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Thanks for the tips. What hip and glute exercises would you do to supplement the deadlifts, or are deadlifts enough once you’re in shape?

• tekkk 7y ago
  Hmm not really, no. I might do legs too or other back muscles but you can't really train deadlift by doing other than deadlift. You should rather focus on doing a very good warm-up to enable easier contraction of those muscles and then doing a lot of low-weight training sets just to get the muscle memory right. There's a ton of good videos on Youtube about this, so pick whatever works for you and slowly move to doing the lift faster and heavier. With squat the warm-up I'd say is even more important. The ability to even squat low enough with proper movement that keeps the glutes activated takes a long while. But don't give up! I have hurt my back with deadlift too and it took a long time for it to heal. There's no shame using low-weights and you'll be so much happier in the long run having learnt the technique properly so spend time on it.
  • 0db532a0 7y ago
    Thank you.