"Big on Basics": Deadlift with Pete Rubish

Animal athlete Pete Rubish shows you the step-by-step process that has made him one of the most dominant deadlifters in the world. in comprehensive Animal tutorial style, Pete goes through the motions of both conventional and sumo setups.

[@miguelrmusic]

green screen washer and dryer next time

[@MrMikey1871]

My favorite powerlifter

[@middlingmemer]

Pete is definetly my favourite powerlifter, would love to see more videos of him!

[@metalroofer6737]

pete smashing that deadlift in the intro was serious!

[@xReiinz]

should've played lil jon in the back and have the washer and dryer watching over him. haha

[@WillieHaller]

Pete is my favorite animal athlete! Awesome video!

[@KuboConty]

Pete and KK have the most insane conventional deadlift ! in my opinion of course :)

[@stephen0327]

met this dude at a meet in wv, genuinely nice guy. hell of a lifter

[@adamg6284]

Yeah from what I've seen of him he seems real cool.

[@seekn.destroy4064]

@@adamg6284 he's extremely religious. He is how Jesus would be if he deadlifted.

[@alfamorphedliftin4894]

This is awesome!! getting tips from the best, thanks Animal and Pete!!

[@mikeypee2365]

Good to see my boy finally doing some tutorials

[@falloutm134]

awesome vid. Pete is really calm and focused making I'm a very good teacher I think.

[@lucaschaudhry9161]

we need a vid of Pete going grocery shopping.

[@Mdizel80]

Have you watched his food critic KZbin videos? That cracks me up!

[@heathnguyen]

+Lucas Chaudhry and then sumo deadlifting the shopping bags after

[@robertbohinc]

Lucas Chaudhry you can watch that. Animal shoot Pete going grocery shopping on “Big on a Budget”

[@TypowyFitnesiak]

Pete doing sumo, strange view :P

[@guscastro1152]

Great video! One good takeaway from this is rotating my elbows. I wish I would have seen this video earlier - I just got from my deadlift session.

[@lordgaulo6520]

+Gus Castro It helped me tremendously

[@eric4w]

I've always been self conscious about wearing shorts because I have calves like Pete. Obviously skinny calves don't mean you are weak. Awesome video.

[@Bobson690]

Who chose these camera angles? He's showing stuff and they're zoomed in on some random angle.

[@greenricky4782]

My favorite powerlifter who pulls conventional. Still my favorite powerlifter who pulls sumo is Dan Green. ;)

[@MrMUSCLETEN]

let pete know today was my deadlift day on my 5x5 program and i took in his tip on foot placement...it really helped. So practical yet i couldn't see what i was doing wrong...realized i wad rolling the weight as he said lol. problem fixed

[@Jake.r606]

pete is the man, not much else to say

[@dperez308]

I’ve followed you many years Pete you’ve been very inspirational..only real “meathead” lol know what you’ve accomplished...I’ve deadlifted 500 at 160..but 900 plus your a god amongst men fucking titanium spine

[@Kanelbullennnn]

Holy shit that neck is fucking huge!

[@bigschaeff1]

Beast mode engaged

[@nicohagenes5200]

Pete trying to teach sumo haha! "You can tell I dont do it that often" cracked up lmao

[@casperneyt5433]

0:14 When even Dan Green is impressed!

[@bangermccrusher]

Pete is not an animal athlete...he IS the Animal.

[@jacobcherian4384]

Please do the bench press, squat and overhead press, military press and barbell and dumbbell curls videos !

[@papetolapoorlopez]

Pete, do you train your neck separately with a neck harness or neck machine? Or is the size of your neck due in part by deadlifting?

[@JimmyTheProstitute]

Phil G Hos is most likely from years of deadlifting but training neck is great.

