1) Pull the slack out of the bar 2) Brace (you can brace at the top if you like, but before you do #3) 3) Pull/Drive the hips in 4) Brace the lats (not shoulders down and back per se, but really activate those lats) 5) Drive the hips through
Listen, I herniated 2 disc last summer. I had epidural shots, physical therapy, and chiropractic care. It took months for me to even be able to function without pain. I deadlifted 2 week ago for the first time since I hurt myself, and I haven’t had any pain since. I throughly believe it is the pump of the muscle stabilizing my spine, along with strengthening the muscles. Trust me, deadlifts will help everything.
I injured my back in a car accident (at 22 years old) and was in chronic for years until I started deadlifting. Now (at 27) this is the first time I can live day to day without being in consist pain. If it weren’t for people like this, who make this information freely and widely available to everyone, I never would have thought to try it, nor would I have ever been able to do it safely. Thank you guys, and to everyone else on the Internet getting these useful and knowledgeable resources out there. You truly have given me a better life.
Similar for me. I believed the lie that squatting is bad for my knees my whole life. Go figure, the activities I participated in have caused a lot of damage and pain to my back and knees because I never trained them. (I was the guy who didn't skip leg day...because it was never on the schedule. I'd just run) I did physical therapy for the last 4 years, and was cleared to do actual strength training 5 months ago. I can now deadlift 275 and squat 205. I'm pretty proud. And love leg day. If I could tell anyone anything about physical training it would be ALWAYS include strength training for whatever sport you're doing. Don't believe the lie "squatting is bad for your knees." NOT squatting is bad for your knees.
These old videos were gold , every video was informative and entertaining, and the guests were the best of the best, love coming back and watching them
This guy really just helped me a great deal because he used some differently terminology than I am used to hearing. "Wedging" under the bar really helped me with a visual que. Thank you so much guys. Mark always a pleasure.
Great video. I've watched several videos on deadlift including the Ed Coan video, and a video by Swede Burns in an attempt to improve form. This video absolutely pulls it all together.
Wow--I really liked the simplicity of this. Big thumbs up. I almost gave up on conventional deads in favor of 100% sumo because I have so much difficulty getting as straight a spine as I think I should. These simple cues are really helping me get into a better starting position (I do video myself periodically). Keeping tension throughout, and ending with that LAT CUE--that is resulting in a pretty straight back! Finally! I also like the idea of focusing more on hip and glute thrusting as opposed to "pressing through the floor" cue which hasn't been giving me the best results. Great, great, video.
Very helpful info, I’m browsing a lot more videos that go over the proper form of deadlifts as well but this one actually went into more detail, so thank you again
Definitely one of my favourite videos that you guys have done, recently found Chris Duffin on TH-cam via watching his video with Stan Efferding, instant fan. I do love to rack pull, though I haven't quite gotten to doing full deadlifts much, maybe twice in the past couple of months. Mostly because I am coming off surgeries on both knees from last year and deadlifting is still a bit, sensitive on the knees, whereas rack pulls I can get some good strength benefits and my knees feel fine.
PLEASE give steps for front squat, LOVE your steps for squat and dead..USING THEM/FEELS GREAT! Especially feel the lats are really helping both a lot. Not sure how to use with front squat. My back thanks you so much brother, best squat video ever/anywhere!
9:38, John's toes extend off the floor indicating an off balanced barbell pathway. Potentially, he has reduced ankle or knee mobility, reduced quadricep/hamstring strength from the lift off to knee pass phases. However, it seems more likely that his hip joint begins too low, which increases the moment arm b/w the barbell and hip joint (not biomechanically advantageous)
I love Chris duffin , just overall badass! it would be cool to see Dan Green or Massthetics! Thanks for all the info you put out mark it makes young lifters like myself learn alot of stuff and share it with my friends!
I can't being to count how man times I cracked up watching this , whilst learning some finer ques, thanks super training the 2nd strongest gym in the west ;)
Lol, when he mentioned about doing barbell rows, I remembered a video where he randomly picked up a bar loaded with like 500 pounds from another person who was deadlifting it, and rowed it like butter for I believe 8 or so reps. Beaaast!
