Heeled shoe for deadlifting.

Just wondering where you stand on deadlifting in a heeled shoe or flat ?

Thanks in advance

It doesn’t really matter, other than you’ll probably lift less weight with a heeled shoe, as it alters balance point and contact patch for the center of pressure.

Here are things that using a heeled shoe don’t do:

  1. Use more quads, hamstrings, or any other muscle group
  2. Make you more virtuous of a human being
  3. Prevent foot injuries
  4. make you lift more weight

If you’re not a competitor then I don’t think it really matters outside of people making things up on the Internet.

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Hi Jordan thanks for the answers just new to powerlifting style training always liked the look of it but couldn’t commit myself but now I have run SS LP and was going to go onto Texas method but been wanting to try bridge for a long time and glad I didwent really well best in gym lifts testing my 1RM was squat 180 bench 155 and deadlift in a healed shoe 220kg and OHP 80kg my height is 5’11 and I weight 83kg age 26 now just to make the jump and find a local powerlifting meet in the uk