 Our first question is from Jamil a 144 What are the top three or four supplemental exercises you can do to boost your overall deadlift deadlift strength? Oh, there you go. You know, I'm gonna give you some exercises that have worked a lot for Clients and then exercises that work really well for advanced lifters and these are two sometimes different Categories of lifts because I think advanced lifters We've been working out for a while they tend to focus on things like lifting off of blocks or Using things like bands and chains But for the average lifter oftentimes There's either an imbalance or weakness and the and the whole you know chain of muscles that try to deadlift One exercise that remarkably tends to boost people's deadlifts Single-leg deadlifts. Yes. Yeah, just I'm glad you went there Just a good old single-leg deadlift with dumbbells or even starting with body weight getting really good at it And then adding weight with dumbbells You would be surprised at how stable and strong you felt with your traditional deadlift after practicing Single-leg deadlifts. I would challenge advanced lifters there, too. I think that probably that's a no-brainer Yeah, it's an ego thing why they avoid it exactly because it's you know Okay, if I'm a 500 pound deadlifter to go grab 100 pound dumbbells and do a single you're gonna be able to do it Most guys won't write that'll be hard. That's hard as shit and then that's humbling, right? So you have to go grab it 60s and start with 60s and work your way up But I think some of the best I ever felt deadlifting was when I was simultaneously also including Heavy single-leg deadlift. I just felt like you said you feel so stable and strong. Yeah I think another one though like specifically is it pertain to what I was dealing with my QL and You know that slight shift left to right. I think a lot of lifters don't really consider I would take a heavy dumbbell or a heavy kettlebell and I would do like a suitcase carries Oh, yeah down and back and just really kind of working on You know making sure that my body is able to fully Stabilize and I can activate my obliques and keep everything Centered as much as possible. Yeah, along those lines. Yeah, and along those lines Heavy farmer walks heavy farmer walks with a trap bar or with dumbbells I always feel so much more solid and strong in my deadlifts when I incorporate those into my workouts Another one is good mornings done properly. Good mornings really work on that hip hinge and hip extension and that stabilization Of the lower spine and then another here's an exercise a lot of people don't even realize can actually improve your deadlift windmills Just working up to a weighted windmill We actually have weight in the arm that's straight up in the air and when you can go down and twist To help with that lateral stability, which a lot of people get this is how they hurt themselves when they deadlift is that the The weight shifts just a little bit They don't have the lateral stability support the weight that they're lifting and they hurt themselves or Their body because remember your body oftentimes will prevent itself from lifting more weight because of its its own fear of injury So you may actually have the strength to lift more or possess the strength to lift more, but your body's not allowing you to To get it. It's not allowing you to tap into it because safety mechanism. It's a safety mechanism another great hip thrust All right hip thrust one of the so when I'm working with someone on a deadlift One of the hardest things is to get them to understand that this is we're trying to generate power from the hips And you're thrusting forward in a deadlift You're not lifting the bar up because it looks like to the average person when you look at a deadlift It's like oh you bend over it you pick the bar up picking it up with your body right when it's really it's a lever exercise I imagine I'm pushing my feet through the floor and his floor Yeah, and you're thrusting the hips forward and so good old hip thrust are a great way to get people to really Understand the mechanics of what you're trying to do because you're opposing gravity and a hip thrust It's much easier for them to understand Oh, I'm driving the hips up in the air squeezing the glutes But that's exactly what you're trying to do when you're doing a deadlift and you get into that hinged position Is you're thrusting the hips forward instead of up like on a hip thrust? So working on your hip thrust mechanics and getting really good and strong doing a hip thrust We'll carry over into a deadlift many times for for most people even advanced lifters If you get if you progress your hip thrust and you start hip thrusting, you know four or five hundred plus pounds You'll see a nice carry over into your deadlift and for sure for beginner lifters. I think that's a great exercise and then finally Squats barbell squats, you know, it's funny I've had it and I've seen this many times where my deadlift numbers will go up but my squat numbers don't Rarely does the reverse happen for me? My squat goes up. Typically my deadlift numbers go up again As well. So and again, this depends on the lifter Some people are better at squatting than they are at deadlifting, but if you're better at deadlifting than squatting Or you feel much more comfortable deadlifting try improving your squat and then watch what happens to your deadlift