I recently read your article called «Why you should train like a powerlifter» where you quote several studies that suggest that heavy
squatting and deadlifting actually improves speed significantly.
Not exact matches
Romanian
deadlifts are one of the most effective
and most overlooked hip - dominant exercises for training your legs, especially the hamstrings that can
actually give you much of the full - body benefits as
squatting.
I
actually feel it's fine to do
deadlifts in addition to the basic routine as the demands placed by bodyweight
squats and one legged
squats are not all that great.
However, this idea rarely works in reality
and you would
actually benefit a lot more from strengthening your gluteus maximus by doing hip thrusts,
squats and deadlifts than stretching, since it's quite possible that the other muscles in the area are weak so you've been putting too much stress on your piriformis muscle.
In my experience, they'll
actually make you better at exercises like
squats and deadlifts.
Having a weak back
actually holds you back from building lean muscle mass all over your body because you will be weaker on every single compound exercise such as the
deadlift, bench press,
squat,
and barbell row.