Bread and butter
 

The squat and deadlift are the bread-and-butter of workouts. They’re both the foundation of any intelligent strength program and you can’t have one without the other. All you have to do is put a heavy weight on the ground and lift it.

The deadlift strengthens the powerful muscles in your hamstrings, glutes, and upper-back (the main drivers of the exercise); it even builds your arms as you hold onto hundreds of pounds of iron and develops a strong, stable core. Pulling a lot of weight on the deadlift will pack on size quickly and stimulate more total-body growth