Stuart McGill

Now, do you see how that just stimulated your whole upper body? And the more you push and the more you- Metal traps, everything lined up.

You just lit up your whole erector spinae. We did all of that without a heavy bar. You could do a goblet squat, hold it in front. Now the whole body takes a more upright attitude. It's more knee load if you want more knee load and less back and hip load, or a back squat, you add more hip and low back load and you take some off the knees. So you can band the knees.

You just lit up your whole erector spinae. We did all of that without a heavy bar. You could do a goblet squat, hold it in front. Now the whole body takes a more upright attitude. It's more knee load if you want more knee load and less back and hip load, or a back squat, you add more hip and low back load and you take some off the knees. So you can band the knees.

You just lit up your whole erector spinae. We did all of that without a heavy bar. You could do a goblet squat, hold it in front. Now the whole body takes a more upright attitude. It's more knee load if you want more knee load and less back and hip load, or a back squat, you add more hip and low back load and you take some off the knees. So you can band the knees.

We can really play jazz on this to optimize the best variant to get optimal reward with minimal risk. And that will change as you recover from the back injury. It will change with age. It will change with other comorbidities. Oh, my neck's a bit sore. You've dinged up your shoulder or whatever the case may be. Single leg step-ups. would be another example. Now you've added a balance challenge.

We can really play jazz on this to optimize the best variant to get optimal reward with minimal risk. And that will change as you recover from the back injury. It will change with age. It will change with other comorbidities. Oh, my neck's a bit sore. You've dinged up your shoulder or whatever the case may be. Single leg step-ups. would be another example. Now you've added a balance challenge.

We can really play jazz on this to optimize the best variant to get optimal reward with minimal risk. And that will change as you recover from the back injury. It will change with age. It will change with other comorbidities. Oh, my neck's a bit sore. You've dinged up your shoulder or whatever the case may be. Single leg step-ups. would be another example. Now you've added a balance challenge.

As you get older, your risk will not be mitigated by deadlifts because the biggest risk as you get older is falling. That will really change your life as it does in many people. Do you have the agility and neural dexterity that when you stumble, can you get your foot out ahead of the center of mass, which is now ahead of the base of support? So you're going to fall. You got to get that quick.

As you get older, your risk will not be mitigated by deadlifts because the biggest risk as you get older is falling. That will really change your life as it does in many people. Do you have the agility and neural dexterity that when you stumble, can you get your foot out ahead of the center of mass, which is now ahead of the base of support? So you're going to fall. You got to get that quick.

As you get older, your risk will not be mitigated by deadlifts because the biggest risk as you get older is falling. That will really change your life as it does in many people. Do you have the agility and neural dexterity that when you stumble, can you get your foot out ahead of the center of mass, which is now ahead of the base of support? So you're going to fall. You got to get that quick.

So it's hip power, quick. Rest the fall. and really mitigate against catastrophe, which is that fall. So do you see how that changed? But can I just finish off with one thing? And I wanna talk about deadlifts and capacity as well. And again, it's a lesson that we learn from elite athletes.

So it's hip power, quick. Rest the fall. and really mitigate against catastrophe, which is that fall. So do you see how that changed? But can I just finish off with one thing? And I wanna talk about deadlifts and capacity as well. And again, it's a lesson that we learn from elite athletes.

So it's hip power, quick. Rest the fall. and really mitigate against catastrophe, which is that fall. So do you see how that changed? But can I just finish off with one thing? And I wanna talk about deadlifts and capacity as well. And again, it's a lesson that we learn from elite athletes.

When we have an athlete whose goal it is to set a world record, be it in deadlifting or squatting or whatever, they can't train maximum deadlifts and squats two or three times a week. it is just too exhausting. And the recovery period required between training sessions becomes so long, they actually lose the peak off the training progress. So we do it through auxiliary exercise.

When we have an athlete whose goal it is to set a world record, be it in deadlifting or squatting or whatever, they can't train maximum deadlifts and squats two or three times a week. it is just too exhausting. And the recovery period required between training sessions becomes so long, they actually lose the peak off the training progress. So we do it through auxiliary exercise.

When we have an athlete whose goal it is to set a world record, be it in deadlifting or squatting or whatever, they can't train maximum deadlifts and squats two or three times a week. it is just too exhausting. And the recovery period required between training sessions becomes so long, they actually lose the peak off the training progress. So we do it through auxiliary exercise.

So when I think of someone like Brian Carroll, you know, again, this is all sort of content validity types of arguments. I get it. But until someone produces a few more winners, I'm going to stick with the way our science has shown to go. If you train and really push, you know, you're talking about training at 85%, well, are you going to set the world record if you only train at 85%? Probably not.

So when I think of someone like Brian Carroll, you know, again, this is all sort of content validity types of arguments. I get it. But until someone produces a few more winners, I'm going to stick with the way our science has shown to go. If you train and really push, you know, you're talking about training at 85%, well, are you going to set the world record if you only train at 85%? Probably not.

So when I think of someone like Brian Carroll, you know, again, this is all sort of content validity types of arguments. I get it. But until someone produces a few more winners, I'm going to stick with the way our science has shown to go. If you train and really push, you know, you're talking about training at 85%, well, are you going to set the world record if you only train at 85%? Probably not.

But if you go to 100%, you've got to take a couple of weeks off. So instead, you do some auxiliaries like Brian used heavily the belt squat machine, which you can really train hips, legs, et cetera. Tremendous power. But it doesn't take or exhaust the whole upper body and back system. Where you're not loading the spine or compressing the spine. That's right. Because you just can't do it.