I've heard many people talk about how it's impossible to have a good squat and a weak desdlift. The carry over in that direction is very high


If you're newer to lifting wouldn't it make more sense to focus on building a squat, saving yourself and your cns a ton of energy and fatigue by not desdlifting ? If you focused on that for a year or 2 and put 150-200 lbs on your squat you could go back to desdlifting and you'd be that much stronger

Along the lines of putting in as little as possible to get the most results.

I'm sure training both you'd get stronger more quickly, but if it's 10% stronger for 30% more work is it worth it? For me desdlift days are incomparably the most exhausting

Obviously it would take a bit of time to "relearn " how to deadlift but you'd catch back up quick and then some

what is a desdlift?

there are some cases of even profesional powerlifters with good squats and "weak" deads. but it's rare indeed.

yes, if you squat for two years and you go back to deads, you should be stronger. much strong I am not sure.

Thanks for the flame pm thread... I didn't actually read your post cuz I thought you were a troll.

To answer your question;
You need to do both if you want to get strong. Period. They will compliment each other in too many ways to ignore one over the other.

Strength takes time, you can't fast forward progress, unless you're using some kind of PEDs. If you want true strength, balance your training week, lift consistently for a LONG time (10+ years), and eat enough to support energy levels and accumulate adequate protein for muscular repair.

lmk if you want a proven percentage program (11-12 week linear periodization, undulated twice) for all the slow lifts.

Yes

Very common to have higher frequency squatting than deadlifting. Typically squatting 2x a week and deadlifting only once


I experimented with only deadlift singles (to maintain the skill) with 2 x week squatting for reps and it was highly successful

always both!