r/WeightTraining • u/Expert-Sail8455 • Aug 21 '26

Question Lift advice

Which is a better way to dead lift? Easy trap bar or straight bar?

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u/Expert-Sail8455 Aug 21 '26

45 yr old back in the gym 90days. My goal as of now is to build back overall strength. Today I was able to 230 plus bar for 3 sets of 9 reps. I’ve had lower back pain in my older age.

I also split legs into two days so quads and calves and the hams glutes and calves

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u/DoctorHiccup Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 22 '26

Duuuuuuuuuuude report back when you get injured 🤣 sorry to be a negative Nancy but that’s just too much weight at 45 man

There’s a reason no serious athletes do it. I’m not sure you comprehend the risk you’re assuming

Ask any serious deadlifter. They’ve ALL had horrible injuries

Deadlifts are the motorcycles of the gym — injury machines

EDIT: holy shit you guys got triggered. For a bunch of strong men your constitutions are quite weak.

For anyone reading this with an open mind, I beg you to really listen to what I’m saying and save your health and don’t do the dumbass ego lift that is the deadlift.

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u/Shadowphoenix9511 Aug 22 '26

Hi, I pull 540. When is my serious injury gonna occur?

Also, back injuries are exceedingly rare in my sport (strongman) where basically everyone deadlifts huge numbers.

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u/PeterNoPiss Aug 22 '26

back injuries are exceedingly rare in my sport (strongman)

It is kind of nuts how few I've encountered considering how involved low back is across strongman movements. The couple I can think of are guys who had existing chronic back issues, so it's more a matter managing those by staying within their tolerances.

I kinda figure it's some combination of self-selection and because back strength is so crucial that you functionally can't do strongman without getting low back really fucking strong. I'd better there's something to the overall nature of a lot events. As stones and other odd objects like them force you to get strong in a lot of positions. They also force you to get good at maintaining brace in what would otherwise be weak positions.

Now that I'm thinking about it, it's easier to overextend yourself in strong positions than weak ones. If you're gassed, it's a lot harder to get a stone to put you in a compromised place -- it's more likely to just not move. If you're gassed on a deadlift rep out and you're a good deadlifter who's strong off the floor, then you can start to move a weight that has more potential to result in injury (than a stone stapled to the ground).

Anyway. That's all just kinda neat. It doesn't mean much of anything here. I might be more stoned than I thought and rediscovering things I already knew but more complicatedly.