Deadlift can make your waist wide?

[goal245]

If you google "deadlift obliques" you will see it's a very popular search term and tons of people asking why their obliques are sore after dead lifting. Lots of hernias and pulled ab muscles reported from deadlifts because of the stress/pressure they put there, overtime the muscles will grow from the stress

 

[Pericles]

If you google "deadlift obliques" you will see it's a very popular search term and tons of people asking why their obliques are sore after dead lifting. Lots of hernias and pulled ab muscles reported from deadlifts because of the stress/pressure they put there, overtime the muscles will grow from the stress

No they won't. If that was the case every olympic lifter would have a huge waist, as they deadlift and squat 6x a week. If you can come up with some science that would be great to prove your point but you won't find any.

 

[goal245]

No they won't. If that was the case every olympic lifter would have a huge waist, as they deadlift and squat 6x a week. If you can come up with some science that would be great to prove your point but you won't find any.

Olympic lifters have blocky waists

https://search.proquest.com/openvie...498f9ce17dac/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=30912

The purpose of this study was to investigate the activation of various trunk muscles during squats and deadlifts.

The study found that squats and dead lifts provide High activation of lower abdominal and outer oblique muscles and direct work of those muscles is not necessary to augment core stability.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18076231

The purpose of this study was to examine the extent of activation in various trunk muscles during dynamic weight-training and isometric instability exercises. Sixteen subjects performed squats and deadlifts with 80% 1 repetition maximum (1RM)

Individuals performing upright, resisted, dynamic exercises can achieve high trunk muscle activation and thus may not need to add instability device exercises to augment core stability training.

 

[goal245]

No they won't. If that was the case every olympic lifter would have a huge waist, as they deadlift and squat 6x a week. If you can come up with some science that would be great to prove your point but you won't find any.

Here is what the muscles do, but I've only deadlifted 835 at 230lbs body weight so I'm probably doing it wrong:

During a deadlift, the rectus abdominis and the obliques are both hard at work. The rectus abdominis is a pair of long muscles that extend the length of the torso. The obliques extend along either side of the torso.

During a deadlift, both of these muscle groups work as antagonist stabilizers, which is a muscle that contracts during a movement to create tension and counter the action of another muscle that may exert force on a joint or several joints.

In the case of the deadlift, the rectus abdominis and obliques counteract the pull of the of the erector spinae — a deep muscle system of the back — on the vertebral column, preventing hyper extension of the spine.

 

[jstrong20]

Francos obliques were well(over)developed, arnold isn't known for a tiny waist either but hid his wide waist well by twisting etc

Arnold wide waist is genetic. Franco's in that pose do protrude so you are right. I think people are picturing something worse though.

 

[trainlikeaboss]

It's a fact that the deadlift highly activates the entire midsection. It would not make sense to say that would not build muscle in that area. More muscle in the midsection then yes you are going to look wider. And don't tell me it's going to accentuate the v taper. A tiny waste is a tiny waste and will always have more contrast if everything else is built well compared to a wider one. Just my 2¢