Unlike an RDL, keep your knees almost completely straight. This puts maximum stretch on the hamstrings.
MUSCLES WORKED
Hamstrings
Also: Glutes, Erector Spinae
COACH'S NOTE
Slight knee bend, hinge at hips
How to do it
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Stand with feet hip-width apart holding a barbell with a shoulder-width overhand grip at thigh level.
02
Set up with the bar at mid-chest height and your eyes under it.
03
Brace, unrack, and settle the bar over your shoulders before the first rep.
04
Lower under control to the same spot every rep.
The full stiff-leg deadlift guide is in the app.
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3 more steps
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3 common mistakes and how to fix them
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Animated demo and a rest timer, set by set
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How Fittrexx programs it
compound · hypertrophy
STYLE
Full gym
WHERE
🔒 In the app
SETS × REPS
🔒 In the app
REST
Fittrexx writes the sets, reps, rest and starting weight for stiff-leg deadlift from your goal, experience and gear, then adjusts them as it learns how you recover.