Súpertraining could you please put more text on during the video for example the five ques. Thx for the video i think its the best out there or it was the first that worked for me
The banana is an edible fruit, botanically a berry, produced by several kinds of large herbaceous, flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called plantains. The fruit is variable in size, color, and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow in clusters hanging from the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible parthenocarpic (seedless) bananas come from two wild species - Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. The scientific names of most cultivated bananas are Musa acuminata, Musa balbisiana, and Musa × paradisiaca for the hybrid Musa acuminata × M. balbisiana, depending on their genomic constitution. The old scientific name Musa sapientum is no longer used. Musa species are native to tropical Indomalaya and Australia, and are likely to have been first domesticated in Papua New Guinea. Bologna, rated R starts friday.They are grown in at least 107 countries, primarily for their fruit, and to a lesser extent to make fiber, banana wine, and banana beer and as ornamental plants. Worldwide, there is no sharp distinction between "bananas" and "plantains". Especially in the Americas and Europe, "banana" usually refers to soft, sweet, dessert bananas, particularly those of the Cavendish group, which are the main exports from banana-growing countries. By contrast, Musa cultivars with firmer, starchier fruit are called "plantains". In other regions, such as Southeast Asia, many more kinds of banana are grown and eaten, so the simple twofold distinction is not useful and is not made in local languages. The term "banana" is also used as the common name for the plants which produce the fruit. This can extend to other members of the genus Musa like the scarlet banana (Musa coccinea), pink banana (Musa velutina) and the Fe'i bananas. It can also refer to members of the genus Ensete, like the snow banana (Ensete glaucum) and the economically important false banana (Ensete ventricosum). Both genera are classified under the banana family, Musaceae. The banana plant is the largest herbaceous flowering plant. All the above-ground parts of a banana plant grow from a structure usually called a "corm". Plants are normally tall and fairly sturdy, and are often mistaken for trees, but what appears to be a trunk is actually a "false stem" or pseudostem. Bananas grow in a wide variety of soils, as long as the soil is at least 60 cm (24 in) deep, has good drainage and is not compacted. The leaves of banana plants are composed of a "stalk" (petiole) and a blade (lamina). The base of the petiole widens to form a sheath; the tightly packed sheaths make up the pseudostem, which is all that supports the plant. The edges of the sheath meet when it is first produced, making it tubular. As new growth occurs in the centre of the pseudostem the edges are forced apart. Cultivated banana plants vary in height depending on the variety and growing conditions. Most are around 5 m (16 ft) tall, with a range from 'Dwarf Cavendish' plants at around 3 m (10 ft) to 'Gros Michel' at 7 m (23 ft) or more. Leaves are spirally arranged and may grow 2.7 metres long and 60 centimetres wide (8.9 ft × 2.0 ft wide). They are easily torn by the wind, resulting in the familiar ragged frond look. When a banana plant is mature, the corm stops producing new leaves and begins to form a flower spike or inflorescence. A stem develops which grows up inside the pseudostem, carrying the immature inflorescence until eventually it emerges at the top. Each pseudostem normally produces a single inflorescence, also known as the "banana heart". (More are sometimes produced; an exceptional plant in the Philippines produced five.) After fruiting, the pseudostem dies, but offshoots will normally have developed from the base, so that the plant as a whole is perennial. In the plantation system of cultivation, only one of the offshoots will be allowed to develop in order to maintain spacing. The inflorescence contains many bracts (sometimes incorrectly referred to as petals) between rows of flowers. The female flowers (which can develop into fruit) appear in rows further up the stem (closer to the leaves) from the rows of male flowers. The ovary is inferior, meaning that the tiny petals, and other flower parts appear at the tip of the ovary. The banana fruits develop from the banana heart, in a large hanging cluster, made up of tiers (called "hands"), with up to 20 fruit to a tier. The hanging cluster is known as a bunch, comprising 3-20 tiers, or commercially as a "banana stem", and can weigh 30-50 kilograms (66-110 lb). Individual banana fruits (commonly known as a banana or "finger") average 125 grams (0.276 lb), of which approximately 75% is water and 25% dry matter (nutrient table, lower right). The fruit has been described as a "leathery berry". There is a protective outer layer (a peel or skin) with numerous long, thin strings (the phloem bundles), which run lengthwise between the skin and the edible inner portion. They like wash their face and then the medicine cabinent is like