Deadlifts are harder. I love deadlifts because they work out so much of your body at once, but they all rely on the one weakest point (which is probably your forearms). You can only hold as much as your forearms will take. Some people use straps, but I never liked them. Unlike a weight belt, straps feel like a crutch to get around having weak arms. But even if your arms are strong enough, you can only lift as much as your shoulders will pick up. You can only lift as much as your quads will push against the ground. You can only lift as much as your blood has oxygen in it. You can only lift as much as your back will straighten with that much weight in front of you.

Deadlifts are hard. They're supposed to be. It's the ultimate power lift, the one that combines almost every single other exercise and almost every single muscle group. You can't skip leg day and still deadlift. You can't neglect a single muscle group and still deadlift.

But yeah, fuck squats. I hate them so much. I generally did leg presses instead of squats. Not exactly the same exercise, but it's close enough for how much I hate squats.

It sure is. Works out to around 615lb, for those playing along in the USA.

Bench and overhead press were the two exercises in SS that were very straightforward though.

Now I happily do kettlebells.