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Originally posted by pipes
At the bottom of the squat, by no means are you upright. Your but kicks out backwards and your upper body leans forward. In both exercises the only thing from letting you fall forward are your erector spinaes. Looking at simple biomechanics of both exercises, you will realize that the resistance arm during squats is much greater than that of deadlifts. This equates to a larger amount of torque your body must resist in order to prevent any unwanted movement from front to back or side to side. Just take a look at the posistion in the bottom of your sqaut video. See any similarities to the position during a deadlift?
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how much you squatting and pulling? do you squat and pull? the bottom of the squat is similar to the dead with one exception in the dead you are moving from a dead stop. in squats you get a bounce out of the hole. it takes much more back and ham strength to complete a dead of equal weight. i feel deads much more in my abs and low back than i do when squatting. but hey if you get more core work from squatting than you do pulling deads then have at it. deads envolve more muscle groups and make it a more compound movement as well. the two exercises are the kings of core development. we can agree on that.