Stiff-Legged Barbell Deadlift

Legs · Barbell

How to do it

Like the Romanian version but with the knees almost fully straight, which stretches the hamstrings maximally from the start. Only go as low as your back stays flat: here your range is set by your flexibility, not your willpower. Moderate weight. You feel a very strong stretch high in the hamstring, near the glute.

Variants

The drawing shows one way of doing it, and the technique above describes that one. Almost every exercise has variants — standing or seated, the grip, the bench angle — and is still the same exercise: if you do it another way, write it in the exercise note and you will have it every time you train it.

Also works: Glutes, Back

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