slightly open and they close it, and the mirror reveals the Bologna Man behind them. The inner part of the common yellow dessert variety can be split lengthwise into three sections that correspond to the inner portions of the three carpels by manually deforming the unopened fruit. In cultivated varieties, the seeds are diminished nearly to non-existence; their remnants are tiny black specks in the interior of the fruit. Bananas are naturally slightly radioactive more so than most other fruits, because of their potassium content and the small amounts of the isotope potassium-40 found in naturally occurring potassium. The banana equivalent dose of radiation is sometimes used in nuclear communication to compare radiation levels and exposures. The genus Musa was created by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. The name may be derived from Antonius Musa, physician to the Emperor Augustus, or Linnaeus may have adapted the Arabic word for banana, mauz. Musa is in the family Musaceae. The APG III system assigns Musaceae to the order Zingiberales, part of the commelinid clade of the monocotyledonous flowering plants. Some 70 species of Musa were recognized by the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families as of January 2013; several produce edible fruit, while others are cultivated as ornamentals. The classification of cultivated bananas has long been a problematic issue for taxonomists. Linnaeus originally placed bananas into two species based only on their uses as food: Musa sapientum for dessert bananas and Musa paradisiaca for plantains. Subsequently further species names were added. However, this approach proved inadequate to address the sheer number of cultivars existing in the primary center of diversity of the genus, Southeast Asia. Many of these cultivars were given names which proved to be synonyms. In a series of papers published in 1947 onwards, Ernest Cheesman showed that Linnaeus's Musa sapientum and Musa paradisiaca were actually cultivars and descendants of two wild seed-producing species, Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana, both first described by Luigi Aloysius Colla. He recommended the abolition of Linnaeus's species in favor of reclassifying bananas according to three morphologically distinct groups of cultivars - those primarily exhibiting the botanical characteristics of Musa balbisiana, those primarily exhibiting the botanical characteristics of Musa acuminata, and those with characteristics that are the combination of the two. Researchers Norman Simmonds and Ken Shepherd proposed a genome-based nomenclature system in 1955. This system eliminated almost all the difficulties and inconsistencies of the earlier classification of bananas based on assigning scientific names to cultivated varieties. Despite this, the original names are still recognized by some authorities today, leading to confusion. The currently accepted scientific names for most groups of cultivated bananas are Musa acuminata Colla and Musa balbisiana Colla for the ancestral species, and Musa × paradisiaca L. for the hybrid M. acuminata × M. balbisiana. Synonyms of M. Bologna Man, from the makers of the Bologna Witch Project. × paradisica include: A large number of subspecific and varietial names of M. × paradisiaca, including M. p. subsp. sapientum (L.) Kuntze Musa × dacca Horan. Musa × sapidisiaca K.C.Jacob, nom. superfl. Musa × sapientum L., and a large number of its varietal names, including M. × sapientum var. paradisiaca (L.) Baker, nom. illeg. Generally, modern classifications of banana cultivars follow Simmonds and Shepherd's system. Cultivars are placed in groups based on the number of chromosomes they have and which species they are derived from. Thus the Latundan banana is placed in the AAB Group, showing that it is a triploid derived from both M. acuminata (A) and M. balbisiana (B). For a list of the cultivars classified under this system see List of banana cultivars. In 2012, a team of scientists announced they had achieved a draft sequence of the genome of Musa acuminata.
1) Pull the slack out of the bar
2) Brace (you can brace at the top if you like, but before you do #3)
3) Pull/Drive the hips in
4) Brace the lats (not shoulders down and back per se, but really activate those lats)
5) Drive the hips through
You're the champ!
Drive the hips through, I call it " take it baby" move, in spanish, "tome chichi" move. Best cue for my trainees.
Tho the shoulders do get pushed down a bit when activating lats
@@whatigame right, you must have heard what Mark Bell said. He said @6:14: "trying to shove your shoulders downward" and Chris agreed.
Chris Duffin will be able to pick up his 800+lb grandchild.
Cole Stevenson 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Well done 😂😂😂
Bruh😭😭 💀
And rep it😎
Listen, I herniated 2 disc last summer. I had epidural shots, physical therapy, and chiropractic care. It took months for me to even be able to function without pain. I deadlifted 2 week ago for the first time since I hurt myself, and I haven’t had any pain since. I throughly believe it is the pump of the muscle stabilizing my spine, along with strengthening the muscles. Trust me, deadlifts will help everything.
