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Trains the Hamstrings.
- Equipment
- Barbell
- Mechanic
- Compound
- Force
- Push
- Level
- Intermediate
How to do it
- Set a barbell in a rack at upper-chest height and step under it, resting it across your upper back as for a squat.
- Unrack the bar and take one or two steps back. Start much lighter than you expect — this movement loads a long lever.
- Set your feet hip- to shoulder-width apart with a soft bend in the knees.
- Brace your stomach and set your back flat.
- Push your hips back and let your torso hinge forward, keeping the back flat and the knees only slightly bent.
- Lower until you feel a strong stretch through the hamstrings, usually somewhere near parallel to the floor.
- Drive your hips forward to return to standing, squeezing the glutes at the top.
Common mistakes
- Turning it into a squat by bending the knees. The knees stay only slightly bent; the movement is at the hip. If the knees travel forward, the load leaves the hamstrings.
- Rounding the back as the torso lowers. The spine holds one shape and the hips do the moving — when that changes, the range for that weight has been exceeded.
- Going heavy. The bar is on your back at the end of a long lever, so the effective load on the hips and lower back is much higher than the plate weight suggests.
- Lowering to a fixed depth regardless of how it feels. The end of the range is where the hamstrings stop letting the pelvis rotate; that varies by person and by day.