Which should be heavier: Squat or Deadlift?

[wild_wild_wes]

Which should be the heavier amount: the amount you can Squat, or what you can deadlift?

[lethal dose]

I used to squat 740 in the box... my dead lift was nowhere close.

[wild_wild_wes]

Okay, another way of asking this would be: what are the current amounts you guys are Squatting, and Deadlifting?

[lethal dose]

Mid fours in the box... mid twos off the ground. Old back injuries.

[ROCKET20_GINSU]

If you are doing full Parallel squats (not box squats) and full deadlifts, my experience has been that you can usually deadlift quite a bit more than you can squat but my squat has always been weak in comparison to my clean and deadlifts.

At my strongest I could deadlift 440 and squat 275 ish, now a days I can probably squat clean...225-250 and deadlift 350 ish.

YMMV

GU

[D.O.A.F.S.]

If you are doing full Parallel squats (not box squats) and full deadlifts, my experience has been that you can usually deadlift quite a bit more than you can squat but my squat has always been weak in comparison to my clean and deadlifts.


GU

I would agree, if both are done CORRECT, you will dead lift probably 20-30% more weight then you can squat. There's a huge difference between a correct squat and what you see most guys doing at the gym.

[WillBrink]

Which should be the heavier amount: the amount you can Squat, or what you can deadlift?

There's no should on that one. Due to mechanics, etc, etc, differences between people, it goes either way for people.

[lethal dose]

There's no should on that one. Due to mechanics, etc, etc, differences between people, it goes either way for people.

exactly. i was NEVER able to dead lift anywhere near what i could squat. think about it... depending on how you break up your workout and which parts you focus on, it could vary a lot. i have a buddy who can bench as much as his squat and his dead lift is close. it really does depend on a) what willbrink said... mechanics, etc. and b) how you focus your workout.

[SHIVAN]

I am 6'2" and honestly felt that deadlift was working against me. I could squat over 600lbs at my peak around 18yo. I could only deadlift ~405lbs.

[wild_wild_wes]

Well I'm new at these, building the amounts I do slowly and I was sure I heard somewhere that Deadlift should be more, but for me after the latest weight I added, the deadlift was very hard but I feel like I'm nowhere near having difficulty with the same amount in a squat.