
Instructions
Preparation
- With feet flat beneath bar squat down and grasp bar with
a shoulder width or slightly wider over hand or mixed grip.
Execution
- Lift bar by extending hips and knees to full extension. Pull
shoulders back at top of lift if rounded. Return and repeat.
Comments
- Throughout lift keep hips low, shoulders high, arms and back
straight. Knees should point same direction as feet throughout
movement. Keep bar close to body to improve mechanical leverage.
Also see Deadlift
under Erector Spinae.
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Classification
Muscles
Target
Synergists
Dynamic
Stabilizers
Stabilizers
Antagonist
Stabilizers
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