I injured my back in a car accident (at 22 years old) and was in chronic for years until I started deadlifting. Now (at 27) this is the first time I can live day to day without being in consist pain. If it weren’t for people like this, who make this information freely and widely available to everyone, I never would have thought to try it, nor would I have ever been able to do it safely. Thank you guys, and to everyone else on the Internet getting these useful and knowledgeable resources out there. You truly have given me a better life.
Similar for me. I believed the lie that squatting is bad for my knees my whole life. Go figure, the activities I participated in have caused a lot of damage and pain to my back and knees because I never trained them. (I was the guy who didn't skip leg day...because it was never on the schedule. I'd just run) I did physical therapy for the last 4 years, and was cleared to do actual strength training 5 months ago. I can now deadlift 275 and squat 205. I'm pretty proud. And love leg day.
If I could tell anyone anything about physical training it would be ALWAYS include strength training for whatever sport you're doing.
Don't believe the lie "squatting is bad for your knees." NOT squatting is bad for your knees.
These old videos were gold , every video was informative and entertaining, and the guests were the best of the best, love coming back and watching them
Chris Duffin looks like a lumberjack fused with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
This guy really just helped me a great deal because he used some differently terminology than I am used to hearing. "Wedging" under the bar really helped me with a visual que. Thank you so much guys. Mark always a pleasure.
I can't watch a closeup of Dufin, he looks so intense i'm afraid he might punch me through the screen
chuck norris is Afraid of Chris Duffin !
athena.indigo
Had me 😂 at comment
hahahaha the emo mark bell was wonderful
I fucking died lol
Literally paused it and laughed. Brilliant!
I lol’d so hard lmao.
5:00 the holy grail of deadlift set-up advice
The "wedge" tip increased my technique significantly. I was stuck at 380ish lbs and finaly got to 405 by using that tip. Next goal is the five hundo
It is wild how instantly that made me "understand" the deadlift. Hope you got to 500
This is by far the best queue video I’ve seen for deadlifts. It’s brought up my technical efficiency significantly
This was amazing, loved this video.. anyone who deadlifts should pay close attention to this!
***** That does not mean that people can still not take a lot of great points from this video. Dont be ridiculous
+epzy some people should know the basics of bench as well. Watch urself when u drop a bar on ur chest like that.
+epzy where are they supposed to learn the basics, or learn new cues, other then videos like this?
Probably the best deadlift video I've ever seen. Explanation was really easy to picture in my mind. Thanks Mark for the videos!
Great video. I've watched several videos on deadlift including the Ed Coan video, and a video by Swede Burns in an attempt to improve form. This video absolutely pulls it all together.
Chris duffins explanation of bracing, squatting and deadlifting have ridiculously helped me
sweet!!!!!, thanks supertraining team!!
Five Finger Death Punch, Whiskey and Deadlifts. 3 of my favorite things. So much info in this video this is awesome.
Wow--I really liked the simplicity of this. Big thumbs up. I almost gave up on conventional deads in favor of 100% sumo because I have so much difficulty getting as straight a spine as I think I should. These simple cues are really helping me get into a better starting position (I do video myself periodically). Keeping tension throughout, and ending with that LAT CUE--that is resulting in a pretty straight back! Finally! I also like the idea of focusing more on hip and glute thrusting as opposed to "pressing through the floor" cue which hasn't been giving me the best results. Great, great, video.
I love these tutorials/guides/breakdowns/tips
Best that exists without going to a seminar in person
Just starting doing deadlifts. GREAT INSTRUCTION!!!
Duffin is my lord and savior.
Emo Mark was the best thing i've seen all week.
This is the single most important technique video that one must see and follow.
Keep coming back to this, good informative fun video💪😊
This one was really funny. Whoever did the drop-ins, good job!
Mr. Bells mobility has gotten 1000x better. That sumo looked awesome! Keep grinding!
Very helpful info, I’m browsing a lot more videos that go over the proper form of deadlifts as well but this one actually went into more detail, so thank you again
Definitely one of my favourite videos that you guys have done, recently found Chris Duffin on TH-cam via watching his video with Stan Efferding, instant fan.
I do love to rack pull, though I haven't quite gotten to doing full deadlifts much, maybe twice in the past couple of months. Mostly because I am coming off surgeries on both knees from last year and deadlifting is still a bit, sensitive on the knees, whereas rack pulls I can get some good strength benefits and my knees feel fine.
