Deadlifts
Deadlifts
Instructions
- Stand with feet shoulder width apart and your shins touching the bar. Bend your hips and knees keeping your back flat. Grasp the bar with an underhand/overhand grip slightly wider than shoulder width apart.
- Press through your heels and lift the bar up keeping your arms relaxed. Maintain a flat back. Keep the bar close to your body.
- Full stand up with the bar.
- Hold for 1-2 seconds, then slowly return to the starting position in the opposite steps.
Tips
- It is critical that you maintain a good posture. The first half of the exercise, life with your legs with your buttocks out. The second half use your upper body to full extend your torso.
| Primary muscles | Quads Erector spinae Gluteus maximus |
|---|---|
| Secondary muscles | Trapezius Hamstrings |