2874: The Best Variations to Explode Your Squat, Deadlift and Bench Press
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What are the best squat, deadlift, and bench press variations for strength?
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All right, look, we're going to talk about hacks that will explode your strength. The squat, the deadlift, and the bench press. We got five of them. We're going to cover them right now. Let's get to it. Let's go. Ooh, the main ones. Yes. First, we should cover why it's so great to get strong at those lifts. Yeah. They are the power lifts. They're not perfect by themselves. I want to be clear. It's good to do lots of other things as well. But if you get really strong on the squat, deadlift, and bench press, and you have some good programming with other exercise, you've got really good overall general strength. You've got a lot of things covered there.
Well, it's the foundation of pretty much all pursuits in fitness. Even athletic, aesthetic, health, longevity, no matter what your pursuit is. You get strong in those lifts. That lays a very solid foundation for whatever the thing you're going to pursue for the rest of your life or whatever you're going to move in and out of if you decide to change your mind through it. Like laying this foundation is the best way to build a long-term.
Now, when I train people, when I train clients, my goal was always generally to get them stronger. But the lifts that I would oftentimes look at the most for strength gains were the squat, the deadlift, and the bench press. And here's the interesting part. I didn't train powerlifters. I actually never trained a powerlifter. I trained with powerlifters, but most of my – all of my clients were regular people who just wanted to improve their fitness, get leaner, build some muscle, have better mobility, better quality of life. And the payback, the return that I always saw, that my clients always saw with getting stronger generally, but specifically with the squat, the deadlift, and the bench press was always phenomenal.
In other words, when they would get stronger at the squat, the deadlift, and the bench press, there was just so much more carryover than when I would pick other exercises.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What are the best squat, deadlift, and bench press variations for strength?
0:00–7:22
2
How can box squats improve my squat performance?
7:22–33:52
3
What are the benefits of using belt squats?
33:52–52:52
4
What is the significance of the alpha-gal syndrome spike?
52:52–52:56
5
What are the implications of strokes in younger adults?
52:56–52:56
6
How can I improve body composition after strongman training?
52:56–52:57
7
What should I consider when bulking or cutting?
52:57–1:42:37
Speakers
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