How to perform a Deadlift?
- Stand with your feet hip-width apart and hold a weight in both hands.
- Keep your back straight and your shoulders back as you slowly bend forward from your hips.
- Keep your knees slightly bent and lower the weights close to your legs.
- Bend until you can go no further, preferably until the weights touch the floor.
- Inhale and slowly come up by extending only your knees at first.
- Once the weights are level with your knees, extend your hips as you pull the weights further up your legs.
- Keep your back straight and your shoulders back as you perform the movement.
Common faults
- Rounded back during performance.
- Look down or up instead of straight ahead.
- No controlled movement during the execution.
- No good breathing technique.
- Not bending the knees enough, so that too much is drawn on the lower back.