The Deadlift is a foundation exercise to anyone interested in being strong and powerful.
But it’s also one that is challenging from a form perspective because you need good mobility as well as body awareness to perform the movement properly.
Maintaining a neutral spine and/or anterior pelvic tilt takes thinking and connection to your body.
FYI – posterior pelvic tilt is tucking your tail and anterior pelvic tilt is sticking your butt out, here’s a couple of pics of anterior tilt to help you visualize what I’m talking about:
On the left, we have an anterior pelvic tilt.
On the right, we have another anterior pelvic tilt.
A posterior tilt is the opposite of what we have above.
Got it now?
No?
OK, one more to help you learn:
Those hawks look like they’re homing in…
If you Deadlift with bad technique, your low back is at risk and you’re likely to have chronic back pain.
Check out the video where I break down MMA RIPPED grad (who lost 50 lbs!) Hugo’s form in the Deadlift and give you specific pointers that will save your back from exploding into a mess of broken vertebrae and cerebrospinal fluid:
I’m also curious – how much can you Deadlift and how much do you weigh?
I’m trying to get a gauge of where ya’ll are at right now.
Let me know below in the Comments.
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