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One of the most primal movements of the human body – picking shit off the floor. Sadly most gyms don’t cue them right leading to all sorts of problems from lower back injuries to psychological demons confirming you are weak.
Most commercial gyms will make you perform this move after a general warmup, without assessing the structural and postural weakness in your body and thus loosening up the tight muscles and joints and firing up the weaker ones prep you for the heavy pulls….more on deadlift mobility in the coming posts.
Deadlifts hit the most and the largest muscles in the human body right from hamstrings to glutes/hips to lower back to the mid back to the lats to the upper back to the traps to the transverse abdominals…..leading to an increase in testosterone or muscle growth and an improved posture as it hits the overlooked areas in the posterior chain.
Performing this badass move: Step 1 : Phsyche yourself It’s not your normal machine or trainer assisted move and although the most may seem simple, a heavy pull or a pull for reps takes your soul out of your body. So need the right reasons to pull the heavy weight off the floor. Choose your trigger.
Step 2: The set-up Always make sure your feet are right below the bar, grab the bar as tight as you can. It’s not a squat but a pull so the knee angle must be higher than the hip angle. Your neck should be neutral and not extended, if you look up and pull it auto triggers your lower back to flex and all it becomes is a pull from the lower back leading to injuries. Also make sure you remove the slack off the bar by pulling it with full force but yet not lifting it. It makes your tighter and ready to pull.
Step 3: The pull Keeping the body tight you push the floor from your feet, keeping a braced core an pull the weight till the hips are fully extended.
And yes it’s true, if you ever feel low in energy and not really focused on where you are going in life, feeling weak and fatigued, make deadlifts your staple move. It could kill almost all your psycho monsters.
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