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Exercise Lab

Deadlifts

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Equipment

  • Barbell

Muscle Groups

  • Back
  • Hips & Buttocks
  • Legs

Purposes

  • Leg strength
  • Glute strength
  • Torso strength

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Description

  • Place the barbell at mid-shin level (either with loaded with plates or on racks).
  • Grab the bar with your hands at hip-width, and set up with your back straight and your chest out.
  • Keeping your chest up and your back straight at all time, carefully lift the bar off the ground to a standing position.
  • Slowly return to the start position.

ProTip

  • "Brace" the trunk muscles throughout (as if preparing to receive a punch)

Mistakes

  • Rounding the back
  • Not bending the knee