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Milo Wolf: Range of Motion for Hypertrophy | ETP#83

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Is the Deadlift Really a Lat Exercise?

I'm not sure how much tension there actually is on the lat in that exercise. Like it's not inherently, the ball isn't going to swing forward if you didn't have any last strength. I think almost always, it's very rare that the deadlift is going to take your lats anywhere close to failure or for your lats to be the limiting factor. And so I'm skeptical that it would be good enough to cause any beyond very, very untrained stages. Same with the sort of calves in the deadlift or in the squat sort of thing. Beyond the very untrained early stages, I wouldn't count on that lifts to grow your upper back, save maybe your

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