 Next question is from Sean Bailey math. What accessory exercises do you recommend for building the deadlift? One of my favorite ways to get stronger and there's a lot of different ways that you can Increase your deadlift if you're stuck But one of my favorite ways to get my deadlift to go up is to use some form of progressive resistance So this can come in the form of chains or it can come in the form of resistance band So a resistance band would be attached to the barbell either either under my feet or Under a you know a rack or something that's gonna anchor it And what ends up happening is as I lift the weight off the floor You know as bands get stretched the resistance gets harder and harder as you stretch them out Just like a rubber band right so at the bottom of the rep when I'm my weakest The weight isn't there isn't that much more weight from the band But as I lift the weight and as I tend to get stronger in my lift anyway, it adds more resistance So what it's doing is it's adding resistance as I get stronger because when you're doing a lift Some parts of the lift are easier than others. So it's a great way to Overload the areas that you're stronger and not overload the areas that you're weaker a chain does the same thing If I put a chain around the bar let it sit on the floor as I pick up the bar the links come up off the floor and the bar gets heavier and heavier and this method of progressive resistance is Super effective studies are pretty clear on this Strength gains are faster. It's great for breaking through plateaus and it's also great For building muscle. So that's one of the easy simple ways that I love doing that And I also I love doing deficit dead lifts like you know and just adding a platform and standing on to get You know address certain parts of the lift that you struggle with the most That's one of them that you know you can lighten up the load, but then really You know gain more access and in recruitment where you need it more And so that's one way to work on that and then you can also add the chains like like South sainter bands to you know intensify that even more And then just having a different stance, you know trying you know the sumo stance and working on that to you know Reinforce the hips and everything else, you know involved in the lift even more you said deficit dead Here's an easy way to do this at home So tip traditionally what guys will do is they'll stand on something so that now they have to bend down to get deeper To lift the deadlift that's why it's called a deficit So rather than pulling it off the floor and your feet on the floor. Let's do small now You're yeah, just those smaller plates So true 25s the traditional height that people deadlift is the height of the circumference of a 45 pound plate Some people who can't deadlift the 45 pound plate will get lighter plates, but they're the same circumference So that's that's the traditional height Put, you know, 35s or 25s on the bar now you rather have me stand on something You just have to get down lower But I will say this if you do a deficit deadlift you better make sure you brace your core and go like very susceptible If you're lower back so be totally so I have one that Did wonders for my deadlift and I love the teachers and that is barefoot single leg deadlifts You can go on my Instagram and look back I know I've got at least two videos in the last year that I've posted of me doing this I love this too in a time right now because it doesn't most people will have to start with really light dumbbells the first time because just Balancing on one leg and getting down to the ground to pick up dumbbells is extremely challenging for a lot of people So you have to start really really light And then so it gives you lots of room to progress and a man if you can get to a point where you can do that with you know 50 60 90 or 100 pound dumbbells And you can do that balancing barefoot on one leg and do a single leg deadlift watch what happens when you go back to traditional deadlifts the Just that the grounding of that the stability the hip stability that you get from that the ankle stability that you get from that The unilateral training strength that you're gonna get and then you go back to bilateral both feet on the ground a traditional deadlift Man, I had never felt so connected and grounded to my deadlift Then when I actually took a break from deadlifting and I tried to progress my single leg Deadlift that was incredible. You know what that's a great one for right now because that's why I thought of that Absolutely, if people are at home, you don't need a lot of weight to do a single leg deadlift In fact for most, you know beginner to intermediate lifters No weight you just you just bend over, you know, keep good form Yeah, touch the floor with your toes and then stand up and you can get creative with this I we had somebody in our In our forum that are not our forum I think on Instagram that tagged us that was using jugs of water like, you know So maybe you don't have a set of dumbbells that goes all the way up to whatever But you can use the one gallon jugs Then you can use like five progress up to eventually getting five gallon jugs Man, you do that and get good at that in doing single leg deadlift boy I'll tell you right now watch what happens. Most people need no no way. I'll be honest I'll take people and I'll have them do it with and they're just they're falling over the place Yeah, it's no way start with that watch what happens, but it's a great Yeah, make sure to like you you just notice little things like your your heel kind of turning in and any Rotation that's involved in that trying stays So we have some YouTube's on that to make sure that you're doing the form correctly But definitely give those a shot now look before I sign off. I want to give a special Shout-out to our friend Dr. Jolene Brighton. She's been on our show a couple times. We absolutely love her First time we met her. We loved her. She's got great information Great Instagram page, you know, she she focuses on women's health wrote some really good books on the birth control I'm through it right now and she's got you know, she's got the corona virus She was at the hospital. 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