[@Basement811]

that fucking neck

[@keyhi3301]

0:07 .. pete "aneckonda" rubish

[@TheBeckyMc]

Guys and gals you mean ;-) Thanks for the vid

[@waltertupou6749]

its crazy how he is not that big but deadlifts a shit ton

[@chrisliowknicksfan]

Thats light as shit for someone pulling 900+, most other guys that hit his numbers are 80-100 pounds heavier

[@chrisliowknicksfan]

I'm sorry, but that's blatantly incorrect. If you actually think someone like George Leeman is just Pete with just 100 pounds of fat tacked on, then that's your prerogative, but not one that anyone in the powerlifting community would agree with. The people in the 900+ club that weigh 80-100 pounds more than Pete are 'obese' in the same way that every single serious strongman competitor is 'obese'. There is a tremendous advantage to having an excess of bodyfat when you are going for pure strength, and that is without even going into the leverage and other mechanical factors influenced by weight behind a DL. Go look at 77kg olympic lifters and compare them with the heaviest class...once you start nearing the natural limits for strength and size, the amount of fat you need to continue making progress rises almost exponentially compared to the amount of strength you want to put on.

[@chrisliowknicksfan]

+jim jones jesus man, reading comprehension. where did i claim that fat alone would make you lift more? having a heavier bf helps tremendously in the strength building stage, which is why all the record holders and strongmen are 'fat'.

[@viggowiin]

+jim jones The ones holding 100 pounds also have more muscle. It's easier gaining muscle and strenght with a higher bf. The body is just more comfortable at higher bf. Not saying obese or fat, but higher than 10-12

[@vicentegaytan9452]

una prenta a cualquiera cuanto tiene el precio la proteina animal en e.unidos...

[@gypsykatcher30]

I need a motherfukin neck like that. DAmnnn!!

[@jbhernandez6744]

Petes neck wow some pitbull action

[@billcannon]

THE WHITE COBRRAAA

[@troyvincent8933]

EAAAAASYYY!!!!

[@omara4025]

those neck muscles though

[@vintersorg5501]

Neck of peace

[@MrAlfredo1831]

snap action at 3:18

[@UniverseAZ]

+Steven Bishop His knees poppin proably

[@pranjalchauhan323]

Again at 4:29😂😂😂

[@jamesg4987]

Anyone else remember the black dude that went viral because of the huge neck... Pete rubish is pretty damn close to that

[@marcthecherrypicker]

is one side of Pete's neck bigger than the other ?? lol

[@AJ1990.]

Probably so. mixed grip will do that to you after years of pulling that way. it did to me.

[@strengthhabits8068]

What a Neck!

[@Bling92]

the white cobra

[@bmudri]

hes all neck

[@thctitan]

I love pete, but there was not much info here.

[@davidf1289]

there is more than enough info here. it's called big on the basics

[@SemuckiProductions]

Never seen Pete do sumo, crazy times we live in. The directing could have been a little bit more on point, because when he is talking about feet placement or lat engagement the camera is pointed at his knees, quads or something like that, for example. Also it seems a little too focused on only one body part, when he is demonstrating the whole pull. Those are just my 2 cents.

[@sankethavoc]

tats the problem with many of their vidds a dan green and gunz deadlift or squat vid has camera showing their faces only

[@Kbcqw]

DECENT

[@diennn69]

#bigdaddydien2016.

[@InspiredFortunes]

how can this guy look so big and yet have rather small arms?

[@JamesHillegas]

That Ohio State Flag!!

[@Bling92]

#whitecobra

[@cosmogamer9914]

dead @ him calling himself lanky

[@ElohimsBlade]

26 inch neck... has to be

[@areMiller]

Ur knees and shins r forward.. Ur saying don't do this so this doesn't happen then u proceed to do it incorrectly..

[@krizex]

+areMiller yeah, please tell the guy who deadlifts nearly 900lbs that he pulls incorrectly :D

[@areMiller]

+Kris Tonev its incorrect according to most and himself.. No taking away from his strength. . didn't say he was weak.. look at ant hawth..spot on

[@ryanturner8577]

+areMiller Lol what makes it incorrect? why does everyone think technique is always so black and white? unless you are a very low hip deadlifter, your knees are going to be slightly forward. The problem with getting your shins completely parallel behind the bar is that a lot of people become too upright in a squat position. When that happens you lose leverage over the bar. So pete is a little big of a higher hip puller, so his knees will be over the bar some to keep good leverage. That's why he says he pulls his hips through early, so the bar doesn't smash his knees. This allows a good bar path.

[@alexanderforsanker4030]

Lol don't tell one of the strongest deadlifters in the world that he has incorrect form

[@richardevans8908]

+areMiller do as he says, not as he does.

[@Nedeljko0012]

Wtf is with neck? 😄

[@xxFR12]

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