 First question is from Wakeman Tyler. What type of death deadlift is better Sumer Sumo or conventional? Yeah, I like this split stance deadlift. That's the bad. I'm just kidding. I made that up, you know Which one's better? I don't know depends on who's asking me They're both valuable. I would say different exercises. I think that's the first thing you have to point Yeah, I think that the fact that that's what I mean Who's asking me and why they're asking me right what their goal is right? Yeah, their goal is and what they've been currently doing all that stuff. It depends answer is you're right I mean the problem is they have they have deadlift in the name So people consider that and because powerlifting competitions allow them to be interchangeable People think that they are interchangeable in the sense that one is equal to the other and what's the difference But they're not they're totally different exercises in terms of leverage, right? It doesn't have one feels a little bit more natural than the other sometimes for people I know for me. I probably should have stuck with sumo just in the way that You know, it feels in terms of the leverage with it, but they're totally different exercises This is what we need to express. Yeah, they both work the posture of your chain quite a bit. You're gonna get some back development Bodybuilders tend to prefer if they do deadlift conventional Although in the 90s, there was a bodybuilder Mike Francois Michael Francois Incredible back erector spinay was huge and he was a sumo deadlifter. So was colombo, wasn't he? Colombo was conventional. Oh, he did both things because I know I've seen him do sumo. Yeah But conventional is where he would pull like seven pounds. But I mean again, it depends. I like them both. I mean, I like the sumo For to feel more in the glutes for some people although some people feel the glutes more with conventional I think sumo for some people is easier to learn Especially if you're shorter women tend to be able to perform sumo Easier in the sense that they get the biomechanics easier than conventional if you're tall and lanky You're built for conventional and you'll see people can deadlift a lot who are tall and lanky They tend to stick to Conventional because it works better with the leverage for the average person. I think there's tremendous value in you doing both Learn both both exercises and you know and the one you you like best or you do the best at make that your staple And then intermittently use the other one. I mean, that's what I do conventional deadlifting. I'm much stronger and I'm better at it I like it more But I definitely sumo deadlift I just I like to interrupt My deadlifting with sumo deadlifting every now and then and train that way for a block And then I go back to to conventional because they are different exercises And they both even though there's carry over to the both of them They have value of of both being in your routine Yeah, I I did conventional for a long time and I got really good at it And then I remember saying you know getting I kind of hit a plateau So I wanted to do sumo for a little while just see if it would break through a plateau and what I noticed was I had This kind of external, you know hip abduction weakness, right my Pushing my knees out Staying stable was actually quite hard for me because I hadn't trained sumo for a long time So I ended up training sumo for a while and got my sumo deadlift Within range of my conventional. I think my conventional at the time was 560 or something like that and I think I got my Sumo up to 500 so that's within 60 pounds But then when I went to my back to my conventional I did feel really stable in it and I think it's just because I addressed Some of those weaknesses and imbalances. So I do think it's important to do both. You could probably favor one over the other But I also don't think they're interchangeable. I think that they are different enough To where you're gonna get different benefits for me the one But they are both, you know posterior chain exercises glute heavy hamstring heavy They're both going to get create a lot of tension on the back. You're probably going to get more Back activation from conventional Then you will from sumo just because of the the leverage you're more bent over But both great exercises and you know what makes exercises better or worse A lot of it depends on the individual what they need to work on what's better for them Like for example, we talk about the squat being a great exercise all the time But if somebody lacks the mobility and the stability to do a squat, it's not a great exercise yet for them Right, we got to work up to that point. So that's I think the key takeaway with this particular question Hey, if you enjoyed that clip you can find the full episode here or you can find other clips over here and be sure to subscribe