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Originally Posted by VilleN
Dead lifts are most certainly necessary for any athletes weight lifting regimen, it's one of the most important lifts for overall strength. Additionally, if you don't exercise your back it will be weaker and more prone to injury, not vice versa. As long as he's lifting properly (he has pro trainers, so he is), he should be doing deadlifts and other back workouts.
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Dead lifts are good for the Glutes, not as much for the back, but that can help to stabilize a back by training the glutes to fire more often and with a stronger response than the back muscles. It all depends on how you implement the exercise.
The best exercise for the back is counter-intuitive. It's actually planks. That creates transverse abdominus and other abdominal muscles strength and stamina. Weak, or poorly functioning abdominals is usually the root cause of most cases of mechanical back pain.
Also, anyone who has the possibility of disc herniation should stay far away from dead lifts as they exacerbate the herniation. Pretty much the worst thing you can do for a bad back due to herniation. The problem is that mechanical back pain can have so many different causes that have mechanisms which are difficult to pinpoint, so it's hard to say when to avoid dead lifts unless you have a clear herniation on MRI.
/end lesson.