Prove me wrong
Sumo deadlifting is cheating
Andrew Bennett
Nathaniel Cook
That's not sumo though
Michael Robinson
>only do rdl's
Am I missing out?
Jaxon Martin
Photo is OP add credibility to statement.
On a serious level though, if your legs are further apart you have less distance to lift. It's frickin pythag. Don't get why it's allowed.
Anthony Howard
Cheat curls is cheating. Decline bench is cheating. Everything is cheating, the fuck does it matter.
Jose Rogers
The bar is suspiciously straight for diddlyin’ over 9 plates lmao wtf
Ayden Thompson
Do you care about getting better at deadlifting?
If yes; yes.
If no; no.
Julian Jenkins
Checked. This man is onto something
Carson Howard
240 isn't heavy enough to cause significant bend in a regular power bar.
Ryan Jones
You're right, but so is mixed grip
Jeremiah Long
Those are 100% 10# oly plates, they're way too thin to be 45s. We have the exact same ones at our gym.
Andrew Young
yeah i mean also that's just not 9 plates, that guy is definitely not big enough to be pulling 855lb
Gavin Green
What about snatch-grip sumo-stance conventional (i.e. hands outside legs) deadlift? Like pic related
Logan Edwards
It's not a competition stance so it's irrelevant to the question of cheating. Looks quite fun tho.
Hunter Peterson
Anecdotal evidence doesn't count but I do find sumo much harder, around a 30kg difference for a top single.
Charles Flores
I think the 45s are just extra wide and have those lines as a design, so it's 3 45s, then what looks like a 35 and 2 10s on each side
Eli Wright
This is the correct answer.
Caleb Hall
>Prove me wrong
It's allowed in competitions, if it's allowed in a competition, it isn't cheating
Also there are people who find conventional deadlifts easier than sumo. I for example pull 220 kg conventionally as a max, I barely get up 190 kg when I try the sumo stance, so for me it's way easier to do it like, probably, you in the pic.
Btw. congratz on lifting that, how much is that? Looks like 240 kg at least.
Aaron Bell
>sumo dl is cheating
>even though all wr's are conventional
what did he mean by this?
Eli Perry
Ah
Logan Jackson
IT'S 250KG RETARDS
AND I CAN DO MORE BECAUSE IM NOT RETARDED
James Morris
t. conventard
Unless you're in a contest where the rules specifically tell you that you can't sumo deadlift it's not cheating
Brandon Garcia
that's 3 pl8 + half and quarter, look into the shadow of the plates, you can see where the plates actually start and end.
Xavier Adams
No, I agree, OP.
t. 640 conventional deadlift
Jonathan Sanchez
Sumo lets you lift more only if you're short. That's why you won't see any WSM guys do sumo.
Josiah Kelly
trips declares facts
Kayden Collins
They're 55s. My gym has those plates.