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Picking up a heavy thing to prove gravity still has competition.
means A strength exercise where you lift a loaded barbell off the ground from a bent-over position up to hip level, using legs, hips, and back rather than arms.
from Straightforward compound of 'dead' plus 'lift' — the 'dead' refers to the weight being completely motionless and at rest on the ground before the lift, with no swing, bounce, or momentum to help you, unlike other lifts. You're not hoisting something already moving; you're starting it from zero, from 'dead' stop. The term comes out of weightlifting and strongman tradition as these lifts were formalized and named in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- origin
- literally lifting dead weight, no momentum allowed
- muscles used
- nearly all of them, posterior chain especially
- ego lifting
- rounded back today, chiropractor tomorrow
- world record
- over 500 kg, by a very unbothered human