Originally Posted by Eric3237

Given all that, no matter what style you choose for your bread and butter in the long run, I disagree that someone who is inexperience with deads and who hasn't been doing a lot of wide stance anything should start out with sumos no matter how flexible you are. I don't see why he should recommend sumos in general just because he does them as this tends to be a bodytype and preferential thing rather than a one is better thing. But I have a feeling, and my feeling are usually right in the long run , that going staight to sumo is going to beat the hell out of your hips if you are inexperienced because the forces on the hip joint are much greater.