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Deadlifts

Description

Stand firmly, with your feet slightly more than shoulder wide apart. Stand directly behind the bar where it should barely touch your shin, your feet pointing a bit out. Bend down with a straight back, the knees also pointing somewhat out. Grab the bar with a shoulder wide grip, one overhand, one underhand (mixed grip).

Pull the weight up. At the highest point make a slight hollow back and pull the bar back. Hold 1 or 2 seconds that position. Go down, making sure the back is not bent. Once down you can either go back again as soon as the weights touch the floor, or make a pause, depending on the weight.

Muscles

Front
Back

Primary muscles

  • Lats

Secondary muscles

  • Glutes

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Description and images from the open wger exercise database, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (authors: rlamarca, philip, wger.de, bruunomooura, wgerjhn). Translations by Calix are shared under the same license. Muscle diagrams: wger project (AGPL-3.0).