Glutes
straight-leg-deadlift
Stand tall, feet hip-width apart, with a soft bend in your knees. Engage your core, keeping your spine neutral and shoulders back.
- Equipment
- Equipment
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Focus Area
- Glutes
- Injury risk
- Moderate
Primary muscles
- gluteus maximus
- hamstrings
Secondary muscles
- erector spinae
- rectus abdominis
- obliques
Target muscles
- glutes
- legs
- back
- abs
How to perform
- 1
Stand tall, feet hip-width apart, with a soft bend in your knees.
- 2
Engage your core, keeping your spine neutral and shoulders back.
- 3
Initiate the movement by hinging at your hips, pushing your glutes backward.
- 4
Lower your torso, maintaining a straight back and feeling a stretch in your hamstrings.
- 5
Continue until your torso is nearly parallel to the floor or you feel a deep stretch without rounding your back.
- 6
Squeeze your glutes to reverse the movement, extending your hips to return to standing.
Safety & form
Train smart. Read these notes before adding heavy load.
