Is the deadlift a push or pull exercise?

[SeymourCake]

It's a push. If you're pulling it, I've got some bad news for you.

[GluteusMaximus]

You're pulling with your upper body, and pushing with your lower body, so both?

[TheApexHunter]

Prepping for bad news...

Hold me misc

[SeymourCake]

You're pulling with your upper body, and pushing with your lower body, so both?

You shouldn't be pulling it at all unless you're doing a stiff leg deadlift which is a different exercise as a whole.

[SeymourCake]

It's how you interpret it and it's based on your school of thought. I am Taekwondo black belt and I deadlift with a push of the feet and a pull of the hips.

Why would you pull your hips? Don't you mean push your hips in?

[Hesher]

I would consider it a "pulling motion" because you are moving the weight closer to you. Squats would be a "pushing motion" because you are moving the weight in a direction away from you.

[MiniWheatKing]

You shouldn't be pulling it at all.

I get what you're saying. "Proper" form = pushing from your heels so it's a push exercise.

But, let's think about physics for a second. You're hanging onto the bar with your hands, which means you're countering gravity. That means that you must be pulling the bar. However, it doesn't mean that the energy derived from displacing your arms upward came from the muscles in your upper body. Instead, they could come from your lower body, hence it is a push exercise. However, technically you are pulling with your arms even if the energy didn't come from your upper body's muscles.

#repmelater

[hellbilly1912]

Its neither its a ****ing deadlift god damn quit complicating **** so much

[trailless]

Watch this video.

[Pimpus]

This is fuking stupid, was expecting OP to be red srs.

[HonestGeoff]

According to Richard Hawthorne its a push

[Afka]

It's a push.

Standing up is pushing your feet into the ground with a hip hinge

ignore the bar, stand up.

[SeymourCake]

Its neither its a ****ing deadlift god damn quit complicating **** so much

Yeah, let everyone just snap their spine and call it a day. Why even have this discussion?

[Lpenny]

Mind blown

[trailless]

It's how you interpret it and it's based on your school of thought. I am Taekwondo black belt and I deadlift with a push of the feet and a pull of the hips.

How are you pulling your hips in a deadlift? Serious, I don't understand?

[SeymourCake]

It's a push.

Standing up is pushing your feet into the ground with a hip hinge

ignore the bar, stand up.

Repped

[hellbilly1912]

Yeah, let everyone just snap their spine and call it a day. Why even have this discussion?

If youre gonna break it down like this it becomes a lot more complicated than just push or pull. Its both and its neither. Youre incorporating way too many muscles to define it in such simple terms.

[StreetSharks]

so i should deadlift on push day instead now? fuk

[Land_Down_Under]

can't it be both? like a clean n jerk although that has multiple movements but has pull and push motion. providing its done with god technique, does it make a difference if its either?

[trailless]

so i should deadlift on push day instead now? fuk

No, the push pull was designed with the deadlift being a pull exercise. But, when you're deadlifting don't think of it as a pulling motion. Try to push those heels through the fuking ground.

[stevbee]

why does it matter as long as people get the form right? everyone interprets the cues differently. stop pretending you have the only valid pov op

[Clide Whit]

I just fantasize myself employing a powerful thrust while having my dink kiss the bar on the way up

[SeymourCake]

why does it matter as long as people get the form right? everyone interprets the cues differently. stop pretending you have the only valid pov op

Watch the videos above.

[stevbee]

Watch the videos above.

I have. you're still a *******. go ahead. neg me. I dont fear nonlifting *******s

[trailless]

can't it be both? like a clean n jerk although that has multiple movements but has pull and push motion. providing its done with god technique, does it make a difference if its either?

The clean/snatch are done differently than a deadlift.

[SeymourCake]

I have. you're still a *******. go ahead. neg me. I dont fear nonlifting *******s

I won't neg you because I'm scared of *******s who have flowers tatted on them.

[JustSaiyanBro]

I don't care what any potato powerlifter says.

It is a pull...

[Firefightn24]

Every lift is a pull of some sort. D'oh.

[swifty17]

OP are you retarded? or is this roll bread>?

lol @ anyone saying its a push motion.

a Squat is a push motion, Deadlift is pull.

[AgRyan]

You're pulling the weight up off the floor. It's a pull. Even if you're pushing on the floor with your legs.

brb gravity
brb every exercise is a push
brb never go full retard