Compounds for legs/core

>>42560576
you can reasonably replace DL with trap bar to work around an injury or something, but they wont replace squat. and if youre trying to replace compounds with meme shit like weighted crunches; youre basically not doing a strength program anymore anyway

It gives you a little bit of the gains you get from squats and deadlifts combined into one. It can replace both lifts if you understand that it's not as good as doing both those two lifts but it's probably the best single lift in existence. You'll certainly be ably to get strong as fuck with it.

>>42560662
Spbp, and /thread

>>42560662
To rephrase this, hex bar deadlifts works your legs evenly. It works your posterior chain and quads evenly. So you can do only it and not worry about imbalances. If you only back squat or only conventional deadlift you might get quad or hamstrings dominance. Hex bar deadlift hits the hams better than back squad and quads better than conventional deadlift but not better than their target muscles.

>>42560648
>Meme shit
>Weighted crunches

Yeah ok lil guy

>>42560730
What about doing hexlifts while standing on plates so my starting position is more like the bottom of a squat?

>>42560576
Hex bar is god tier. I think it gets a bad wrap because of how much more weight you can move with it, but this is because you're activating more muscles and pulling from a safer/better position.

>>42560576
Just squat, that wont replace that.

>>42560918
Yeah if you increase the ROM a lot it should be on par with back squat. Use the low handles of course. There's no stretch reflex so it's harder and it can be limiting depending on your stance width. I tried these for a bit and they felt awkward to me so I just settled on regular hex bar deadlifts.