Chris makes so much sense with everything he says
yeah. he's very well spoken and logical with everything he explains.
I want to know more about his background and who he learned the most from - dude has cues and subtle techniques coming out his ears.
He was our validictorian, makes sense hes mastered communicating his passion.
Isn’t he an engineer
5:32 Mike that bulking going well i see ;) ;)
Cold
Crazy great video. In fact already one of my favourites.
This will help me aswell as many other people a LOT!
Thank you guys so much!
PLEASE give steps for front squat, LOVE your steps for squat and dead..USING THEM/FEELS GREAT! Especially feel the lats are really helping both a lot. Not sure how to use with front squat. My back thanks you so much brother, best squat video ever/anywhere!
Chris Duffin is a fucking beast. \m/
Revisiting this video here in 2k19, still the best deadlift guide ever
My wife watches Korean drama and I’m watching this second time already. Awesome content guys! Kudos!
9:38, John's toes extend off the floor indicating an off balanced barbell pathway. Potentially, he has reduced ankle or knee mobility, reduced quadricep/hamstring strength from the lift off to knee pass phases. However, it seems more likely that his hip joint begins too low, which increases the moment arm b/w the barbell and hip joint (not biomechanically advantageous)
Thanks. Very instructive.
Great advice keeping it simple with 5 easy rules to follow on every deadlift! TY!
was waiting for this ever since the squatting video with chris, thanks mark as always for the great content!
I usually press like on your videos before I even watch them, since I already know they are gonna be awesome.
Love your content!
another amazing video can't get enough of them. may have to take a trip over to the states to train with you guys.
Awesome video very informational keep them coming mark !
Incredible content as always.
Mark does such a good job of highlighting the best
God bless you Smelly for these awesome vids!
Been waiting forever for this video. Favorite one on the channel
Just deadlifted yesterday, but gotta do it again today now!!!
Damn I miss this kind of videos from ST
Bend forward, pull like row, , breath before hip wedge, lock lays, don’t pull bar, wedge hips through
Awesome video - love this guy
thanks for making this video. this helped me a lot.
Another brilliant and informative video. Thank you
Guys, amazing videos, I appreciate all this great content.
I love Chris duffin , just overall badass! it would be cool to see Dan Green or Massthetics! Thanks for all the info you put out mark it makes young lifters like myself learn alot of stuff and share it with my friends!
That was a great vid, some hilarious moments as always. The Duff-miester is awesome, I think I'll be checking out the Kubuki portal for sure!
So stoked he said harms way and trains with the guy that sings for the band
오아아ㅏㅏㅏ 진짜 멋진 비디오에요. 마크 벨 고마워요. 늘 당신 유투브 채널에서 팟캐스트도 듣고 운동 동기부여를 받곤 합니다
Bend at waist, pull on bar, brace, cue the lats, wedge the hips in (weight should lift off the ground here through the hips).
self note
more great content ST....keep it up guys!!!!!!!!
Aha 6 years later i am back.
From 3 wheels to 6 wheels.
Thankyou Mike and Chris for this video!
Now excuse me, I gotta revise my lesson
Duffin does a great job on cuing - focus on getting hips wedged was unique.
I like how he lifts the bar setting up.
You're putting out the best informational videos...thanks smelly
I love Mark, Chris and MORRISSEY!
LMAO@Dan Green and Zahir at 3:53. Dan's like "dat spine tho".
chris duffin is a swole Zach Galifianakis.
I can't being to count how man times I cracked up watching this , whilst learning some finer ques, thanks super training the 2nd strongest gym in the west ;)
Brilliant video as always. would be sick to see massthetics go down to ST
I wonder why massthetics got all pissy and stopped talking about conjugate.?
They answered all the questions on conjugate with videos and people are still like "tell me that thing you told me in the video"
nah
he's so skinny he could enter the gym without opening the door
It would be more like going up to ST haha
Silent Mike has come a long way since then! He's not about to open his own gym in Sacramento!
One of the few FFDP covers I actually like lol
Awesome video!!!
Duffin is definitly the most badass human creature on earth.
this was awesome! thank you so much for this!
Great video guys!! I rly want to se the Duffinator on a platform!
Where can I download the opening song
Seven minutes in and I'm laughing so hard. Thanks for this ... lovely type of humor.
