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Stuart McGill

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Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

It's exactly the same answer that I gave you for deadlifts. A, it depends, and B, is it the best tool to reach the goal? That is an auxiliary exercise. It's not a deadlift. It's just challenging a part of the chain involved in the full chain that's required for a deadlift.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

It's exactly the same answer that I gave you for deadlifts. A, it depends, and B, is it the best tool to reach the goal? That is an auxiliary exercise. It's not a deadlift. It's just challenging a part of the chain involved in the full chain that's required for a deadlift.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

If I go back to some of the criticism after that original deadlift statement, there was a lot of older fellows who were saying, you know, I love the deadlift. When I stop deadlifting, my back pain actually increases and deadlifting keeps the bogeyman away. I get it. Okay, that was the right tool for them. But I can tell you about the characteristic of those people.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

If I go back to some of the criticism after that original deadlift statement, there was a lot of older fellows who were saying, you know, I love the deadlift. When I stop deadlifting, my back pain actually increases and deadlifting keeps the bogeyman away. I get it. Okay, that was the right tool for them. But I can tell you about the characteristic of those people.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

If I go back to some of the criticism after that original deadlift statement, there was a lot of older fellows who were saying, you know, I love the deadlift. When I stop deadlifting, my back pain actually increases and deadlifting keeps the bogeyman away. I get it. Okay, that was the right tool for them. But I can tell you about the characteristic of those people.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

They will be somewhat unidimensional in their athleticism. I will bet you dollars to donuts. Actually, donuts are getting more expensive now. So that's a poor analogy. That worked when I was a kid. But anyway, ask them to throw a football. Ask them to swing a golf club. I'll bet you the ones who say deadlifts are good for their back pain won't do well in either of those activities.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

They will be somewhat unidimensional in their athleticism. I will bet you dollars to donuts. Actually, donuts are getting more expensive now. So that's a poor analogy. That worked when I was a kid. But anyway, ask them to throw a football. Ask them to swing a golf club. I'll bet you the ones who say deadlifts are good for their back pain won't do well in either of those activities.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

They will be somewhat unidimensional in their athleticism. I will bet you dollars to donuts. Actually, donuts are getting more expensive now. So that's a poor analogy. That worked when I was a kid. But anyway, ask them to throw a football. Ask them to swing a golf club. I'll bet you the ones who say deadlifts are good for their back pain won't do well in either of those activities.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

So it's a very unidimensional.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

So it's a very unidimensional.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

So it's a very unidimensional.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

A deadlift is not a pulsing strength. It's a grinding strength. And again, if you want neurology, To adapt, to create, you know, again, I know people don't like when I do this, but when I, I like athletic examples and I learned so much because it's like a car mechanic working on a McLaren car. And then a dump truck, which carries heavy load.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

A deadlift is not a pulsing strength. It's a grinding strength. And again, if you want neurology, To adapt, to create, you know, again, I know people don't like when I do this, but when I, I like athletic examples and I learned so much because it's like a car mechanic working on a McLaren car. And then a dump truck, which carries heavy load.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

A deadlift is not a pulsing strength. It's a grinding strength. And again, if you want neurology, To adapt, to create, you know, again, I know people don't like when I do this, but when I, I like athletic examples and I learned so much because it's like a car mechanic working on a McLaren car. And then a dump truck, which carries heavy load.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

And then a Baja racer, which is incredibly endurable because it shows you, in terms of engineering and automotive technology, what is possible. So when you work with a great athlete, you learn what is humanly possible. So something like a deadlift, it teaches the nerves to carry electricity. When you measure a very good deadlift, it is an exhausting process. But think of it, what is strength?

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

And then a Baja racer, which is incredibly endurable because it shows you, in terms of engineering and automotive technology, what is possible. So when you work with a great athlete, you learn what is humanly possible. So something like a deadlift, it teaches the nerves to carry electricity. When you measure a very good deadlift, it is an exhausting process. But think of it, what is strength?

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

And then a Baja racer, which is incredibly endurable because it shows you, in terms of engineering and automotive technology, what is possible. So when you work with a great athlete, you learn what is humanly possible. So something like a deadlift, it teaches the nerves to carry electricity. When you measure a very good deadlift, it is an exhausting process. But think of it, what is strength?

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

Strength starts with this thought and now you have to densify that thought. Then you have to densify the pulse train down through the nerves and you've got to teach the nerves to carry that amount of electrical pulse. Then you've got to teach the muscles to utilize it. So in terms of grinding strength capacity, a deadlift is pretty good, but does that have to do with most people with back pain?

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

Strength starts with this thought and now you have to densify that thought. Then you have to densify the pulse train down through the nerves and you've got to teach the nerves to carry that amount of electrical pulse. Then you've got to teach the muscles to utilize it. So in terms of grinding strength capacity, a deadlift is pretty good, but does that have to do with most people with back pain?

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

Strength starts with this thought and now you have to densify that thought. Then you have to densify the pulse train down through the nerves and you've got to teach the nerves to carry that amount of electrical pulse. Then you've got to teach the muscles to utilize it. So in terms of grinding strength capacity, a deadlift is pretty good, but does that have to do with most people with back pain?