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What's your favourite lift?

Squat, Deadlift, Overhead Press, Bench Press, Power Clean, Barbell Rows, exercise technique.

What's is your favourite lift?

Squat
27
20%
Deadlift
67
49%
Bench Press
8
6%
Overhead Press
17
13%
Olympic style lift (Power clean, Power snatch, Clean and jerk etc)
17
13%
 
Total votes : 136

Re: What's your favourite lift?

Postby rlbsdad on Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:47 pm

Overhead press by far. I just love lifting heavy ass weights over my head. It's the lift that really gives me a rush.

Deadlifts would be second.

Squats I don't really like, but I do them because I know what they do for me.
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Re: What's your favourite lift?

Postby RobCosimo on Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:44 am

dreadlifts, mon
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Re: What's your favourite lift?

Postby Sam277 on Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:40 pm

Deadlifts.

I think they'd be top of every internet poll of this nature.
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Re: What's your favourite lift?

Postby Mehdi on Tue Oct 27, 2009 2:36 pm

I ended up voting Deadlift. At first I thought: can't choose, like them all. But reading through comments, yeah deadlifts is a bit different.

Awesome survey jpez!
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Re: What's your favourite lift?

Postby Vlad on Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:13 pm

I voted for the bench press. I can see I am a minority here. I like all the other lifts too, power clean and deadlift in particular, so it was rather hard to chooze, but bench won.
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Re: What's your favourite lift?

Postby LizzyLifts on Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:21 pm

Squats for me!

Followed very very close by Deads though.
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Re: What's your favourite lift?

Postby StevieB on Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:10 pm

Love the bench press
... i think it gets a hard rep, but i just find a completed lift on the bench more satisfying than the others
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Re: What's your favourite lift?

Postby rebsteen on Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:55 pm

my favourite is definitely the machine preacher curls!! I get such a good pump in my 'ceps.

Just kidding, mine would have to be squats because I love how you want to puke after each set :D
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Re: What's your favourite lift?

Postby tenkev on Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:00 pm

I like the Squat followed closely by the Deadlift. I like Squat more because I feel more destroyed after doing a heavy set.
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Re: What's your favourite lift?

Postby thefinalsql on Wed Oct 28, 2009 2:43 am

I was born to squat. It is the most satisfying for me. Push to stand up. End at the top as opposed to having put the weight back down.
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Re: What's your favourite lift?

Postby AbleArcher on Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:16 am

Deadlift, hands down:

- Deadlifting is what built my foundation
- Deadlifting is what I do best
- Deadlifting can been done everywhere, at all times
- Deadlifting is the one and only exercise where "cheating" never means lifting more weight

A very interesting survey, this.
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Re: What's your favourite lift?

Postby pagangoddess on Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:29 am

Deadlift. No doubt about it for me. I like the rest of them but nothing gives me a rush like pulling that bar off the floor. :twisted:
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Re: What's your favourite lift?

Postby rlbsdad on Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:49 am

pagangoddess wrote:Deadlift. No doubt about it for me. I like the rest of them but nothing gives me a rush like pulling that bar off the floor. :twisted:


I love the quote in sig, but I totally disagree with it.

I think a woman looks VERY hot maxing out on squats, and deadlifts for that matter. :D
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Re: What's your favourite lift?

Postby pagangoddess on Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:12 am

rlbsdad wrote:I love the quote in sig, but I totally disagree with it.

I think a woman looks VERY hot maxing out on squats, and deadlifts for that matter. :D


I agee but the quote is addressing a woman's perspecitive of herself & being more worried about what she looks like rather than focusing on lifting heavy. Because you know it will make her bulky & lifing heavy weights is not feminine. :roll:
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Re: What's your favourite lift?

Postby Munnings on Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:25 am

AbleArcher wrote:Deadlift, hands down:


- Deadlifting can been done everywhere, at all times


haha, every heard of planetfitness?
man dont ever go there. please.
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that you’re a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal."
- Henry Rollins (found in the E book)

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