So much info, had to watch this over again because my brain turned to mush in parts
6:29 is one of the best mark moments in st TH-cam history
Lol, when he mentioned about doing barbell rows, I remembered a video where he randomly picked up a bar loaded with like 500 pounds from another person who was deadlifting it, and rowed it like butter for I believe 8 or so reps.
Beaaast!
Tried this today and it transformed my deadlift
What muscle pull the weights up 🦵 or back?
Súpertraining could you please put more text on during the video for example the five ques. Thx for the video i think its the best out there or it was the first that worked for me
great video!
So much humor yet so informative, lmao, good damn video!!
Flashback to high school football days when my coach had us tighten our belts as much as possible 🙃
Great stuff
Great man!
I want that cut-ff you said tomorrow yesterday. thats legit
Serial Killer Eyes + Wisdom + Groceries= CHRIS FUCKING DUFFIN.
For those who interested in intro song, its "Five Finger Death Punch - Mama Said Knock You Out (Official Audio) ft. Tech N9Ne"
As in the LL Cool J song but a cover? Will have to look into that.
Thanks
Good video guys!
Awesome vid
you embrace the meme here at supertraining and for that i appreciate you
The banana is an edible fruit, botanically a berry, produced by several kinds of large herbaceous, flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called plantains. The fruit is variable in size, color, and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow in clusters hanging from the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible parthenocarpic (seedless) bananas come from two wild species - Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. The scientific names of most cultivated bananas are Musa acuminata, Musa balbisiana, and Musa × paradisiaca for the hybrid Musa acuminata × M. balbisiana, depending on their genomic constitution. The old scientific name Musa sapientum is no longer used. Musa species are native to tropical Indomalaya and Australia, and are likely to have been first domesticated in Papua New Guinea. Bologna, rated R starts friday.They are grown in at least 107 countries, primarily for their fruit, and to a lesser extent to make fiber, banana wine, and banana beer and as ornamental plants. Worldwide, there is no sharp distinction between "bananas" and "plantains". Especially in the Americas and Europe, "banana" usually refers to soft, sweet, dessert bananas, particularly those of the Cavendish group, which are the main exports from banana-growing countries. By contrast, Musa cultivars with firmer, starchier fruit are called "plantains". In other regions, such as Southeast Asia, many more kinds of banana are grown and eaten, so the simple twofold distinction is not useful and is not made in local languages. The term "banana" is also used as the common name for the plants which produce the fruit. This can extend to other members of the genus Musa like the scarlet banana (Musa coccinea), pink banana (Musa velutina) and the Fe'i bananas. It can also refer to members of the genus Ensete, like the snow banana (Ensete glaucum) and the economically important false banana (Ensete ventricosum). Both genera are classified under the banana family, Musaceae.
The banana plant is the largest herbaceous flowering plant. All the above-ground parts of a banana plant grow from a structure usually called a "corm". Plants are normally tall and fairly sturdy, and are often mistaken for trees, but what appears to be a trunk is actually a "false stem" or pseudostem. Bananas grow in a wide variety of soils, as long as the soil is at least 60 cm (24 in) deep, has good drainage and is not compacted. The leaves of banana plants are composed of a "stalk" (petiole) and a blade (lamina). The base of the petiole widens to form a sheath; the tightly packed sheaths make up the pseudostem, which is all that supports the plant. The edges of the sheath meet when it is first produced, making it tubular. As new growth occurs in the centre of the pseudostem the edges are forced apart. Cultivated banana plants vary in height depending on the variety and growing conditions. Most are around 5 m (16 ft) tall, with a range from 'Dwarf Cavendish' plants at around 3 m (10 ft) to 'Gros Michel' at 7 m (23 ft) or more. Leaves are spirally arranged and may grow 2.7 metres long and 60 centimetres wide (8.9 ft × 2.0 ft wide). They are easily torn by the wind, resulting in the familiar ragged frond look. When a banana plant is mature, the corm stops producing new leaves and begins to form a flower spike or inflorescence. A stem develops which grows up inside the pseudostem, carrying the immature inflorescence until eventually it emerges at the top. Each pseudostem normally produces a single inflorescence, also known as the "banana heart". (More are sometimes produced; an exceptional plant in the Philippines produced five.) After fruiting, the pseudostem dies, but offshoots will normally have developed from the base, so that the plant as a whole is perennial. In the plantation system of cultivation, only one of the offshoots will be allowed to develop in order to maintain spacing. The inflorescence contains