Train smart, and hard and then recover.

The title of this post is a quote from a post on James Fisher's blog where he is reporting on a recent article that he has had published:

A randomized trial to consider the effect of Romanian deadlift exercise on the development of lumbar extension strength

There are some very interesting implications to the study:

• Deadlifts are not a lower back exercise....but strengthening the lower back can improve the deadlift
• Once a week training is enough for most major muscle groups
• If you want a stronger lumbar extension....then train lumbar extension, not deadlifts