How I Plan To Increase My Deadlift and Squat

Posted on Jan 04, 2008 - 3:06pm by MarkFu in Gym

Still enjoying my recent PR in the deadlift set on New Year’s Eve and wanting to go higher and yet bemoaning the state of my squat, I was reminded of an assistance exercise to both the squat and the deadlift that will make the numbers of each go up considerably.

That would be the Good Morning. Westside Barbell strongly urges doing more assistance exercises like the Good Morning and less deadlifts to increase the deadlift total.

Looks like I will be adding GM’s in once a week along with some Power Cleans. It will be really interesting to test my max lifts in both deadlift and squat occasionally along the way.

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