many bracts (sometimes incorrectly referred to as petals) between rows of flowers. The female flowers (which can develop into fruit) appear in rows further up the stem (closer to the leaves) from the rows of male flowers. The ovary is inferior, meaning that the tiny petals, and other flower parts appear at the tip of the ovary. The banana fruits develop from the banana heart, in a large hanging cluster, made up of tiers (called "hands"), with up to 20 fruit to a tier. The hanging cluster is known as a bunch, comprising 3-20 tiers, or commercially as a "banana stem", and can weigh 30-50 kilograms (66-110 lb). Individual banana fruits (commonly known as a banana or "finger") average 125 grams (0.276 lb), of which approximately 75% is water and 25% dry matter (nutrient table, lower right). The fruit has been described as a "leathery berry". There is a protective outer layer (a peel or skin) with numerous long, thin strings (the phloem bundles), which run lengthwise between the skin and the edible inner portion. They like wash their face and then the medicine cabinent is like slightly open and they close it, and the mirror reveals the Bologna Man behind them. The inner part of the common yellow dessert variety can be split lengthwise into three sections that correspond to the inner portions of the three carpels by manually deforming the unopened fruit. In cultivated varieties, the seeds are diminished nearly to non-existence; their remnants are tiny black specks in the interior of the fruit. Bananas are naturally slightly radioactive more so than most other fruits, because of their potassium content and the small amounts of the isotope potassium-40 found in naturally occurring potassium. The banana equivalent dose of radiation is sometimes used in nuclear communication to compare radiation levels and exposures.
The genus Musa was created by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. The name may be derived from Antonius Musa, physician to the Emperor Augustus, or Linnaeus may have adapted the Arabic word for banana, mauz. Musa is in the family Musaceae. The APG III system assigns Musaceae to the order Zingiberales, part of the commelinid clade of the monocotyledonous flowering plants. Some 70 species of Musa were recognized by the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families as of January 2013; several produce edible fruit, while others are cultivated as ornamentals. The classification of cultivated bananas has long been a problematic issue for taxonomists. Linnaeus originally placed bananas into two species based only on their uses as food: Musa sapientum for dessert bananas and Musa paradisiaca for plantains. Subsequently further species names were added. However, this approach proved inadequate to address the sheer number of cultivars existing in the primary center of diversity of the genus, Southeast Asia. Many of these cultivars were given names which proved to be synonyms. In a series of papers published in 1947 onwards, Ernest Cheesman showed that Linnaeus's Musa sapientum and Musa paradisiaca were actually cultivars and descendants of two wild seed-producing species, Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana, both first described by Luigi Aloysius Colla. He recommended the abolition of Linnaeus's species in favor of reclassifying bananas according to three morphologically distinct groups of cultivars - those primarily exhibiting the botanical characteristics of Musa balbisiana, those primarily exhibiting the botanical characteristics of Musa acuminata, and those with characteristics that are the combination of the two. Researchers Norman Simmonds and Ken Shepherd proposed a genome-based nomenclature system in 1955. This system eliminated almost all the difficulties and inconsistencies of the earlier classification of bananas based on assigning scientific names to cultivated varieties. Despite this, the original names are still recognized by some authorities today, leading to confusion. The currently accepted scientific names for most groups of cultivated bananas are Musa acuminata Colla and Musa balbisiana Colla for the ancestral species, and Musa × paradisiaca L. for the hybrid M. acuminata × M. balbisiana. Synonyms of M. Bologna Man, from the makers of the Bologna Witch Project. × paradisica include: A large number of subspecific and varietial names of M. × paradisiaca, including M. p. subsp. sapientum (L.) Kuntze Musa × dacca Horan. Musa × sapidisiaca K.C.Jacob, nom. superfl. Musa × sapientum L., and a large number of its varietal names, including M. × sapientum var. paradisiaca (L.) Baker, nom. illeg. Generally, modern classifications of banana cultivars follow Simmonds and Shepherd's system. Cultivars are placed in groups based on the number of chromosomes they have and which species they are derived from. Thus the Latundan banana is placed in the AAB Group, showing that it is a triploid derived from both M. acuminata (A) and M. balbisiana (B). For a list of the cultivars classified under this system see List of banana cultivars. In 2012, a team of scientists announced they had achieved a draft sequence of the genome of Musa acuminata.
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