For someone who plans on competing. I’m thinking of switching to sumo because I’m way stronger in this position. Will I be missing anything by ditching conventional deadlifts and exclusively pulling sumo? What about over training for the quads?
The extra 4 inches of ROM are unlikely to cause overtraining.
Sumo pulls are still a posterior chain pulling movement that utilize quads slightly more than conventional deadlifts. And even that depends on how you actually lift the bar off the floor.
Competition-wise, always use your strongest stance. You can still use conventional deads as an assistance movement.
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Seems like an easy decision.
Compete sumo but still train your conventional.
I’m focusing on my conventional for a while but will still compete sumo, I won’t completely remove sumo pulling ( will do it on my light days ) but my max effort work and medium work will all be conventional for the sake of bringing up my weakness which is conventional.
That will make my sumo go up.
I also train conventional and compete sumo. What I like to do is do most of my warmups in sumo and do my work sets conventional. I warm up with an 8,5,3,1,1 pattern and the last single warm up is done with conventional belted. All other warmups are sumo with no gear.
This warms up my hips/quads/hams while not tiring out the low back.