugby hockey doesn't matter I would disagree and I would say that there's a number of exercises that we can implement instead of the deadlift and squat It will depend on the athlete now in the past I worked with a lot of collegiate athletes both rugby and basketball in particular That's just the community I knew and those are the sports that I played and we had a good a very good athlete Shout out to my my homie little Chris Very good score and basketball. He was probably about six three six four six five as he started going getting older I coached him from in basketball as a freshman in high school and then in strength conditioning up until he was in college and For one he grew very rapidly from freshman year to when he turned 18 He probably grew from five eight to six five and then two we played basketball and he played a lot of basketball very hard So he had a little bit Tender knees sometimes maybe tender night is Soar knees etc etc in which case we just did a deadlift and we hardly squatted We do a lot of stuff to warm up his legs a lot of different mobilities We would do box squats sometimes even high box squats I just want to get some kind of stimulus and strength into those legs We did a lot of Bulgarian split squats both weighted and unloaded bodyweight movements And then for back stuff, you know Yes, deadlifts are one of the best hamstring glutes and low back movements for overall strength But we can get around stuff like that. We can do back extensions We can do rows chin-ups etc to hit the upper back And again reverse lunges walking lunges in tons of different hamstring movements hamstring curls even For some team athletes are very applicable now if we're talking bodybuilding, you know I think there's a big definition here also when you start to talk about, you know IFB IFBB and maybe enhanced lifting In a natural bodybuilder or someone who does not take PEDs of any nature. I think that someone who does not take PEDs Yes, squats and deadlifts still are probably one of the best movements you can implement for overall muscle building Strength building when we're adding as much load as we can Deadlift is often an exercise if not the exercise that every human on earth can perform with the most amount of weight If the number is bigger not only are we using more muscles in our body The stimulus is greater and also the progression is greater. So number one if again I talked about this another video if I'm doing a hamstring curl a single leg hamstring curl And I'm using 30 pounds on one hamstring to add a 5% to that load is gonna be really really hard It's gonna end up being a pound 2 pound 3 pound which sometimes you don't have the increments on the machine But if I'm to add 5% on my 500 pound deadlift now adding a couple plates every other week once a month Etc is much easier not only on our system But for the overall progress not only daily weekly monthly yearly and through our whole career We also have to look at the goal of the individual if strength in general is even the ultimate goal If you're playing a team sport if you're an endurance athlete if you again just want to look a little bit better strength training will always help, but if you're one rep max or Optimal strength top-end strength doesn't necessarily have to be the goal I think that all sports can benefit even marathon runners can benefit slightly from some strength Training, but the overall goal of that strength training isn't necessarily top-end strength. It's Durability it's muscle and balances. It's building a little bit of muscle and it's almost like recovery for some of those athletes To be able to even out body parts that may get overused in their sport in their daily lives Again, I don't think there's any Definites in anything we do in any sport there's always workarounds especially in the weight room and that's kind of the goal of the strength and conditioning coach the Personal trainer the whatever it is their goal or their task is to have this huge huge pool of Tools and allow them to think it through Problem-solve critical think and how to apply them and when to apply them to work around now I learned it all through training athletes soccer moms The elderly and power lifters over the last ten years And so some of it just takes time a lot of observing a lot of reading and a lot of application itself some failure Some successes and you start to figure out what works, but my ultimate Decision my the stamp in the foot. I'm drawing the line in the sand squats and deadlifts are not Necessary they are great, but they are not necessary. I appreciate it guys Be sure to give this thing a thumbs up comment below find me on twitch We're streaming every single day my new podcast 50% faxes on itunes spotify anywhere you want. I appreciate you Sound like I'm out of here