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by world32 2541 days ago
Horrible advice. Deadlifts are a great exercise but can go horribly horribly wrong if you try too hard to lift an amount of weight that is too heavy for you. Instead you should focus on maintaining perfect form on every lift and incrementally add weight the more you progress. If you try and "ego-lift" a huge amount of weight you are risking serious injuries to your back, dont do it.

Also as to what is a heavy amount of what is a light amount - its irrelevant to an individual. You should lift the an amount that pushes you beyond what your comfortable with, but not so much that your risk injury.

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Ugh... really? I meant to train yourself to be able to lift two times bodyweight. Nobody can do that without training. Of course I didn't mean that someone should just go into the gym and try it. You should aim for two times bodyweight. Many people just keep lifting the same low weights over and over again.